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🕹️ CTO of @Soulbound , an MMO in your browser 👨‍💻 Former electrical engineer building robots, drones and power systems 💼 Forbes 30 Under 30

London, UK

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Joined January 2018

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Yuan Gao

1 year

If you know me and my antics in the gamemaker discord server, you'll know that for several years I've laughed along to the jokes about people trying to make MMOs in gamemaker for their first game but it got me thinking... wait, I know how to put this together, I know enough

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We're hiring! Come and join our indie dev family! We're looking for the following roles to help build our pixel art MMORPG! Pixel Artist GameMaker Developer #pixelart #gamemaker #gamedev #indiedev

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Yuan Gao

3 months

@netcapgirl Salesforce is a system primarily designed to sell more salesforce

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Yuan Gao

1 year

people are asking to see my process, here's the timelapse!

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people asking to see my process, here is a timelapse for you! 🥰

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@VCBrags if you built the embassies of China, Vietnam, Turkey, Morocco, and Albania together on the same street, there would still be fewer red flags than this guy

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Yuan Gao

2 months

@csswizardry simply bring your own menu webserver

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10 months

@GeorgeCrudo he's about to discover the joy that is "not having the time to play through an ever growing steam library because of FOMO during steam sales"

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4 years

@lou_quorice and for lesser crimes: horny community service

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2 years

@CuddlePotato @frogs4girls back in WWII, scientists discovered that some planes could catch an infectious rash

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5 years

We programmers are always left out of the cool artist memes on twitter. Not this time. We have #4styles too, and we get very upset with each other for not liking the same styles #gamedev #indiedev

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Yuan Gao

2 months

@geoffkeene as part of localization, games need to raise the bathroom stall doors for american players, so as to not cause culture shock

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Yuan Gao

1 year

@HumansNoContext In my language this is called "twitter engagement bait"

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Yuan Gao

1 year

@charliebruce @TheBrianMcManus not quite. many satellites of this type use linear sensor that scans over the ground The sensor on something like Landsat 8 looks like this. Each chip has 9 linear sensors covering several spectral bands, think of the resolution being 1px high but several thousand wide. Or think

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Yuan Gao

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@BronxLaugher @Jesse_Brenneman For sure they do. In addition to that, what's perhaps less visible is sheer size of the contribution history is many times larger than the size of the latest copy of articles. It's what allows you to go into the edit history of any wikipedia article and look at all the past

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Yuan Gao

3 months

@anothercohen I think.... I think they added a Boolean column in their database called is_ai

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7 months

@ElPutoKarmaJode Nobody: Salmon: i'm going goblin mode

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Yuan Gao

25 days

@vvdirl7 other twitter users: "I never use the math I learned in school, why do they bother teaching it" EE tpot: casually breaks out the karnaugh map to solve every-day problem

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Yuan Gao

1 month

@dr_alphalyrae Matlab is like Salesforce, or Microsoft Office. They've built it into an institution of people working with it who are in key revenue-generating activities, and won't settle for alternatives, and decision makers have no choice but to just buy it and eat the operation costs

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Yuan Gao

1 year

@JoshuaPHilll this is exactly the same playbook as adding subscription to stop bots. don't like a thing? make it too expensive for them to do a thing present an option so over the top, expensive, and unnecessarily logistically complex that any serious opponent would decline, and then claim

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4 months

@fasterthanlime he cut too many corners

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Yuan Gao

9 months

@quebecween you need the...thing. the wire wool holder. whatever this thing is called

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Yuan Gao

1 year

@bobby It took me til my late 20s to discover that coffee tastes okay, and my aversion to it was entirely due to the vile stuff that my mother drank (the coffee machine in college didn't help either)

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4 months

@WitherAway129 @DaveCapdevielle that's what I said: Al generated this video

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4 months

@DaveCapdevielle this an Al-generated video alright

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Yuan Gao

1 year

@Teppic5 @Swilua there's probably some horror books written in the second person involving "you're in this place alone with a thing" that accidentally fall in this category

