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language-curious code imp; sporadic swimmer. hazptr stan

[vct @detsaipher]

the difference between you and me is that inside your head it is always dunkirk and inside my head is simply harold with a purple crayon

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@hew_itt there’s a movie about this (predestination)

[QC @QiaochuYuan]

andre weil wrote a book called “basic number theory” which to a normal person would mean an introduction to modular arithmetic or something but for weil apparently meant an introduction to class field theory, the graduate-level crowning jewel of algebraic number theory

incidentally this is the field of mathematics that the golod-shafarevich towers that feature in the recent openAI disproof of the erdos unit distance conjecture come from; this is probably the most attention that class field theory has ever gotten

[vct @detsaipher]

it’s cool to be surprised it’s already five and then suddenly realize it’s five again. horrific, really

[vct @detsaipher]

just got home after accidentally spending the last twelve hours obsessing over the correctness of various state machines for a durable sequence of atomic transactions in a distributed system. really thought that was behind me by now

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@egor_lappo https://t.co/8elNA9P7o0

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dropping shit like “this 20-part blog post provides a good introduction to linkers” in the org channel and wondering why my colleagues can’t tolerate me

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@hew_itt sometimes you just gotta be one of the first five comments on a slack thread on a saturday

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inb4 handmade id card holder from 7am-7pm boss who works leather in his free time

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opposite chirality skaters must be a protected demographic or why else would they be allowed on public ice

[vct @detsaipher]

cannot say for sure as i am not a baddie but i thought people in tech yearn for things to work. which means a corset should be tightenable and induce an inhuman waist to hip ratio, a bunch of connected computers should be powerable and able to talk to each other, etc

[Malika 🧬 @malikules]

baddies in tech yearn for raspberry pi corsets

[vct @detsaipher]

請問deepseek slop跟普通中文的差別是什麼

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will pay for a meal with anyone who can coherently explain to me what chinese ai slop looks like and how it differs from literary or poetic chinese as well as colloquial chinese. also mfa new yorker sparse chinese

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just checked and apparently infinite jest *has* been translated to chinese as of 2023. wonder if it’s any good

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@isosteph 100 IM type shit

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@paularambles smh because why aren’t they making jokes about how the romanian president got a perfect score at IMO

[vct @detsaipher]

you could reasonably anchor the origins of russia to vladimir-suzdal (btw i’ve been) but it’s not like it was more rurikid than novgorod or galicia-volhynia. and kiev itself changed hands a lot. the grand duchy of lithuania probably came the closest to unifying former Kievan Rus

[vct @detsaipher]

the whole claiming successorship to kievan rus thing is very strange like there wasn’t much empire or contiguity after yaroslav the wise. even after the golden horde, the ruthenians were lithuanian and polish before much of the territory came under russia

[vct @detsaipher]

usually when the concubine’s son came of age he and his mother were sent out of the harem to govern some state of the empire. she made the court loyal to her and stayed until death, independently attending meetings on state affairs and corresponding with foreign ambassadors

[vct @detsaipher]

ladies what is preventing you from hürrem-sultan-maxxing (turning the sultan monogamous after your entry to the harem, unprecedentedly breaking tradition to become his wife, and then independently running the ottoman empire at its peak while your husband suleiman is out at war)

[vct @detsaipher]

it’s actually batshit like traditionally the sultan only took slave concubines rather than wives, and each concubine was allowed only one male child. then she shows up and he has five sons with her, legally marries her, and starts marrying off the other concubines as virgins