Steve Canon

“Not a number expert.”

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2024-06-11 14:11:21

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@npub1t5m…9guy
Well, did it work for those people?
No, it never does. I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but ... But it might work for us.

2024-03-30 21:05:14

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@npub1t5m…9guy copaganda at its finest.
(that backpack, though)

2024-03-05 21:42:21

TFW you're the listing agent for a house that has absolutely nothing going for it.
#RealEstateShitposting
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2024-02-17 21:30:13

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@npub1pu3…8r76 my favorite is when you’re ordering hardware and there’s a drop-down menu of all reduced fractions from 0 - 63/64” in lexicographic order.

2024-02-14 18:07:28

99% of children have never seen an actual record player, and yet we still have the Fisher-Price™ record player rather than the Fisher-Price™ Echo™ or whatever.

2024-01-22 15:39:49

😢 one of the greats has left us
"With great sadness we report that Nick Higham, Royal Society Research Professor and Richardson Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Manchester, passed away on January 20, 2024, at the age of 62 after an 18 month struggle with a form of blood cancer"

2024-01-15 14:17:09

Anyone in the construction industry who we're thinking about working with always wants to show off all the tech they have crammed into their latest project and every time I'm just like "you put a fucken' internet-connected computer inside the front door? Oh. There's actually three of them. Yeah, that's cool, really great man (discretely texting Jen to have her feign an emergency)."

2023-12-26 16:44:37

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@npub1u3f…nne2 yeah. I absolutely refuse to use the services on principle for this reason. I’ll go pick it up myself instead, even though it’s a pita.

2023-12-05 19:05:54

Reminded once again today of the absolutely clown show that PCMPEQQ is in SSE4.1, but PCMPGTQ is in SSE4.2

2023-12-03 02:18:16

Jen's at a conference, kids in bed, it's time for advent of assembly.

2023-11-29 20:21:45

"Targeting" showing me ads for the dining table I just purchased. A+ work y'all. Bang-up job. I still cannot fathom how you managed to hoodwink advertisers into paying for this nonsense.

2023-11-24 00:49:50

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@npub1pu3…8r76 @npub1gqn…0pj6 this is like every meal I was ever served in Wisconsin.

2023-11-23 22:06:37

Traditional Thanksgiving dinner in Berlin (wait, it’s Thanksgiving?)
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2023-11-23 16:07:53

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@npub1pu3…8r76 @npub1f3n…e887 worth noting that even for floats many uarches avoid building a full-width SIMD divider, and just have the HW pull partial vectors out for you.

2023-11-01 16:53:44

Very important life announcement: it is snowing!!!!!

2023-10-27 15:09:55

Lucas (3 tomorrow) has finally gotten the cadence of “hey Siri” down perfectly, and has woken me up every day this week by coming into the room and saying “hey Siri, play Sabotage by Beastie Boys” and then dancing on the bed.

2023-10-09 00:30:20

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@npub1t5m…9guy You're not wrong, and everyone knows that, but that will only make it worse.

2023-09-10 23:30:01

This is … quite good, actually.
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2023-08-19 13:39:25

Apropos of nothing in particular, I would like to remind everyone of one of the first things I learned in my career as a math library developer:
“Prioritizing performance over correctness” is a nonsense clause. Talking about the performance of an incorrect system is meaningless. You are measuring nothing. A system has to produce a correct answer before you can talk about how efficiently it does it.

2023-08-11 11:17:34

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 we have been steadily turning most of our yard into meadow for the last five years, and the diversity of bugs that we get as part of that is absolutely wild (including plenty of ants).