Boredom is the inevitable consequence of a life devoted to pleasure.

"The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit." - Anonymous

I try to keep out of politics generally, but having spent the first 16 years of my life in the then-socialist paradise, this rings true: nytimes.com/2019/01/25/opi…. The poor do matter, and it's on all of us to improve income inequality, but socialism is _not_ the way.

MEGATHREAD TIME: In 40 tweets I will describe 40 powerful concepts for understanding the world. Some are complex so forgive me for oversimplifying, but the main purpose is to incite curiosity. Okay, here we go:

~$ 2020 restart ~$ restart 2020 ~$ 2020 restart -f ~$ sudo 2020 restart 🤔 ~$ sudo kill -9 2020 ~$ rm-rf ~/year/2020 I got nothin’... Anyone have any ideas?

Happy 90th birthday, Thomas Sowell! Some of his best quotes 👇

1) A stranger than fiction Roman ring mystery thread: this enigmatic Roman gold ring was found in a ploughed field near Silchester in 1785. The square bezel has a portrait of the pagan goddess Venus, inscribed backwards SUNEV for use as a signet ring by the owner. Curiously...

Recent learning: in aviation when there are 2 pilots in the cockpit there’s an explicit handoff between who’s flying. The handoff goes: “you have the controls” “I have the controls” “you have the controls” I like this a lot because it’s applicable to any task that can’t fail.

More like this.

You might have heard that Conway's Game of Life is Turing complete. But what most people who are familiar with the game don't know, is what that *truly* entails. That it is possible to create Life ...within Life itself. ⠠⠵ youtube.com/watch?v=Kk2MH9…

This testimonial is so good, so thoughtful I'm going to tweet it all. "We're an F#-first company and I'd like to share our experience here..." news.ycombinator.com/item?id=253089…

Don't worry folks, we won't leave you reloading in the cold. 🔥

The real divide is between people who want to fix everything and people who just want to be left alone.

tau > pi

Twitter algorithm should be open source

Having such an amazingly productive flow-state day with F#, Fable and Copilot. Anyone who never tried F# (or didn't stick it out) is really missing out on the best dev experience ever.

"In programming, if someone tells you “you’re overcomplicating it,” they’re either 10 steps behind you or 10 steps ahead of you." – Andrew Clark

Tim Cook Steve wouldn't have shipped that ad. It would have pained him too much to watch.