Max Twang 🇫🇮🇪🇺
@kmh
Queer middle-aged guy. I work on radars. Opinions are my own but I'm trying to make them everyone else's problem also. In my spare time I fence and make music
The engineer’s creed: We chose to do this and the other things, not because they are easy, but because we *thought* they would be easy.
AS/400 CENTRAL RECORD #100-002
the thing that strikes me are accounts of otherwise non-technical authors who swear by Emacs or, even WordStar. to be truly free, we must kill the cop in our own minds (the desktop metaphor)
Original Broadcast (1996) DVD Release (2003)
OPM's new guidelines indicating that federal workers can now be subject to random proselytization by their co-workers may be one hint as to why so many people on the american left feel so negatively about christianity
The most amazing thing about Ray Kurzweil is how completely and sincerely unsurprised about all of this he is He's not like "to tell you the truth I didn't really believe this would happen either, wow" Instead he pulls up the same graph he's been using for 30 years Legend
There’s at least one generation that can’t tell you what word this is.
So for those @Starcraft esports fans out there, @Wardixo made a great round-up of tournaments happening very soon to watch! Check this link out and spread the word reddit.com/r/starcraft/co…
Is it just me or does anyone else think that @ESA has the best logo of any space agency?
“We are birthing superintelligence. We are creating the mind of God, infinite, destined to solve every problem we’ve ever faced and usher in an age without death.”
“We are birthing superintelligence. We are creating the mind of God, infinite, destined to solve every problem we’ve ever faced and usher in an age without death.”
both of these rockets have taught me that, private or public, investors are usually dumb as rocks
Do you like Terran R or Neutron more?
Genetic Engineering
Found a new rabbit hole called DNA origami, and these are some of the fanciest stuff I've seen in a while: A mouse trap but for virus? A sub 100 nm turbine that could dock into a nanopore? A DNA rotary ratchet motor driven by an AC voltage up to 250 rpm?? Not sure how practical…
"Dragon, SpaceX; for possible conjunction" Crew-2 had a possibility to impact an object in space during their coast to the ISS. SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell was summoned into SpaceX Mission Control when the object was tracked. The story: 🧵
Today I publish a preprint of my paper, which shows that LLMs can under-perform random chance in certain situations: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo…
There is “I fucked up” And there is “I built an app and accidentally leaked the drivers licenses of thousands of women on the internet” level of fucked up RIP
Good friend is single, late 30s, self-made. He likes giving strangers dried fruits. People will hang out for hours while he keeps giving them more and more raisins. Prunes are a big hit too. But he's consistently ignored, ghosted, or told "this isn't working" after a few dates
The amount of people in the replies who don’t recognize on of the most famous novels is staggering.
i know a guy in his 40s who’s handsome, super wealthy, throws huge parties at his long island mansion, war veteran, into jazz… and yet he spends many of his nights staring across the manhasset bay wondering why he’s unable to find true love is modern dating really this broken?
remember a few years ago when SWers were like “its really bad that payment processors refuse to work on p/rn sites theyre gonna start applying that to normal things too”
Me trying to understand how many Starship flights it's gonna take just to get to the moon
Finding Nazis is easy. Just say "Fuck Nazis and everyone who supports them," then wait for them to show up
Three time World Champion! I want to thank people who helped me practise and @BASILISK_gg 🏆🏆🏆