Keith Kaisershot

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Keith Kaisershot

Keith Kaisershot

@ablitter

Programmer. Pippin hacker. Fan of Macs, Apple, 70s/80s/novelty music, retro gaming, VR, DeLoreans, and combinations thereof. Opinions expressed are mine. He/him

Bay Area, CA Katılım Mayıs 2010
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John Carmack
John Carmack@ID_AA_Carmack·
The demo we are showing is an RL agent on a laptop playing an unmodified Atari with a robotic controller moving the joystick and a camera looking at the screen.
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Tyler Glaiel
Tyler Glaiel@TylerGlaiel·
how do you pronounce "gif"?
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Keith Kaisershot
Keith Kaisershot@ablitter·
@MrAlanSpencer I met him briefly at SF Sketchfest in 2017 when he was in town for a screening of Kentucky Fried Movie. I remember him as being a real down-to-earth guy.
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Alan Spencer
Alan Spencer@MrAlanSpencer·
Jim Abrahams and I wrote a pilot for ABC in 2006 which the network admitted was hilarious, but still passed. It was a sendup of forensic crime dramas. In the first episode, people kept hearing a horrific sound before finding a victim. Turned out the murder weapon was a trombone.
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John Carmack
John Carmack@ID_AA_Carmack·
I was reminded recently of one of the more dumb-ass things I have done. In one of the Armadillo Aerospace vehicles we ran an alcohol feed pipe through a liquid oxygen tank. It had an air gap jacket, but we were still concerned about the possibility of freezing the alcohol if there was an extended launch hold. We did an experiment with a beaker full of ethanol in a liquid nitrogen bath, monitoring the temperature over time. The result was unexpected — the alcohol didn’t freeze solid, but it took on the consistency of a thick honey. We would pull the stir stick out and watch the viscous liquid slowly make its way down. It was so mesmerizing that I… poked it. With my finger. Liquid nitrogen is less dangerous than many people think — it isn’t like a Mr. Freeze gun. I had a high school science teacher that splashed some at students after doing the frozen flower demonstration. It flashes to gas and dissipates really quickly. This was like reverse napalm. Super cold, sticking to my finger, and not evaporating or sliding away. It was just a tiny drop, but it was instantly obvious I had made a mistake. Only a tiny little patch of frostbite resulted, but it did drive a bit more caution later.
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Tyler Glaiel
Tyler Glaiel@TylerGlaiel·
old laptop died finally so I had to upgrade and apple, what the fuck is this
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Keith Kaisershot
Keith Kaisershot@ablitter·
@ID_AA_Carmack Read the first sentence and at first thought you meant “shipping” as in “fanfiction.” 😮🤣
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John Carmack
John Carmack@ID_AA_Carmack·
Looking for advice on a little re-shipping project. I want to donate a set of 21 science fiction books, selected by the Libertarian Futurist Society from their Prometheus award winners, to any town or school library that requests them. Does anyone have good experiences with a company that could manage the ordering of individual books from Amazon (or directly from publishers), application of a sticker to each one, then shipping them all together as a set to recipients? I have no idea if this will turn out to be 10 sets or 1000.
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Sandy Petersen 🪔
Sandy Petersen 🪔@SandyofCthulhu·
Another girl I’ve had a celebrity crush on forever is no more. We have memories. Even if I don’t have an enormous schwanstucker.
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Todd Vaziri
Todd Vaziri@tvaziri·
What is your favorite movie that doesn’t have a gun appear onscreen?
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Mac84 🍏 (Steve)
Mac84 🍏 (Steve)@Mac84tv·
@BeesMcBees My wife named him after The Lord of the Rings character. But a nod to the Bandai console is fun too.
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Mac84 🍏 (Steve)
Mac84 🍏 (Steve)@Mac84tv·
✨Meet Pippin! 🐰 Some horrible human dumped this little boy in a park a few months ago, likely an Easter “gift”. Thankfully a friend rescued and fostered him until we decided it was time for another fuzzy friend. He’s so curious and mischievous and we love him already. ❤️
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Kyle Riesenbeck
Kyle Riesenbeck@reverendkjr·
@ablitter I think you may be the only person who will read it once it becomes a reality.
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Kyle Riesenbeck
Kyle Riesenbeck@reverendkjr·
I only today saw a pic of the new and improved Gabe Newell. Good for him. I'm sad though that everyone assumes he is on Ozempic and didn't do it naturally. As someone who did it with good eating and exercise, I know people automatically assume a drug was involved. Boo.
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Benj Edwards
Benj Edwards@benjedwards·
I used speech to text to say “new Castlevania game” in a note, and I got “Newcastle Van game” 😁
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dannyodwyer
dannyodwyer@dannyodwyer·
Our tape preservation project is finally hitting the important stuff - 1080p @romero hair!
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