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*flops, purrs* We're back! Good evening.

*orange-flavored beeps* (that's the color orange, not the fruit)

turning on firefox/waterfox's 'reader' mode on mastodon apparently makes it think every emoji should be like 700 pixels square

Fun fact: "pants decomposition" is a serious term used in serious topological discussion

"Any implementation is better than no implementation, unless the implementation is exclusively in intel 4004 assembly with custom extensions and relying on obscure hardware bugs in the processor to make it work"

Where did this trend of website things taking a normal word ending in -er and removing the e come from anyway?

like tumblr and.... i can't think of any other examples but there are others

cryptomnesia is weird.

The other day, I quoted Douglas Adams word-for-word, and yet was fully convinced I had come up with it myself.

What on earth is an "identitarian" anyway

Saw the word in a thing someone linked about people being blocked, so I don't exactly want to search it

or, we are officially _an_ employee of the university? Society and language aren't really set up for cases like ours.

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We are now officially employees of the university!

the Hearth :ms_agender_flag: boosted

"The term “currying” has nothing at all to do with the delicious foodstuff. Instead, it’s named after the mathematician Haskell Curry, who rediscovered a technique devised by another mathematician named Moses Schönfinkel. While Haskell Curry certainly contributed heaps to computer science, I think we’ve missed a fun opportunity to have a useful programming technique called schönfinkeling."

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