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Yuan Gao

1 year

@ArmandDoma One time in a similar situation, I was selling something and the other guy called his girlfriend to report on the condition of the item. She evidently told him to haggle the price down, so I had to do a car salesman's "I need to check with my manager" and call my wife to get her

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Yuan Gao

3 months

@Phantom_TheGame I make that out to be.... 18.5ish

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Yuan Gao

1 year

@ThreatNotation C natural, and F#, so... a tritone

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Yuan Gao

5 months

@hyperflesh according to FAA regulations, that toy might now classify as a UAS subject to 14 CFR Part 107

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Yuan Gao

1 year

@XorDev @DudespostingWs game devs whenever someone jokes about not having to use the math they learned in high school

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Yuan Gao

4 years

Coders, are you team-lofi, or team-synthwave?

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Yuan Gao

1 month

@chinesegon something like 30% of their employees are VPs, that title at a bank is just a senior role

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Yuan Gao

4 years

Github's CAPTCHA now requires mental arithmetic Look, I know it's just two numbers, but sometimes I'm not feeling up to it, you know?

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Yuan Gao

2 years

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Yuan Gao

2 months

@0xKI0 actually we're switching to the QRv6 format which won't ever run out. looks like this:

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Yuan Gao

5 months

@Rainmaker1973 demo guy getting progressively drunk throughout the day

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Yuan Gao

1 year

@ctrlAltdelRiot @yanarchy #白人饭也是饭

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Yuan Gao

2 years

@amuletofyendor @eigenbom Whether accidentally or on purpose, chatgpt has a mighty sense of deadpan sarcastic humour

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Yuan Gao

3 months

@BaneOfCovid just stick the word "terminal" to the front of it: Terminal Wet Bulb Temperature by "terminal", I mean the final temperature the wet bulb will reach in present conditions, but it has a nice ring of finality to it to nail the point home

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Yuan Gao

9 months

gamemaker devs, do you know about the fabled "s" variable?

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Yuan Gao

1 year

@trevor_bradley @KEMOS4BE @FoldableHuman as a glasses wearer, that's a thing. your eyes only need to focus on one distance inside VR. doesn't matter how "far" or "near" the object is inside VR, the focal distance stays the same: distance between your eyes and the screen (via some optics) so everything is in focus at

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Yuan Gao

1 year

@flyosity I used to process satellite imagery and operated a fleet of 50 aircraft across the US equipped with multispectral sensors that I designed. I can tell you that it's not just counting cars in lots that hedge funds are interested in. It's stuff like counting commercial vehicles

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Yuan Gao

2 years

@jgettyiv @CuddlePotato @frogs4girls plane came down with the 'flew

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Yuan Gao

3 years

@towernter there's a saying: every linux user uses two distros: 1. the distro that is objectively the best 2. Ubuntu when they actually need to get some work done

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Yuan Gao

7 months

@A_Vaild_Human @paulderokha that makes sense, as they're all about the trinity

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Yuan Gao

6 months

@BGatesIsaPyscho Nothing to see here...except low low prices! you can get these dropshipped from China if you fancy waterproofing your own roof anywhere in the world

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Yuan Gao

6 months

@personofswag what if it's plugged into an eGPU

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Yuan Gao

2 years

@aliceatlin I think we can go further and have these for humans. I would buy three

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Yuan Gao

4 months

@cursedconnector give us screw locking!

