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Andrew Barker
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Employee of a state-owned enterprise.

At work, I try to make linear algebra routines faster.

At home, I have half-baked thoughts about transit and urbanism […]

🌉 bridged from https://mast.hpc.social/@abarker on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/
[boring video game idea]

My bad video game idea.

Theme: manage the decline of a decaying galactice empire

Mechanic: Entirely Tinder-like left or right swiping. (1/)
November 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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War ravaged Portland
September 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Amtrak now has a passenger train in service that can match the speed Japan's Shinkansen achieved in 1992. https://www.amtrak.com/nextgen-acela
September 8, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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So I look it up. The band rented an Airbnb when they were recording the album and the lead singer got sick of telling everyone the front door unlock code a dozen times a day, and he made up the song in the studio to remind them.
August 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I'm curious about the "greatest of all time" in categories where we usually don't think of greatness. What is the greatest podcast episode of all time? The greatest public comment at a city council meeting? Greatest comic strip? Corporate memo? Letter to the editor? Bug report?
August 8, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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This is exactly what the internet is for.
July 8, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Do nothing for as long as possible

#obliquestrategies
May 1, 2025 at 1:02 AM
@RungeBot
f(x)=abs(x)
February 27, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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February 19, 2025 at 8:37 PM
[DEI]

Data gathering, evaluation, and implementation
February 6, 2025 at 9:11 PM
guy who listens to ai generated music but only on vinyl
February 3, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Oakland, Calif., Mar. 1942. A large sign reading "I am an American" placed in the window of a store, at 401 - 403 Eighth and Franklin streets, on December 8, the day after Pearl Harbor. The store was closed following orders to persons of Japanese […]

[Original post on mastodon.ozioso.online]
January 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Japanese Americans registering for mass removal

#japaneseamericans #japanese #americans #photography #dorothealange
December 14, 2024 at 3:28 AM
The engineers have been busy in my neighborhood.
December 13, 2024 at 11:09 PM
as far as im concerned really theres only two types of software: matrix multiplication library, or front end ui. your task is to work out which one of the two your idea fits into
November 3, 2024 at 9:06 PM
Can someone check "ceil(0.9)" inside a cuda device kernel before I completely lose my sanity? The 0.9 should be a literal, double precision.
October 17, 2024 at 7:29 PM