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Mako

@makomk

General-purpose geek, programmer, occasional hardware hacker. Not a hypersonic missile (but I'm getting faster!)

 England, United Kingdom
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Joined May 2008
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General mood: what the hell was I thinking for the past decade?
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Also, where the hell would I even find a decent therapist that can deal with this mess and the general level of weirdness?
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Yeah, definitely feel like I wasted roughly the past decade or so of my life to be honest...
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Three profoundly ugly charts - stocks down, yields surging, dollar down. Awful awful awful
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At 12:01 Trump's tariffs officially took effect. Tariffs are now at their highest level in 100 years.
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Scams, deception and misrepresentation are absolutely everywhere. Who can see what’s going on here in the legitimate YouTube app?
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A novel way to implement loops: godbolt.org/z/164jvGz1b
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THE PLAYSTACEAN IS REAL
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There is something deeply wrong when a law passed with cross-party consensus and endorsed by Britain's most trusted charities has made it impossible to run an internet forum for hamster owners.
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Nobody will remember: - your elegant proofs - how “busy you were” - how many papers you wrote People will remember: - your other work
Ted Kaczynsky: better known for other work

ALT Ted Kaczynsky: better known for other work

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qntm@qntm29 Jul 2016
There's this really great joke about non-constructive proofs.
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Arguing the Carter Center has no legitimacy now they said Venezuela's election wasn't democratic is tankie nonsense. They were the only independent monitors Maduro's gov let in because they legitimised previous elections and those attacking them now literally quoted them doing so
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I love him
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Yikes. Trying to work out if the TERF wing of the Labour Party has managed to make itself a thing again.
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IM SORRY, YOU ABOLISHED DOUBLE JEOPARDY IN 2003?????
Nova Bell Rock 🎄☃️🔆 (@hoemaxxing) profile pictureNova Bell Rock 🎄☃️🔆@hoemaxxing17 May 2024
Replying to @hoemaxxing
I will point out that personally I am not the biggest fan of majority verdicts, or many of the legal reforms since 1967 and especially many made in the Major and Blair years (looking at you CJA 2003 abolishing double jeopardy), however, I acknowledge the rule of law.
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idea: tech journalist who knows what a database is
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@atroyn4 Apr 2024
andres freund: genius programmer responsible for one of the most widely used pieces of software in the world, just single-handedly stopped a huge attack from happening. nyt journalist: 'i am too fucking stupid to understand his work and won't even try but it's very boring!!!'
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Also, to be clear: the Israeli military said it regretted mistakenly marking the bicycle as an RPG — they didn't say they regretted targeting the person. Instead, they asserted that the two people were combatants without providing its evidence. nytimes.com/live/2024/03/12/…
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You know that point in the debugging process where you go from wondering why the code's crashing to wondering how it ever worked in the first place? *mutters*
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I see Twitch is doing that bigcorp thing where they roll out a policy, screw over a bunch of people who follow the clear and unambiguous wording of the new policy, and then roll out the old "we realize that our earlier update caused confusion" line. teapaw.org/Twitch/status/17356775…
Twitch (@Twitch) profile pictureTwitch
@Twitch15 Dec 2023
We’re making some additional updates to our Sexual Content Policy. We realize that our earlier update caused confusion and appreciate all the feedback we’ve received. Thanks for always coming together with us to help build the best version of Twitch. Check out the changes here: safety.twitch.tv/s/article/S…
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