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Yuan Gao

1 year

@downthecrop @PolyMarsYT it's more likely that late into development when the content creation team are working on game content on top of the mostly-finished engine, they wanted trains to move, but the engine team said "no, too costly", so content creation team figured out a neat workaround using the

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Yuan Gao

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@Rainmaker1973 ah yes, 1 hour project that involves smelting a fuckin anchor out of tin

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6 months

@RyanEls4 ah, a rare IPv5 address spotted in the wild

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@yoheinakajima much like Mark Twain, chatgpt o1 takes longer to prepare a shorter speech

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@NubNooblet @notgwendalupe the british royals have a long history of taking advantage of other races, so they try not to do that in recent times

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Yuan Gao

2 years

@iotambat this is the humble-maker Think you're very good at debugging code? Try using this. Now you have no fucking clue why stuff doesn't work. is it code/firmware? is the chip a dud? bad connection? broken wire? poor grounding? capacitance? bad supply? killed due to reverse polarity?

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Yuan Gao

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@RamVasuthevan @shakoistsLog who are you going to trust to tell you they won't need algebra in their future? the literal child? or their parents when they're like "no, don't teach my kid math, he ain't gonna need it"

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Yuan Gao

4 years

@engineers_feed something I only know by working in engineering is: the way we make things safe is by multiplying stuff by 2, or 3, or 10 depending on how spicy the risk level is

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Yuan Gao

8 months

@localghost the moral of story should be: "figure out what it is about this team that let them succeed while being handicapped by not using version control, and seek to emulate that" and not "this team succeeded without version control, so it must be not important"

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Yuan Gao

3 months

@ZetaDunno @awawawhoami yes, it's a threat to a good time

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Yuan Gao

1 year

@greentexts_bot One of the most visually impressive types of solar power plant.... yup you guessed it, still boils water

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Yuan Gao

4 years

Ok, I'm getting ready for 2021 with a new side project: My plan is to build a game for teaching git to new (and existing) programmers. I'm going to try to build it in public to keep me accountable to finishing it

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LGTM Devlog 0: Teaching Git through playing a game

My new year's resolution for 2021 is to teach as many people git as possible. What? I'd l...

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Yuan Gao

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@vocalcry Gemini is turning out to be literally the AI equivalent of the "this is what you'd look like if you were black or asian" guy

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Yuan Gao

1 year

@saminacodes @cnni we've hit the rock bottom

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@CHSOHY when I was 10, I think I was hiding in a bush, setting fire to plastic straws with a lighter I found in the dirt

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Yuan Gao

1 year

@BTown481 @bobby you are internationally roasting my mother's choice of drink right now

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1 year

@96fps @charliebruce @TheBrianMcManus it is the speed combined with the fact the red, green, blue and panchromatic scans are slightly behind each other imagine a flatbed scanner or photocopier, but instead of a single sensor bar that does all three colours at once, there were three (actually four) bars one a bit

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Yuan Gao

1 year

The final form

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Everything Out Of Context

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Yuan Gao

3 months

@kamkenobi gotta shout out to Apophis and the serpent guards

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Yuan Gao

9 months

@engineers_feed Engineering mathematics. linear algebra. It turned out that the math was actually fine, it was just the lecturer was utterly incomprehensible rumor has it that he could invert 4x4 matrices in his head... and it showed. he operated at a level way above where we were at

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1 year

@AdamNeumannsCoS

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1 year

@Tauss_srgl cool thing about those is they can even hold pneumatic connections - we had a connector that did power, ethernet, and pneumatics for a towed robot They will definitely hurt you too

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Yuan Gao

1 year

@Andrew___Morris this is why you should name your zookeeper deployment "Annie"

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Yuan Gao

10 months

@ToughSf you can only really compare two motors purely based on power density if you're free to convert speed and torque Normally that's fine, but submarines don't want gearboxes and fast motors because gearboxes and high RPM motors are acoustically noisy no gearbox means direct drive.

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Yuan Gao

7 months

@nabeelqu this sort of thing is hard to measure. Are they sure that they sampled at at least twice the highest frequency at which this happened?

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Yuan Gao

1 year

@abacaj the most soul-sucking part: "To encourage participation, each employee gets to expense $25 for lunch or coffee and the first team to reach 90% completion wins a $100 REI gift card." somehow I find this negative motivational value

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Yuan Gao

3 years

@_MsLinda Would you offer a free trial period for the app?

