A new and intriguing item has found its way into our library this evening.... https://suricrasia.online/library/
Who would win?
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a big ol one
computer hongry boy
Japan is definitively superior.
come on and slam
and vapourise the ham
harry potter and in the interest of showing both sides of the issue heres an unexamined and unedited interview with voldemort, over to you craig
Today I realized that I cannot expect people on the Internet to have heard of the Geek Social Fallacies any more.
The Geek Social Fallacies are five things that geeks often believe about How Socializing Should Work, that cause a lot of conflict. I've found them to be pretty useful as a way to put a handle on certain concepts, and maybe even avoid going into bad situations.
http://plausiblydeniable.com/opinion/gsf.html
(Looking at them in 2017, I find myself wondering how many of the GSFs the design of most social networks is running straight into...)
I just saw a woman wearing these LED eyelashes and they are cyber as fuck. https://newatlas.com/led-eyelashes-flashes-kickstarter/50310/
There was a tumblr post I saw that was talking about "I wish I could go on dates with people but without the romantic involvement" and people were like "That's just friendship" and other people were like "No it's this other really complicated thing with a new name" and, like, honestly?
Normalize the FUCK out of highly-emotional, loving friendships. We shouldn't need a new word for that. That's just being friends.
Overhearing conversations about cryptocoin "investments" everywhere I go these days. Reminds me of overhearing conversations about flipping property before the housing crash in 2009.
This shit has to crash soon, right?
Welcome to the Suricrasia Online Online Library! We just got a new book! We don't know where it came from... we got it out of a old CRT monitor using a fishing line... https://suricrasia.online/library/
Instagram Engineering do some pretty informative writeups on how they're using #Python:
Dismissing Python Garbage Collection at Instagram – Instagram Engineering
By dismissing the Python garbage collection (GC) mechanism, which reclaims memory by collecting and freeing unused data, Instagram can run…
https://engineering.instagram.com/dismissing-python-garbage-collection-at-instagram-4dca40b29172