#more like dysfunctional programming

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joke: javascript turns you gay

woke: ecmascript turns you into eurotrash

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oh man this story (cw: autoplaying video) about a random macedonian nba fan writing twitter bots to vote kawhi leonard into the all-star game is so pure and good:

Using programming tools Raspberry Pi and Python, he immediately programmed 10 separate Twitter bots to vote for Leonard, who became Saklev's favorite player during the 2013 NBA Finals.

"I loved how he played the game," Saklev told ESPN by email. "I instantly did research on his rise to the NBA and was amazed at how he overcame the death of his father and how he appreciates his mother and how humble he is generally."

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i think i saw at least four or five javascript libraries with emoji all over their github READMEs today

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there are too many ways to do things in ruby, it is Incorrect

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windows is haram

i have to install scipy from the unofficial binaries because it doesn’t work with pip because windows is a gigantic trash fire

windows: not even once

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“honestly I'm not *that* excited about this data structure” -- @worldoptimization

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so apparently torch is only supported on unix-like OSes. i only have a windows laptop that i can’t figure out how to install linux on (can’t find the BIOS -- I know, I know, but it’s true).

i could try and port char-rnn to python, but that’s difficult and also s l o w. i could give my dataset to someone else and let them train a network on it, but that’s no fun and doesn’t teach me anything. i could go buy a new laptop, but I’m not made of money. Does anyone have any better options?

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I believe in the atomic, consistent, isolated and durable Church