@KillerMartinis So, you start with 99 red balloons, but instead of setting them free at the break of dawn and triggering a massive mutual self-destruction event, invest them...
As per tradition, the last question of my final exam asked students to write a funny haiku about distributed systems for 1 point of extra credit. Last year, someone submitted https://t.co/EP8jhtP9dq -- so this year I said memes are also acceptable.
Thread of my favorites! ⬇️
“The act reflected many of the core tenets of journalism: Afflicting the comfortable, shining a light on wrongdoing, bearing witness on behalf of the marginalized, speaking truth to power.”
https://t.co/rPUXZsYgvE
I was thinking about how once the expectation of high grades gets established for a child, there is no more success, only lack of failure. All my friends are in a constant cycle of trying their best and not feeling like they’ve accomplished anything
We are delighted to announce that, thanks to the generous support of our alumni community, we can again offer grants of up to $7,000 to Recursers from groups that are underrepresented in programming!
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Dear Team—
Many of you have read some concerning stories about our user tracking. While media characterizations aren’t entirely accurate, we are listening and learning. Today, I can share some exciting news: we’ve committed to purchasing ethics offsets, to be net ethical by 2030
So, I have old Playstation2 DDR pads from like 2010 that are still kickin' (pun intended) and I was like, hey, I should hook these up to my PC and play stepmania and necrodancer, but now I've tried three different Playstation2->USB converters and none of them worked 😭
I immediately thought that I should try writing my own custom driver for them, but that's not my expertise and I don't have time for that, so, no DDR for me :(
It's about damn time tenants wrote their own rights into federal law. The #HomesGuarantee campaign plans to engage ONE MILLION tenants this summer to do just that. Get your roomies, neighbors, comrades, and friends to be a part of this historic effort: https://t.co/dvTATM9MCn
cafe workers: "we are unionizing"
owner: "lol then I'm selling the cafe"
cafe workers: proceed to buy the cafe and turn it into a worker's co-op
talk about a best case scenario!
https://t.co/jEOjKtHz5D