Ben Kushigian
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Ben Kushigian
@thebenku.bsky.social
Working on a PhD at @uwcse/@uwplse. Interested in formalizing and improving testing adequacy metrics. ⅒x developer. Dabble in music. Lapsed Armenian. I maintain github.com/bkushigian/desktop-postflop and github.com/bkushigian/pious
Only in an imperfect world
November 17, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Turns out Trump knows all about presidential themed balls
November 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Beautiful
October 30, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Honestly though, this is a really frustrating part of early research where you keep having cool ideas that would have been incredible if they weren't already well known
October 15, 2025 at 8:29 PM
"It's like you told me nothing at all
Nothing at all
Nothing at all..."
October 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Oh yeah? Can you microwave a burrito so hot that even you can't eat it?
October 15, 2025 at 7:11 AM
For those of us who can risk it I agree. There are folks who are much more likely to be detained and for who detainment will be more costly....they should do whatever they need to to stay safe
October 15, 2025 at 7:10 AM
It's horrifying how easy it is to hack just about anything electronic.
@dr.supersat.phd
and co did some disgusting things to a '09 Chevy Impala youtu.be/V4s-NDRK-L4?...
www.youtube.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Wildly out of pocket post, no proof to back it up, this is super irresponsible and helps nothing.
October 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Not me clinging to that Emerson quote for dear life
September 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
How did we get trump tho?
September 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM
AI schlock does just run together...it's a bunch of words that seem like they make sense as you read them, but don't combine in a coherent fashion, and it is SUPER DRAINING to comprehend. The words "feel" right, but the meaning behind them feels slippery and my brain just rolls off of them
September 16, 2025 at 3:05 PM
September 13, 2025 at 6:05 AM
And are very unwilling to revisit this opinion. It's actually an incredibly rich and deep game with a ton of parallels to real life. I'd go so far as to say that everyone should learn basic poker theory. Try to convince a bunch of people on the internet of that though...
September 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I've experienced the other side of this. I'm a poker player. Poker is a very cool/beautiful game with much less degenerate gambling than most people think. The BBB taxes the shit out of poker players but nobody cares cuz they think it's "just gambling". Folks think poker == slots
September 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
But my POINT is: I think the example is maybe not a great one for folks that aren't into fashion already because there is an inaccurate association with the thing. I appreciate you owning up, but I also wanna say you made a not-unreasonable inference about a thing and just happened to be wrong!
September 10, 2025 at 8:16 AM
To be fair, an 8k watch is maybe not a great choice as "expensive watch" is a textbook status symbol. But how about a $5k guitar, or, uhhhh, a $6k guitar (god I literally cannot think of what else I would spend money on).
September 10, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Beware the ironic mannerism!

Mine is saying "toodles" 🙈
August 31, 2025 at 12:45 AM
"Slight of hand" is actually applicable these days...
August 18, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Put a red hot iron into water....what happens?
August 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Yeah but this is such a heated topic
August 6, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Wanna talk about it?
July 27, 2025 at 11:49 PM