Hila Peleg

Still my impression as a total outsider so yeah

Also are you excluding OOPSLA or ICFP so I know if I'm insulted or amused 🤡

I think the difference is starting to fade so it's a lot of the time luck of the draw re: reviewers; as long as your PL foundations are in there and your general idea fits the vague character of the conference (eg, PLDI=more practical), it's the usual coin toss, probably no worse.

Also I'm just referencing this :P

I teach C++ to students who were not born when the last C++ compiler I used professionally in an adult job for money was released. Someone called Mean Girls, a movie that came out when I could drive, an old time movie. I'm standing in my grave here.

Someone on here, while reminding me I'm very old thank you, reminded me that Hurricane Sandy was the only time I ever saw the PLDI deadline postponed. And, if I may have a word with this upcoming blizzard, I could really use some extra time on this OOPSLA submission kthx

Oh shit I missed archivists on the list,,, I want to see an LLM get a rusty staple out of a 50 year old letter

Historians 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I wonder what they think a historian does

Page from a book reading: FOREWORD THERE exists a subculture of dedicated academics who view spending a decade masochistically overworked and under-appreciated as a laudable goal. They lead the lives of the impoverished, grade the exams of the whiny, and spend lonely nights in the library or laboratory pursuing a glowing truth that only six or seven people will ever care about. These people are grad students, and they are idiots.

I feel so seen

Packages that arrive too late:

Did Deutsche Bahn spend a bunch of money to internationally post a letter (in German!) letting me know the request I submitted (online!) for compensation has been accepted and giving me a voucher number (on paper!) that I will definitely forget about or lose? They sure did!!!

lol

They did say they'll release R1 rejections this week which I guess is the cause for the tingle?

I made it!!

Train 3/3 is a go! In my original plan this would have been the train I would have taken from much further north if delays had made the walk in the original connection too short, and being able to swap to it was the reason I sprung for a flex ticket. Lol, I guess?

💯💯💯

Almost at the end of leg 2, wish me a quick change in Baden

Moving south!

Train no. 2 is already on the board, we're considering this a success right?

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You mean,

Leg 1/3 successfully completed, only 4.5 hours to go!

I'm attempting an alternate route that includes no trains coming from northern Germany. Fingers crossed!

I would say it's time for #MaryGoRound rules but I'm the one who needs to drink and I have nothing

My second train was coming from north Germany, trains to FRA and Saarbruken seem to still go

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Who's got two thumbs but no train?

E-graphs Dagstuhl coming to an end, and we're all going to try getting places in this weather. Wish us all luck...

A cat dressed like a wizard with the caption, "Sorry for acting weird. I am weird and it will absolutely happen again."

Good morning
Me heading into 2026

High art.