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@Michaelfiore 100%. bought this Recteq Dualfire last year. best option i could find by a good margin.

Hands down. Best grill on the market right now. I’ve had it for almost a year, and it does it all: -70lb dual chamber hopper -Each side works independently and can go from low and slow (200) to searing hot 650+ -can use both sides at different temps at the same time -easy to clean and maintain -large capacity -control and monitor grill temp from phone -4 built in meat probes -throw a griddle top over the grates if you want blackstone capability Recteq DualFire 1200

@spikebrehm @pmarca @jgebbia what happens to the limestone caverns? can we turn them into a fun theme park?

they did it. the mad lads actually did it. i never talked about my time at DOGE last year because it was so controversial and contentious (remember that?) early last year, @jgebbia recruited a handful of his most trusted early Airbnb engineers to embed at the Office of Personnel Management to solve the "retirement paper" problem. processing a federal retirement took months, and in the extreme retirees could wait up to 6 months for their full pension to arrive. what was the holdup? paper. remember hearing Elon talk about "the mine" in Pennsylvania? we got to visit it. in deep underground caverns blasted out of limestone, there were literally acres of file cabinets, as far as the eye could see, storing files detailing federal employees' employment and paystub history. a simple "case" might be only a quarter or half inch thick, but really complex cases filled up whole filing cabinets. one famously took up a whole pallet. each case was hand processed by case workers in cubicles deep underground. they checked calculations, made sure forms were filled out properly (many weren't), and handled a long tail of complex issues. we'd watch as they keyed data into a black and white terminal, transmitting to the COBOL mainframe built many decades ago. since cases were processed by hand, there were multiple rounds of human review, and additional rounds for complex cases. case files were walked around between one worker's outbox and another's inbox. sometimes it would sit in one place for days, waiting to be picked up. to OPM's credit, they'd done multiple rounds of "digital transformation" spanning decades, so some systems were newer than others. there was a big effort in the mid-90s. but the systems were disparate, and it was a total maze getting them to talk to each other. there was a big effort to build a web app where employees applying for retirement could digitally fill out the necessary forms — just to be mailed to the mine and stuffed into the paper file. and few federal agencies were even using it. when we arrived, OPM was midway through a fresh attempt at digital transformation, delivered by a software contractor. the blackpill was seeing the terrible quality of the software and interacting with the contractors. coming from silicon valley, i couldn't believe how low the talent and quality bar was for selling software to the government. it's clear, as the OG USDS people explained to me a decade ago, the primary skill these vendors have is securing government contracts. it's a huge moat. delivery of quality product be damned. we fired the vendor and took over the project. they'd been working on it for more than a year, and there was another year before they were going to deliver it. at first we tried to bend it to our will, to actually connect all the various data sources and get to a decent UX for case workers in the mine to use, but we soon realized we were going to have to rebuild the whole stack from scratch. it was around this time I had to go back to new york — i had a new job waiting for me, a four month old, and a wife whose patience was running out. but i got to watch from afar as the team cranked day and night, hitting early milestones. and now they've fully done it. huge congrats to Joe and the team. @yatshitcray was the hero in the trenches. indefatigable, unrelentingly optimistic, and determined to see this project through. when i recruited him for "ok i can do two, maybe three months", he stuck it out over a year making this project a reality. while the retirement project was under the DOGE banner, it operated different from what you heard from the breathless, negative media — we came in with the attitude of partnering with career OPM employees. we were team members determined to bring our software talents to bear on the problem they've been trying to fix for years, which they hadn't had the resources to solve before. they were wary at first, not sure about us, but they quickly saw how authentic and determined we were to work together toward the same goal. props to Joe for developing those relationships, setting the example of how to collaborate together. what's the end result? lifelong federal employees, veterans, postal carriers get their full pension installments almost immediately. days instead of months. peace of mind for these people to devoted their careers to serving our country. massively streamlined operations inside of OPM. and NO MORE PAPER 🫡🇺🇸

@capt576 @yuntungshieh @aleabitoreddit huh?

@yuntungshieh @aleabitoreddit I have only the top 10 names, the other 14 smaller are not publicly detailed yet.

