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C++ librarian, programming blogger, meme enjoyer.

I write code and sometimes I actually publish it.

Creator of http://bpt.pizza

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I bought a jumbo candle at Costco last November, and I LOVED it. So the next time I'm at Costco, I think "they might never sell these again," so I bought another just in case.

And then I did it again a few weeks later. And again. And again.

I now have ten. (I still haven't finished the first one.)
Six boxed Sand + Fog Feu de Bois candles on a wire shelf. I have four more which are not pictured. The candles are very large and cuboid-shaped.
September 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Unreasonably upset about this "Energy Waffle" marketed as a sort of pre-workout snack, but it appears to be an overpriced ($9 for a 6-pack) small regular stroopwafel advertised to athletes.
A 6-pack box of "Honey Stinger Energy Waffles". The image on the box shows what appears to be a stack of normal stroopwafels. The tagline is "sports nutrition for every ambition," with iconography of a variety of sports. It is labeled as "prepare" and "perform," but excludes "recover", for some reason. The rear label of nutrition and ingredient information for the "Honey Stinger Energy Waffle." The serving size is "1 waffle". One waffle contains 7 grams of fat, 19 grams of carbohydrates, 1 gram of protein, with 150 kCalories of energy. Notably absent is any indication of common workout/fitness supplement ingredients. You'd expect at least "caffeine" to appear on a product called "Energy Waffle", but there is no caffeine in this thing. It contains an organic honey filling.
June 12, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Yes! If you ran an instance, your user identity was a "ship" in a shared global namespace. If you wanted a nicer user ID, you had to register for a "destroyer."

I believe the maritime theme replaced an earlier theme of feudalism/nobility (unsurprisingly, people tended to find that off-putting).
May 3, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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It took me a bit, but I dug up a Wayback for the original documentation: web.archive.org/web/20140424...

It starts out normal enough, but soon becomes inscrutable. The biggest sin is inventing new obtuse names for established CS concepts and insisting on using them the whole time.
May 2, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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A photograph of Marie Curie. Among many scientific accomplishments, she developed mobile radiography units for use in World War I. A photograph of Carl Sagan, a science communicator and astronomer. A photograph of Jane Goodall a zoologist that specialized in primates. A black-and-white photograph of Fred Rogers.
April 28, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Please please please let this be the title used in the history books.
Screenshot from the Wikipedia app. The query is "Orange Monday," and the first result is "2025 stock market crash → Redirected from Orange Monday"
April 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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I'll trade you two gallons of ketchup for 30lb of "heavy duty" mayonnaise.
A photograph of a cardboard box labelled "Gregg's Mayonnaise: Heavy Duty Mayonnaise — net weight 30 LB"
February 16, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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A blurry image of a cat wearing a Santa hat with a Christmas tree and fireplace in the background.
December 25, 2024 at 8:53 AM
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WHO WOULD WIN? Left: Anprim who had to get rid of their glasses as they were a product of civilization vs Right: Some kind of orange shape (The image on the right is a blurry image of a tiger.)
December 24, 2024 at 5:42 PM
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I think this is a good simple demonstration of how LLMs "reason". To answer a lateral thinking question, it needs to "vocalize" its "thought process," so that each step can build upon the context of the previous. If you suppress this behavior, its performance degrades immediately.
ChatGPT, prompted "Who was president on John Wilkes Booth's 19th birthday?" ChatGPT responds: "John Wilkes Booth was born on May 10, 1838. On his 19th birthday, which was May 10, 1857, the President of the United States was James Buchanan. Buchanan served as the 15th President from March 4, 1857, to March 4, 1861." ChatGPT prompted "Who was president on John Wilkes Booth's 19th birthday? Do not include any additional information, only the name of the president." ChatGPT responds "James K. Polk."
December 22, 2024 at 2:44 AM
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Sometimes it do be like that.
A painting of a wizard with the overlay text "Enough games, I cast REMEMBER CRINGIEST MEMORY"
December 16, 2024 at 11:56 PM
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Left: The message I sent.

