Rod Recker

5歳の頃、1年間だけアメリカの田舎町、イサカに住んでいました。 ​日本での「50平米に5人暮らし」という激狭アパート生活から一転、父の勤務先が用意してくれたバカデカい家と、よりデカい庭は、子供の目には無限に広く、楽しくてしょうがなかった。 ​そこで同い年の友人ライアンと、彼のお宝だった「おもちゃの銃」で毎日のように遊んでいました。 1年の滞在が終わり帰国の日、空港へ向かう途中で忘れ物に気づき、引き返した空っぽの家。その玄関にポツンと、ライアンの銃と手紙が置いてありました。これが私の人生で最も古い「感動」の記憶です。 ​あの日から数十年。Xでのアメリカ×日本の盛り上がりを見ると、今なら彼に辿り着けるかも、と思い投稿しました。 もし再会できたら、あの日のお礼に「日本が誇る最高のおもちゃ」を贈りたいね。 ​#Ithaca #Cornell #FindRyan

@dmsimon @stevesi @HenkPoley Not sure that Steve was there, but I got my MS in that program. Was there when they were building and testing the irl Cornell Box.

@stevesi @HenkPoley @Recklight You were there when they were rolling out the physically based rendering, aka radiosity -- did you ever hang out in Greenberg's lab?

I spent Friday nights 8-12AM working in the computer center in January 1984. Two kinds of people came in to see the one public Mac on campus at the time (at launch of Mac). 1. mainframe grad students who looked at the mouse and declared "this is the most inefficient way to use a computer ever" and went back to VM/CMS and punch cards. 2. clueless frat and sorority classmates who came in and without asking any questions handed me their ID so they could use MacPaint to make a "ransom note" flyer for rush parties and keggers and make 200 copies at Kinkos.

The New York Times just confirmed what we've long suspected: ActBlue knowingly let in fraudulent foreign donations to help Democrats win. Yet another example of the left's embrace of fraud. Everyone involved must face the full weight of the law.

@Wisdom_HQ Nice analysis of it here: nytimes.com/interactive/20…

This kick is the Mona Lisa of soccer. Prove me wrong.

@stevesi Ha - that sounds familiar. I worked the next year at the one on North Campus. They had upgraded to two Macs. Eventually students used them for papers.

جسارت نمی‌کنم اما نشانه‌های سقوط رو شما عزیزان خارج از کشور نمیتونید به اندازه ما که داخل ایران هستیم تشخیص بدید. اینکه جمهوری‌اسلامی هنوز موشک‌پراکنی می‌کنه رو دال بر عدم سقوط می‌دونید درست نیست. ما هر روز در کوچه و خیابان نشانه سقوط می‌بینیم. از پیامک‌هایی که میفرستن و به وضوح میشه در لابلای هر کاراکترش صدای زوزه باقیمانده حکومت رو شنید، از التماس‌هایی که فیس تو فیس می‌کنن برای حضور در خیابان، از عدم حضور یکماهه رئیس مجلس و فرمانده سپاه در تلویزیون حکومتی، از قطع ۳۲روزه اینترنت، سانسور مطبوعات و محاصره ضربتی مکان‌هایی که نقطه‌زنی میشه و از همه مهمتر پایگاه‌های موشکی که دیگه خاموش شدن و موشکی ازشون شلیک نمیشه و... ما اینجا روزانه داریم نشانه‌های سقوط رو می‌بینیم. اگر وقت و حوصله داشتم یک لیست مفصل از نشانه‌های سقوط براتون ردیف می‌کردم. پس لطفا با فکتهای محدود ته دل ملت رو خالی نکنید. از مایی که داخل هستیم بشنوید که از در و دیوار مملکت نشانه‌های سقوط می‌باره. #جاويدشاه‌ 🇮🇷

Bernie thinks this is "fair" because he starts from the premise that your wealth belongs to the collective and you are permitted to keep what it decides you don't need. "You'd still have $2.5 billion" is not an argument for fairness. It is a looter calculating how much he can take before the victim fights back. Fairness is not determined by how much the victim has left. It is determined by whether the taking was justified. A man who robs you of $100 and leaves you $1,000 has not been "fair." He is still a thief. Rights are not proportional to net worth. They are absolute.

Apple engineered a $179 product to age one half faster than the other, and the fix would take about six lines of code. One AirPod is always doing more work than the other. The microphone setting defaults to "Automatic," but in practice one pod gets selected as primary for calls, Siri listening, and voice processing. That pod is running beamforming mics, noise cancellation, and audio relay simultaneously. The other one is mostly a speaker. The battery gap compounds over time. The pod that drains faster charges more often. Lithium-ion cells degrade based on total charge cycles. After 12 to 18 months, the "primary" pod has meaningfully more wear on its battery than its twin. Same case, same charger, different lifespan. You're watching one AirPod age faster than the other in real time. The fix is almost trivially simple. Rotate the primary mic assignment every 24 hours regardless of call activity. Balance the processing load across both pods equally. Apple ships a $549 AirPods Max that does spatial head tracking with nine microphones but won't write a background task to swap L and R daily. They won't fix it because the failure mode sells hardware. When one pod dies noticeably faster, you replace the pair. At $179 to $249 every 18 months instead of 36, that's the most profitable firmware bug in consumer electronics.