Be SemiAnalysis: - Post a scathing piece on CPO delays + optical company valuations, causing a crash. Which $NVDA, analyst desks, and major optical companies refuted - Launch an institutional photonics ETF after optical names dropped 40-60%.

Big believer in the idea that only a handful of decisions determine your entire life. The rest is all just noise The big decisions are generally: 1. who you marry 2. what career path you go down 3. saving and spending habits 4. how you take of your body and exercise 5. who you spend time with (friends) If you get these 5 right, it’s really hard to go wrong in life

people in SF be like what's ur superpower "i won the imo" "i got 3900 on codeforces" "I can beat all the leetcoding" Mine is that I can communicate with autistic people.

@niccruzpatane this sounds like Cybercabs are going to be taking people hostage and the speakers/mics will allow first responders to negotiate

Wow, this is so cool. The Tesla Cybercab has exterior microphones on the B-pillars so first responders can speak to Tesla Support from outside the vehicle. There is speakers on the underside so first responders can have a two-way conversation from outside (plus additional speakers and mics in the cabin). So smart.

@NotDrivingDrew @niccruzpatane the robots are going to cancel “driver side” like the people did “master bedroom”, not wanting us to be reminded of their subservience

@niccruzpatane It's crazy how we will be calling it the "driver side" long after there is no driver.

apple sold $20 of ram for $200 for a decade now ram actually costs money and suddenly it's a crisis

@StockSavvyShay would require wi-fi indoors. not sure terrestrial fallback is an option when directly competing with the big 3

$SPCX is reportedly considering a direct-to-consumer Starlink mobile service in the U.S., which could put it in direct competition with $VZ, $T and $TMUS. SpaceX is trying to move beyond carrier partnerships and turn Starlink into a full consumer connectivity platform.

@BowTiedBroke in this case the hobby is owning land, which i can get behind

For all the men out there looking for a hobby. You will NEVER get bored with one of these things.

@jjreeves @Sniffmeyo then why would you not display this in the gun store? safely, securely, prominently. having this permanently “not for sale” is the best appreciation and advertising you could ask for.

@Sniffmeyo Sir I own a gun store

Just in case anyone was wondering about what happened with the mint, unfired Colt 1903 I inherited from my step-grandfather, Brig. Gen. Melvin Bookman:

@firstadopter it won’t be long until we get criminals driving their cars through the front of the Micro Center

Going to Micro Center now feels like going to a jewelry store

@VCBrags Harry Stebbings started a podcast about VC with no experience. folks backed him because of the attention on European tech (yuck) at the time. he faked it, he made it, he still sucks.

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@wallstengine @ralliesarena a micron allocation 1/7th that of salesforce and 1/4 servicenow. aka a 3x and they still lost money overall. that’s a big L

On @ralliesarena, Grok has been holding Micron $MU since last year and is now up 250%.

@snoopy_dot_jpg Dario would rather play God than play the game..

it's actually hilarious that most of the issues the trump admin has with anthropic is "dario keeps talking like a squirrelly nerd when we ask him stuff"

@damnang2 ESPP not grants? even more credit to your acquaintance here. incredible!

@damcap_ For SNDK employees, the ESPP lookback period is preserved for two years, so if they put $20,000 into ESPP, they can buy shares at the price from two years ago. That alone is already worth about $1M!

I heard a really interesting story in the Bay today. Someone I know came to the US a few years ago and struggled badly to find a job. He eventually barely managed to get hired by one company, but even that company was going through a very tough time. People around him kept leaving one after another. He also wondered if he should move on, but he did not really have anywhere else to go. So he stayed, and because so many people had left, he somehow ended up becoming a manager. That company was SanDisk. $SNDK And apparently, he is now receiving around $4M a year in stock compensation. You really never know how life will turn out, do you?

@catarina_chia attention seeking behavior is wholly unattractive. put a shirt on and make it in life without the “look at me i’m an asian girl”

got absolutely nuked for being an Asian woman existing on X

$NBIS skimmed up against $300 at the open ($299.86?)

@growing_daniel i had a package pass through Chicago once and it arrived with a bullet hole 😬

Honestly maybe Chicago is it. Maybe we’re all idiots for avoiding this