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Dean Beeler

Dean Beeler

@canadacow

Co-Founder and CTO of Juice Labs

Katılım Temmuz 2009
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Steven R Ellison
Steven R Ellison@S_R_Ellison·
@luinalaska Then why are you reposting it? I don't follow this idiot, but I have to keep seeing his idiotic posts because people are reposting. Why are you helping him make money?
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Lu for Alaska
Lu for Alaska@luinalaska·
In 1952 it was deemed too explicit to tell a general tv audience that Lucy was “pregnant” on I Love Lucy. They used the word “expecting” to be socially acceptable in mainstream culture. Less than 100 years later I’m supposed to read about Kate’s vagina germs without warning when I’m trying to enjoy my morning coffee. What exactly happened here? Is there a middle ground where we can accept adults do adult things without me having to know the exact bacterial circus inhabiting this stranger’s vagina? It’s lactobacillus crispatus. We all needed to marinate in that information.
Bryan Johnson@bryan_johnson

This is her vaginal microbiome report. 100/100 score. Top 1% of all vaginas. Her sample is dominated by the single most protective bacterial species a vagina can host (Lactobacillus crispatus). Only about 25-30% of reproductive age women globally are L. crispatus-dominant, and “dominant” usually means above 50%. Kate is at 98.7%. The lab found nothing bad to report. (no gardnerella, Candida, STIs, opportunistic pathogens, aerobic vaginitis markers, etc.) This is linked to lower risk of BV, UTIs, yeast infections, HPV persistence, HSV-2 and HIV acquisition, preterm birth, and improved IVF outcomes. A vaginal microbiome is downstream of everything: sleep, glucose control, stress, gut health, sexual health, immune function, what you eat, and what you put in it.

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Massimo
Massimo@Rainmaker1973·
Scientists have created one of the most detailed 3D reconstructions of a human cell (eukaryotic cell) ever produced. This groundbreaking model, often termed a "Cellular Landscape Cross-Section Through a Eukaryotic Cell," combines data from X-ray tomography, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and cryo-electron microscopy to map molecular structures in extreme detail.
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Dean Beeler
Dean Beeler@canadacow·
@PalmerLuckey Isn’t something like this probably false though? My monitors aren’t even connected to the wifi or internet. My Unifi router shows no bandwidth usage of this kind at all (4k every 15 seconds is not cheap.) If it were true it would be trivially demonstrable like the printer dots.
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Palmer Luckey
Palmer Luckey@PalmerLuckey·
This is a massive and growing problem for American national security. Unbelievable amounts of sensitive and classified information is captured, scraped, and sent back to foreign nations. And users have no idea. Nobody expects that their TV or monitor is a surveillance tool. When I have joked that Smart TVs should be illegal, I am only half-joking.
Nav Toor@heynavtoor

Your smart TV is taking screenshots of your screen every 15 seconds. Not a guess. Not a theory. A peer-reviewed study by researchers at UC Davis, UCL, and UC3M tested it. Samsung TVs: every minute. LG TVs: every 15 seconds. Even when you're just using it as a monitor. Here's how to turn it off for every brand:

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Dean Beeler
Dean Beeler@canadacow·
@Azadux Yeah, next on deck is proper HDR video capture.
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Dean Beeler
Dean Beeler@canadacow·
In 2026, nothing captures HDR desktops correctly, not even Microsoft's own software for this. In anger, I vibe coded my own screencapture systray util that does it right. MIT-0 license. github.com/canadacow/Scre…
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Dean Beeler@canadacow·
@volgaksoy That's next on my list, getting a standard hdr file viewer out there. I don't think any browsers support a hdr image format reliably? Why do people hate > 8 bit color formats so much?
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Anduril Appreciator
Anduril Appreciator@A1Anduril·
Billionaire Anduril Founder @PalmerLuckey on Why He Only Flies Coach: “I don’t fly private and I do fly coach.” “[Anduril] only covers coach travel for employees… because we have so much travel at the company.” “If I’m going to ask my employees to do it, I need to do it too. Even when it’s my own money… otherwise I would literally be out of touch.” “I love the back of the plane, on the window. Nobody bothers you… you can let everybody get off the plane before you do.” “My grandpa was a pilot for United Airlines for over 40 years… I grew up around commercial airlines. To me there is a certain romanticism to mass-market air travel.” “And America did it. We figured out how to make it economically viable, and we build everyone else’s airplanes.”
Palmer Luckey@PalmerLuckey

@thesamparr I only fly coach.

