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Sr. Director of Engineering at Cockroach Labs.
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Trump: I'm hearing so much about eggs, figure something out fast. We inherited all of the problems. A few months down the road, we won’t be able to say it’s so much us. But the big things we can blame other people for

I did it again! Jurassic Park with accurate raptors, a short part 2 #jurassicpark #blender3d

charming and surprisingly insightful piece about the UX of LEGO control panels

Googly eyes uber alles! news.sky.com/story/u...

Some Expanse art to enjoy. #scifiart #scifi #fanart #Expanse

I'm going to adopt a dog and call him Peeve. He'll be my pet, Peeve.

Check this out www.pbs.org/show/violent...

Morpheus: You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. me (42 years old): which one is ibuprofen

Breaking news! Krispy Kreme donuts have a security hole. No really, this isn't a dad joke. They've been hit by ransomware. www.ft.com/content/7732...

At its heart, Star Trek is a utopian fantasy about a society so advanced that they are capable of holding productive meetings that last no longer than three minutes

Neil Peart (from the band Rush) plays an epic drum solo on Letterman in 2011 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttZI...

if you take blink-182 and add twenty one pilots then add matchbox twenty then subtract another blink-182, the sum 41

💾🖥️📖 Inside the Personal Computer: An Illustrated Introduction in 3 Dimensions: A Pop-Up Guide. Text by Sharon Gallagher. Paper engineering and design by Ron van der Meer (1984). Posting this and more as we get our #retrocomputing series ready for next month!

We really need to hold the line that vaccines like clean drinking water and basic sanitation are public health tools that save lives. Telling people not to vaccinated is like saying don't wash your hands before handling food. It works until it doesn't

MSNBC put together a collection of videos showing Republicans flipping their position on Trump

I don’t think it will all fit in there.

Lee: When Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was up for confirmation or when VP Harris was added to the ticket, they called them DEI hires. They want you to believe that Harvard graduate with over 20 years of experience is not qualified but Fox personality is qualified to run the DOD

Underrated work hack: Be easy to work with

TIL that one reason raw milk is having a comeback is a lot of people don't know what pasteurization is. They think it's adding "chemicals" not a rapid heat treatment

If you don’t know who Jay Graber is, you will. She’s the woman behind Blue Sky. Everyone’s talking about it. In just the past week, Bluesky’s user base has exploded, more than doubling to over 16 million as people scramble for an alternative to X, Facebook, and Threads. 🧵

i think when we reach the heat death of the universe i will still be getting emails from The Washington Post

mailbox getting full alert...maybe I should have unsubscribed from that [maven-users] email list like 15 years ago

TIL about Anthropic's model naming: The number is the generation. The last part corresponds to the "size" (power/speed) of the model: haiku/sonnet/opus (because haiku < sonnet < opus). Each generation is better than the smaller version of the previous gen. So Claude 3.5 Sonnet > Claude 3 Opus

it seems as if every day science takes another giant leap forward

Let's see how many people start following me because they don't realize I'm not the #scifi author guy. 😀