Notices by Adrian Sampson (adrian@discuss.systems)

the “short” URL domain for Teams links is `urlshortener.teams.cloud.microsoft`. never change, Microsoft

who needs the National Science Foundation when you have a Nice Soft Feline

@palvaro he missed the correct time to resign, but he can still resign in shame after the fact for what he did. a boy can dream

@palvaro well this is going nowhere, but it was cathartic

@palvaro linked from here https://new.nsf.gov/executive-orders

@palvaro welp, I had other things I was supposed to do today, but instead here's a draft https://gist.github.com/sampsyo/de7b95959f3a482e356998d7ed0274e2

@palvaro yeah, a fuckin' change dot org charade would clearly be better than nothing

@samth @palvaro hell yeah. I’ll get this cleaned up and make, like, a google form or whatever tomorrow

@lindsey @irene how bizarre *and* shitty! did the parent just show up to class one day?

@irene ugh, yes, this is good reminder that it is an immense privilege that this is one of the only times I’ve gotten an appearance-based comment. (not to mention the well-documented bias in the actual substance/scores in course evals…)

greatest course eval comment I have ever received

#breadposting × 12

super sorry to the guy with the username @reset on GitHub, whom we keep accidentally sending email to when we talk about setting registers to zero https://github.com/cucapra/calyx/issues/1640#issuecomment-1652270808

Thoroughly bonkers upcoming ASPLOS paper from some UCSD folks: making competitive cloud servers out of old Android phones they bought on eBay. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3575693.3575710