inter arma enim silent leges
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Feb 22
Every time I think that I have discovered the ultimate user betrayal in some UX decision made by Apple for one of their "built-in" iOS apps, within a matter of weeks, without fail, there is yet another to discover.
These UX engineers should be subject to a war crimes tribunal...
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23 Nov 2025
The existence of infinite zoom cellular automata troubles me deeply.
Many go about their lives without knowing about this.
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20 Nov 2025
I told my discrete mathematics students about Ramanujan discovering his famous formula for π in a dream and a student in the front row muttered "Dude that's a frickin nightmare"
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21 Nov 2025
Chances of
>Becoming a sperm: 1 in 10⁸
>Winning the sperm race (on top of that): 1 in 10¹⁶
>Actually getting born: 10¹⁶ × 10⁵ = 1 in 10²¹
>Being born human: 10²¹ × 10¹⁴ = 1 in 10³⁵
>Being physically & mentally fit: 10³⁵ × 10² = 1 in 10³⁷
>Getting access to education: 10³⁷ × 10⁰․⁵ = 1 in 10³⁷․⁵
>Affording laptop & internet: 10³⁷․⁵ × 10⁰․³ = 1 in 10³⁷․⁸
Image being 1 in 10³⁷․⁸ and still deciding to doom scroll.
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6 Aug 2025
hard truth: they don't care about palestinians or genocide, they're just antisemites looking for any small opening to put a wedge in and expand hatred of the jewish people as much as they can
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26 Jul 2025
Everything you don’t physically possess is ephemeral and will disappear without warning at any time.
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26 Jul 2025
I think it’s important, now more than ever, to consider self hosting absolutely everything if you have the skill for it. It’s only going to get worse.
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14 Jul 2025
not that i' keeping track, but... when was the last time @Cloudflare could give us a whole 30 continuous days w/o incident? i mean wasn't their ENTIRE raison d'être the EXACT opposite of this shitshow they are presently running??!!?
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29 Jun 2025
Rate my server room.
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29 Jun 2025
i was today years old when i learned that the addition of floating point numbers is, in fact, NOT associative...
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19 Jun 2025
this has always been my theory as to why johnny boy allegedly said this
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