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Tried some cricket flour crackers but they were a gross ranch flavor.

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I Busted My Kneecap Open And It Looked Like A Geode Inside For Real

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@RadishHarmers I still often think about G. H. Hardy's roast of the "stupidly constructed 'real'" universe in "A Mathematician's Apology"

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@unormal Norton's Dome is a weird one: the Newtonian equations allow a ball at the top to spontaneously start rolling after an indeterminate amount of time (though this relies on the 2nd derivative being undefined at the apex) https://t.co/Dfu3Ie0f7J , https://t.co/ZQvzTyI1OZ

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@KenJennings Still shows 93's answer as the final Kennection. Someone's gotta make Ken a better offer than MentalFloss to host this puzzle, 'cause they are blowing it.

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@KenJennings @mental_floss Not being able to read all the questions before answering goes against the spirit of the game. Should I be embarrassed at how strongly I feel about this.

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@__phantomderp I dealt with this by using CAPS LOCK for everything (mapping it to CMD on Mac and CTRL on Linux). Took a minute to get used to, but easier on my pinkies overall.

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@theseantcollins here we go: https://t.co/8B5umSGlXj

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@theseantcollins Strong prescription? I noticed this effect with new glasses a few years ago: the lens's chromatic aberration means red light gets focused to a different spot than blue light, and the difference is bigger for more oblique angles (more noticeable when you move your head around)

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@kalebhorton Waterfall Glen in DuPage county is named not for the waterfall it contains, but for Seymour "Bud" Waterfall https://t.co/3uTuxGJ1pt

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@replyallguy @ryxcommar nope, this is the "all 4s" code. in the original code, x is a different list object each loop (which you can check with id(x)). here, x is the same list object each time, and we only change the first element (mutating the list without changing its id). try it out, play around!

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@ryxcommar It's a good mistake to make (& remember) in front of a class. I was still breaking old MATLAB habits, too. Man I do not miss all those semicolons.

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@ryxcommar This got me once while I was teaching (deliberately without numpy):
"We just initialize a 5x5 list of lists with zeros..."
arr = [[0]*5]*5
(arr looks as expected)
"then set arr[0][0] = 1"
(arr does not look as expected)
".... we have all learned a lesson"

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@ryxcommar For the "compare and contrast" readers:
li = []
x = [None]
for i in range(5):
x[0] = i
li.append(x)
print(i, x, li)

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@i_zzzzzz also signed up for a Google Voice number early enough that I could ensure it spelled out GROK, not sure if this raises or lowers my status

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@monteurhulot Kidney stones

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@vboykis "Most hash schemes depend on having a "good" hash function ... Python doesn't"

This is the kind of twist that elevates a docstring to literature. The kind to make Knuth proud.

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@vboykis Who will mention excluding .DS_Store from anything that iterates over a filesystem? Just saw someone at work get bit by this one. #normconf

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@monteurhulot it's such a great calendar, too bad it was undone by leap years. this part always brings a tear to my eye:

"A fixed arithmetic rule for determining leap years was proposed by Gilbert Romme ... Shortly thereafter, he was sentenced to the guillotine"
https://t.co/voKTfLqJaS

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@monteurhulot shoot I forgot to call my dad for Oats day

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@vboykis My wife and I are both data scientists and when we got married we kept calling ourselves "two hot dummies"

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@kalebhorton Gotta check the record books to see if you're one of those secret tetris savants https://t.co/wiOVM5Jtrh