Tweets (2015-2025)
Selected thoughts from @F_gana
My journal entry from 2024-11-31: “This isn't a real day”
Humble British person: “I went to college in cambridgeshire”
A male version of georgia o'keeffe and it's just a guy who draws dicks
The winter olympics implies the existence of the fall and spring olympics.
I don't know what web3 is, but I know web4 will be built with sticks and stones.
Jeb Bush did 9/11
The practice of lynching is named after an early Virginia settler called “William Lynch”
There are more Yiddish speaking Americans (~500k) than Hebrew speaking Americans (~200k)
Byron White was an NFL player for the “Pittsburgh Pirates” and a supreme court justice (appointed by JFK)!!
Lūʻau is Hawaiian for “tourist trap”
TIL: Alan Turing invented evolutionary algorithms
I was surprised to find out the Fiji (18,274 km²) is larger than Hawaii (16,638 km²)
Just made my first “zero lines” pull request. Just changing the permissions of some file.
You are accused of a crime, if you go to trial there is a 10% chance you'll receive 25 years inside. The prosecutor offers you a 5 years plea bargain. Do you take it?
Alaska is the only state in the union where the rural districts is bluer than the cities
[the bandit problem] was formulated during the [second world] war, and efforts to solve it so sapped the energies and minds of Allied analysts that the suggestion was made that the problem be dropped over Germany, as the ultimate instrument of intellectual sabotage.
Ten people have been officially named as honorary members of the Harlem Globetrotters: 2 Human rights activists, 3 Comedians, 2 Popes, 2 Athletes, 1 Henry Kissinger
Frank Lloyd Wright - A famous architect named Frank that designed the Guggenheim museum (in Manhattan). Frank Gehry - A famous architect named Frank that designed the Guggenheim museum (in Spain). Always confused me.
Uruguay is the Athletico Madrid of national teams.
TIP: If you are using python to work through HackerRank / codeforces / etc problems and dealing with “out of time” errors you should try submitting your problems in pypy. It will often give you the extra performance boost you needed.
The reason that programmers always think that old code is a mess is because it's generally harder to read code than to write it.
The “date of establishment” of a national park is a really good signal when trying to determine how nice the park is. (usually) The earlier it was established, the better the park.