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@silverwizard @Quinnypig DR. HOUSE: it’s MTU. It’s always MTU

@silverwizard Fantasy, Final X (2)

@clacke Tired: measuring battery capacity in hours of operation
Wired: measuring battery capacity in kilowatt-hours
Ad astra per aspired: measuring battery capacity in equivalent antimatter mass

An 80 kWh battery is a 1.6 nanogram battery

@ktemkin Absolutey feeling this

I need help finding the quote and who said it, but this doctor who created the modern practice of medical helicopter transport for trauma victims in the US said something like “as a doctor I can save maybe hundreds of lives in my career. By building a system I could save hundreds of thousands”

@clacke Swedish jet pilot goals

https://youtu.be/PM3woO0AbCw

@silverwizard you mean “LinkedIn only, I am excited to announce”

@silverwizard do you get magic recertification brownie points for sending emails? or do you have to post on LinkedIn?

@clacke i’m still in the dilettante phase, but i love that the best resources for the language are 25 year old books

@clacke i’ve been thinking about Poly/ML on the SML
side for years

@silverwizard apparently a drop kick is someone who is not the sharpest tool in the the shed

@silverwizard third choice:

Please Molly Don’t Flog ‘Em

See also: Dropkick Murphys

@mhoye once in a. blue moon a huge customer needs the form factor for market reasons and then Apple bumps the specs rather than letting Samsung get the order. Then they forget about it until the next time

The iPad Mini is thr McRib of touchscreens

@thomasfuchs does it have a realtime clock? one thing i missed in the book 8088

@jalefkowit @glyph the True Lesson of Jurassic Park

@thomasfuchs did Gruber write another angry post about how mean Bromwich was? i’m afraid to look

@clacke Chani was not having anyone’s bullshit, i was there for that

@thomasfuchs want the LLM fad needs right now is a pivot to video (equivocal)

@thomasfuchs Because they use algorithms to do “creative work”. So by telling them the tool is not creative, you’re telling them that they are not creative. Which is true, but they take it as a personal insult. Which it is

@thomasfuchs @spaceape was the Apple IIgs the worst Amiga?

@clacke It's a pickleback: irish whiskey and pickle juice. They balance themselves out, and the balance is “why would I want to work at either of those places?”