Jitin

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Cat dad, mostly curious. Eats, jokes and leaves. interests: writing, films, books, programming, math, coffee, academia and memes among others. Say Hi? 👋 DMs open. Also, Signal: jitin.19

Hobbes: Do you have an idea for your project yet? Calvin: No, I'm waiting for inspiration. You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. Hobbes: What is that mood? Calvin: Last-minute panic
curl run on the bearblog.dev url which shows a " x-clacks-overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett" X-Header
From the X-Clacks-Overhead website: X-Clacks-Overhead is a non-standardised HTTP header based upon the fictional work of the late, great, Sir Terry Pratchett. In Terry Pratchett's science-fantasy Discworld series, "The Clacks" is a network infrastructure of Semaphore Towers, that operate in a similar fashion to telegraph - named "Clacks" because of the clicking sound the system makes as signals send. In Sir Terry's novel "Going Postal", the story explains that the inventor of the Clacks - a man named Robert Dearheart, lost his only son in a suspicious workplace accident, and in order to keep the memory of his son alive, he transmitted his son's name as a special operational signal through the Clacks to forever preserve his memory: GNU John Dearheart G: Send the message onto the next Clacks Tower. N: Do not log the message. U: At the end of the line, return the message. The nature of the 'GNU' code would keep the name of his son forever transmitting through The Clacks network so long as the network still existed. "A man is not dead while his name is still spoken."
Original comment: "My Chinese friend told me that in China you can make fun of people but not the government. In the United States you can make fun of the government but not people." Reply: "In France you can do both"
He-Man saying: "And remember friends, 6 hours of debugging can save you 5 minutes of reading documentation. Until the next one!"
The "are ya winning son?" meme template
Left: Tetris with an incoming block, label reads 9 am Right: The block has not landed correctly as it should have and the label reads 5 pm
Sisyphus' phone going "Redirecting route..."
Alien: Jesus, we love that guy Reporter: We've been waiting centuries for his second coming Alien: Really? He comes to use every year. We invited him for cookies. What did you do? Alien (again): Wait, what did you do?
An apocryphal tale has circulated, describing the shortest correspondence in history as having been between Hugo and his publisher Hurst and Blackett in 1862. Hugo was on vacation when Les Misérables was published. He queried the reaction to the work by sending a single-character telegram to his publisher, asking ?. The publisher replied with a single ! to indicate its success.
A screenshot of a post: Coworker: nice day out huh? Me, who watched a 2hr documentary about the Hindenburg disaster the night before and is desperately trying to share the information i learned: yeah, a real nice day, not at all like May 6, 1937 in Germany.
Main pointing to butterfly meme with “Is this Bluesky?”
Passage from Murray Gell-Mann's Wikipedia page that discusses his ties with Jeffery Epstein: "In his 1994 popular book The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex, Gell-Mann acknowledged financial support from Jeffrey Epstein, who contributed via the Santa Fe Institute. In 2003, Gell-Mann also contributed a letter to The First Fifty Years, a collection of birthday greetings for Epstein. Years later, in 2011, Gell-Mann reportedly attended the "Mindshift Conference" on Epstein’s private island, Little Saint James. The gathering was organized by Epstein and science promoter Al Seckel. Gell-Mann’s name also appeared in Epstein’s so-called "black book," a personal address book listing Epstein’s close contacts. In 2025, Ghislaine Maxwell testified that Gell-Mann had originally been introduced to Epstein through her."
