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Make things genuinely awkward. #taskmaster YouTube video by Taskmaster

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fair enough, I hope it works out well for you

When I'm done with writing this cryptography challenge I'm rewarding myself with writing a JIT challenge 🙂‍↕️

ah some kind of tech stack i see i see

what're you going to be working on?

congrats :)

I've decided to just use the method described in the wikipedia article on finite field arithmetic for multiplication as my cheap one, and using a very inefficient sage math implementation that multiplies polynomial objects directly and just takes the modulus at the end, which is horridly slow

"told" because it's the only common exclusively ditransitive speech verb in English (at least off the top of my head), so it's the only case where applying this assumption to English is incorrect

"said". I am very curious where this is coming from. It's not particularly uncommon, but I've only seen it from Indian speakers of English. So, I presume there is at least one reasonably large Indian language where each speech verb can be used mono- or di-transitively, and it only is noticeable with

There's a really interesting feature I have seen a few times in the english of some non-native speakers from India where they will use "told" (which is ditransitive) in places where a monotransitive verb would be more appropriate. e.g. "I told that xyz" where a native speaker would probably use

Originally I was just trying to use xor, but I found it hard to find hard to compute isomorphic operations

I really need a pair of operations (u8,u8)->u8 where there's a cheap one with a homomorphism to an expensive one and unfortunately I am drawing blanks on good ones that I can show have an homomorphism and where the expensive one isn't trivial to compute cheaply 😔

There was a pride parade in my city today, and I was walking around town and apparently just missed it? Honestly not sure how

Candace Owens @RealCandaceO Charlie Kirk was the first casualty of the War in Iran. Never forget what they did to him. 8:46 AM • Mar 6, 2026 • 1.8M Views

folks,, I am so sorry to bring this over but It’s genuinely one of the funniest things I’ve seen this week.

ah I’d seen it before and I’d completely forgotten, although I think it’ll stick in better now

thanks for the link :)

Does anyone know of any recent studies around the effectiveness of different extrinsic (e.g. financial) vs intrinsic (e.g. community altruism) motivators for open source contributors?

Asking for me, a friend, and also the rest of the OSS community.

link? 🥺

this sounds fascinating

Yes, I am a big fan of them *specifically* for memorization, which I find they are much better at than other things I‘ve tried, because they naturally support spaced repetition

Crazy how much more enjoyable math classes are than my comp sci classes

I thought this was much further from stabilising! I've been wanting this for ages, so nice that it's in here now

There's a comp ling book titled "Programing Semantics" in my uni's libary, the problem is that it sounds like a PL book from the title and it is filed right in the middle of the PL section to get unsuspecting browsers

towards PL stuff that does not necessarily make a good challenge unless I'm willing to write a compiler for each individual problem which is obviously not plausible

realising now that one of my biggest problems in writing CTF challenges is that I have really really bad not invented here syndrome and a lot of really good ctf challs are based on working with actual vulns.

and also even just drawing from stuff I see is rough, because my tech diet skews too much

spent close to two hours today naming or deleting all of my pictures on my laptop...

yeah, at least poor-quality allyship is better than active hatred

a drawing of someone thinking "holy shit is that a fucking tranny???" while saying "Hiiiii!!! What are your pronouns"

honest to god the thought process goes like this

it does feel like it's just a way to insinuate someone is clocky while appearing woke to other cis people

i need to learn EVERYTHING

new day new me

This has to be the best. There's another making fun of Jeremy Clarkson (always fun), and two more that I don't particularly like but I keep as them as basically tankie anthropological artifacts