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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 1h

Clearly the previous owner successfully shed the flesh and no longer has need for the t-shirt

John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 1h

www.e-dracaena.com?pid=181410904 my fashion choices are being vindicated

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www.e-dracaena.com

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 1d

Don't suppose anyone knows anyone with more lockboxes than they anticipated?

John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 1d

I guess I'm going to have to use these as ttrpg props over time... Or just start handing out keys with a riddle and see if it causes people to go on quests

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 1d

So I thought it was buying like 3 much larger keys for some reason...

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 2d

There's a lot more to this work though and I know the authors have been working incredibly hard on it for the past few years! A few of them are even on bsky!

@aborgna.bsky.social @seyon-s.bsky.social @rossquantum.bsky.social

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 2d

I didn't contribute anything to this work, but seeing the application of linear typing to quantum programming was a primary motivator in my career choices, excited to see this gain traction and possibly even use it myself in other projects!

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 2d

arxiv.org/abs/2510.11420 🫂📄📤

HUGR: A Quantum-Classical Intermediate Representation

We introduce the Hierarchical Unified Graph Representation (HUGR): a novel graph based intermediate representation for mixed quantum-classical programs. HUGR's design features high expressivity and ex...

arxiv.org

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 2d

I guess an unfortunate consequence of 2026 being the year of the Linux desktop means there will likely be more supply chain attack attempts as the user base grows

John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 2d

I am of course measuring my Japanese with the only objective measurement, by ability to answer JLPT example questions

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 2d

My Japanese has improved a lot recently but my vocabulary is very weak still and I don't find that apps are particularly good for learning lots of new vocabulary in a way that sticks for me. Possibly I have to just read more...

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 2d

I let my ffxiv subscription lapse, I'll probably need to update my profile picture on here once my house is demolished

John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 2d

Always fun to reverse engineer the mandatory security software to see what it does

John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 3d

The obvious question might be "why didn't you write that in C or C++?"

And that would be a very good question

John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 3d

In a previous job we did actually do this for a Go service that had to maintain a lot of pointers in memory...

It was easier to just restart it periodically than allow garbage collection cycles to run

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 3d

I got to the credits in Hades 2. Not a bad game but the story does suffer a lot from just trying to have the same formula as the first game.

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 5d

gnu cowutils

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 5d

HOLD THE LINE EGGHEADS

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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 6d

gotta say i am not enjoying seeing breaking news about american university professors successfully fleeing the country

David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 6d

BREAKING:

"Just landed."

Mark Bray confirms to me this morning that he and his family did, on the second attempt, make it out of the US and to Spain

www.wired.com/story/mark-b...

He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US

Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

www.wired.com

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 6d

cowabummer

comic panel featuring Batman and a cow standing dramatically in the rain. Batman says "this is where I watched my parents die, cow tools cow."

The cow responds, her word bubble containing only the lump-with-handle cow tool.

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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 NEW | Greens surge to 15% (2pts behind Lab)

➡️ REF – 32% (-3)
🔴 LAB – 17% (-2)
🔵 CON – 17% (+3)
🟢 GRN – 15% (+4)
🟠 LD – 12% (-)

Via @FindoutnowUK, 8 Oct (+/- vs 1 Oct)

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 7d

(sqlite integer primary key starts from 1)

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 7d

I correctly index from 1, which is where numbers start from

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 7d

I forgot how nice sqlite and nushell are to work together with when debugging

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 8d

Might mess around and make a PDS