Posts by ricci@discuss.systems
(DIR) Post #B4fQurXEYnQdWt8SAq by ricci@discuss.systems
2026-03-27T01:05:36Z
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Some photos from @thalia 's UNIX V4 and retrocomputing talk today
(DIR) Post #B4jd2VTqQ27PWjnjkW by ricci@discuss.systems
2026-03-29T01:48:26Z
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I think I carry an above-average amount of traffic on my home network
(DIR) Post #B4lrm0RvuUxSHXPutc by ricci@discuss.systems
2026-03-30T03:04:21Z
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pan people dancing in the club be like
(DIR) Post #B4uDNsxnqMzoN2uHc8 by ricci@discuss.systems
2026-04-03T04:24:50Z
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oh thank god, all of the Artemis astronauts are older than I am, there's still time
(DIR) Post #B4v3AExCTzms8PRJdA by ricci@discuss.systems
2026-04-03T14:14:56Z
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@aral this is, seriously, something to take away from the claude code leak. It reads as a mess that has been developed over decades by a constantly changing team where no one really cared about maintenance, just slapping whatever crap they cut and pasted from Stack Overflow as many times as they needed to get it running.But of course it's not that, it's what, a couple years old, max?
(DIR) Post #B5Cptnc6Z1q89FgHse by ricci@discuss.systems
2026-04-12T04:11:28Z
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@historyofpunkrock my buddy got a vinyl of Into The Unknown and hoo boy is that a thing
(DIR) Post #B5CsrloYa92tqrEHq4 by ricci@discuss.systems
2026-04-12T04:25:01Z
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It's never too late for #caturday
(DIR) Post #B5J0MyiCXovjSOqQAC by ricci@discuss.systems
2026-04-15T03:33:56Z
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Saw a capitalized domain name and I'm still recovering
(DIR) Post #B5NFSXHLjFJc3bETnk by ricci@discuss.systems
2026-04-17T04:08:07Z
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One of the things that's really important to me as a research professor is to have students who are confident in questioning me and disagreeing with me - I'm not always right, I make mistakes, I get the wrong mental model in my head for systems, I miss things. Because there's an inherent power imbalance between me and my students, one of my main tasks is to build up deserved confidence in my students, and to make it clear that they are always free to disagree without penalty.
(DIR) Post #B5PKFcDYwWBhhI2W2K by ricci@discuss.systems
2026-04-18T03:35:01Z
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My "we care about your privacy" sticker on my Privacy Violator 3000 glasses is raising questions already answered by my "we care about your privacy" sticker
(DIR) Post #B5Wi9b0yGEfxEcX30S by ricci@discuss.systems
2026-04-21T18:16:56Z
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Y'all, I'm in trouble.I just taught one of my first year PhD students everything I know about getting papers down to the page length at the last minute, she's not going to need me for anything any more
(DIR) Post #B5ZDQa0qj14PwfyQ3k by ricci@discuss.systems
2026-04-22T23:14:42Z
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RE: https://discuss.systems/@ricci/116449653450547769The joke here is that English has two meanings for the word "sanction", and they are opposites ("give one's blessing to" and "prohibit")Made sense when I was at the dentist on nitrous oxide
(DIR) Post #B5arCamvEhbNcXIuwK by ricci@discuss.systems
2026-04-23T18:14:58Z
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I'm really good at demonstrating that my text doesn't come from an LLM by filling it with typos that I never catch
(DIR) Post #B5dhZn0NYzPG6VtuPQ by ricci@discuss.systems
2026-04-25T02:46:42Z
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@argv_minus_one @StaticR @gabrielesvelto maybe I should set up one for my teen!
(DIR) Post #B5dhZongt8RffjynuS by ricci@discuss.systems
2026-04-25T02:50:27Z
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@argv_minus_one @StaticR @gabrielesvelto I had a buddy who ran a BBS out of his house in high school...
(DIR) Post #B5emkxWvSx86rREIq0 by ricci@discuss.systems
2026-04-25T15:37:06Z
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This #caturday , Kiki is trying to fit into the pocket on a pair of jeans because the pocket has the residual smell of mints
(DIR) Post #B5nmcPWLmChDUNWWKu by ricci@discuss.systems
2026-04-29T23:57:39Z
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Sometimes you just have to measure with the spoons you can find
(DIR) Post #B5noVnVcOGZRlh9hdQ by ricci@discuss.systems
2026-04-30T00:17:33Z
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If you design fiddly little interfaces that will be used on touchscreens I beg of you to spare a thought for those of us who don't have transparent fingers
(DIR) Post #B5zuQgUtxkn8CEHhjM by ricci@discuss.systems
2026-05-05T20:18:38Z
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Oh boy turns out if you interview me when I'm in an iconoclastic mood you get Some Statements I wonder if they'll use the bit where I said the people protesting the proposed datacenter in Box Elder County, Utah are probably more informed about it than the country commissioners who gave it the go ahead
(DIR) Post #B63rDly2n8MGANuIHg by ricci@discuss.systems
2026-05-07T17:31:30Z
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