Notices by Dan Ports (dan@discuss.systems)

okay, can we now have another Turing Award for major contributions to the field of gay romances?

https://www.popsci.com/science/alan-turing-love-short-story/

claiming an unused lab space in my building by putting up a sign that just says INNOVATION NEXUS and figuring no one would dare ask what that means

Found a Fediverse posting starter pack

#cats #catsofmastodon #asstodon

Early American Chinese restaurant menus were designed to be parsed as SQL.

In 1971, my uncle George designed the HOME OF TOMORROW, and it can be yours for only $370k if you want to live in Duluth, MN and also the future!

https://archive.is/7hQzu

@skinnylatte bleh, how are we even making _having_ a green card terrible now?

I have been hearing lately about faculty trying to replace their PhD students with LLMs to do research, and I regret to inform these people:
1) you are bad people who have misunderstood the concept of graduate students entirely.
2) I guarantee you that your students have already replaced you with LLMs because they provide more effective advising.

@foone please, everyone knows that IEEE 1164 says that booleans should have exactly nine possible values

help I ordered a new cpu but it came some-assembly-required

My cat's antidepressant prescription comes with a free toy every month. Human pharmacies, take note.

Several people have recommended that the next time I'm in Beijing I should visit the provincial government offices because they have restaurants that serve authentic food from their provinces.

However, this is mostly making me wonder what each of the US states would serve if they had state-operated restaurants.

nom nom nom

#cats #catsofmastodon

@ricci genuinely surprised these guys don’t make one; would you settle for the pumpkin spice chemtrail controls?

https://www.concordaerospace.com/products/pumpkin-spice-discharge-panel

@itgrrl @ricci appropriate for a steely-eyed missile person

@itgrrl @ricci amazing!

@itgrrl @ricci also, this reminds me of a story I recently learned about and had been meaning to post about. Did you know that Margaret Hamilton used to bring her daughter to the lab when she was working nights and weekends, and let her play with the AGC simulator?

Her daughter crashed the simulator by accidentally invoking program 01 and resetting the guidance system to believe it was back on the launch pad.

Hamilton felt that was a pretty serious bug but was told "no, there's no way a trained astronaut would accidentally do that."

A trained astronaut did, in fact, do precisely that while Apollo 8 was on the way back from the moon.

She was allowed to fix it for Apollo 9.

once again, never change, #Seattle.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/1sgq277/im_never_leaving_seattle/

@Axolotl1 @catsalad please find attached some prescription-strength photos of Minion as a kitten, for therapeutic use only

I'm deeply honored to have received one of this year's ASPLOS Most Influential Paper awards, for the Overshadow paper from way back in ASPLOS 2008.

This was a really fun project to work on with a really great group of people at VMware.

I shared some retrospective thoughts on the project at the conference today; I'll share some more here once I have time to write them up!

@rysiek thanks!