Kevin Watters

#R2D2 build continues! Astropixel lights installed in the dome (mostly).. when I first started 3D printing this, I had no idea that I would have continued this far with it. #3DPrinting #maker

@Steve_Yegge Cool, I think you have a lot to share with the community here. That being said... Food for thought: What happens when gastown comes to embodied ai? Physical robotic agents ... I think we are in for some very interesting times coming up.

I'm back on X. Took a couple months hiatus after the death-threat phone calls to my family from the crypto weirdos. They can all fuck right off, permanently. I will not agree to speak of crypto again, so don't ask, not even in person. Thank you for respecting my family's privacy on this. I've been trying to find some lipstick on the LinkedIn pig, and god damn if it isn't a weird, weird place. Almost all negative signal there has been suppressed, and also all quirkiness, it's all smoothed and oversaturated and Stepford-Wives-y. Always been like that, but now it has been terminally infected by AI writing, which has sent it into a spiral, and it's worse than it has ever been. (Note that I never use AI to write, I've taken to using comma splices as a shibboleth.) Everyone on LinkedIn writes their posts with (bad) AI. C-suites, coaches, leaders, principal engineers, product managers--they all have the same banal writing, the same stupid tells. It's like combovers, do they really think nobody else is going to notice? I could sort of stomach LinkedIn when it was just a weird cult. But when everyone started sporting AI combovers, I had to nope out. There are no human cognitive contributions happening there. So fuck it, I'll take the weirdos here along with the great people. I don't think you can find the one without the other. I am officially back, howdy howdy, will post a lot. Feels good. DM me and say hi.

@EOEboh A search engine should be the only choice here. Solr, Elasticsearch, or Opensearch are the top contenders. All are Lucene based and implement an inverted index.

Your team needs to build a search feature for 50M records Pick one: A) SQL LIKE query with indexes B) Elasticsearch C) Postgres full text search D) Add a LIMIT and hope for the best Which and why?

@cyber_razz Cron is for scheduled tasks that repeat on a schedule. If you want to run a task one time in the future you can use "at". C.

Linux Knowledge Checkpoint Which command is used to schedule a task to run at a specific time in the future (one-time execution)? A. cron B. crontab C. at D. time

@TheExtremeMusi1 Wait... You mean it's not just one perfect song from start to finish?

What is your favourite SONG from "Dark Side Of The Moon"? 👇🏻

@ronsterd89 2010: The year we make contact. All these worlds are yours except Europa. Use them together, use them in peace.

What's a little known movie that you love and most people haven't seen?

@DanielleMorrill 100 Continue.

I will never be done explaining client/server and how HTTP works

Perhaps I'm late to the game, but using Gemini to create 3D models using OpenSCAD is amazing. I'm blown away with the multi-modal understanding. I took a photo of some electrical components and shared it with the AI. It generated the mounting posts and enclosure easily.

Do you ever feel like AI content will eventually become doctrine? As models get more accurate, we will trust them more. Eventually, we'll for go our traditional skepticism and dive in head first to a ground truth based in generative content.

D. Undefined.

@DavidJHarrisJr That's a shame, music should transcend politics. Music is a great way to unite people. Musicians that want to bring people together should use opportunities to entertain and lift spirits. I have seen bela fleck perform live multiple times, the vibe was always inclusive.

Béla Fleck has joined the growing list of artists who have canceled their Kennedy Center performance after Trump’s name was added to the venue. “I have withdrawn from my upcoming performance with the NSO at The Kennedy Center. Performing there has become charged and political, at an institution where the focus should be on the music. I look forward to playing with the NSO another time in the future when we can together share and celebrate art.”

@OnlyInBOS Looks like a 19.5% tax on energy in Massachusetts to me.

It's still expensive in 2026.

@4thOfJuly365 Modern search engines organize their data very similar to this, as an inverted index. It's a list of terms with the documents that contain that term in it hanging off each term.

Am I the only one who knows what this is?

@AndreBuckingham @iyoushetwt At least you are using touch tone dialing.. and hey, those are some verbose connection strings.

@iyoushetwt AT&F1Q0V1E1S0=0&C1&D2+K3X4S95=47DT9,1-800-555-0199

Are you this old?

@TheExtremeMusi1 Is that compressor head?

Who is the MOST UNIQUE band of ALL TIME???

@grutschmoehh @NERD2040 If the video showed an AC voltage source it would be more accurate...

@kwatters76 @NERD2040 Yes it ist wrong..... Capacitor works another way.

@MeisterBlei MastaBlasta!

@kwatters76 great work says MastaBlasta 😉

#R2D2 build continues! Astropixel lights installed in the dome (mostly).. when I first started 3D printing this, I had no idea that I would have continued this far with it. #3DPrinting #maker

@20th_Centurygal I hear you, but it beats getting the kids up and out the door for school when it is still dark out.

This whole midnight thing at 6pm is such nonsense...Is it just me feeling this way? 🕕🌚😅

@BridgetPhetasy I ended up telling betime stories of superheroes playing candyland on the top of the largest volcano in the solar system... I guess that was boring enough to get my daughter to sleep... Always fast forward with that ice cream cone...

As someone who has recently taken up playing Candy Land again — that game goes hard.

@20th_Centurygal Sometimes music can take you to another place. It can remind you of another time, another place. Somewhere that was comfortable, or uncomfortable. It does this all from an amazing safe distance. It reminds us of who we are, where we come from, and ultimately where we want to be

I make time for music every day...It’s seen me through some of my darkest days, and for that I'm grateful...🎶❤