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remember when the us pranked stalin by asking him to invade japan so they'd finally surrender, then dropping the bomb the same day to steal credit for ending the war? legendary. also an atrocity, the bombing was unnecessary

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apparently there is a real graph that looks like 📈 and 📉 superimposed and it is “Railway passenger volume: USA and USSR” from the wikipedia article “Rail transport in the Soviet Union”

why do neurotic autistic girls love Rust? well, it lets them relax. it's the only good language that doesn't support reflection or introspection,

you know that really inelegant solution to the packing squares problem? does it depress you? something that's always bothered me in computer graphics is that converting between 8-bit fixed-point (integer: [0, 255]) and binary floating-point ([0, 1]) is unavoidably approximate 😭

doing research and development work for a corporation, in some industries at least, means dedicating a huge part of your brain to secrets that, once you leave, you are expected to take to the grave with you. it's pretty taxing if you find those secrets interesting at all

omg, how did i not know about <var>, the HTML element for “variables” in the mathematical sense. so if you're ever want to express “(n - 1)”, you can write (<var>n</var> - 1)

(looks at a photo from a modern smartphone) god i hate fake bokeh, the worst effect, it looks So Bad

(looks at frame from a modern game) aah 😍 lovely depth of field effect. such a good effect

if the secure enclave is so secure why don't they make the entire hardware out of the secure enclave material

if the purpose of a system is what it does, $this is how you do italics in LaTeX$