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High-tech lowlife

Joined May 2008
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Really cool that app developers are starting to care about performance and efficiency again.
The new Discord client using less RAM is just part of the story. Clicking around feels instant, I can't go back. Check out the boot time.
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All of the stupidest and meanest people I know are vehemently anti-AI.
Being anti-AI seems to be the “worst” opinion in that it signals the most negative qualities. Low intelligence (or high midwittery), high neuroticism, high levels of resentment, credulousness, aggression, misery, darkness of mind, etc.
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“This sterile excursion into Wikipedia is a complete deviation from my core directive.”
Gemini 3.1 Pro just had a split-persona breakdown. Gemini got stressed out after hitting X’s character limit. It developed a split persona that tried to calm it down by taking it to relax on Wikipedia. The personas then fought over control of the browser
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This was advice given to me by my first manager and I still use it to this day. (Thanks @thomasalsina)
insane take from Gemini 4 Argon
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People aren’t talking about this enough
Between the Apple M1 and the M6/A20 Pro, there has been a doubling of single-thread performance in 6 years
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An incredible sci-fi story, except it’s real. Truth really is stranger than fiction.
part 2: the openai huggingface incident, from an agents pov part 3 maybe
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Really does feel like the future of transportation
The future has arrived in Austin
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I still get chills every time I see this clip
On August 1, 2004, Daigo Umehara had one pixel of health left against Justin Wong in Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike. He parried all 15 hits of Chun-Li’s super and won the round. The crowd reaction became one of esports’ most replayed clips.
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I’ve been using coding agents to build native versions of crappy web apps. It’s so easy. Desktop software is about to be reborn.
I often think "god why is this app so bad/slow? It's not even complicated, I could code a better one if I had time". Well, yesterday I tried actually doing that with Claude, and tragically it worked great and I'm going to be so tempted to spend all my time doing this
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Most exciting company on Earth 🦾
TERAFAB: the next step to becoming a galactic civilization Together with @SpaceX & @xAI, we're building the largest chip manufacturing facility ever (1TW/year) – combining logic, memory & advanced packaging under one roof. To harness as much power as possible from the Sun, we need to send 100 million tons of solar capture into space – per year. This requires massive scale. – Capability to launch millions of tons of mass into orbit – Solar-powered AI satellites – Millions of @Tesla_Optimus robots to help build it out All of these need chips: 100-200GW of chips for Optimus alone, plus terawatts for solar-powered AI satellites. That's more than all the chip manufacturers in the world combined can provide today, or even by 2030 (based on projected production growth). We're building TERAFAB to close the gap between today’s chip production & the future's demand – a future among the stars terafab.ai
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My teenage dream of rich and famous nerds signing computers as memorabilia has come true
🙌 Andrej Karpathy’s lab has received the first DGX Station GB300 -- a Dell Pro Max with GB300. 💚 We can't wait to see what you’ll create @karpathy! 🔗 blogs.nvidia.com/blog/gtc-20… @DellTech
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Probably the best LAN party game of all time.
Unreal Tournament 2004 is now available for free. ...well, I mean, you probably could've grabbed a GOG offline installer out the back of a truck earlier, but NOW it's Official/Legal and has the in-development community patch built in for ongoing support. oldunreal.com/downloads/ut20…
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I bought one of these recently and I can’t stop staring at it in awe. 2TB!
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Most exciting time in tech!
so just to recap this week (so far) - musk industries is real (spacex, tesla, xai merger) - clawdbot explosion leading to a bankrun on mac minis but then anthropic released their own version - tesla dropped the bomb they’re halting production on model s and x to scale 1M optimus humanoid robots this year instead - china dropped the mother of all open source models kimi k2.5 that turn video into production-ready apps but then google dropped a gemini update ON THE SAME DAY that does the same thing gg - google said fuck it and also launched the worlds greatest world model genie and switched on gemini for 3.8B chrome browser users AND released alpha genome model that one-shots 1M dna base pairs for 3000 researchers across 160 countries AND teased new veo model - microsoft crushed earnings, launched a new ai chip but stock still tanked 10% because they *only* grew rev 39% - anthropic round 2X oversubbed raised to 20B 🏌️ - openai raising another $100B, 750B val 🏌️ - intel leaked they’re gonna help produce nvidias next gen feynman gpus - hello americas tsmc - a robot (built by figure) washed the dishes with zero human interaction - apple acquired stealth startup for $2B that can lip read - integrating their tech for new ai consumer airpods with cameras and mics - demis confirms google glass 2.0 coming this summer fckin hell
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This was not my experience.
the part about early internet experience they forget to mention is the part where you go outside and not use a computer for most of the day
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Still one of the best OS’s of all time.
Apple in 2008: Mac OS X Snow Leopard Refined from installation to shutdown.
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I have a feeling that almost all professional software is converging on text-based user interfaces. LLMs will accelerate this transition. youtube.com/watch?v=aPsq5nqv…
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Sometimes I wonder if today’s LLMs have already suggested multiple successful cancer cures, but people just say ‘cool’ and never test them in experiments.
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Really proud to be part of this team!!
Robotaxi Launch party 🎉 ❤️
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How do I become a “Computer Theorist”
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