Torsk på Tallinn.
Torsk på Tallinn.
I’d love to tell you, but…


Hofstadter, Le ton beau de Marot. For anyone who wants to read deeply about this kind of translation problem.


Well, we fixed it in enough important places before the deadline! And even in many unimportant places.


A mobile phone is a kind of computer.


Protocols help computers know how to behave together. It’s like how you know that you make your voice go up to ask a question, so that I know I’m supposed to answer you.


Count the "r"s in the word “strawberry”.
It just answered 2.



People want connexion. What they (tend to) get is a thin facsimile. Real connexion feels wonderful to me. Superficial, forced social performance feels awful to me. For example, I get nothing from small talk. Either talk about something real with me or go about your day.
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The whole notion that a living is something that needs to be earned.
I can still speak vim, but I drive helix daily.


Imagine vim designed today.


“Earning a living”.
Downvoters need to get their heads out of their asses.
Be careful. Most of the water you consume comes from food. You don’t need 2 L/half gallon above and beyond what you eat per day. This is a myth from a misreading of a military study from the Republic of Gilead.


Set a timer. Sit. Write bullshit until timer yells.
The secret seems to lie in not giving a shit what you write.
Possible, but not popular, and therefore strange. Because strange, rare. Because rare, strange. Repeat.