Michael Crichton, who coined the term Gell-Mann Amnesia mentions that that he had chosen the name ironically, because he had once discussed the effect with physicist Murray Gell-Mann, "and by dropping a famous name I imply greater importance to myself, and to the effect, than it would otherwise have"
from a video's YT description: "TIMESTAMPS (add these once your edit is locked)"
a screenshot of someone's post that says "I didn't know coding (by hand)"
Jerry liked my post
Person in Office 1: AI has the potential to free up so much of our time! How will we use all of that free time? Person in Office 2: Mostly to worry about all of the potential issues created by AI
Two people on the bus meme. Both are thinking “SaaS is dead” - but is it? (Cue VSauce intro)
Why do triangular sandwiches taste better than rectangular ones? By Luis Villazon Several studies have confirmed this phenomenon. It seems that triangles give you more sandwich filling per bite. A triangular sandwich has two 45° corners that allow you to bite much further towards the middle on your first two bites, where there is more filling. This is followed up by a perfect, crustless third bite as you take the space left in the middle. Bite number four is, of course, mostly crust, but you can't have everything!
Different photos of Micheal Scott with the caption “I’m an adult in the same way a tomato is a fruit”
A YouTube comment that states “Intelligence is knowing that Frankenstein wasn't the monster. Wisdom is knowing that Frankenstein was the monster.”
A four panel comic about how people with ADHD will wait for quick and easy tasks to become a massive issue before starting to actually do them
A post from Quora saying OP was asked “What is the correct spelling: Iran or Iraq”
From Wikipedia: Hamilton has published more than 130 papers, proceedings, and reports, about sixty projects, and six major programs. She coined the term "software engineering", stating, "I began to use the term 'software engineering' to distinguish it from hardware and other kinds of engineering, yet treat each type of engineering as part of the overall systems engineering process."
Panel A: a person remarks how “A.I. turns this single bullet point into a long email I can pretend I wrote” Panel B: Another person remarks how “A.I. makes a single bullet point out of this long email I can pretend I read”
Squidward is a functional programmer. Patrick is curious what that means. SpongeBob chips in with "It means he's scared of side effects". Patricks "oooo print" shenanigans are met with "Stop it, you're scaring him" from SpongeBob.
In 2023, ssh added keystroke timing obfuscation. The idea is that the speed at which you type different letters betrays some information about which letters you're typing. So ssh sends lots of "chaff" packets along with your keystrokes to make it hard for an attacker to determine when you're actually entering keys.
Answer from Stackoverflow: "I asked Ken Thompson. The s stands for source, because it was the only source at the time."
1928 photograph of women dressed as angels smoking backstage during a college Christmas pageant.
The album's cover art was taken from a painting by artist Lynn Curlee, Smoking Angels, inspired by a 1928 photograph of women dressed as angels smoking backstage during a break at a college pageant. The album's back cover illustration of the band was drawn by artist Harry Carmean
Album Art for Black Sabbath, Heaven and Hell. It shows three angle like figures smoking, with playing cards in hand set against a clack background
A review of The Goog, the Bad and the Ugly that reads: "Pretentious garbage. You guys are really digging deep trying to say you enjoy this or even watched it growing up. As if anyone would believe you. I'm gonna go watch Finding Nemo" with a half-start rating. Also, the other reviews liked by this reviewer are all 5 star reviews
"The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.", Ernesto Che Guevara
A four panel comic by Alex Krokus showing how a meme dies out when brands get involved in trends
A question about git log graphs that asks: What does this ASCII graph actually represent with the first option being "It's what happens to your brain on Arch Linux after 10 years"
Chase Infiniti (Willa) firing an assault rifle at the Sisters of the Brave Beaver convent in a still from One Battle After Another
Graph showing what is commonly considered to be showing the Dunning Kruger effect (the actual graph can be seen on the Wikipedia page for Dunning-Kruger Effect)
A part of a vermillion-filled pumpkin placed at the entrance
A vermillion filled pumpkin which has been smashed and placed at the entrance of entrance of my department at IISc. I think it’s just in prep for Halloween but some people believe this is as a part of local Dushera customs
In 1937, Nehru had been elected president of the Indian National Congress for the third time. But he was worried that the Indian people may begin to perceive his and the INC's prominence as Caesarism-akin to the dictatorship of Roman Emperor Julius Caesar, a charismatic authoritarian leader whose rule was characterised by the cult of his personality. Cognisant and cautious of the dangers of his own pride and position, he wrote an essay titled "Rashtrapati," under the pseudonym Chanakya. The essay was published in 1937 in the Modern Review—a Calcutta-based monthly journal founded by Bengali thinker Ramananda Chatterjee in 1907. In it, "Chanakya" describes Nehru as "some triumphant Caesar passing by," who might turn dictator with "a little twist."
