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Posts by Sam Stephenson

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Google nears deal to help finance multibillion-dollar data centre leased to Anthropic Texas site for Nexus Data Centers aims to avoid grid connection delays with direct gas supplies

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3 weeks ago 0 0 0 0
Photo of an opera stage before the performance, curtains drawn, short and wide projection screen for captions hanging from above

Photo of an opera stage before the performance, curtains drawn, short and wide projection screen for captions hanging from above

that’s where they are at the opera! takes some getting used to (but good luck figuring out wtf they are saying without them)

3 weeks ago 0 0 0 0
function leftPad(str, len, c = " ") {
  let chars = str.split("")

  let length = 0
  for (let char of chars) {
    length++
  }

  if (length >= len) {
    return chars.join("")
  }

  let inner = leftPad(str, len - 1, c)
  let result = [c]
  for (let char of inner.split("")) {
    result.push(char)
  }

  return result.join("")
}

function leftPad(str, len, c = " ") { let chars = str.split("") let length = 0 for (let char of chars) { length++ } if (length >= len) { return chars.join("") } let inner = leftPad(str, len - 1, c) let result = [c] for (let char of inner.split("")) { result.push(char) } return result.join("") }

you know what? yes. but in a way that actively resists tail-call optimization

1 month ago 4 1 1 0

Is that a challenge because I’m pretty sure I could do worse

1 month ago 5 0 2 0

block-rocking skeets??

1 month ago 1 0 0 0

Did the hotel manager graduate from business school with really good grades?

1 month ago 1 0 1 0
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brat Brutal Runner for Automated Tests, a parallel TAP testing harness for the POSIX shell

Just released: Brat v0.9.0, a parallel TAP testing harness for the POSIX shell. codeberg.org/sstephenson/...

2 months ago 2 0 0 0

I keep thinking about this one bsky.app/profile/slow...

3 months ago 6 0 1 0

lmao it looks like the banner you make when you first get home with Print Shop and your new ImageWriter

5 months ago 2 0 0 0
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congrats!!

5 months ago 1 0 1 0

how's that boot tasting?

6 months ago 1 0 1 0

Straight from the horse’s mouth: bsky.app/profile/ruby...

6 months ago 0 0 1 0

oh yeah. I got a lot out of that post, none of which the author intended, lol

6 months ago 1 0 0 0

wow I had not made this connection yet!

6 months ago 0 0 0 0

[signing for another shipment of Toe Toner] copilot, please help me budget this. my family is dying

6 months ago 1 0 1 0
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rbenv-vars/bin/rbenv-vars at master · rbenv/rbenv-vars An rbenv plugin that safely sets global and per-project environment variables - rbenv/rbenv-vars

I’ve written some horrifying regexes, that one is pretty tame by comparison github.com/rbenv/rbenv-...

6 months ago 3 0 1 0

Oh hey

6 months ago 3 0 2 0

what a good boy 💔

7 months ago 2 0 0 0

ahh, okay - thanks for the pointer to Wadler’s Law, I’m not surprised I was missing some PLT context :)

either way, as a layperson, I think the post does an excellent job of showing how syntax informs semantics and is more than just a surface-level concern!

8 months ago 1 0 1 0
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this was a fascinating read! although I don’t understand how someone could write such a post while claiming syntax is the “least interesting detail.” reminds me of how back-end web devs often dismiss HTML and CSS, or how tech workers in general feel about “soft skills”

8 months ago 2 0 1 0

[looking for my Hackers DVD] it’s in that place where I put that thing that time

8 months ago 2 0 1 0
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youtu.be/15kWlTrpt5k?...

8 months ago 1 0 0 0

Out on the town having the time of my life with a bunch of friends. They're all just out of frame, laughing too.

8 months ago 3 0 0 0

incredible show, and (at least in my circles) queer canon

9 months ago 3 0 1 0

Speaking of shelves, I noticed a glaring omission in the Home Goods section

9 months ago 13 0 0 0
photo of outside calipers

photo of outside calipers

skin tone chart from the family guy meme

skin tone chart from the family guy meme

Of COURSE intelligence is measurable, Thomas

9 months ago 6 2 0 0

how embarrassing for you

10 months ago 5 0 0 0
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And when you point this out, Mini Me and the flying monkeys will call you a hater, accuse you of being ungrateful, and tell you about how full their plates are

10 months ago 3 0 1 0

my guess: Dear Leader did a ten-minute investigation and determined plain contenteditable to be “good enough” now.

10 months ago 4 0 1 0

Tfw you bought a sauna. Which one doesn’t matter. You barely know. You don’t even care. Model number? You couldn’t tell me. Maker? You’d pronounce it wrong

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