“what’s the fastest Big O notation?”
“Oh, I know this. O(1) Constant time”
“No, see it’s O(0). The fastest program is the one that never runs."
“Oh, I know this. O(1) Constant time”
“No, see it’s O(0). The fastest program is the one that never runs."
Many programmers dream of working on a farm or living in the woods, but when I retire, I’ll just be coding Java in Intellij all day, because that was good and nothing else is really there.
— matklad
— matklad
Peter Naur's classic 1985 essay "Programming as Theory Building" argues that a program is not its source code. A program is a shared mental construct (he uses the word theory) that lives in the minds of the people who work on it. If you lose the people, you lose the program. The code is merely a written representation of the program, and it's lossy, so you can't reconstruct a program from its code.
https://gist.github.com/onlurking/fc5c81d18cfce9ff81bc968a7f342fb1
I have no interest in the end of the world. It has ended for me many times and began again in the morning.
-Charles Bukowski
-Charles Bukowski
https://anilist.co/anime/167336/LAZARUS/
this is really good, probably best anime I watched this year
this is really good, probably best anime I watched this year
AniList
LAZARUS
The year is 2052 — an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity prevails across the globe. The reason for this: mankind has been freed from sickness and pain. Nobel Prize winning neuroscientist Dr. Skinner has developed a miracle cure-all drug with no apparent…
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
- Weeping Philosopher
- Weeping Philosopher
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Often the true victim of most debates between patriarchy and feminism is meritocracy
“If you want more effective programmers, you will discover that they should not waste their time debugging, they should not introduce the bugs to start with.”
—Edsger Dijkstra, Turing Award Lecture (1972)
—Edsger Dijkstra, Turing Award Lecture (1972)
Oracle's Ellison overtakes Musk as world's richest person
https://www.perplexity.ai/page/oracle-s-ellison-overtakes-mus-1FhZ9fLLRq2yXgxI8rnwKA
Just realised that richest people in tech are the ones who care least about it
https://www.perplexity.ai/page/oracle-s-ellison-overtakes-mus-1FhZ9fLLRq2yXgxI8rnwKA
Just realised that richest people in tech are the ones who care least about it
Perplexity AI
Oracle's Ellison overtakes Musk as world's richest person
Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison has dethroned Tesla CEO Elon Musk as the world's richest person following a remarkable stock surge that added over $100...
Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him.
- Dune, Book 1
- Dune, Book 1
Giving dogs life imprisonment while your parliament is filled with criminals
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/repeat-offender-street-dogs-uttar-pradesh-up-life-imprisonment-yogi-government-supreme-court-animal-rights-2788912-2025-09-17
47% of ministers have a ongoing criminal case against them
27% of them have cases related to murder, attempt to murder, kidnapping, crimes against women etc.
https://adrindia.org/content/Analysis-of-Current-Ministers-and-the-Union-Council-of-Ministers-2025
https://adrindia.org/sites/default/files/Analysis_of_Sitting_MPs_and_MLAs_who_have_dynastic_background_Finalver_English_Updated.pdf
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/repeat-offender-street-dogs-uttar-pradesh-up-life-imprisonment-yogi-government-supreme-court-animal-rights-2788912-2025-09-17
47% of ministers have a ongoing criminal case against them
27% of them have cases related to murder, attempt to murder, kidnapping, crimes against women etc.
https://adrindia.org/content/Analysis-of-Current-Ministers-and-the-Union-Council-of-Ministers-2025
https://adrindia.org/sites/default/files/Analysis_of_Sitting_MPs_and_MLAs_who_have_dynastic_background_Finalver_English_Updated.pdf
India Today
Repeat-offender street dogs to get life imprisonment in UP
The government of Uttar Pradesh has rolled out tough new rules against street dogs, mandating life imprisonment for repeat attackers. The move follows a Supreme Court ruling that sought to tackle the street-dog menace in Delhi NCR.
TIL while trying to grok at sqlite src that it does not use git.
like linus, author of sqlite created his own vcs (altho for different reasons) called fossil
https://sqlite.org/src/doc/trunk/README.md
https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.wiki
like linus, author of sqlite created his own vcs (altho for different reasons) called fossil
https://sqlite.org/src/doc/trunk/README.md
https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.wiki