Guido Bartolucci

⁦@MerriamWebster⁩ be honest. An intern wrote this definition, correct?

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My name is Guido. @RockstarGames won’t let me use my name in my username because it says it’s profanity. They think my name is profanity. Think about that.

@MeidasTouch What they were saying — trust me, I do this professionally.

@StPierreGroupe found metal in brioche bun FYI.

.@TerribleMaps Any idea which projection flat earthers believe the earth is shaped like? Probably mercator, ugh. Would be kinda funny if it was something like Dymaxion.

@realRetroPC Yes. At Microsoft. Never outside in the real world.

This is the Microsoft Surface Coffee Table (circa 2011)! Has anyone actually ever seen or used one of these?

@TerribleMaps Annnnnnd… they still won’t give back Bolivia’s access to the sea even while rolled up. 🤦‍♂️

@ProgramMax @garethlewin @d_feldman This is pretty much what I did too. It’s helps having grown up in a less expensive part of the country.

@garethlewin @d_feldman I'm happy to share all I've researched and learned about this if people want. But unsolicited, it would sound boastful. But the biggest one IMHO that almost all Americans struggle with is savings rate. Even most rich FAANG nerds live paycheck to paycheck.

@schemeprincess @d_feldman Honestly I think grad school after early retirement makes a lot more sense than right after undergrad. After a decade or two of working you really have an awesome perspective to learn new things outside of a corporate environment.

@d_feldman I think people are pretty terrible at being retired actually. I feel like all of my friends that made enough money that they could retire then went on to do something stupid like going to grad school. Of course, I might just have a very specific set of friends 😂

@dillardsarah And I know this is theoretical stuff, but I also think that the understand that number systems are just made up to make things easier for us is a good fundamental to learn. I especially like Paul Lockhart's book Arithmetic and how it presents number theory.

@dillardsarah This whole thread is a very good take on HS math. I've long thought it was stupid that we had kids memorize proofs and algorithms rather than just the fact that these sorts of maths exist and what they can be used for and how to find out where to learn about them when you need it

Of the four core subjects, the ambitions of high school math are the highest but also the most misplaced. What high school math could be, a 🧵:

Disney+ now requires to know my gender to continue streaming. Weird.

@WilliamCaryHall Reminds me of the clicker games on Roblox.

These people vote.

PSA: Don't glue powerful magnets really close to SMD diodes before actually testing that they are soldered properly. It turns out that soldering iron tips are attracted to magnets and it's difficult to precisely control them when the magnet keep sucking them in.

For anyone threatening to leave Twitter, good luck trying to find this fire content on any other platform

@abrahampiper The First Three Minutes by Steven Weinberg.

I'm sitting here with some whiskey and time... Tell me your favorite nonfiction book, and I’ll try to anagram your name. (No promises… 🤞)

Wiping your ass isn't the full extent of personal hygiene, but we all get that it's, like, necessary. It's not that hard and the benefits are clear...it's certainly not all you do, but you do it! Voting is the ass-wiping of democracy.

My copy of Knuth TAOCP 4B arrives tomorrow! Let’s hope 4C comes soon after.