Rick Valenzuela

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Code, security, news, kitchens

Former visual migrant worker: AFP, VOA, SRF, Quartz, BBC

Paid tribute this morning to actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr, who was born on this day in 1904 in Vienna. This twoot uses 3 technologies she contributed to ¹

Danke für deine Erfindung, Hedy
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¹ Grab gefunden mit Wifi und GPS
Twoot gesendet mit LTE
alles möglich durch Frequency Hopping

I came up with a single pass O(n) sort algorithm I call StalinSort. You iterate down the list of elements checking if they're in order. Any element which is out of order is eliminated. At the end you have a sorted list.

@mathew 😂🤔😭

icymi, this is getting much love on r/ProgrammerHumor

https://reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/9s9kgn/nononsense_sorting_algorithm/

r/ProgrammerHumor - No-nonsense sorting algorithm

194 votes and 12 comments so far on Reddit

That said, chopsticks are the supreme utensil for most pasta. And salads.
Yesterday in the company cafeteria, I forgot all custom and context and slurped my spaghetti like it was a bowl of fried noodles. Inhaled with so much gusto it actually jolted me back to reality. Uh, oops. I caught a couple polite anti-stares, and quietly recalibrated Western re-entry
@emilykager pardon the tautology, but I’m pretty sure that only bolsters the case that he’s abusing your human rights
To clarify, I was hoping <number>shift-g would go to the page number. But I would be impressed if it went to the line number, and hopefully had a corresponding smarmy code comment

TIL you can navigate a pdf in Okular with h,j,k,l. Pretty cool

I also checked for shift-g, gg and <number>shift-g, but alas, no

@thomasfuchs oh no. But then, last month was the first time I grilled in Austria (fresh caught Saibling and Forellen in Steiermark 😋🤤). I held back opinions then, but it won’t be long before I do the same here
New math: Real VJ rate = day rate minus unhired assistant’s rate