the problem with working in SanFran now is that most of the companies writing the code I'm fighting with are only a couple blocks away, so I'm always slightly tempted to just go over there and hit them with sticks
The surprising part is not that math grad students named Cox and Zucker would come up with the idea of writing a paper together just as a joke.
It's that they followed through after they became professors, and wrote a paper that was actually rather significant.
Liz Truss in Taiwan calls for ‘economic Nato’ to challenge China - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/17/liz-truss-in-taiwan-calls-for-economic-nato-to-challenge-china it exists already, it's called the EU you dimwit...
Over winter I took far too many 360 photos of the same local spots, so had stopped carrying the camera around.
Today I realised that the same spots are looking very different now.
Proper lush.
Some people believe there's no purpose to "liking" something on Mastodon since it doesn't affect any algorithm.
Not the case.
It does something incredibly valuable: it acknowledges people.
Which is incredibly powerful, and is all the more important *because* it's not connected to gaming any algorithm.
By liking something on Mastodon, you are doing it honestly -- without any agenda at play other than that you like it.
So go ahead. Click that like button for its own sake.
Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.