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Who can deny this

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

Two days ago, Deepseek surprised everyone with an "undefined-behavior" PTX optimization speeding up particular ML workloads on a Hopper NVIDIA GPU Kernel. Let's reverse engineer the hack, implement it ourselves, and benchmark the speedup on an H100.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Should I order this y/n

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

As usual, @sifu.tweety.fish says it better than I ever could. The current SV crop and culture is so alien from the hackers and curious explorers that unwittingly helped raise this latchkey kid I sometimes wonder wtf I’m even doing here.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

They are playing Tones on Tail in the Whole Foods ☠️

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

too young to be a space marine in the imperium too old to be a japanese teenager forced to pilot a giant robot just the right age to use

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Life hack: Go to your local bike shop and buy a new or used bicycle. Put fenders, rack, and panniers on it. Ride it for every commute under five miles. Groceries, arends, everything. Keep at it.

submitted 18 days ago • 23 comments

things must be really great in the COBOL Discord. a bunch of new users joining in the last few days, asking lots of really basic questions, and all of them with Groyper avatars 🤔

submitted 27 days ago • 6 comments

The economic backbone of MAGA is rentseeking (realtor fees, dealership middlemen), scams (multilevel marketing, houseflipping), and cronyism (municipal construction contracts, etc) and crime. Silicon Valley has embraced all of these models and combined them, hence the current situation.

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

27 agencies, 24 hours. @milesintransit.bsky.social and I are attempting to do the impossible: ride every Clipper Card accepting transit agency in one day.

submitted 25 days ago • 22 comments

If you organise a conference somewhere I can take a train to I am approximately three hundred times more likely to show up

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Googled "Chase Center Events Tonight" and the AI told me the Warriors were playing the Charlotte Hornets. They are - two weeks from now.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

The people who think they are good at everything because they are good at coding are also bad at coding.

submitted 27 days ago • 75 comments

I'm catching up with friends around the Bay and looking for sociable bike routes: -Chill, side-by-side riding -Mostly paths or Slow Sts -Start and end at regional transit stations -Snacks, beer, coffee along the way My first thoughts in link. What am I missing? 🧵1/ www.google.com/maps/d/edit?...

submitted 33 days ago • 8 comments

I'm not rooting for a nation state. I'm rooting for open source.

submitted 35 days ago • 13 comments

when the moldbug interview hit there was the usual round of “if only people had The Humanities, they could see through this garbage.” no one noted that it was the most prestigious newspaper in america that was treating a forum lolcow like a Big Thinker

submitted 39 days ago • 4 comments

Use Signal to talk about protests Use Signal to talk about your wordle score Use Signal to talk about abortion Use Signal to talk about your mom's knitting club Use Signal to talk about parties Use Signal to talk about gender affirming care Use Signal to talk about the weather Use Signal

submitted 41 days ago • 74 comments

Coming to Atlanta's High Museum in March, dataviz turned into trippy art. Of course I'm going. youtu.be/BmEz0nTl4qw?...

submitted 44 days ago • 2 comments

The nearest drugstore to me is now closing along with 10 other Walgreens. I can say from personal observation that shoplifting was indeed a thing there, but was it excessive or make the location unprofitable? Don't know. Then there was this: missionlocal.org/2024/11/walg...

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

Google AI believes that: std::array<int, 3> arr; initializes the contents to zero and I'm pretty sure that's wrong

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

The devastation of the LA wildfires has brought climate change from abstraction to horrifying everyday reality. As LA starts to recover and rebuild, we hope leaders will prioritize reducing our largest source of greenhouse gases, car emissions, by investing in fast, frequent, electrified rail.

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

What's the point of being rich if you can't afford to do the right thing.

submitted 49 days ago • 755 comments

There’s essentially no one on earth with more independence to stand by basic moral values than billionaire tech barons. They have more wealth than they could ever spend, no voters or constituency. They could say “my values are all-important and immovable.” And instead they blow in the wind.

submitted 52 days ago • 45 comments

Happy hour alert! Sierra Club and 1871's climate tech incubator are teaming up for a night of fun and learning. Come join for free snacks/drinks and to learn about what's happening in Chicago's climate legislation/tech scene. See you there! RSVP here: act.sierraclub.org/events/detai... #BikeChi

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

who do you trust more, the compiler? or me, your friend?

submitted 54 days ago • 5 comments

fascinated by a rhetorical strategy i see all the time now, which is making up an extreme edge case to argue against doing anything for the public good, and doing this from the putative left.

submitted 55 days ago • 330 comments