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I bet 15th c pince nez huuuuurrt after a while

10.03.2026 13:18 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’m consistently surprised by how well Claude handles Haskell.

09.03.2026 13:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Trying to make sure he isn’t laid off by new management

08.03.2026 15:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh that actor. Well, I don’t care about him, so actually he didn’t lose my from his audience

06.03.2026 16:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That’s one of those films that just feels perfect to me. Sometimes you watch one and the whole thing has such an effect. for me it was one such film.

My favorite film of all time is “the philadelphia Story”. It fees that way too, but is very different. The best writing I’ve ever experienced.

06.03.2026 16:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Only thing missing is the banner of trumps face hanging on the facade. Such a good opportunity

06.03.2026 16:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ahh I was just thinking about doing something like this. a big part of it though is that while I love org babel, I find it so lacking. And tight integration with llm systems could be so fantastic

06.03.2026 15:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ah I love opera. What did I miss

06.03.2026 15:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

“You wouldn’t be in my top 8” brought back memories I didn’t know I had. I still miss MySpace

06.03.2026 15:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
As you can see here, right from the very first day he entered our house, Jim found great difficulty in getting settled and making the environment his own.

As you can see here, right from the very first day he entered our house, Jim found great difficulty in getting settled and making the environment his own.

THREAD.

3 & 1/4 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he'd been living, in rural Cornwall, & decided he wanted to live with us instead.

We decided to call him Jim.

This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st 2022

05.03.2026 13:25 👍 597 🔁 113 💬 15 📌 53

I’m still stuck containing platitudes

04.03.2026 20:34 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It must be fun picking up dog leavings on rollerblades

04.03.2026 19:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Touché

03.03.2026 22:48 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bro you can just buy a fax machine

03.03.2026 22:47 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’m from pgh and have been familiar with fetterman for a long time. If he was just acting as a liberal, well, he did it for a really long time.

Then he had the stroke and the concomitant brain damage, and suddenly his behavior is far different.

Any conclusions are left best-drawn by the reader.

28.02.2026 18:22 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The classic gentlemanly demeanor

26.02.2026 23:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I was recently thinking about how gracious and grateful characters are in a lot of older fiction. Seems so antiquated, but like it should be brought back

26.02.2026 23:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’d be happy if they were book “at all”ing

18.02.2026 19:43 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them

14.02.2026 01:50 👍 24864 🔁 2901 💬 1062 📌 491

Stay classy carrick

13.02.2026 19:16 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A year ago, I thought LLMs were kind of neat but not that useful. I saw the code autocomplete and thought, meh.

Last summer just flipped. I never ever thought I would see automated code generation like we see now.

I know there’s baggage but you need to know the coders are being real about this

12.02.2026 16:42 👍 458 🔁 47 💬 2 📌 0

It just hit me: the Iliad and Odyssey are absolutely superhero stories of different genres and a different era. It is just so obvious, I can’t believe it took me so long to realize it.

12.02.2026 17:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands

photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

11.02.2026 17:15 👍 40531 🔁 13806 💬 1372 📌 892

Who called it “old faithful“ and not “geezer geiser“

29.01.2026 21:34 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

incredible kit

25.01.2026 16:00 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s cold, but snow doesn’t start until tonight

24.01.2026 15:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I thought it was an axe for chopping balls

23.01.2026 23:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The best movie

08.12.2025 02:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My gut still tells me that if you're good enough at nix, you get the ability to do things that you can't really otherwise do, but I am certainly with you in that the typical nix story is really wildly off.

I love how vids will quote that pkgs are all so fresh, without the num that are broken!

03.11.2025 16:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

this was my common experience: I _had_ to upgrade nixpkgs to some more recent version for some reason, and some tool I relied upon was broken it it.

I ended up basically doing a thing where when i upgraded nixpkgs, i'd expect some brokenness, then switch to home manger to install that tool.

03.11.2025 16:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0