Alex Howland
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SWENG. Gamer. Cosplayer. Early eng at @Oculus and @anduriltech. I like side projects, Oxford commas, and lists with three items. Cosplay ig: @backslash_alex
Orange County, CA
Joined August 2007
If you've ever said "Sudafed sucks"- you probably took Sudafed PE. You have to ask the pharmacist for Real Sudafed (pseudoephedrine), the only one that works. PE was pushed because Sudafed thought they would lose sales by not being on the floor.
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For years I have been railing against phenylephrine- an ineffective substitute for pseudoephedrine rushed to market when the latter was moved behind the counter to combat meth production. Glad to see the FDA finally taking action. https://t.co/Maf5IV8v13
nytimes.com
The agency now must decide whether products containing the ingredient, like some Sudafed and NyQuil products, should no longer be sold or perhaps give companies lead time to substitute other ingred...
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Finally planning cosplays for DragonCon and I bought so many wigs that I tripped a card fraud alert.
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Spending more than 1 hour in Florida has reminded me: - mosquitos are a scourge upon the planet - who invented humidity and why - denim
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Anime Expo is a wrap! Three days, five cosplays, one very tired cosplayer.
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reminder to journalists: the submarine's game controller is standard use for submarines, tanks, drones, etc. for the military. i know it sounds funny to you but it's actually one of the least remarkable things about the submarine
vice.com
Gamepads are so good at controlling things, that the U.S. military frequently uses them.
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"Be a dear", my grandma said. Me, not understanding homophones:
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Humans are really, really, extra, super, stupid good at inappropriately ascribing human form and behavior to non-human things. Animals. Electronics. Natural phenomena. Please keep this in mind when using and assessing AI chatbots. LLMs are the written equivalent of Jesus Toast.
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So 'verified' now just means 'paid subscriber' and there is no way to determine if anyone is really who they say. Great. Great job twitter dot com
On April 1st, we will begin winding down our legacy verified program and removing legacy verified checkmarks. To keep your blue checkmark on Twitter, individuals can sign up for Twitter Blue here: https://t.co/gzpCcwOpLp Organizations can sign up for
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Why autocorrect gotta be so aggressive about 'ducking' but it doesn't touch 'slask message'
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Lotta armchair finance folks on the bird app today assuming SVB's failure was due to {bad bets, tech collapse, something something crypto} when they were a really sound bank whose poor messaging just led to a good old-fashioned bank run
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.@NikkiMoxxi and I tearing up Katsucon for the 4 hours our jetlag let us (repost at because I forgot starting with @ still makes your post am unthreaded reply)
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Please remember this when evaluating earthquake """predictions""". If I say there will be an earthquake next week, I'm probably right! It doesn't mean my methods are sound. Moderate to large earthquakes happen ALL THE TIME.
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Putting a lot of faith in my flossing skills here, eating beef jerky 24 hours before a dentist appointment
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I don't know who needs to hear this (it's @mimsy) but you don't need to tear down others to get ahead as an influencer. It doesn't make you look better, it just makes you look sad and insecure. Lift others up instead, and push yourself to be better every day!
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So excited to be back from Japan. Here in the US I can retire "sumimasen" and return to my native "excuUuuuUuuuse ME princess"
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