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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

What took Matt's code over an entire month to run, viewers optimized so damn hard that the majority of the runtime of the code is just loading the words, so they started optimizing the code to run while the word list was loading. Takes like 4 milliseconds to load the word list, and 2 milliseconds to run the program

People joke about the Parker Square, but he's unironically the most inspiring public figure imo. The king of Doing The Damn Thing

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I remember the time he Excel'd himself.