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"ignorantia juris non excusat"
a photograph of the Annotated United States Code, showing that it fills several bookshelves with its volumes a screenshot from a book selling website showing that the cost of purchasing these 466 volumes is $2,495.00
August 1, 2023 at 3:22 PM
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what happens next in the lifecycle may surprise you
photograph of the Apollo lunar lander module sitting on the moon diagram of bacteriophage and cell infection cycle
June 29, 2023 at 3:52 PM
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this is a lot of fun!
May 11, 2023 at 5:18 PM
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wrote a happy little function 🦀
A function in the Rust programming language which takes a task and parallelizes it to all CPUs, returning a vector of the results of all tasks. I like how elegantly it is possible to write this function, and how useful it is despite its brevity! The source code is below: ``` fn parallel<T: Send>( task: impl FnMut(usize, usize) -> T + Clone + Send ) -> Vec<T> { use std::thread::{scope, ScopedJoinHandle}; scope(move |scope| { let total = num_cpus::get(); (0..total) .map(move |n| { let mut task = task.clone(); scope.spawn(move || task(n, total)) }) .collect::<Vec<_>>() .into_iter() .map(ScopedJoinHandle::join) .map(Result::unwrap) .collect::<Vec<_>>() }) } ```
May 11, 2023 at 3:37 PM
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you may not like it, but this is what peak cryptography looks like
a screenshot of the detail-view of the CPU monitor on macOS, showing all 12 CPUs (4 efficiency cores and 8 performance cores) being pinned at 100% continuously
May 11, 2023 at 3:11 PM
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wtf so has mine
May 10, 2023 at 3:12 PM
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the wording on this modal is a bit confusing: b/c the action itself is "cancel" it seems like both buttons do the same thing when in fact the "cancel" button, uh,, cancels the cancellation

maybe: "Discard draft: Are you sure you'd like to discard this draft? [[Discard]] [Cancel]"?

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May 10, 2023 at 3:08 PM
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signal conversation screenshot: me: are you prepared to receive information that may harm you other person: Ummmmmmmm possibly lol me: "my 2 sats" is how bitcoin maxis say "my 2 cents" other: Nononono other: Not this other: You're wei out of line
May 8, 2023 at 5:04 PM
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i am begging Rob Pike to read Deleuze
Introduction: Repetition and Difference Repetition is not generality. Repetition and generality must be distinguished in several ways. Every formula which implies their confusion is regrettable: for example, when we say that two things are as alike as two drops of water; or when we identify 'there is only a science of the general' with there is only a science of that which is repeated'. Repetition and resemblance are different in kind - extremely so.
April 28, 2023 at 1:16 PM
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there are two wolves inside of me
April 22, 2023 at 12:24 PM
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April 19, 2023 at 8:21 PM
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April 19, 2023 at 4:31 PM
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April 15, 2023 at 2:56 AM
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oh, huh, okay, it turns out i can't post a big wide image without it getting cropped. take 2:
April 12, 2023 at 4:49 PM
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sure! the full HOST field reads `_atproto.plaidfinch.net`, which is what i think it should
April 12, 2023 at 4:45 PM