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Leslie Lamport received the Turing Award for “imposing clear, well-defined coherence on the seemingly chaotic behavior of distributed computing systems”

Posted on 2022/03/10 by Carl Robitaille

Leslie Lamport received the Turing Award for "imposing clear, well-defined coherence on the seemingly chaotic behavior of distributed computing systems" pic.twitter.com/f2KwfUGwR9
— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary) February 25, 2022

The Toaster

Posted on 2022/03/10 by Carl Robitaille

The Toaster

The Toaster. https://t.co/QQX783ISjz pic.twitter.com/rCB2W2ojyu
— Doug Savage (@savagechickens) February 25, 2022

Donald Knuth on the similarities between mathematics and computer science

Posted on 2022/02/24 by Carl Robitaille

Donald Knuth on the similarities between mathematics and computer science pic.twitter.com/PQmmGMPfA9
— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary) February 24, 2022

The [REDACTED] ETHDenver 2022 Report

Posted on 2022/02/24 by Carl Robitaille

The [REDACTED] ETHDenver 2022 Report

I did a write-up on #ETHDenver 2022, but the outlet for whom it was intended got cold feet upon reading it. 😂.

So I just stuck it up on Reddit. I'll post some highlights below. https://t.co/ui0iRjUuVH
— Jem (@JemayelK) February 23, 2022

cat vs tac

Posted on 2022/02/23 by Carl Robitaille

https://twitter.com/Umbrado/status/1496115952026537986?s=20&t=XhX-wVmR16v-xsWxyOcNfA

bashle

Posted on 2022/02/23 by Carl Robitaille

bashle
n=1;w=$(look .|egrep "^w{5}$"|shuf|head -1);for i in {1..6};do read -p"$((n++))? " g;for i in $(seq 0 ${#g});do l=${g:$i:1};[[ $l == ${w:$i:1} ]]&&printf "e[42m$le[0m"||printf "$l";done;echo;[[ "$g" == "$w" ]]&&break;grep –color=always "[$w]" <<<"$g";done;echo ans: $w pic.twitter.com/rqF9sy3rZP
— Command Line Magic (@climagic) February 22, 2022

Coded in Assembly

Posted on 2022/02/23 by Carl Robitaille

Assembly is crowned the most difficult language to learn on a beginner level followed by Haskell. So this meme seems accurate. YMMV. pic.twitter.com/hijePGI5nR
— nixCraft 🐧 (@nixcraft) February 21, 2022

Jean-Baptiste Kempf, the creator of the VLC media player

Posted on 2022/02/23 by Carl Robitaille

TIL, VLC creator is awesome guy. This is Jean-Baptiste Kempf, the creator of the VLC media player, he refused tens of millions of euros in order to keep VLC ads-free. Merci, Jean! Thank you for the hard work. #opensource #linux #macos #unix #windows pic.twitter.com/QVBWrKHdWj
— nixCraft 🐧 (@nixcraft) December 6, 2017

Estimated computation used in large training runs of AI systems

Posted on 2022/02/21 by Carl Robitaille

Estimated computation used in large training runs of AI systems

You can also explore this data on @OurWorldInData: https://t.co/KVwdJGOz9b pic.twitter.com/IEVDONBhsC
— Charlie Giattino (@charliegiattino) February 15, 2022

The terminal width is almost always 80 columns

Posted on 2022/02/21 by Carl Robitaille

Open a terminal window on your computer—whether Windows, Mac or Linux—and unless you’ve fiddled the defaults, the width is almost always 80 columns. Run a code reformatter like clang-format and same deal…defaults to 80 columns. Why? (1/18) pic.twitter.com/OQLInQDaCo
— That Dragon Guy (@PaintYourDragon) February 15, 2022