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Dean Beeler
Dean Beeler@canadacow·
@TimTeaFan @iruletheworldmo Cause it’s wrong. It reads like you believe there is spirituality in Fused Multiply Add. That’s all LLMs are and all they’ll ever be: Fused Multiply Add times a trillion. Whatever “spirituality” you’re or anyone wonder us interpreting is just a bug in the software.
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Tim Tiefenbach
Tim Tiefenbach@TimTeaFan·
@iruletheworldmo The post should have far more likes/views, idk ppl just don’t read long articles anymore.
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Dean Beeler
Dean Beeler@canadacow·
@elonmusk @therabbithole Yeah. Why? What does it matter what a person’s skin color is in the grand scheme of things? Can you tell me Julius Caesar’s complexion? How about George Washington? Genghis Khan? How is any of that remotely relevant to history?
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Dean Beeler
Dean Beeler@canadacow·
@PalmerLuckey My theory is in fact low estate taxes. Raise estate taxes near 100% and you’d flood the market with homes as the government claims them and resells them.
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Palmer Luckey
Palmer Luckey@PalmerLuckey·
The fastest way to lower average housing prices in American cities is enforcing the law/reducing criminal activity. Huge chunks of high-density housing are trapped in Bad Neighborhoods, no-go zones depressed well below nearby prices. Nobody with options even considers them.
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Dean Beeler
Dean Beeler@canadacow·
@HurleyFace2022 @AlexBondar81226 @DefiantLs That’s literally the little text on your ticket. “We reserve the right to use your image obtained at this event for whatever reason, blah, blah, blah.” This couple isn’t remotely the first to be inconvenienced this way.
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Defiant L’s
Defiant L’s@DefiantLs·
Oh boy, TMZ just added more fuel to the fire
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Dean Beeler
Dean Beeler@canadacow·
@fewerwrong @boztank I still remember the “couldn’t get out from guardian once in it bug” It was Conway’s Law and action-at-a-distance to the nth degree. More than half the battle was convincing the team responsible for the regression that it was their bug.
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Amanda Watson
Amanda Watson@fewerwrong·
Hey @boztank, if you would like to hire an expensive (these bugs are what my nightmares are made of) contractor to come in and fix stuff, just say the word.
Guy Godin@VRDesktop

Hey @boztank, your quality control failed again. v77 went out with game breaking bugs that affect everyone. Audio crackling (reported weeks ago), audio cutting out when you switch to passthrough, VP8 video no longer working, MediaCodec freezes, etc. Good job ignoring all the reports during PTC and pushing your update anyway..

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Dean Beeler
Dean Beeler@canadacow·
@iquilezles LLMs are and continue to remain hot garbage for anything mathematical or graphical in software development.
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inigo quilez
inigo quilez@iquilezles·
I've been giving a serious attempt at using Cursor in a C++ code base. I might still be using it wrong, but I've only managed to get it to write code that compiles and is also actually useful, once every 20 attempts or less. When it does succeed, it's limited to very narrow tasks, never large enough to offset the time wasted by commanding and helping the AI do the work. So as of today, the more I use Cursor, the bigger the productivity loss (and frustration), very far from the advertised claims. I haven't tried other competitor products though, but I'd expect the same unless there's some model out there trained through reinforcement learning instead of basic pattern memorization? Regardless I'll keep trying though because I really want the super-powers; live is short and I have lots of ideas to try. Or is my experience an outlier, and are other C++ developers actually successful with these tools?
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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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Dean Beeler@canadacow·
@BasQuxFoo @ID_AA_Carmack I put a lot of weight on "broadly adopted." Inversely, there are people who are still wearing masks religiously here in 2025. The point being, having to wear anything on one's head is _always_ going to put a ceiling on adoption.
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John Carmack
John Carmack@ID_AA_Carmack·
Even the best lab demos of AR glasses today, assembled at eye-watering prices, are not the holy vision of “augmenting reality” that Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook are both chasing. There are deep challenges with continuous rendering to see-through displays in this form factor for all day use. I think there is a better “computer glasses” growth path up from the RayBans than down from Orion. Casually talking to your AI throughout the day is clearly going to be a Big Deal, and it should be an obviously tragic mistake for Meta to not make it easy for every AI vendor to participate on equal footing. Earbuds alone will allow that, but adding a camera is a significant step change in functionality, and glasses are the right form factor. While high quality see-through AR may not be coming to this form factor soon, there are intermediate visual outputs that could still provide novel value. Small near-eye displays like Google Glass could be valuable for focused, single task outputs, but even trivial arrangements of tiny LEDs could be used as “visual haptics” – they don’t draw pictures, but still communicate information. I think it is critical for the devices to last all day without running out of power to encourage the changes in behavior that make them a new wave in human / computer interaction. Really lean in hard on power efficiency; find the “speed of light” for it. This could justify the full custom silicon that I always argued was not critical-path for VR systems, but there is likely at least as much to be gained from software optimization as hardware optimization, and the co-optimization is crucial. “Magic silicon” alone isn’t going to do the job – irresponsible software will always consume everything! A valuable hack would be to allow them to be connected to a battery pack with a very fine wire. People wore wired headphones for decades; it is clearly not beyond the pale to consider, and you would only need a trickle of current to keep the charge topped up. A non-proprietary connector would allow the market to explore all sorts of external battery form factors – pocket, pin, cap, etc.
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Dean Beeler
Dean Beeler@canadacow·
@LinusEkenstam Who gives a shit? It’s all inaccurate hallucinations anyway. Congrats! You’re in your own imaginary Mission Impossible. Yay! Keep it to yourself.
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Dean Beeler
Dean Beeler@canadacow·
@tom_forsyth @iquilezles In an era of glslang, glsl to hlsl, with numerous intermediaries along the way to machine code, I have almost no expectation what the resulting assembly will reliably look like.
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Tom Forsyth (TODO: fix my heart or die)
@iquilezles This is so infuriating. It's advice that is 20 years out of date (maybe 15 if you're on mobile?) that was never that important to begin with, but has absolutely poisoned peoples' minds.
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