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Kate
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    Kate
    @thingskatedid
    Oct 13, 2020
    💡FAQ about displaying stuff in a terminal
    some charts in a terminal
    some language grammar diagrams in a terminal
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    Kate
    @thingskatedid
    Oct 6, 2024
    Border agent guy: Ma'am is this your laptop? me: yes, can I have it back please agent guy: It shows as suspicious. Can you turn it on? me: uh... no. I removed the battery agent guy: Why? me: oh because it was going to explode i have never seen a man become so alert so quickly
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    Kate
    @thingskatedid
    Sep 30, 2024
    twitter how explodey do we think this is?
    a danger pillow! the open back of my laptop, showing a mediumly-inflated battery, which i will absolutely not fit back into the case if i try to close it again
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    Kate
    @thingskatedid
    Oct 6, 2024
    Replying to @thingskatedid
    the rest of our conversation was me saying variations of "i mean i took the battery out before traveling, to make the laptop safe. it's very safe. i like safe things" while agents spawned continuously
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    Kate
    @thingskatedid
    Oct 29, 2024
    "we recovered four generators" you mean you stole four generators
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    Edmonton Police
    @edmontonpolice
    Oct 28, 2024
    Police say it is one of most elaborate encampments they have ever seen, with a mini-power grid, including solar panels, and multiple home appliances. The encampment was discovered last week by the City of Edmonton and Edmonton Police Service joint response encampment team. It
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    Kate
    @thingskatedid
    Oct 6, 2024
    Replying to @timonsku
    because i like almost missing my flight apparently
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    Kate
    @thingskatedid
    Sep 30, 2024
    twitter how explodey do we think this is?
    a danger pillow! the open back of my laptop, showing a mediumly-inflated battery, which i will absolutely not fit back into the case if i try to close it again
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    Kate
    @thingskatedid
    Jul 1, 2020
    Adding important things to my http responses
    Screenshot of http request, showing ascii art of a moomin in the response headers
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    Kate
    @thingskatedid
    Sep 16, 2024
    me uncomfortable in bed until eventually captured & cuddled by gf
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    Prof. Nikolai Slavov
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    Sep 15, 2024
    A reminder that proteins are highly dynamic molecules. ◼ We have made progress in measuring & predicting static protein structures, but the dynamics that animate life remain challenging to measure & model.
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    Kate
    @thingskatedid
    Oct 6, 2024
    Replying to @Chris_8086
    a brave use of past tense there
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    Kate
    @thingskatedid
    Apr 24, 2021
    🧵 Make yours and everybody else's lives slightly less terrible by having all your programs print out their internal stuff as pictures; ✨ a thread ✨
    A terminal session showing progressive compilation of a simple regular expression, going through phases with finite automata, to an IR, and then to VM style instructions. These are output as diagrams, and the VM instructions are annotated with arrows showing the control flow for basic blocks. This indicates looping, and each block of instructions forms a node in a graph.
    A simple AST overlaid with a symbol table alongside, showing some example content. It's from a unix shell, parsing a conditional expression. Nodes are present for logical AND and OR operators, and the symbol table contains variables for each scope.
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    Kate
    @thingskatedid
    May 21, 2022
    Replying to @techleadhd
    "coding is a brutal 24/7 job" my guy we sit behind a desk
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    Kate
    @thingskatedid
    Oct 6, 2024
    Replying to @JustinSadur
    thanks justin
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    Kate
    @thingskatedid
    Nov 18, 2020
    finally worked out how to make a function for addition. C isn't as hard as people say
    addition implemented in terms of offsetof():

int add(int m, int n) {
	struct add {
		char a[m];
		char b[n];
		char c;
	};
	return offsetof(struct add, c);
}
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    Kate
    @thingskatedid
    Oct 6, 2024
    Replying to @PAWJOBPRINCESS
    no, because of the super janky heatshrunk coin cell dangling on the end of wires
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