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  why yes, we stock both genders

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  favorite emacs key prefix

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  not letting the mosquito drink is stingy. you have lots of blood

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  what is your median number of books ordered but not yet received

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  the ongoing existence of cpython and the under-resourcing of pypy is baffling to me

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  they call it a low-level virtual machine because virtual instructions are close to machine instructions the virtual instruction: sitofp the machine instructions: https://godbolt.org/z/qfbGErns3

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  can't help getting astrology × audiophile vibes from llm enthusiasts: "oh no honey you can't use opus 4.8, it's so nerfed, try glm-5.2 or the codex 5.5, they have a warm gemini sound, very well rounded on details and tone. but don't use google's gemini models, they are really leos, they have good treble response but you can't trust their mid-range"

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  interesting programming language implementation technique https://github.com/mnapoli/vibephp

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  what a world https://blog.himanshuanand.com/2026/05/the-90-day-disclosure-policy-is-dead/

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  new bloggery, in which our protagonist dreams of laurels https://wingolog.org/archives/2025/12/17/in-which-our-protagonist-dreams-of-laurels

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  ex-boxing: neither nan nor nun https://medium.com/@kannanvijayan/exboxing-bridging-the-divide-between-tag-boxing-and-nan-boxing-07e39840e0ca (via @dysfun)

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  new bloggery: it's alive, it's alive! ~~ https://wingolog.org/archives/2026/04/09/wastrel-milestone-full-hoot-support-with-generational-gc-as-a-treat

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  my favorite software complexity metric: the number of data structures with "context" or "environment" in their name

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  well, what the hell, artemis seems to be off. godspeed, you lunatics

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  "At a conference talk I watched a speaker present a quote and article attributed to me which never existed" omg https://aphyr.com/posts/411-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess

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  well. after implementing weak maps and refs, wastrel compilation of the hoot repl seems to work. some trimming needed to make backtraces not show frames that are part of the implementation, and polish as always, but i gasped audibly when it first gave me a prompt!

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  honestly everyone over 35 needs someone in their life to let them know if they post cringe

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  blogging to arxiv is a massive flex https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.10181

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  steel train bridge on rollers to allow for expansion

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  new bloggery: the value of a performance oracle https://wingolog.org/archives/2026/04/07/the-value-of-a-performance-oracle

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  zomg a neighbor loaned my 7yo tintin au congo and my kid read it; europe is fine and all but this shit would not fly in the usa i grew up in

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  as a crew member of spaceship earth i would like to wish a very fuck you very much to nationalists of all varieties

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  i have told this story before, but. i did physics with christina koch at university; once while working on an assignment she mentioned wanting to be an astronaut. in my recollection i thought "nobody ever gets to be an astronaut"; i didn't say it tho. anyway hoo boy was i wrong, and an asshole to boot; hopefully the thought did not escape containment

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@blackerby/116319012639423831 incredible to find myself nodding along to a piece written for the saudi royal house

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  git has made us all come out as bisectual

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  it is still weird to me that there are swiss army pocketknives for sale in the geneva airport, right at the gate

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  flavor of devrel which is just an endless sequence of telling people your system is fast because of optimized manual memory management and telling them the same because of an optimized garbage collector

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  hoo, the darkest thing i have read recently ~~ https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/an-existential-threat-to-organized

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  i got "wastrel foo.wasm" working, for a wasm file produced by the hoot scheme compiler :) wheee

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  banlieue has too many vowels. good night