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How The Principle Of Charity Feels From The Inside

Posted on June 27, 2020 by acorwin

Read something that sucks. It’s super bad, and it’s about something important to you. Your blood pressure goes through the roof, you can’t wait to show all your friends how fucking stupid this moron who doesn’t even understand the in-group … Continue reading →

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Flash Fiction Responses To A Quiz On A Book I Haven’t Read

Posted on October 27, 2018 by acorwin

1. How do Bill and Josella meet for the first time? “Ah shit,” Bill said to himself. This wasn’t the first time, he should know better by now. Engine oil gets everything all messy, and he shouldn’t have thought he … Continue reading →

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Corwin’s Tenth Law

Posted on May 26, 2018 by acorwin

Any sufficiently complicated distributed system program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Raft. With apologies to Philip Greenspun.

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Rap Quines

Posted on January 19, 2017 by acorwin

A Quine is a form of poetry in which a poem, through formalism or sometimes more literally, states that it is going to state part of itself, and then does so. This is related to the modern programming art form … Continue reading →

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A Poem (of sorts)

Posted on October 26, 2015 by acorwin

Once upon a midday sunny, while I pondered nothing funny, Over many a quaint and curious man page of forgotten lore—     While I angered, nearly snapping, suddenly there came a bad ping, As if LVS was napping, napping though … Continue reading →

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If Reid Duke Were Your Boyfriend

Posted on May 11, 2015 by acorwin

Inspired by The Toast’s series If Reid Duke were your boyfriend, you would tousle his long hair when he stretched in the mornings, and he would sheepishly say, “It’s getting too long. I really need to make time to get … Continue reading →

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