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Yuan Gao

8 months

@XiranJayZhao you know what china does have? cheesecake that has a distinct smell of blue cheese. it's as if they read "cheesecake" and decided "ah of course it must smell like cheese, it's in the name"

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Yuan Gao

2 years

@bgolus I have a set of driver bits in my toolkit!

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Yuan Gao

4 months

@cursedconnector naturally, the successor of USB-C is USB-C²

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Yuan Gao

3 years

Twitter DMs be like

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3 years

@DivineOps

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Yuan Gao

1 year

@Zane732 @aardvarkwizard @gabrielenguard clearly people have no interest in a timeless legend

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Yuan Gao

4 years

@ken_keenan @2Generalrusty78 @Neurisko @lou_quorice don't worry, I know a horny lawyer who does pro-boner...er pro-bono work who can help

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Yuan Gao

11 months

@KennethCassel dunno man, that's a very random thing to post

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Yuan Gao

4 years

@engineers_feed @Xiaomi Free trial has expired, please download full version of air purifier

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Yuan Gao

6 months

@coldhealing I used to do some robotics work inside these sorts of greenhouses. it's just miles and miles of rows of fruit, with a heated rail system that heats the greenhouse and also supports machines on trolleys They look like this inside (photo I snuck at one point)

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Yuan Gao

1 year

@dieworkwear I thought it was Colin Firth in Kingsman, whose character is canonically a high-end taylor as a cover story Also, I had a feeling you were Asian from the inclusion of Asians in your examples. I can't explain it, but I feel like a white guy would overlook using such examples

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@JoshyBeSloshy

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1 year

@nice_byte @dieworkwear get back in the robot, shinji

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Yuan Gao

2 months

@petersvp @geoffkeene > player picks up a health pack > no bill americans: 😲

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1 year

@choosy_mom this dude is more chinese coded than me

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Yuan Gao

7 months

@AskYatharth but only if you rub your fingers over them. human fingers do that by detecting vibrations when you rub something, rather than directly sensing the shape. this is somewhat bad news for the people living in those houses

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Yuan Gao

1 year

@tunguz some of these aren't even optimized, they're literally just doing an O(n) cosine similarity across every entry in the database. It's only fast (relatively so) because calculating it on the database incurs less IO between database and application

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Yuan Gao

1 year

@Bonecondor @saga11o going with the theme of things that are inside you, the last one must be simply "darkness"

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1 year

@RifewithKatie back in college we protested having to pay for packets of ketchup by just bringing a giant bottle of heinz ketchup with us to the cafeteria. what were they going to do? expel us for having our own ketchup?

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@noio_games save point It's specifically the left-behind hologram that really seals the deal, otherwise it looks like some sort of disinfecting spray

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2 months

@dmesg @KansasUberAlles the Wikipedia summary of the commanders is very amusing to look at

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Yuan Gao

3 years

@ThreatNotation nerd here. With tone dialling on landlines, you can dial without buttons, by using sound alone I've had to do this on occasion with a DTMF app playing through smartphone speakers into the mouthpiece of landline Maybe this could work with a pair of well-trained oboe players?

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Yuan Gao

2 years

@nonnullish you reckon you can get them to send the firmware source file and toolchain as well? that would be killer. Fully customizable keyboard!

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Yuan Gao

4 years

@John21b @PrasoonPratham nah, the cake was fine, it's the cookies that came with the cake that do the tracking

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Yuan Gao

11 months

waste of time. use a git gui. learn a git gui first teaching git by making it approachable and having beginners get used to the workflow even if they don't understand exactly what's happening under the hood is a much more productive approach than telling beginners to basically

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i hope you are not using git with a GUI interface

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1 year

@depthsofwiki on dvorak layout all the vowels are on the left home keys, so "asdfasdfasdf" it: aoeuaoeuaoeu it hits different

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