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as someone who is often afraid to open up her computer case for fear of frying something with static discharge, how hard is it to install a new internal drive? im thinking of upgrading. i imagine it's dead easy and i'm freaking out over nothing but allow me this

Chuckling too hard at the phrase "when a lambda can escape the current scope".

Sir the lambda has breached containment we cant hold it! All hands to stations, don't make eye contact with the compilation unit!!

Netflix is where a comedian can go to make sure their list of stand-up specials takes a sudden turn where you can tell when the allegations surfaced

- Unlucky (1995)
- A Three Piece Suit (1998)
- Tireless (2004)
- Raised and Confused (2006)
- Fields of Mozzarella (2010)
- Offensive!! (2015)
- The Big Mean Man Said a Bad Word (2016)
- I'm Not Even Upset at What Happened. In Fact, I'm Laughing About It (2016)
- A Long List of Slurs (2017)

oh no i'm actually pondering how to make this an entertaining game now

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maybe a game where you design busy beavers with increasing numbers of states, and they only start paying out once they finish (to guard against ones that are infinite)

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i wonder if i can make an idle game where figuring out the most efficient way to make the number go up is, like, an uncomputable problem

guns, gender 

there’s something about a nice lady asking my pronouns and then handing me a big box of pistol rounds and saying “have fun ma’am” that made me feel incredibly proud to be an american for one shining moment

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had a very nice lady ask me my pronouns

at the shooting range

this isn’t how they told me it would go

need a bigger pill planner for my new meds smh

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when your processor design encounters an illegal opcode and enters a failure mode, you have to be careful not to let the sidechannels leak internal state information or else that's bad opsec

fun photo fact, the term f-stop comes from the common utterance "f-ing stop messing with the dials and take the shot already"

The hands-on bit of debugging an IC 

So we had a problem with an IC our company is in the process of designing, where you could only apply 18 volts across its power rails before it started to break down and conduct huge amounts of current (it's supposed to be powered by 25 volts)

this is a relatively complex device, so it was important to find out *where* on the die the anomalous current was flowing, so we could match that up with the layout and identify what part needs work

conveniently, however, all that current generates heat.
-F

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it turns out the process of debugging a semiconductor die is *fascinating* and also what we've been doing at work the past couple weeks
-F

RT @arkagis@twitter.com

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🐦🔗: twitter.com/arkagis/status/143

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