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"We have millions of monkeys at typewriters. Surely one of them will produce the collected works of Shakespeare."

@jyn (💭”these posts are provided “AS IS” without warranty of ANY KIND, express or implied, including but not limited to the warranties of AUTHENTICITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, and NON-REPUDIABILITY”)

you've heard of security by obscurity. mathematical notation is elitism by obscurity

Imagine a cave, where various persons are imprisoned since birth. They are chained so as to create a fixed gaze upon a wall, on which can be seen the shadows of various entities walking past outside the cave— people, horses, carts. This audience would be, by nature, highly engaged with these shadows, which we may call "content". So what if— among these shadows— we were to include advertisements?

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I've no longer got a job, and I'm also kinda completely broke.

So if anyone has a few extra dollars they can donate to help me make it to my first payday, that'd be very appreciated.

ko-fi.com/fooneturing

progress! this is where i am as of today, it only took me a few attempts to get a complete run without mistakes like this, and i think i have better luck when not recording (less stressed)

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sometimes i like to browse unity answers and pretend that the questions are just about life in general

@lynnesbian @timmy

I can recommend the video "This bus transforms into a train" by Tom Scott
youtu.be/Kn56bMZ9OE8

think I have a path forward for this article I wanna write

was initially going to focus a bit more on the tech industry's allergy to sharing, but I really should just focus on the part that I actually wanted to write about, which is why I absolutely despise linkedin

like the other day I stopped myself from writing a long reply to this random post I got recommended, from a recruiter who was complaining about how no one was saying hello and being nice and instead responding to his cold recruiting messages with "what's the salary" or "is it remote"

like these kinds of people just see it as everyone being a noob and not knowing that hurting this poor man's feelings will reduce your capitalism high score

and not that we have a finite time on this fucking earth and cannot waste our time on people with the audacity to send messages about jobs lacking basic info

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Security advice: if you find a random USB flash drive, plug it into your coworker’s computer

Why can’t all licenses be like the GPL and have a lesbian variant (LGPL), an ace variant (AGPL) etc.??

There's something with being at work that ruins my ability to post, feeling uninspired

And to think someone woke up one morning and thought, "This would be better if everything was flatter and more grey."

2891. Log Cabin 

title text: I'm sure the building inspectors will approve my design once they finally manage to escape.

(xkcd.com/2891)
(explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php)

Yeah vision pro is neat but the future is smart glasses you charge with a comedy nose called Mister Power

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