One of the best interviews I’ve seen. Check it out.

These are so handy.

Beijing does 1 thing better than anywhere else I’ve been to: skewers.

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Knowing lots of facts without anything to unite them is like having a crappy Tetris board.

The ladder of abstraction is more a jungle gym.

I never thought I’d like carbonara.

It bugs me how I’ve read stories where a character comes to a major realization, often about life in general, says they’re changed, and then goes on to live their life in essentially the same way, with only minor tweaks.

I got sick of writing organized blog posts, so I’m going to compromise on clean blog posts and just dump thoughts.

Better known as the inventor of the bootstrap.

A teacher makes implicit knowledge explicit. Specifically, they make knowledge implicit in the teacher explicit.

Depending on context, \(x = y\) can mean any of:

Stupidity

Check out :options, especially if you’re new to configuring Vim (and want to).

Vim has a built-in scripting language. It’s what you write your vimrc in, and it’s really convenient for short one-off tasks.

My hatred of the fetish for acronyms in academia reminds me of Amberley Vail’s rants against Imperial Guard jargon in the Ciaphas Cain novels.