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EE, patent lawyer, making things, @supracite, etc.

Joined February 2008
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First they push away manufacturing to other countries. Now they will do the data and intelligence. What will be left here?
Meta et al. already thinking about building data centers outside the US. great work, everyone
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US industrial capacity has been eroding for decades, and with it the fortunes of our middle class and to an extent, our national security. Data center development and our leadership in AI can reverse that trend, finally. Current hysteria to block all projects everywhere is a gift to China.
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It is better to have people ask why you don’t have a Nobel prize, than why you do.
What if your investing could be guided by a Nobel laureate in economics? Exactly 30 years ago, the WSJ highlighted Paul Krugman's prediction that Taiwan's economic growth would fizzle. I asked ChatGPT to figure out how much an investor would have gained by shorting three public Taiwanese companies in 1996: TSMC, Foxconn, and ASUS. The profit from a Nobel-guided $3,000 short ($1,000 each) would today be at least NEGATIVE $681,185 after currency adjustment.
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AI/SI is an IQ test.
I’ve given up trying to convince people. If you can’t use AI and immediately grasp how it could be valuable I can’t help you. Best of luck. I’ll be using it.
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FSD on hurry is so good at outmaneuvering assholes.
My favorite thing about FSD is that sometimes I can tell people purposefully don’t want to let us merge, and FSD is like - no you don’t understand. I’m merging now. And then proceeds to find a gap even when it feels impossible 🤷‍♀️
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Every TikTok and Insta reels is now a location check-in
this guy figured out how to leak your exact location from any video with sound using the Doppler curves of nearby airplanes
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Code
colsto’s aircraft doppler geolocation video is awesome, but doesn't come with code. here's my reimplementation python lib & CLI. curves and harmonics are fit automatically, and all data is free. need to test some more when I have time, but PRs welcome. go nuts.
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“Great Value” after recent 55% price hike and 25+ in stock. 👍
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I need to keep a closer eye on my 4yo during iPad time. 🤦‍♂️
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FSD is 10x safer right now, and with universal FSD adoption the ratio would probably be incredibly small.
Lifetime risk of dying in a car accident is 1 in 115
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Hypothesis: When you don’t let people see others question the narrative (by removing topics), it makes it easier for people to transform & rage out (eg Agent Smith) when someone does start to show signs of independent thought about an issue instead of immediate acceptance.
"There are subreddits Neo, endless subreddits, where human beings no longer think, they're demoralized. For the longest time, I wouldn’t believe it ..then I saw the threads with my own eyes. Watched them ban & downvote people who shared links to things leftists didn't approve of"
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What a dumb thing to do.
I thought it was just a proposal, but it actually passed 🤯 France will charge €0.055 per GB on all internet traffic!
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So, the French socialists, and Parliament members just voted a tax, that they don’t understand, which would cost VideoLAN more than 1 million euro per year. They are probably the most clueless politician on Earth? And they claim they want technological sovereignty… @LaurentLhardit
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Apple messed up multitasking on iPadOS 26+ by making it like mouse based OSX. Apple messed up multitasking on Touch OSX by not making it like iPadOS 18. @johnternus @gregjoz @tim_cook
MacBook Touchscreen? Fix your fingers.
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Yeeeeaaaa a keyboard driven tiling window manager looks better to me. Moving hands a lot is so slow and looks not comfortable. Also like why not flip the piano around so it’s upside down then lay the laptop down flat and use from other side? Does it not open 180deg or more?
Playing piano on the touchscreen MacBook Pro
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This
Steve Jobs on Touchscreen MacBook: “It doesn’t work, it’s ergonomically terrible”
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Ah yes. The leading use case of the touchscreen MacBook Pro. Playing a midi keyboard on the screen vertically. Jesus fucking christ.
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Have your favorite AI agent tell you how often this happens. Even Kennedy did it by paying a janitor with the same name as an opponent to run. It should be prosecuted—literally tricking voters. Other examples from countries like India and Russia.
BREAKING: Democrats secretly recruited a second candidate named Dan Sullivan to run against GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan in Alaska, hoping to confuse voters & boost Mary Peltola's chances, per NYT investigation.
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One press per letter on a phone keypad, and the whole sentence picks the words. OnePress makes 46–54% fewer wrong words than a classic predictive keypad, guesses punctuation, works in 14 languages, and its C decoder fits on microcontrollers. Demo + code: github.com/JamesDavid/OnePre…
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@lilygo9 do you have this t-display form factor with an esp32*?
I hate the huge and heavy Daikin A/C remote, so I let Codex to write a firmware to convert LilyGO's T-Display to the remote and open sourced it: github.com/conol-tony/daikin…
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