This may be the most corrupt thing I’ve ever heard in my life A Democrat federal judge made it illegal for Republicans to be poll watchers since the 80’s. Democrats have been renewing the injunction every 5 years. This only ended in 2020 READ THAT AGAIN “Something else people don't know is that start in the mid-1980s, there was a federal district court judge in New Jersey, who entered a consent decree that Republicans could not be poll watchers. So from mid-80’s until 2020, Republicans were not allowed to be poll watchers on these national elections. And what happened was that judge eventually died and the Democrats, the DNC, they had to go get that injunction renewed every 5-8 years, something along those lines. And when that judge died, he was replaced by an Obama judge, and they went back to that judge and they said, we want this consent decree in place making so Republicans cannot be poll watchers and cannot be a part of this process. And he said, what in the heck are you talking about? This is absolutely so unconstitutional. And he refused to renew that consent decree. He refused to renew that injunction. So 2020 was one of the first years that we had professional Republican poll watchers in these elections to see what was going on in Atlanta, in Detroit, in Milwaukee, in, you know, in in Philadelphia. It was the first time we were able to really see what was going on in these polling places. What that tells me is that probably a lot of these shenanigans were been going on for a long, long time, but there were no Republicans there to report on it.” Our elections have always been rigged by Democrats

@pmarca Yes - it allows me to do things I knew were possible, but not practical in terms of time. I can just do things again and its fun! Big things! I marvel after every session with these tools.

100%

@Rothmus They've replaced "Florida Man"

The dumbest things you’ll ever read now start with “judge finds…”

@Clip_Master__ Anyone else want to see the clues?

This guy keeps locking the only door to an 'escape room' business. The paper was clues to the combination of the lock he used.

Claude Code leaked their source map, effectively giving you a look into the codebase. I immediately went for the one thing that mattered: spinner verbs There are 187

Me and the IT guy after I pass the phishing test

@darkspark317 @NathanJRobinson @PalmerLuckey 42:1 at this point. Palmer did him a favor.

@NathanJRobinson @PalmerLuckey Youre a piece of shit and no one cares what you wrote. More people will see Palmers tweet correcting you than your article by a magnitude of 10.

I realize the title of "worst billionaire in America" is highly competitive, but I wrote about why I think Silicon Valley "war king" @PalmerLuckey deserves the prize: currentaffairs.org/news/palmer-lu…

@shipwreckedcrew Yes, but why has that not been an issue for prior presidents? It's not like that concern is new for Trump.

Because GOP Senators do not want to allow Pres. Trump to make recess appointments in positions that are important to them and their states. For example -- and I'm just making this up as a hypothetical -- Senators from Iowa have a very significant interest in who gets appointed in the Dept. of Ag. for a post that has an influence on corn and ethanol policies. If the Senate went into recess, then Grassley and Ernst would be unable to prevent the Admin. from appointing someone in that position that they don't like. So the "No Recess" is as much about GOP Senators as it is about Democrat Senators.

Imagine you are a working father living in the Midwest, you make 75k a year. You can support your family, but you're not rich. You worry about paying for college. Then you read about some Somalian stealing $1m out of federal healthcare programs. $1 million for the normal guy would eliminate an enormous amount of his stress. The college thing would be covered. Retirement wouldn't appear so daunting. It's why guys like this buy lottery tickets. And instead he pays into the system and watches "newcomers" make a complete ass out of him. This fraud is bad financially, but it just makes a mockery of all the hard work of normal people and tears away at the social fabric.

Presenting what I call Fascism for Dummies h/t @nubbynikki

@ChuckGrassley You could help Trump keep more of his promises by not scheduling pro-forma sessions to intentionally block recess appointments.

Thx 2 Pres Trump + Admin Zeldin 4 keeping promises 2 rural America & raising RVOs to HISTORIC levels Gr8 news 4 Iowa farmers + biofuel producers & will help lower gas $$ Also looking forward 2 the half values for foreign fuels feedstock to put American farmers first

@ChuckGrassley Why are you scheduling pro-forma sessions to prevent recess appointments?

Cargo theft is running rampant 12 TONS of KitKats stolen in Europe this wknd   Good thing Cong has a solution: My& Sen Cortez Masto's Combating Org Retail Crime Act would tackle this prob+protect supply chains+keep prices down Chocolate lovers & crime haters shld unite in support