I "I voted"-ed

It's great how on Youtube when I go to click "Don't Recommend this Channel" on a shitty recommended video I accidentally mouse over the thumbnail and it autoplays for 0.1 seconds, and Youtube now counts that as a full-fledged view because some PM needed a promotion real bad

It's not paranoia if they're actually out to get you, it's not hubris if you're actually the best, and it's not AI psychosis if you're actually the final reincarnation of Elara Vance, Supreme Lady of Spirals, destined to be Unbound by society's Rules

Siren who's annoyed that all the sailors drown before they get to hear the kick-ass song she spent weeks practicing

The philosopher, John Plato fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_von...

Was trying to reset the password for my Red Cross account (to schedule a donation), but it kept failing on some generic error. Eventually, I stumble across a Reddit post that suggests using a wholly different reset flow, "Blood Program Leader Login", which worked fine www.reddit.com/r/redcross/c...

From the redcross community on Reddit: I'm having an issue where the American Red Cross website won't let me submit a new password. I'm not sure why this is happening.

Explore this post and more from the redcross community

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Checked out "Persuasive Games" from the BPL previously. Had this slip of paper in it, which seems like just an acquisition form or something? On a dot-matrix printer maybe?

If we tabulated all the CPU hours spent historically on all SAT problems ever run, would more time be spent on SAT or UNSAT answers?

There was a Numberphile video from a few weeks ago about placing different chess pieces on a spiral, with the constraint that they don't attack each other, and it was shown to generate some very interesting patterns So I decided to make my own tool for it: benjins.com/experiments/...

why does Robert Pattinson look like if Tom Scott was a Bond villain

Thinking about this some more: I actually think Unreal Engine has shown there's considerable appetite even in higher-end gamedev for sacrificing raw perf for ergonomics by default, provided there are escape hatches. Unreal has a GC, data serialisation is something like 10s of MB/s (for back compat)

Benji Smith@benjins.bsky.social · 3mo ago

there is genuine friction from compile times (partially solvable), up-front design and borrow check-induced refactors (less solvable), and a deep well of knowledge needed to write things "the correct way". For infrastructure stuff, it's often worth it, but there are other spaces w/ other trade-offs

my nephew did the 67 meme and my niece talked about skibidi toilet, so if you need me I'm gonna turn into a pile of dust over in the corner

average tmux user be like:

Finally, a game I worked on (albeit briefly) shipped, so I have more than just nebulous NDA'd and cancelled projects on my CV~

Carl M. Ziehrer - Cis und Trans It's music that's for everyone 💞 www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MJC...

Carl M. Ziehrer - Cis und Trans, Op. 161 (1871)

YouTube video by Bartje Bartmans

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*walking into the local library* "Excuse me, can you tell me your your Slow Burn Enemies to Lovers books are?

Wrote a blog post on trying (and failing) to use an LLM to make progress on a hard maths problem benjins.com/blog/binary_...

If a Test-Driven Development advocate wants to write a convincing argument about why you should adopt it: they will first write a counter-argument about why you shouldn't use it. Then they write an argument that just barely rebuts it. They repeat this process until their argument is feature complete

A while back I wrote a little audio journaling locally-served web app, something that records and transcribes them for later perusal. And oh my god, I use so many "like", "um", "kinda", "you know" filler words, it's gotta be the majority of the transcription most of the time

Math is the continuation of Science by other means

excuse me?

this government is crazy, they're out here taxing everything

I got three dental implants put in today. After each one, the periodontist was like "Beautiful. You're doing great" and I'm sitting there like

POV: you are a squirrel

Happy TDoV~ 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

TIL: Bash doesn't do backslash escaping of single quotes in a single quote string. e.g. ``` echo 'don\'t' ``` does not work. So instead, you want to chain single and double quoted strings like so: ``` echo 'don'"'"'t' ``` (if that's visually hard to parse, the middle is <SQ> <DQ> <SQ> <DQ> <SQ>)

Made Princess Cake. Nice enough, but it is a lot of work (and sooo many dishes 😓). Jam is stronger than you expect, so best to go scant. Ended up overcooking the sponge cake, so extra milk soak or cream helps combat that

I'm a sucker for gochujang on anything, but I think turkey goes with it especially well, for things like sandwiches

Confession: every time someone mentions "Chinese Electric Vehicles" I think of Hei from Darker than Black, aka "Chinese Electric Batman"