The acid test for any two competing socioeconomic systems is which side needs to build a wall to keep people from escaping? That’s the bad one!

Why I left Twitter or rather why I did not sign up for “extremely hardcore” Twitter 2.0 🧵

Imagine a circle laid flat on a table, with a little spinner on it that you can flick. The circle is 80% red and 20% yellow, like a yellow pie slice. You flick the spinner. It spins, and slowwwly stops. Where did it land?

A new book on writing an operating system kernel has just been released. Found on r/osdev. 539kernel.com

1/ Many will tell you why Python is great for teaching coding, so I'll tell you ways it's not. State is a bad default. It should be legal but safe & rare. The arc of programming is long and bends towards immutability. Its early use creates messes (eg, "a variable is a box".) ↵

This is one of the 🤯🤯🤯 experiments we ran on the Duolingo Retention team :

Let’s have a Daniel thread. Tag all Daniels you know. All Daniels reply here—non-Daniels may only like, observe, and tag Daniels.

today at brunch an older man put his hands on my daughter. we were having eggs at an outdoor cafe and he approached our table and started making weird faces at her from a few feet away.

I'll take boring over being laid off three times in just over a year. :( I landed at a boring e-commerce company, and it will be more impactful and meaningfully educational than those three jobs.

New blog post: surfingcomplexity.blog/2022/11/25/cac…

All the best examples of ChatGPT, from OpenAI:

I’m sorry, I simply cannot be cynical about a technology that can accomplish this.

Can you output ascii art of a castle? #ChatGPT

Well, we know where #ChatGPT stands. unbelievable that it would endorse such behavior

GPT-4 can't take our jobs if we keep making weird new programming languages faster than it can keep up

Common misconception: Idle memory usage is bloat. "I have 32GB of RAM, why is 16GB used when nothing is open?" No, this is fine. If the memory is installed, the OS should make full use of it. Caching and prefetching are crucial for performance. Do you want everything to be slow?

New contender for "harder grind than free bird on expert plus": same, but 85% speed. Beat it! #beatsaber

I think it's time to head over to Mastodon and no longer give Twitter ad revenue