SamLL

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by SamLL 3mo ago
Hello. I live in St. Paul, Minnesota. In January of this year my city was under hostile armed occupation. I volunteered for weeks packing boxes of food for people who were afraid to leave their houses because the masked secret police were r
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by SamLL 5mo ago
I am a resident of the Twin Cities and I agree wholeheartedly with this perspective. I found reading the book Waging A Good War very educational about the deliberate, strategic use of nonviolence by the American Civil Rights Movement and it
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by SamLL 8mo ago
Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: https://youtu.be/KckGHaBLSn4
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by SamLL 1y ago
It seems relevant to this article, and its portrayal of librarians as dangerous, that the national Institute for Museum and Library Services was recently essentially destroyed by Presidential executive order and DOGE, probably illegally, it
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by SamLL 1y ago
Are there any structural or systematic changes that should be made to how the site works right now, so that remedies such as this do not need to be hand performed one-offs?
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by SamLL 1y ago
Kotlin has a syntactic opt-in for tail call elimination (the "tailrec" modifier).
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by SamLL 2y ago
NPR reports that President Trump seeks to "end asylum entirely", according to officials within the administration - https://www.npr.org/2025/01/20/g-s1-43650/trump-inauguration...
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by SamLL 3y ago
FYI a tungsten carbide ring, although it cannot realistically be cut off your finger, is brittle, and can easily and safely be snapped with a pair of locking pliers (locking to avoid clamping down on your finger). You may be thinking of tit
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by SamLL 4y ago
Ada Lovelace wrote what is often considered the first computer program, a set of instructions for the (unbuilt) Analytical Engine to calculate Bernoulli Numbers. Appropriately, if this is the first computer program, it also contains the fir
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by SamLL 4y ago
"Sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice."
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by SamLL 5y ago
Speedrun - Monopoly 0:21 (Any%, RNG manipulation, glitchless)
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by SamLL 6y ago
Ken Libbrecht was my undergraduate advisor and I worked in his lab for a couple summers (in fact, growing snowflakes in a tank and measuring their growth rate at different temperatures and humidities - although mine had to be boring perfect
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by SamLL 11y ago
In my day (ca. 2000) there was no "forced to give an F" and in fact it was very common for exam-takers to draw a line, write "everything below this line I did after the time limit", and get partial credit for it.