goatcheese @goatcheese@octodon.social

I was learning about gradient descent. It went well for a while, but then things really started going downhill

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me being a responsible adult

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The year is 2018. Hear a familiar sound while walking outside.

An ATM is showing a Windows XP shutdown screen.

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of course hackers are witches, why do you think it's a hex editor

Macros can be useful but I feel like we should ban certain people from touching them.

For example, imagine if someone were to use the C preprocessor to create an elaborate object orientation system for C, calling it GObject, and then create an entire graphics stack up to and including a desktop environment, called, say, GNOME.

I think that's the kind of person who should no longer be allowed to use the C preprocessor.

Imperial vs Metric System

My friend @natewinck just got me Monument Valley for a late birthday present. This game is incredible. Beautiful looking and sounding. Immediately immersive. I highly recommend it.

How do you improve upon perfection? Like this:

I propose we update POSIX and the Linux Standard Base to require `sl`

Every unix system should have `sl` installed by default

"fragging" your enemies and getting the "quad damages" may be cool,. but you want to know what's even cooler?

being honest and kind to yourself

The trick, btw, looks like this (in Makefile.am):

```
cant_believe_its_not_mandir = $(mandir)
nobase_cant_believe_its_not_man_DATA = \
man1/somemanpage.1 \
es/man1/somemanpage.1
```

@guerrillarain Hestu is a total bro and I would absolutely party with him. God bless the broccoli man.

stArch Linux

Department of Education: If you die, we will just bill your parents. Oh, don't forget that time we put out an arrest warrant for unpaid student loans.

hell is empty, and the demons have congregated to build the United fucking States.

The three hardest problems in computer science are cache invalidation, naming things, off-by-one-errors, and aligning things in LaTeX