level 5 new york ability: getting out of a Manhattan subway station and having the grid snap into place mentally
level 18 new york ability: knowing if you need to rush down the subway steps or not based off the direction of the air current
total musclememorycel victory
you think a guy who runs `ssh 192.x.x.x` hundreds of times a day isn’t going to feel it in his bones when it’s juuuuust a tad slow?
software engineers are athletes
Plans to literally "hack the planet" foiled due to 500ms of latency that Andres instinctually investigated.
The latency was due how the malicious code parsed symbol tables in memory.
I was booked on United Flight 93 on 9/11, 2001, flying nonstop from Newark NJ to San Francisco CA. Around midnight the night before, a coworker called me urging me to change my flight to fly into San Jose instead. This meant I had to give up my 1st class seat and move to a flight
“autistic guy whose special interest is warfighting” is one of america’s secret weapons. up there with “autistic guy whose special interest is debt financing” and, although less secret, “autistic guy whose special interest is business software”
i am america. i am smashing a large dunks iced in the morning. i am an f-22 raptor. i am the revitalized brewpub downtown with fucking edison lights and a $17 burger (fries are extra). i am a datacenter in northern virginia. i am on hold with insurance for 5 hours a week. i am
More eng teams need to embrace the “reverse personality hire”. Someone so autistic it inspires the neurotypicals to get their shit together and step it up
one underdiscussed dune 2 moment was at the beginning when those harkonnen map control center guys were all just chanting in unison while they looked at the map. Never figured out what was going on there but it was cool as hell
If you can’t afford flying first class with a girl then don’t go on holiday with her
Flying economy with your girl is g
@y
We both know once she passes next to the first class aisle she’s going to be eyeballing any male she finds there wishing she was with him
Get back to work
90s tech must have been wild, one of my old eng directors told me Morgan Stanley’s first question was “vim or emacs?” and then put you through separate interview loops depending on your answer
I cant believe we’re going to be using a suboptimal tool for the job until 2056 because some EU bureaucrat got confused and packed the wrong cable for their month-long August vacation
This is funny, lol. A user on reddit tried charging his iPhone 15 Pro with an Anker Power Bank. Instead of getting charged, the phone started giving charge to the power bank.
This is due to apple's power sharing system, the device which has less battery will get charged.
> Other tricks to infer cognitive state involved quickly flashing visuals or sounds to a user in ways they may not perceive, and then measuring their reaction to it.
holy shit lol
I spent 10% of my life contributing to the development of the
#VisionPro
while I worked at Apple as a Neurotechnology Prototyping Researcher in the Technology Development Group. It’s the longest I’ve ever worked on a single effort. I’m proud and relieved that it’s finally
I got hired at my first SWE job more or less by accident, the hiring manager took a chance on me because I was also an Eagles fan. I got good at it and worked my way up but it took me a while. Hard to imagine that career path working out nowadays
Time for your daily reminders:
- the gdpr is a tariff on american tech companies
- tech companies are mispricing the regulatory risk of operating in europe
- if left unaddressed, this will continue and intensify
When a college educated man of coastal elite gentry enters his mid twenties, he must make a decision as to which coat he will enrobe in during the fall and winter months for the rest of his years.
Today,
@ONCD
takes an engineering-forward approach to policymaking with our new technical report, “Back to the Building Blocks.”
We’re joined by titans of industry, academia, & civil society to implement the ambitious goals set forth in this report.
Billionaires, Musk in particular, spaffed £3,000,000,000 on this rocket.
It blew up within 240 seconds.
If this doesn’t convince you that we must tax the billionaire class, nothing will.
read Superintelligence because AI is having a little bit of a moment right now. Takeaways:
- i wasn’t really clued into the AI scene in 2014 when this was published, so i can’t easily say what might have been speculative on his part. But he seems to have accurately 1/?
Texas gyms ruined me
I was briefly a member of one that had a private lake + standup paddleboard yoga classes
Now i’m back in New York and work out in a shoebox with no deadlift platform
Equinox + WeWork + spa + bar + dining + salon + coworking + childcare (free for 2.5 hours) in a 170k sf place in Houston for $250/mo.
There is one in Walnut Creek but it’s half this size.
My manager offered me a promotion the other day. He was shocked when i told him i was turning it down and wanted to be put on a PIP instead. What he didn’t understand is that someone like me just wants to grind harder instead of moving up the ladder. I’m just built different
working on microservices at a start up is so much fun. you get to work on multiple services and when you’re building an api for another service, you know exactly what you need bc you’re the one building and consuming it lool
My dealer: got some straight heat 🔥new strain “The Death of Montezuma II” 😳 you'll be absolutely blasted
Me: yeah whatever. I don’t feel shit.
5 minutes later: This emissary of Quetzalcoatl lies.
My buddy Tlilpotonqui pacing: The emperor does nothing while we suffer.
“21e8 shitcoin pump” “Eliezer milady alt” “date me doc marketplace”
You bolt awake in the mountains of Carthage. You are not online. It is 217 BC. You are the general Hannibal, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Rome must burn.
Replication time 2
Imagine a circle, with a little spinner on it that you can flick. The circle is 75% red and 25% yellow, like a yellow pie slice.
You flick the spinner. It spins, and slowwwly stops.
Where did it land?
@Nexuist
@Andr3jH
@DUALIPA
andi, i really appreciate you letting me borrow the custom Albanian-painted Tesla while you were out of town at the charity gala. Will have to make it up to you when you get back - i can bring over some blanton’s to your midtown penthouse