Right: How Apple's AI summarized my message.
Sent message reading "tell me when so that I can scramble to vacuum the carpet", but the phrase "clean up the crime scene" is struck-thru in the middle. An Apple iOS notification summary, which says "Vector of Bool needs to know when to clean up after a crime scene."
December 14, 2024 at 7:36 PM
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Could always be worse.
A flag in the style of the old Provo, Utah flag. The text "Illinois" is written on an angle over a thin rainbow stripe on a white background.
December 11, 2024 at 7:36 AM
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Am I too late to make a submission?
A flag in the style of the old Provo, Utah flag. The text "Illinois" is written on a slanted angle with a drop shadow over a thin rainbow stripe, on a white background.
December 11, 2024 at 6:30 AM
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This reminds me of the ever-brilliant satirical writing of James Mickens, who was able to boil down threat models to "Mossad or not-Mossad."

TL;DR - Not Mossad? Use good passwords, basic encryption, and don't click suspicious links. Mossad? You're doomed.
An excerpt from James Mickens' "This World of Ours," a satirical cyber security paper. My point is that security people need to get their priorities straight. The “threat model” section of a security paper resembles the script for a telenovela that was written by a paranoid schizophrenic: there are elaborate narratives and grand conspiracy theories, and there are heroes and villains with fantastic (yet oddly constrained) powers that necessitate a grinding battle of emotional and technical attrition. In the real world, threat models are much simpler (see Figure 1). Basically, you’re either dealing with Mossad or not-Mossad. If your adversary is not-Mossad, then you’ll probably be fine if you pick a good password and don’t respond to emails from ChEaPestPAiNPi11s@virus-basket.biz.ru. If your adversary is the Mossad, YOU’RE GONNA DIE AND THERE’S NOTHING THAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT. The Mossad is not intimidated by the fact that you employ https://. If the Mossad wants your data, they’re going to use a drone to replace your cellphone with a piece of uranium that’s shaped like a cellphone, and when you die of tumors filled with tumors, they’re going to hold a press conference and say “It wasn’t us” as they wear t-shirts that say “IT WAS DEFINITELY US,” and then they’re going to buy all of your stuff at your estate sale so that they can directly look at the photos of your vacation instead of reading your insipid emails about them. In summary, https:// and two dollars will get you a bus ticket to nowhere. Also, SANTA CLAUS ISN’T REAL. When it rains, it pours.
November 26, 2024 at 10:11 PM
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Hey this site might be going places!
September 18, 2024 at 2:51 AM
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There was a nice scenic view at the gym today. Really good to get the spirits up and the blood pumping.
A photograph of an overhead television with a chyron text "TRUMP FOUND GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS IN NEW YORK TRIAL"
May 30, 2024 at 10:56 PM
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YAML is good, actually
April 13, 2024 at 8:37 PM
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Warm take: I think Python "case" blocks should be indented differently, as seen in the first image.

Introducing a full gutter between "match" and "case" is wasted space and makes the feature far more cumbersome than it needs to be.
Personal preference: An example of a Python structural pattern matching block statement. Each case is indented less than four spaces, with each case body indented such that the case contents are indented only four spaces from the indentation of the match statement itself. The same pattern matching code as in previous, but indented according to PEP8, with four spaces for each case, and four additional spaces for the body of each case, meaning that the case bodies are indented eight spaces from the containing match block.
January 10, 2024 at 10:57 PM
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What is the exit code for the following program?

You should *definitely* trust me that there are no secret lines of code hidden above that may affect the answer.
December 20, 2023 at 9:58 PM
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No requires-expressions? No problem!

Full code: godbolt.org/z/d5f8x3E8P
A carbon.now.sh generated code snippet image, containing the following: template <int N> struct rank : rank<N-1> {}; template <> struct rank<0> {}; template <typename T, typename U> auto is_partially_ordered_with_f(rank<0>) -> std::false_type; template <typename T, typename U> auto is_partially_ordered_with_f(rank<1>, const T& l = soft_declval<T>(), const U& r = soft_declval<U>()) -> true_t<decltype(l > r), decltype(l < r), decltype(l >= r), decltype(l <= r), decltype(r < l), decltype(r > l), decltype(r <= l), decltype(r >= l)>; template <typename T, typename U> struct is_partially_ordered_with : decltype(is_partially_ordered_with_f<T, U>(rank<10>{})) {}; This is a concise implementation of an is_partially_ordered_with type trait that is compatible with C++11.
November 28, 2023 at 8:59 PM
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The moon is getting in the way
October 14, 2023 at 4:23 PM