resorting to unbelievably nasty code, trying to figure out an algorithm that works

truly inimitable

teacher: "hi piano reddit, i have an 8 year old student who is struggling to remember the notes of a piece we have been working on for a while now. can you give me some advice?" reddit:

Added snippets/sharing to the Coalton Playground More details at abacusnoir.com/2025/09/06/coa…

Wake up babe, new Func Prog Podcast just dropped! I interview '(Robert Smith) about Coalton, Common Lisp, DSLs and much more! Listen below 👇

$20 book has $20 shipping with $20 import fee (Italy -> USA)

some youtubers need to practice reading teleprompters, or position them better so they're not constantly changing their gaze somewhere off to the side every 6 seconds

and they have the gall to say Common Lisp doesn't bring you places

i've had enough i'm now going to write int master(int argc, char *argv[]) { ... with my new gcc config -Wl,-emaster

My brother was helping me pack and label my stuff.

What are technical books that always get recommended but don't actually seem to get read (including by the recommender)?

Wow, Martinis and Devoret! About 10 years ago most people predicted the Nobel *wouldn't* be awarded in this area until actually scalable FTQC would be achieved. It was also a somewhat open secret (?) that Martinis was gunning for the Nobel.

My John Martinis story: He chaired the session I gave my first ever APS March Meeting talk in 2017. I talked about low level scheduling of quantum circuit operations. I went over time which is a big no-no & usually harshly cut off, but he was gracious about it and let me finish.

Published a new linter for Common Lisp! 🎉 github.com/fukamachi/mall…

An extremely cute kitten dies everytime your terminal renders "✨ done!" instead of big and beautiful "SUCCESS".

women with prominent voiceless alveolar sibilants