my office aranet CO₂ sensor has been running for a couple years now on the same set of batteries. they are good sensors! not the cheapest but the user experience is excellent

an iron law of optimizing compilers: the optimizer will grow in power until it introduces bugs related to -0.0

so excited it is this time of year again, the thread keeps getting better!

it has been a while since i have been on a fast train. i should fix this

sometimes i get annoyed when people confuse watts and joules, not to mention kWh/minute. but then i remember that when i was a kid, the local utility rebranded itself from duke power to duke energy 🤷

hedgehogs getting chonky this season

git is great, in the sense of containing multitudes. the pleasant 'cherry-pick'. two commands behind 'checkout'. and red herrings like 'cherry', just to keep you on your toes

i have hope for humanity, that in the year 3000, there will still be ea-nasir shitposting

"they nerf the model after release" is such a delightful conspiracy theory

and tell me, general, in this great new language, may i use async as an identifier? - yes. and also as a keyword. except in some cases. and how will we delimit our statements, general? - with semicolons. except sometimes. and what will threads be called, sir? - nothing. we will have no word for that

summer is but just gone, and i miss melons and peaches already

[ai banalities] on balance i wish that ai (llms with a harness) were not a thing. but i have given it a good go this year, i do currently find it useful, and i suspect it will survive a crash if and when that happens. a vexing situation

broke down and bought a copy of knuth's taocp

does this programming language support tables?