Physics PhD formerly at CMU • hobbies include playing the violin and finding particles • ask me about gluons! *Views and opinions are my own*

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13 May 2019
Replying to @jamieeierm
When she’s a fan of the Vienna Secession 😍❤️
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Cute theory, let’s play it out. While the monkey is alive, he can leverage his fake bananas to take out loans from the banana bank to pay for everything he needs without paying income or capital gains tax, and then he can use that money to influence politics.
Cute theory, let's play it out. A monkey hoards a trillion bananas. The troop, enraged, beats him to death. They gather around the pile to feast at last. But... oh wait, there is no pile. It turns out the "bananas" were shares in a banana-launching company the dead monkey founded. The shares were worth a trillion because he was alive to run it. Now he is dead and the stock is worth $0. The retarded monkeys have clubbed their way into a recession. But it gets worse. Half the "bananas" were tied up in a rocket that supplies bananas to monkeys on the far mountain who had no bananas at all. Another chunk was tied up in a little satellite dish that beamed banana coordinates to the troop after a flood took out their trees. So now they realized they beat to death the only monkey who knew how the dish worked. So the monkeys sit there. No bananas. No rockets. No coordinates to get more banananas. Just a dead body and a powerful sense of fairness as they all now became infinitely poorer. OH And somewhere a smaller monkey watches the whole thing and quietly decides he will never build anything in front of these animals again.
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Hope that helps!
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Btw this completely ignores the assertion that this nameless monkey is apparently not only the only monkey that knows how his own rockets work, he’s also the only one capable of making rockets.
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This is some real “got your nose”-level condescension
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Losing my mind trying to explain to Redditors why you aren’t likely to find an electron in the nucleus in an S orbital, someone even accused me of having some theory that electrons orbit in fixed radii because I told them the Bohr radius was the most likely radial position.
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I feel like I’m going to have to explain why a delta function doesn’t mean infinite probability soon
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We need to look into who this AP guy is and why California put him in charge!
California called the race for Kamala as SOON AS THE POLLS CLOSED in 2024. But when their selected nominee doesn’t win, they’ll count scam votes for a month until they can rig the result. Then they’ll sue you to prevent you from double-checking their work. Pull all federal funding from California.
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Florida isn’t exactly the shining beacon of vote counting *cough* 2000 presidential election *cough*
Florida processes more than 10 million votes in a matter of hours. California takes days — or sometimes even weeks — to count the votes. It’s pathetic — and it’s corrosive to our civic culture.
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Rust fixes this btw
Today, in weird C code tricks, I show you an example from the source of git. I was poking around the its source code, and something caught my eye. It was a folder named compiler-tricks, and it had only one file called not_constant.c with only one line of code: int false_but_the_compiler_does_not_know_it_ = 0; The variable name was amusing, but I wondered where it is used and what compiler trick is involved, so I looked around. (1/6)
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Wait till the CS people hear about TStrings
Literally every C library has its own string and resizable array implementation
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Dene retweeted
Surprising math fact of the day: a monkey is hitting keys at random (uniformly, independently & at constant speed) on a keyboard. The expected value of the time T₁ it takes to type “abracadabra” is greater than the expected value of the time T₂ it takes to type “abracadabrz”.
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Years ago, Musk made a huge deal about how Starship will be profitable beyond conventional rockets because of its reusability. So far, they haven’t been able to land a single starship. As for booster landings, they’ve got 3/12. Even by their own standards, barely 60% reliability.
No, Patrick, the rocket can’t magically stay upright in the water
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“They’re in development mode, build fast and break things” not a single Saturn V rocket failed in development, fun fact. Despite the two catastrophic failures, even the Space Shuttle had 98% reliability.
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Dene retweeted
“i thought leopards won’t eat white faces!”
Feeling robbed of my path to citizenship right now after grinding a PhD and contributing to foundational AI computing technologies for the United States for the past ~ 10 years. Feels like robbing top and technologists like me of the opportunity to achieve the American Dream.
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Wait till you guys learn about python
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you literally cannot vibe code c char is an 8 bit string that can also be an unsigned 8 bit int depending on how you use it. the level of precision required to write c is too high for vibecoding. there are just too many quirks in the language.
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“It’s not income, I just happen to be richer” these guys are so scared of a capital gains tax
Please do a quick read of this. It’s short, well written, and will remove a bit of wool from over your eyes.
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