This is a bluesky screenshot, not a twitter screenshot. This is to show, where I reposted this from.

If you can tariff penguin island you could also tariff polars, which isn’t slow.

Code Didn’t Break — They Did

Text encoding ‘standards’ were clearly the devil’s work, handed down to humanity to sow chaos and suffering.

The Omen of the Blind Hound:
Émile felt a chill. “A blind beagle revealed our tricolor,” he whispered. The Prodigiae’s voice echoed in the dim chamber: “An omen urging France to stand alone; alliances will falter.”
…TO BE CONTINUED IN THE COMMENTS…

It did depend a little bit, what kind of machine/production line he was working on. Before he retired, he worked for an automation engineering company and had different projects in other EU countries, and tried to be understandable for people in those places. He once even coded some Siemens control panel for an aluminum oven loading robot in the czech republic and tried to translate everything to czech with a dictionary (to have the panel info available in czech,english and German). He did of course speak to the foreman of the workers to get it correct.

My dad used that a lot to program Siemens Step5 and Step7 PLCs. I think it was German but names were 8 chars since this was straight from the 80s. When he fixed old machines or updated them with new PLCs he had to do full rewrites a few times because nothing was documented in old school machinery.

In a similar spirit I have written a tiny R package that renders your plots to look like they were printed on your reviewers shoddy printer.

Link to a relevant folk song about parasites that has a verse about this sort of wasp

That is some shit straight out of sci-fi horror like Alien.

Machine Learning enthusiasts: Why settle for linear regression when you can deploy a Gradient-Boosted Random Deep Neural Net Surface Vector Cluster that consumes the entire power of Iceland to trace a perfect ∞-dimensional hypersphere around those blue points? Overparameterization is the future!

Best Linear Unbiased Estimator

Partially true

He was under a lot of pressure

Colourful mohawk bird on the right is way cooler

35-year old Heidegger slid into the DMs of 18-year old Ahrendt as her professor. This was way before you were cancelled for ‘sleeping with students’ or for ‘being a fascist’ was a thing.

Twister his arms wide open

To be very German, here is my favourite Max Planck quote: Scientific Progress marches on one funeral at a time.

Perhaps it was meant like that. And the old guard that disliked his papers is now dead and progress has been made.

So what. I’m also fascinated when I see Humans without a gag reflex.

Why? Did the Eastern Hummingbird fuck a couch?