(reminder that the best way to generate a [cryptographic] large prime is to take X bits of noise, set the top and bottom bits to 1 (so it's at least odd ;) and then check if it's prime. This has always freaked me out because it seems so unlikely, but it's just The Correct Approach 🤷)

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Sorry, children, Ms. Althoff is absent today. You’ll be spending the afternoon with Miss Viola Swamp instead.

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Niche whine, but can academia please ban the kind of recommendation letter that asks the same questions all others do but divides it into specific sub-questions in separate boxes in a PDF form instead of letting you upload a complete letter? It makes it take FOREVER to rewrite same identical info! 😭

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i'm being good and having leftovers for lunch someone praise me and reward me with indian food

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I've been reading a lot of Roland Barthes on fashion for many years, but only learned today that he died from injuries after being hit by...a laundry truck. I will just leave that here.

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