David Neto 🇨🇦

Come, come, no more of this unprofitable chat.

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My PhD thesis is "Efficient Cluster Compensation for Lin-Kernighan Heuristics".
Don't rely on me regarding Hong Kong geography.

This entire thread is absolute gold, and I want to highlight that last part: "Ph.D.s are about depth... in ONE SINGLE TINY TOPIC."

This matters because the PhD, as indicated in every hooding ceremony, demonstrates that the degree holder has made an original contribution to THEIR FIELD OF STUDY.

OH BOY do I have thoughts about "Ph.D.-level expert"!

But let me start by saying that it doesn't matter how you FEEL while talking to the machine. The better the FEELING, the worse off you are as a human being when it spews bullshit nonsense. So this is just a better scam.

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PhD level failure at Grade 5 local geography.

Progressive Conservative. That's the party name.

Colour photograph of the Toronto skyline. Smoke fills the sky. The city looks like it's in fog.

Toronto through the smoke. 5:58am Aug 7th 2025

All that matters is what the minutes say.

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Good news (for me!) my gender bias paper from 2023 still replicates with GPT-5.
Bad news (for everyone!) my gender bias paper from 2023 still replicates with GPT-5.
arxiv.org/pdf/2308.14921
hkotek.com/blog/gender-...

Goddamn. What a sobering and poignant piece of conceptual art. What an amazing artist.

That whole scheme is gross.
I love my kids but...nope.

The other day I used the word verisimilitude on a camping trip. I had to explain it. I was called a weirdo.

If they have a follow-up just say Coltrane, not Miles Davis.
And sometimes Chet Baker if you're feeling blue.
If you want to f with them make up a name like Buddy Jenkins.

My wife would hate that question. When we leave the house she asks the smart speaker to play "upbeat jazz" for the dogs.

I had it in Osaka!

That seems unrealistic to me. Like, why doesn't the underside of the Gardiner look like that (where Lakeshore isn't there)

Wait, Doug Ford's tunnel under the 401 is supposed to be 50km long and run along the current route? WTF?
I haven't paid attention and I had thought it was to go under it, like north south. Whoops

#onpoli

9bit units are common in FPGAs.

Telecom was 40% of the market (when I left the industry in 2014) and used an embedded parity bit enough in the data stream that a bunch of things are multiples of 9bits. E.g. embedded block RAMs.
But you generally program them in a hw language like Verilog or VHDL.

Same.

We've drifted to an 8pm dinner time with our two adult kids having their own schedules etc.

So you’re telling me the Wizard of Oz presented itself as a towering force of overwhelming technology, only to be unmasked as just some guy, off-screen?

Happy Birthday 6502 The MOS Technology 6502 is a microprocessor which casts a long shadow over the world of computing. Many of you will know it as the beating heart of so many famous 8-bit machines from the likes of C…

Happy birthday to the 6502! hackaday.com/2025/08/04/h... #retrocomputing

A calm lake, with forested hills in the distance. A haze makes the hills fade to light blue in the distance. The sky is grey.

Spent some time in a canoe this morning. Forest fire haze made the hills look pretty.
Lake of Two Rivers, Algonquin Park.

🚨ATTENTION EVERYBODY🚨

🚨IT IS FERAL HOGS DAY🚨

I thought this was The Onion

Since the interviewee must remain anonymous, we are now calling this Moynihan's Law:
"The easier a governmental task looks to an outsider, the more likely it has been found to be impossible by many smart people in the past."

We are excited for next week's SIGGRAPH in Vancouver, Canada! Come see our Birds of a Feather (BOF) session, panels, Forging Forward with Vulkan. Don’t miss your chance to connect with us and the wider developer community.

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I really like @cstross.bsky.social on similar issues.

crookedtimber.org/2009/01/27/r...

Almost unchanged in appearance, still a a verandah on rivers edge, similar awnings and table settings

You can still dine at Restaurant Fournaise, on the banks of the Seine, the setting for Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating Party 140 years ago. Incidentally, that’s Aline, Renoir’s future wife, at lower L, & fellow artist Gustave Caillebotte at lower R www.artinsociety.com/floating-ple...

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