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"... Intel Corporation, a partially state-owned enterprise with extensive links to the United States Republican Party and its armed wing, Department of War..."
January 25, 2026 at 5:36 AM
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This January’s award for the eval board with the witcher’s vibes goes out to the HMC7044 eval board. The chip is a 3GHz integer PLL with 14 phase-adjustable outputs.

#electronics
January 22, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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people like to prance around this, but if you look at the last let's say 40 years, it's very clear which states have their borders violated and which states do not

i am in favor of further nuclear proliferation
January 9, 2026 at 11:07 AM
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easy solution to the current political situation: give greenland a nuclear submarine
January 9, 2026 at 11:07 AM
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okay, you can see what I have so far of the Analects translation here. https://xn--hmr.net/classicalchinese/analects/

I am aware that the site theme is currently rather jank on mobile.

#classicalchinese #translation #localization #philosophy
January 8, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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the girl who disrespects incredibly obtuse old translations is not hard to find. (James Legge vs me on one of the first sentences in the Analects of Confucius)

#classicalchinese #translation #localization
January 4, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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going back to TypeScript after years of almost-only-Rust is pretty brutal. https://arktype.io/ is pretty great but... everything being a string or a 53-bit number is anxiety-inducing
ArkType
TypeScript's 1:1 validator, optimized from editor to runtime
arktype.io
January 1, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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who has two thumbs and database backups running every 6 minutes instead of every 6 hours because Go CRON has a subtly different 6-field format instead of the traditional 5-field format?

it's m*sobs*
December 31, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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OH: (while looking at a piece of crackhead codegen) "it's like watching a counter-strike player... one shot and then goddamn reload"
December 31, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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also as a little mini-explainer, since this is a major misconception about Chinese: the writing system actually encodes quite a bit of information about pronunciation! just, like, pronunciation 2000 years ago, which may or may not align with how it's pronounced now in any daughter language […]
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infosec.exchange
December 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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okay, now I can say I've read Baxter-Sagart "Old Chinese: A New Reconstruction" like a big girl
December 29, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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I have finished the HSK4 vocabulary list (the minimum proficiency level to be allowed to apply as a foreigner to a Chinese university in a non-literary subject such as computer science or math) on Christmas morning 🎄🎄🎄

when I started learning Chinese, I thought I’d be satisfied with HSK3 level […]
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infosec.exchange
December 25, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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this is in the top 1% of all release notes quality
December 23, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Closing old “hang on let me look that up” Wikipedia tabs on my phone like: Safeway grocery store. North Macedonia. Thomas Jefferson’s father. Peonies. Shang Dynasty female warlord Fu Hao. Oh my gods is that an open Cohost tab with an intact preview
December 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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just one more USB port bro. i promise bro just one more port and we'll plug all the dongles bro. just one more port. please just one more bro. one more port and we can fit all the peripherals bro. bro c'mon just one more port. bro bro please just one more
December 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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vintage story is like if minecraft was a game with a coherent artistic vision instead of just notch fucking around with opengl and then it becoming worth ten billion dollars
December 19, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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"Hello, We're Firefox, The Only Browser That Hasn't Hit Itself In The Dick With A Hammer. For years now, folks use us because of our un-hammered dick. Now, you may be wondering why today we've brought this hammer and pulled out our dick. Well I'm glad you asked--"
February 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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it's truly amazing what LLMs can achieve. we now know it's possible to produce an html5 parsing library with nothing but the full source code of an existing html5 parsing library, all the source code of all other open source libraries ever, a meticulously maintained and extremely comprehensive […]
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mastodon.social
December 17, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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it is tragic that for all its faults, the alternatives to rust are significantly worse
December 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Ran into a problem in prod?
Just generate a fake cloudflare error page and blame it on them - gives you time to fix.

#foss #devops #cloudflare #infosec
December 16, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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As someone who runs my own blog, email, social media, backup system, home automation, business site, etc...

I feel like self-hosting digital services is a lot like backyard chickens. Rewarding, lots of control, independence from Big Egg, and a great reminder of why distribution of labor and […]
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woof.group
December 16, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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I've been working on some explainers about Classical Chinese... nothing ready for public consumption, but I am SUPER pleased with the CSS I whipped up for note callouts (these are using a stickynote clipart from irasutoya)

CSS selectors can do a lot of […]

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December 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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hot take: they should build a lot of commie blocks in the UK
December 9, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Anybody excited for the next Cloudflare outage?
December 7, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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# grub-install /dev/shark0
November 25, 2025 at 2:18 AM