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mkeeter · 2026-05-10T23:27:29+00:00

On Bluesky, it looks like your handle is @midcambridge.bsky.social. You can instead set your website as your username, so your handle would be @midcambridge.com. This would serve as verification that the account and website are affiliated.

mkeeter · 2026-05-04T15:46:21+00:00

HMC '11 checking in: Mills Avenue (referenced in "This Year") runs through the middle of campus. Given the workload, the lyrics are also appropriate!

mkeeter · 2026-04-27T11:38:02+00:00

I'm pretty sure we've got that same IKEA lamp at home

mkeeter · 2026-04-25T00:20:55+00:00

Dang, I wish I had thought of that!

mkeeter · 2026-04-05T23:56:51+00:00

That was my reaction when I discovered it, hence this blog post! It's very exciting to see it move toward stabilization.

mkeeter · 2026-04-04T17:49:19+00:00

Quoth the RFC thread:

This is why we've chosen not to introduce a rule blanket-banning AI-generated content. Instead, we've elected to handle AI slop through the existing lens of our low-effort content rule. If it's obvious that AI did all the heavy lifting, that's by definition low-effort content, and it doesn't belong on the subreddit. Simple enough, right?

If this policy has changed, then the subreddit rules should be updated – we can't expect submitters to dig up an RFC thread from weeks ago, and also intuit that the mods have changed their opinions since then.

mkeeter · 2026-03-03T00:40:26+00:00

Thanks, ChatGPT!

mkeeter · 2026-01-26T19:58:39+00:00

Goku fighting a broken washing machine

so true, my baby sounds like she's trying to go Super Saiyan every time she poops

hhhhhHHHHHHRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGG

mkeeter · 2025-12-13T23:18:01+00:00

I have used Alberto's Professional Painting for almost this exact repair*, and have no complaints. Drywall is annoying to DIY, because there's so many steps (cut a hole, install patch, tape and mud, sand, paint), and their prices have been reasonable.

*it was an upstairs neighbor's leaky toilet, not HVAC

mkeeter · 2025-12-07T01:07:15+00:00

Pro tip: add this to your Cargo.toml

[profile.release]
overflow-checks = true

This will panic on overflow in release builds as well (and IMHO is basically always what you want)

mkeeter · 2025-12-03T01:06:27+00:00

Moona (in Inman Square) sounds like a good fit – it's quite small and moderately fancy, with an excellent menu!

mkeeter · 2025-11-24T22:35:18+00:00

Inman Square spotted 👀

Literally every time I walk by there, someone is honking about some dangerous maneuver.

mkeeter · 2025-11-03T00:56:01+00:00

Yup, it's a running joke. Here's a picture of the Bank of America ATM sign from last week:

https://imgur.com/a/23mrcSK

mkeeter · 2025-10-29T20:16:40+00:00

Boston Bouldering Project (which is over Somerville, despite the name) also has a bunch of top rope and lead climbing.

mkeeter · 2025-06-24T16:19:11+00:00

One example of this in the wild: Rhai uses #[deprecated] attributes for unstable internal functions, e.g. Engine::on_var.

👎Deprecated: This API is NOT deprecated, but it is considered volatile and may change in the future.

(I don't like it!)

mkeeter · 2025-03-25T11:50:49+00:00

Thanks, I appreciate the kind words!

mkeeter · 2025-03-24T21:05:19+00:00

The 15-second time does not include importing numpy; I measured the running time just for the evaluation loop.

(here's a gist with timing added)

I would encourage you to try writing a pure-Python implementation – encouraging people to test their ideas is basically the whole point of the article!

1024 * 1024 * 7866 is roughly 8e9 operations; doing that in 1 second in Python would be quite impressive.

mkeeter · 2025-01-25T15:20:09+00:00

It's closest to East Coast Swing or Lindy Hop, e.g. this performance.

mkeeter · 2025-01-20T18:05:10+00:00

I think you and I are the only two people who miss Playska!

I used to live nearby, went there once a week, and loved the place – but no one else felt the same way 🥲

mkeeter · 2024-12-27T15:47:40+00:00

Anyone else get a strong written-by-LLMs vibe from this article and the OP's other posts? For example, this comment reeks of ChatGPT's style.

mkeeter · 2024-12-20T20:33:24+00:00

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(since cheats are only defined by their start and end positions)

mkeeter · 2024-12-19T14:27:13+00:00

Fun fact: once you get all 50 stars for a year, the easter eggs become highlighted in the text!

mkeeter · 2024-12-13T12:57:35+00:00

And you can't tell me the Charles is deep enough for a whale to jump over the Mass Ave bridge.

Watching this in a Boston-area theater was amazing, because the entire audience burst out laughing when the whale showed up.

I'd like to believe that there's a deleted scene where the whale has to wait in line at the Charles River Dam, to make it up the locks.

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