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this is the optimal way to pack 17 squares in a larger square. I promise
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Japanese speakers are using the "😷" emoji to vaguetweet about Elon (😷 = マスク = mask/Musk)
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"MySQL is named after its creator's daughter, My" sounds a little bit like a surreal joke but it's true
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magicians' demoscene event where they invent the prettiest, or most useful, or most surprising magic spell that only costs 1 mana point
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say what you want about Harry DuBois but if a toddler handed him a fake phone he would—
INLAND EMPIRE [Medium: Success] — You take the invisible receiver and paranoidly cup a hand over it. Secret cop business.
1. [Drama - Legendary 14] Convince the toddler the phone is real.
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I would like you to see this Borland Turbo C++ 3.x (Windows) splash screen
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"Random thought: in the time it takes for light from your monitor to travel 30cm to reach your eyes, your 4GHz processor executes 4 whole cycles" twitter.com/Ryuz88/status/…
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“Is this the simplest (and most surprising) sorting algorithm ever?” arxiv.org/abs/2110.01111
Abstract:
We present an extremely simple sorting algorithm. It may look like it is obviously wrong, but we prove that it is in fact correct.
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please… look at this ancient form of the chinese character for dragon 龍……………
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programming protip! when you see x >= 0, that's a handy shortcut for
x = x > 0
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ok it's ready!! a less social but infinitely replayable #Wordle clone for my fellow addicts: foldr.moe/hello-wordl/
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what if we kissed… 😳 and we were both gliders 😳 and th(VERY LOUD EXPLOSION SOUND)
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my friend told me about チョットデキル (chotto dekiru, "I can do it a little"), which is a Japanese engineering slang/in-joke for,
"I am a world-renowned expert in this technology and could probably rewrite it from scratch"
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it would obviously be funny if everyone started using "stolen" ape jpegs as profile pictures to muddle and confuse and devalue the environment. but unfortunately there is a clever built-in defense mechanism against this: they're ugly as hell
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I just learned that what programmers call a "feature" is in the watch-making world rightfully called a "complication": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complicat…
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computer advice! you can “paste without formatting” in most apps with the handy keyboard shortcut combo:
Ctrl+V
(Deep sigh)
Ctrl+Z
Ctrl+Shift+V
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I don't know who needs to hear this but year "n" is a leap year iff
gcd(80, n) > gcd(50, n)
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utah and wyoming should z-fight twitter.com/jacob_posts/st…
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