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@oblomov last I checked, $50ish in my state

@regehr annual OSDI/SOSP, on the other hand, became a reality because @irene and I got frustrated that we had to spend every wedding anniversary at a USENIX poster session and completely reworked the systems publication schedule

@regehr also this is basically how NSDI got started. And CIDR. And...

@regehr @rnd same conference!

I believe dm wrote that paper and Eddie contributed the figures so it would be a proper scientific publication.

After it did not get accepted, the next generation of grad students wrote a random paper generator. It was a great success, in that their paper got accepted, then rejected after they announced it was randomly generated, then started a workshop for randomly generated talks, then became inexplicably popular in Russia because apparently that's what happens

@rnd yes! This is precisely the story I was referring to!

I was not involved but I shared an office with them at the time

Two of the most important lessons I learned in grad school:

1) you can register anything you want as a fictitious business name and get an official looking logo and letterhead and credit card

2) if a conference rejects your paper, your business can book the next conference room over at the same hotel and hold your own workshop and present your paper anyway

@mhoye @jonathankoren wow, so much more efficient than the state-of-the-art algorithm: asking a LLM whether x is prime

@alice on the whole, it's probably for the best that we no longer let pharma reps give free swag for doctors, but it does mean we miss out on awesome things like this. At one point I had quite a collection, thanks to my parents bringing home the most hilarious ones for me.

The best one has to be the Levitra folding pen that had a button to, er, erect itself: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/T6Z6IhHH-ro

Can’t wait to find out how this upgrade enhances my dishwasher’s performance.

At least it’s not adding new AI features, I guess…

@dev truly, my life is complete now

noticed that Mastodon has a knowyourmeme page, but did not expect to find myself there. Does anyone know how to cite this on my CV?

https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2945408-mastodon

@gsuberland found this on my phone:

One of these things is a dangerous tool that makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. The other is a handgun.

The Washington Department of Natural Resources has put out the only guide to the superbowl you need.

@ljwrites @irene @alice I also am just now discovering what the point of this exercise was supposed to be, because our friend had to be taken to the hospital and thus missed the big reveal about cooperation

@irene @ljwrites @alice lol, just to be clear, this is the same person I just posted about, it is not like there is an epidemic of people breaking their arms in negotiation class.

Well, maybe there is.

I subsequently learned that this is a pretty common injury for professional arm wrestlers (something I also subsequently learned exists)

@ljwrites @alice Oh, hey, my grad school officemate took a negotiation class where they did presumably the same exercise (though I don't remember it being described quite that way -- possibly they were specifically told to arm-wrestle? Or possibly they just assumed.)

Anyway, he started arm-wrestling with his partner and then...

...SNAP. Suddenly his arm was dangling from a point in the middle where arms are not supposed to bend.

Yup, he had completely shattered his humerus.

I guess he learned the lesson about cooperation vs competition the hardest possible way.

networking protip: a packet sniffer is an essential debugging tool

#cats #catsofmastodon

@sophieschmieg @saraislet yes, that is also me and @irene

@regehr @wollman @ricci and don't forget that the TV station would sign off at the end of the night

@regehr @ricci I was never allowed to have a pet as a child but my parents would occasionally rent me a hamster or something from the pet library* and I think they had snakes too. Probably not venomous though.

*this sounds so ridiculous I had to look it up recently to make sure it wasn’t just something I had hallucinated, but no, it really was real