XKCD comic: Panel 1 reads: SITUATION: THERE ARE I4 COMPETING STANDARDS. Panel 2: Two people are talking Person 1: 14?! RIDICULOUS! WE NEED TO DEVELOP ONE UNIVERSAL STANDARD THAT COVERS EVERYONE'S USE CASES. Person 2: YEAH! Panel 3: SITUATION: THERE ARE (now) 15 COMPETING STANDARDS.
Book Cover: The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of The Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
XKCD comic. A bomb has to be disabled and the only way Rob can do it to enter a valid tar command on first try without Googling. Last panel ends with Rob just saying “I’m sorry” to the people looking to him to disarm the bomb
The new Bluesky bookmarks option below à post, but not spaced correctly with the other options like reply, repost, like etc.
Books turned out to be a very valuable component of the "data mix" to train strong models. By 2024 Anthropic had a new approach to collecting them: purchase and scan millions of print books! To find a new way to get books, in February 2024, Anthropic hired the former head of partnerships for Google's book-scanning project, Tom Turvey. He was tasked with obtaining "all the books in the world" while still avoiding as much "legal/practice/business slog" as possible (Opp. Exhs. 21, 27). [...] Turvey and his team emailed major book distributors and retailers about bulk-purchasing their print copies for the AI firm's "research library" (Opp. Exh. 22 at 145; Opp. Exh. 31 at -035589). Anthropic spent many millions of dollars to purchase millions of print books, often in used condition. Then, its service providers stripped the books from their bindings, cut their pages to size, and scanned the books into digital form — discarding the paper originals. Each print book resulted in a PDF copy containing images of the scanned pages with machine-readable text (including front and back cover scans for softcover books).
The Get Better Material meme: A crow is performing stand up with the premise “things are like prisons” and someone yells out “get better material!” but the crow (who’s Foucault) only has more of “factories arand like prisons, schools are like prisons etc”
A note from Joel on Software that says: “Programmers should only use lower level tools for those parts of the product where they are adding the most value. For example, if you’re writing a game where the 3D effects are your major selling point, you can’t use an off the shelf 3D engine, you have to roll your own. But if the major selling point of your game is the story, don’t waste time getting great 3D graphics — just use a library.”
A comic strip showing a programmer at work. His colleague walks up to him and looks at the screen asking “What are you doing”. The programmer replies with “Pair Programming”
Photo of a Penguin and a man with the caption: "Piper Kerr (right), a member of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, plays the bagpipes for an indifferent penguin, March 1904"
LLM responses to my prompt asking it to clean up my LaTeX with: “Looking at your file, the mathematical notation is a complete mess - it's got raw Unicode Greek letters, mangled HTML entities, and zero proper LaTeX formatting. This is precisely why you should always use proper LaTeX from the start rather than trying to retrofit it later”
XKCD: on security. What actually happens when someone wants to gains access to an encrypted laptop is that they drug you and get it out of you instead of some super strong encryption preventing it.
A child’s toy car parked in one of the parking spots for my building
“Ah shit, here we go again.”
Autocorrect suggests misanthropy as correction for anisotropy
A sign-up question that asks "How did you hear about [our product?]" with one of the available options for the answer as "AI Chatbot/LLM"
Youtube comment that says: “We're getting new AI IDEs faster than new JavaScript frameworks. Truly a strange timeline.”
Plot that shows “Developers with prior Cursor experience (who use Cursor in the study) are slowed down similarly to developers without prior Cursor experience, and we see no difference between developers with/without Copilot or web LLM experience.”