Wizard without portfolio
Joined August 2007
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I never used Twitter’s official client and I’m not starting now, so I suppose I’ll be going. Find me at mastodon.sdf.org/@mikeash or wherever good books are sold.
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Here’s Joe Parrish @joecparrish, the Mars Exploration Program Manager at @NASAJPL, on how to protect life on both Mars and Earth.
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Trying again without the obfuscation for any stragglers.
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19 Dec 2022
If there's one thing I think we can take away from the last few years, it's that nobody — absolutely nobody — is ever playing 4D chess
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Elon’s brain broke.
My plane is actually not trackable without using non-public data
Community note
It's true that flight information is publicly available.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic…
rtl-sdr.com/adsb-aircraft-…
However, for some months now, Musk has opted into the following program, which makes his information private.
faa.gov/air_traffic/te…
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Seconded.
15 Dec 2022
I think one of the things I dislike about c the most, is that passing value by reference is invisible at the callsite.
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13 Dec 2022
Le pull de Noël parfait n'existe p... shop.lesjoiesducode.fr/produ…
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18 Nov 2022
Where’s the Swift project going in 2023? @pathofshrines looks ahead with a summary from across the community. swift.org/blog/focus-areas-2…
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18 Nov 2022
The Twitter meltdown is distracting me from fully enjoying the FTX meltdown.
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Man goes to Doctor. Says his business is failing. Says he fired all employees. Says his customers abandoned him. Doctor says, “Treatment is simple. Great CEO Musk is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up.” Man bursts into tears. Says, “But doctor…I am Musk.”
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Free speech is where anyone can be "verified" but contradicting your boss gets you insta-fired.
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20 Oct 2022
flatmate has just asked me whether i think the lettuce voted leaf or romaine in the brexit referendum and im frankly furious at how funny i found it
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