Sam Foley

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What exactly is "intelligent file uploading"?

Every visit to LinkedIn inflicts more psychic damage. Obvious LLM-written posts about the newest manuscript from their group, and half the replies are equally obviously LLM-written. What are we even doing here.

Goofy wearing a fedora

For reasons, I have a shell command alias "mgoofy", and every time I use it all I can think is
"A-hyuck, [tips fedora] m'goofy"

if you are someone who loves the Avatar movies, like considers them among the best and greatest movies ever made, and you make fun of the Spy Kids movies, i am picturing you surrounded by the shards of your glass house

a man in a blue shirt is standing in front of a sign that says " a starter car " Alt: Dennis from "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" is untethered and his rage knows no bounds

Starter sinkhole? This is a finisher sinkhole!

I think this is about the temperature but honestly it works for decades as well

"What is temperature at the microscopic level?" A person answers, "Molecular kinetic energy!" His irate, glowing-eyed boss then throws him out the window of a tall building.

I have found that many people don't know about configurational temperature, so I wrote a short note about it on my website.

www.samuelfoley.com/misc/

As usual, I owe my knowledge of this (and most other things in statistical physics) to @markusdeserno.bsky.social

"What is temperature at the microscopic level?" A person answers, "Molecular kinetic energy!" His irate, glowing-eyed boss then throws him out the window of a tall building.

I have found that many people don't know about configurational temperature, so I wrote a short note about it on my website.

www.samuelfoley.com/misc/

You know, I knew things would be wacky, but the white house posting Yu-Gi-Oh war inspo videos was not on my bingo card

There aren't any in the official standard, but I know the POCO C++ libraries are very popular for networking (sockets, HTTP, etc). I haven't used them myself though.

A large collection of useful libraries for C++. Used to be practically a universal dependency of large open source projects, I think it's used less nowadays, mostly because many boost libraries were added to the official C++ standard libraries.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boost_%...

Okay, third version of boost, Nth configuration, I'm sure it will actually compile the libraries I need this time, right?

Incredible to me that Google Docs is a more feature-complete web editor of docx files than Microsoft's own Office web suite. (Office web cannot display equations, Google Docs can)

[low-detail sketch of Ars Veruna in the background of a comic] Ars Veruna Biographical Information Homeworld: Naboo Died: 33 BBY, Naboo

Cracking up at this guy's Wookieepedia entry. Glad we have this artistic depiction of the character.

Always delightful to read one sentence in a paper that you don't fully understand, so you start doing some math and just keep stumbling over insights that aren't necessarily deep or profound, but just hidden under a layer you never would have peeled back without that one sentence.

This is fair, but only for older Treks. Someone wearing TNG or DS9 related merch is trustworthy. Picard or Discovery, ehhh...

^ What if I don't want to connect my school account? No problem. You can upload your own study materials — lecture slides, PDFs, notes, textbook chapters — and Einstein will help you understand them, create interactive learning tools, and guide you through the material step by step.

Love this change too. It's now telling students to violate instructors' copyright and upload our materials to it.

The passing of the gavel! At this morning’s Biophysical Society Business Meeting, now Past-President Lynmarie Thompson welcomed Karen Fleming into her new role as BPS President!

Nature's tiny little lightning rods

It's a fun and well done edit, and usually I'd just leave it alone, but that's also the kind of video that will end up giving a bunch of high schoolers concussions when they try to recreate it.

It's definitely edited, you can see the clouds in the sky snap into different positions before and after the pitch.

My guess is they had the apple on a batting tee, and after a good throw they had someone come in and sit quick, then just did some light compositing to put it together.

I think that's just how their batting boxes are. The video is edited though. Watch the clouds in the sky snap into different positions before and after the pitch.

I don't think this one counts for credit, though 🙄

Carnegie Mellon, a school I haven't been affiliated with for almost 3 years, expects me to spend an hour of my day taking their online "security 101" course or else I'll be locked out of my alumni email account.

lol. lmao, even.

I think we still need more FOSS developers, actually.

That drop is more than the entire NSF budget.

Lipid geeks rise up!