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stephencass @stephencass

Senior editor @IEEESpectrum, co-author of Hollyweird Science I & II, former editor of some science fiction anthologies. KB1WNR. Originally from Dublin. He/him.

Joined April 2008
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Fascinating thread, the TLDR being "World Cup is coming."
Ned Stark from Game of Thrones holds a sword and looks pensive. The text reads "World Cup is coming."

ALT Ned Stark from Game of Thrones holds a sword and looks pensive. The text reads "World Cup is coming."

Mosquito Capital@MosquitoCapital
18 Nov 2022
I've seen a lot of people asking "why does everyone think Twitter is doomed?" As an SRE and sysadmin with 10 years of industry experience, I wanted to write up a few scenarios that are real threats to the integrity of the bird site over the coming weeks.
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Lisa Bloom@LisaBloom
16 Nov 2022
Let’s talk about the legal problems Elon just created for himself with this cruel new staff email. You’re fired if you don’t commit to long hours at high intensity within 24 hours? Let’s start with disabled workers.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but The Peripheral’s Dr. Nuland is the best British sci-fi screen villain since Servalan, and her spiritual successor to boot.
A white woman with very short hair wears a stylish off-the-shoulder black dress with a large angular brooch in the other shoulder. She is wearing earrings and impeccable makeup

ALT A white woman with very short hair wears a stylish off-the-shoulder black dress with a large angular brooch in the other shoulder. She is wearing earrings and impeccable makeup

A Black woman with a shaved head is in mid turn. The long pleated skirt of her stylish black dress with accented shoulder flares around her. She is wearing large earrings.

ALT A Black woman with a shaved head is in mid turn. The long pleated skirt of her stylish black dress with accented shoulder flares around her. She is wearing large earrings.

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Niall Murphy@niallm
16 Nov 2022
Anyone out there with an ML/DS/SWE background? We'd love to talk. #ml #sre #hiring
Stanza@StanzaSystems
16 Nov 2022
We're hiring an ML Software Engineer! Anyone who enjoys analysing data, building models, and writing software to help scale our customers SRE efforts would be great for this role, which is remote in US or Ireland. #ml #sre #hiring stanza.systems/careers/ml-so…
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"Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation."
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Sarah Taber@SarahTaber_bww
14 Nov 2022
welcome droids to the picket line 🤘
Grievancemonger Alex@rudenshiold
14 Nov 2022
fully automated luxury gay unionism 🤖🪧// @uaw2865 @uaw2865irvine @sruuaw @UAW5810
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Chris Randall@ultrapeakschris
13 Nov 2022
My first Brocken Spectre. Creepy to see it out the corner of my eye and think it was someone else moving
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Ken Shirriff
@kenshirriff
13 Nov 2022
The 8086 microprocessor is almost 45 years old, but the x86 architecture still rules computing. I'm reverse engineering the 8086 by studying its silicon die under a microscope. This thread looks at one of its unusual circuits: the bootstrap driver.🧵
Die photo of the 8086 microprocessor. The metal layer on top of the silicon is visible. Around the edge of the chip, bond wires provide connections to the chip's external pins.

ALT Die photo of the 8086 microprocessor. The metal layer on top of the silicon is visible. Around the edge of the chip, bond wires provide connections to the chip's external pins.

Closeup die photo of the 8086 showing bootstrap driver circuits. The metal layer has been removed to show the silicon and poly silicon underneath.

ALT Closeup die photo of the 8086 showing bootstrap driver circuits. The metal layer has been removed to show the silicon and poly silicon underneath.

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(Cont.) or for those of you familier with The Expanse, remember when Prax started worrying on Ganymede about some plants that weren’t doing well and explained about simple complex systems and cascade failures? Just swap in Twitter for Ganymede and you get what Hector is saying
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Re: Twitter stability—if one of the folks who literally wrote the book on modern site reliability engineering says something is worth a read, you should
Niall Murphy@niallm
13 Nov 2022
I'm a great admirer of Hector's so this is worth a read, and there's some good comments too
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Óscar Toledo G.@nanochess
11 Nov 2022
At last! My newest book Programming Games for Atari 2600 is now available at the Lulu bookstore, and as ebook at my store. Soon in Amazon #retro #Atari Cc @KevEdwardsRetro @6502nerd @0xC0DE6502 @6502Workshop @travisgoodspeed @MobyGamer @DNSDEBRO @stepickford @8BitShowAndTell
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Reviving some of the earliest samples of digitized speech meant breaking out the vinyl... spectrum.ieee.org/history-of…

After 50 Years, Digital Voices Speak Again

A chance conversation revives speech-digitization samples from 1973

spectrum.ieee.org
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Stefan - CNC Kitchen
@CNC_Kitchen
6 Nov 2022
Printing horizontal overhangs without the need for supports using Conical Slicing 👌
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Benj Edwards@benjedwards
17 May 2017
Prodigy88.com Release: Re-live the anxiety of Prodigy Classic members as they face its shutdown on 10/1/99 flickr.com/photos/149332336@…
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When coding boot camps were radio:
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John Timmer@j_timmer
3 Nov 2022
Taking a break from my usual journalism rants for a bit of energy geekery. As the US has gotten better at building solar, we're going to see the typical solar plant performing worse. The following thread explains why, and why that will matter.
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