Steve Canon

“Not a number expert.”
On-point like decimals.

2025-06-04
2025-06-04

@bhaktishh not like a regular parser, it’s a cool parser?

Steve Canon boosted:
2025-06-03

Lately I've noticed an almost cult-like mentality among stopped clock deniers. And if you had asked me six hours ago, I would've agreed with them—that clock was literally as wrong as it can possibly be. But if you're not looking at that clock right this moment,

2025-06-03

Modest proposal: you're not allowed to do philosophy or macroeconomics unless you make a living doing physical labor for 15 years first.

2025-06-03

@woolie @alexr @cfbolz IIRC they left Apple around 2006, and RotateRight lasted until 2015 or so. Alex probably knows more of the history.

2025-06-02

@vitaut Gonna have to start eating 9/10ths of an avocado toast

2025-06-02

@alexr @cfbolz Shark did this for the G4, too (at least in paraphrased form).

(R.I.P.)

2025-06-01

@rygorous @aeva and if !(lo <= hi), then median is just as reasonable a definition as any.

2025-06-01

@ricci ah, that old saw “I’ve got wood and I need sheep.”

Steve Canon boosted:
2025-05-31

Check out the word problem in this monoid: <a, b | aba=aa, baa=aab>

(1) If any two apples are at least two bananas apart, for example like this, then this string cannot be transformed into anything else:

🍌🍌🍌🍎🍌🍌🍌🍌🍎🍌🍌🍎

(Neither of the two rules, in either direction, can apply to this string; it doesn't contain 🍎🍌🍎 or 🍎🍎, and thus, it cannot contain 🍌🍎🍎 or 🍎🍎🍌 either.)

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2025-05-31
Steve Canon boosted:
2025-05-31

I can and will rant about stuff I’ve learned through trial and error about presenting things devs can do to improve their system’s security and privacy in actionable ways, when threat modeling. Today, I’m doing it *with slides*, about 40m from now :D threatmodcon.com/agenda/listen

2025-05-31

@alexr @eschaton being on discourse? No.

2025-05-31

@alexr @eschaton I lost my credentials for LLVM discourse and I’m fine with that.

2025-05-30

@regehr @dev this should be a sticker

2025-05-30

@ricci @BearGriffin wait… does anyone consider one to not be odd?

2025-05-30

@cross @BearGriffin we’ve had at least two AI winters already!

(I would say more, but it’s harder to get people to agree on them other than the late 1970s and the early 90s.)

2025-05-30

@joe @mattiem @Catfish_Man [oblig. XKCD]

2025-05-30

@Catfish_Man @mattiem (Where by "now", I mean "since the 1950s": youtube.com/watch?v=9mc7eb1i9o)

2025-05-30

@Catfish_Man @mattiem > how they did arithmetic wrong

David, we don't say that now.

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