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Indiscriminate laziness

Chris Cuomo up to begging his brother to run for President

Posted on 2020/04/03 by Carl Robitaille

I wouldn’t be surprised if CNN put Chris Cuomo up to begging his brother to run for President.

These interviews are always hilarious. pic.twitter.com/JQHadCHKWA
— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) March 31, 2020

10,000 retweets & I’ll run a marathon in my back garden. It’s about 6 metres long

Posted on 2020/04/02 by Carl Robitaille

https://twitter.com/jcampbell0104/status/1244654961960652803?s=20

Exponential

Posted on 2020/04/02 by Carl Robitaille

Exponential

On arXiv today, one of the strangest math papers I’ve seen: a proof of a result in metric geometry in the form of a fantasy novellette

Posted on 2020/04/02 by Carl Robitaille

On arXiv today, one of the strangest math papers I've seen: a proof of a result in metric geometry in the form of a fantasy novellette.

According to the acknowledgments, the paper is a retort by the author against those who complain that his research articles are too verbose. https://t.co/FeXhPMW8a8
— Evan Patterson (@ejpatters) April 2, 2020

A non-Euclidean story or: how to persist when your geometry doesn’t

Saw my gut on camera today and now I remember that I need to get back in shape… in style

Posted on 2020/04/02 by Carl Robitaille

Saw my gut on camera today and now I remember that I need to get back in shape… in style

People afraid of catching coronavirus are guzzling orange juice — and now it’s this year’s top commodity

Posted on 2020/04/01 by Carl Robitaille

People afraid of catching coronavirus are guzzling orange juice — and now it’s this year’s top commodity

Chiller au parc

Posted on 2020/04/01 by Carl Robitaille

pic.twitter.com/gAuC4kFAvS
— Alain Vadeboncoeur MD (@Vadeboncoeur_Al) April 1, 2020

/dev/stupidity

Posted on 2020/04/01 by Carl Robitaille

Kernel developers have announced a new device file, /dev/stupidity. It is much faster than /dev/urandom, has an order of magnitude more entropy, works universally, but doesn't run out of data like /dev/random does. The only downside is it requires Internet access.
— Command Line Magic (@climagic) April 1, 2020

60 millions de rouleaux

Posted on 2020/04/01 by Carl Robitaille

60 millions de rouleaux

“Juste ce mois-ci, au mois de mars, l’entreprise a déjà expédié, tenez-vous bien, 60 millions de rouleaux de plus que prévu à travers le Canada.”

What programmers say VS what they mean

Posted on 2020/04/01 by Carl Robitaille

What programmers say VS what they mean 😂 #programming pic.twitter.com/HXOKOAMGEp
— nixCraft 🐧 (@nixcraft) April 15, 2017