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  We have a project to revive an old mainframe code base that I've been referring to as Jurassic Park. It works on two levels because I also think we shouldn't be doing this.

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  If you're not hitting each keystroke with at least 25 Newtons of force, people sitting around you will not respect your hax0r skillz.

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  AI companies are offsetting their high energy demands by burning *checks notes* rare books. Delightful. 🤦

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  If your video isn't breaking down the 61 best moments from the new Avengers trailer, why are you even posting this week?

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  These dogs are literally surrounded by toys, but Nora only wants whichever one Ben is playing with.

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  We might be living in a Black Mirror episode, but at least it's not the one with werewolves.

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  Subway now has $5 6-inch subs. Shrinkflation has gone too far.

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  After the AI bubble pops, we should do a retro one like 80s comics or tulip bulbs. (He said from the top of a mountain of 80s comics and tulip bulbs.)

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  When you have to train your replacement.

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  Good prompt engineering practices seem obvious to anyone who has read How to Ask Good Questions on Stack Overflow. https://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask

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  Brazil is so petty. #FIFA

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  "My friend introduced me to options." 🤦

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  "The sun comes up just about as often as it goes down, in the long run, but this doesn't make its motion random." — Donald Knuth

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  What now?

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  "If software cannot be maintained, then it will be rewritten." — Dave Cheney

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  "There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code." — Flon's Law

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  Another missed opportunity to release a Star Wars movie on Star Wars Day. May the 4th be with you.

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  How to Write Shared Libraries [PDF] https://akkadia.org/drepper/dsohowto.pdf

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  Half my coffee leaked out in my book bag this morning, but thanks to the trigonometry book that was ruined, I know exactly what angle the bag was tilted at.

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  "If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work." — Mich Ravera

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  Solution of a Problem in Concurrent Programming Control, E.W. Dijkstra, 1965 [PDF] http://rust-class.org/static/classes/class19/dijkstra.pdf

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  "One man's constant is another man's variable." — Alan J. Perlis

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  "It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning." — Claude Bernard

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  WhatsApp: "Keep the conversation going with our new update!" me: you have so much data, but you don't really know me at all.

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  "I define UNIX as '30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.'" — Donald Knuth

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  "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." — Benjamin Franklin

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  Hot take: Most people should stick to thinking inside the box most of the time.

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  How to make good reproducible pandas examples #python #pandas https://stackoverflow.com/q/20109391/1288

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  How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your microplastics?

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  "Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute." — Abelson & Sussman