
shpetim
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shpetim
@shpetim
Tim of all trades. Opinions are my girlfriends.




Driving Tampa to Fort Myers rn Why does Florida Man insist on passing on right lane? Is this a freedom thing?









Love him or hate him, no one else on earth is catching 440,000 lbs of falling metal


71% of Waterloo software engineering grads leave for the US. The brain drain damage threshold is 20%. Canada is at 3x the red line. Think about that. Canada taxes its people at 60% in part to fund a university system to train its best and brightest to flee the country and make the US GDP spike. Who is spiking US GDP at the moment? All the Canadians working for Anthropic and OpenAI in AI. How crazy is that? What do the Canadian tax payers get for their generosity out of this?



@shanaka86 Starlink satellite maneuvering is done with heuristics (conventional software), not AI

Staying at a 5 star hotel for the first time in my life cause the Ritz in Chengdu is $240 a night compared to $975 in Dallas and everything about this experience is totally blowing my mind.









We spent $15,000 on billboards targeting one person: the guy controlling all the chemical spend at a saltwater disposal company in Texas. We mapped his commute and bought every billboard between his house and the oil field. When we finally called, he said "I see your billboards everywhere." That landed us our first oil field contract. At the time our entire operation was a $10,000 reactor built from PVC pipes from Home Depot, turning corn sugar into industrial chemicals. People keep trying to throw it away. It still works. That leaking reactor started a multibillion-dollar company. @ycombinator visited our plant in Houston. The original PVC reactor is still on the floor next to the Bioforge.





