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For me: 2 or 3 years early in my career were shunted onto radio protocols, and it was an unwanted detour at a critical junction. I still learned, but not as much as if I'd remained focused on graphics.

Me reading the CVPR papers that used Slang in their implementations:

I have since been able to concentrate efforts on what I care most about: getting triangles on the screen with GPUs. Is this the common path? Am I incredibly privileged for getting to make these calls? This is why I ask.

Software engineers and adjacent (anyone who does management roles closely attached to the actual software output), how much of your careers have you worked on products you chose, vs were assigned?

Sockenpaarzwiespaltsfreude: the satisfaction of finding the mate to one of your odd sock pile immediately followed by the despair of adding two more odd socks to the pile as you finish putting laundry away.

For no reason I am remembering the time I was on a business trip with a colleague I didn't really mesh with, to the LA area. Every dinner was some chain like Applebee's, and one dinner he said the sentence "I don't really like music" and I don't think we spoke to each other the rest of the trip.

I'm cheating, because this isn't past, but my alter ego is a ~* musician *~. (Actually maybe it's my primary ego? I was raised by musicians, so maybe this whole tech thing is my alter ego...)

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I don't think bsky gives enough characters, so a selection of the most interesting: empanada, agility, figure 8, Deadpool, octopus, yeti, harness, taco. (Several of those are the names of his toys, which he does distinguish between.) Total words he knows, at a guess... 100?

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1mo

Shannon Woods 🖥️💚🎮🕹️👾

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Shannon Woods 🖥️💚🎮🕹️👾

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Shannon Woods 🖥️💚🎮🕹️👾

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

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