Tootfinder

I'm not the target audience, but that second paragraph hit me in the gut
"But for many of us, the first real injustices that mattered to us, that ripped our hearts out, weren't the failings of our parents' relationships, or the boys we crushed on who didn't love us, but the Black girls who we wanted to see us and be- friend us instead either ignored or bullied us."

I've seen a lot of randos trying to get folks on the local developer slack to do this. It's usually something like "we will pay you monthly to maintain a fleet of laptops at your house". There is always someone desperate enough or ignorant enough to say yes.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6rokcE6/

... it just occurred to me. It's hard to be a good writer without reading a lot, and this is kind of ignored in programming. Most programmers don't really spend a lot of time reading other people's code unless necessary.
(and it's kind of funny that LLMs are bad at code when they have read it all, or maybe because they *have* read it all, without a sense of taste.)

Would it not be a good idea if ALL media, newspapers, radio, tv, magazines, podcasts,,etc. were to ignore Trump and his regime for a while? Just don't show up at press conferences at all. Isolate his fragile attention seeking ego.
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As I'm learning Dutch, I'm reminded that the idea that there are people who believe that the bible is to be taken literally. The idea that a several hundred year old translation of a collection of texts in multiple languages, that were themselves translated multiple times between languages, before the whole thing was translated to Latin, then being translated to English, could somehow perfectly reflect the original text... Yeah, it's only possible to believe that if you have no idea how languages work and have never learned another language.
Like, just from linguistic drift alone if the bible were written in King James English you're losing *so* much context. But Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek translated to Latin, then to English, then to English again?
There are so many things that erg can't be translated, even as a beginner. Dutch and English are two of the closest languages that exist, they're both Germanic languages and they're the closest to each other (other than Friesian). You can't really be much closer, and yet, there are so many things you can't mutually represent. Hebrew and Latin, Aramaic and Latin, Latin and English, Greek and English, these aren't even the same families at all... They're extremely distant. There's absolutely no way to represent concepts from one to another without another book's worth of explanation.
And that ignores all the cultural context, which is mostly lost and a library and decade of education to get the stuff that we *do* know.
Only monolingual Americans could come up with an idea so incredibly asinine.

STOCK ANALYSTS: Ignore Musk’s behavior, geniuses are just eccentric sometimes, it’s OK, his repeated failures will soon give way to 10000x growth
MUSK: After listening to Ace of Base on repeat for 72 hours straight while huffing jet fuel, I now understand that I am destined to merge with the AI resurrection of Hitler to become Machine Jesus who saves the white race after 1000 years of continuous stock market crashes, which are of course necessary and a good idea. Libturds have hidden this truth from your mind

I posted something less than sufficiently anti-AI for the audience and got some thoughtful argument and some "AI is terrible and stupid and doesn't work" replies. I understand the anti-AI sentiment but I regret the shallowness of so many replies. To claim that LLMs are completely useless is deliberately ignorant. There are lots of interesting critiques of LLMs: copyright, human agency, effectiveness, privacy, even existential threats. "I hate this new thing I don't understand" is a bad start to a conversation.

Enumeration of Cayley graphs over a nonabelian group of order $8p$
Bei Ye, Xiaogang Liu, Jing Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17035 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Enumeration of Cayley graphs over a nonabelian group of order $8p$
Let $T_{8p} = \left\langle a,b\mid a^{2p}=b^8=e,a^p=b^4,b^{-1}ab=a^{-1} \right\rangle$ be a nonabelian group of order $8p$, where $p$ is an odd prime number. In this paper, we give the formula to calculate the number of Cayley graphs over $T_{8p}$ up to isomorphism by using the Pólya Enumeration Theorem. Moreover, we get the formula to calculate the number of connected Cayley graphs over $T_{8p}$ by deleting the disconnected graphs. By applying the results, we list the exact number of (connect…

If you just post an URL and something like "good read", "must see", "amazing page", "watch this",... without further explanation WHY this is worth my time, I will automatically ignore your message and probably your account. 🤷
#PIM #timesaver