Graduate students: one excellent way to manage your advisor[*] is to say "please block off some time Thursday to read the paper draft I'm going to send you that morning" [*] At least some advisors, by which I mean me
Hello it is time to unleash a #monsterdon upon the unsuspecting public Mute the hashtag if you don't want giant posts all over your timeline for the next couple hours Tonight, we are watching Food Of The Gods (1976) so I have a pint of my own food of the gods (peach cobbler ice cream) Honestly my expectations are low for this movie but at least we might get to see some giant cΜΆoΜΆcΜΆ chickens
It is extremely disturbing to me that I have only seen coverage of this in smaller media outlets, none of the major ones. I know, there is a lot of shit going on in this country and around the world, but "Lynching is Back, Maybe?" is surely a big goddamn story https://www.complex.com/life/a/backwoodsaltar/colin-kaepernick-black-student-trey-reed-autopsy-hanging-tree [Edit: Make sure to see the reply from christophwarner below]
Petition to rename "Concur" to "Concuss" after the injury I get from repeatedly banging my head against it
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You avoid including too many dependencies in your modern Web frameworks because they introduce a dangerous attack surface I avoid including any dependencies at all because I never bothered to learn modern Web frameworks We are not the same
I want a custom #MechanicalkKeyboard keycap that says "Open The Pod Bay Doors"
One of my colleagues made this histogram showing the results of the first test in their upper-division software engineering class. The blue bars are the whole class, the red dots are the students where the instructor is "confident that they completely used AI for the related assignment". A note on correlation vs. causation: this graph alone doesn't indicate "AI use caused students to do poorly on the test" vs. "students who are unprepared at the beginning of the semester are more likely to use AI", or whether there is some other hidden factor connecting them. image