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@patrickbetdavid Roger Waters "The Wall" in Detroit, I think it was 2012.

What's the best concert you've ever been to?

@SuhailKakar Why not use Haiku for a one liner? It's super fast. Or better yet, just use your own fingers?

i'm done. codex is fucking incredible after heavily using claude code for over 13 months, i've moved to codex opus 4.7 is painfully slow and takes 5-10 mins for a one-liner. the app is super buggy and flickers constantly. low thinking is useless. and they keep nerfing the model for some reason?? codex's new app is genuinely beautiful and gpt-5.5 thinking-medium is the perfect balance ngl @sama you cooked on this one

@DaveBondyTV Try Noodletopia in Troy. They've had a robot server there for a couple years.

This isn’t the future anymore… it’s already happening. Robot server at River Rock in Holly, Michigan. Thanks to Rex Lyle for the video. #robotwaiter #robotserver

@PoliticalStacy Love this

If a credit card company suspects fraud, it immediately cuts off your ability to spend. The government should face the same restriction: it must lose the power to collect further taxes until the American taxpayer, acting as the creditor, is convinced that fraud is no longer taking place. Not. Another. Fucking. Dime.

Crazy to think that this was taken with a regular DSLR and is sitting on one of the astronauts' camera roll. On a normal memory card. Not some special exterior mounted NASA camera. They just pointed the lens out the window and snapped this. Makes it even more real somehow.

@eevblog A lot of comments about the Hyundai Veloster but Saturn did this as well with the SC2 on the driver's side here in the US. Chevy and Ford did this on the passenger side in fullsize trucks on the passenger side.

I've been looking at cars on the road. Why are there no visually asymmetrically designed cars? Apart from functional reasons (exhaust port, side opening tailgate, number plate etc) all visual design elements are symmetrical. Yeah, yeah, I know, humans like symmetry, asymmetry is branded ugly. But why so few examples of it and so many companies unwilling to rock the design boat? Are us humans that wired to symmetry that it's impossible for an asymmetrical design to be successful? Only major production example I can think of is the Nissan Cube, and they only did it because it's part of the functionality of the side opening tailgate.

@SoothSpider @davepl1968 Never heard of it until now, thanks for bringing this up! 😆

@skelliam @davepl1968 EASTL has been controversial since its inception. 😉 Of course EA claims it was needed for consoles. 🤔🤔🤔

I had this conversation at Microsoft in 1996: Me: "Why do we have our own pointer array code?" Mgr: "Because it's solid and well tested." Me: "So is vector<> in the STL!" Mgr: "Devs don't know the STL" Me: "They're devs, they should know the STL!" Mgr: "That's great, but they don't, so no." And so we continued to use and write all of our own containers and so on. Because the STL was scary.

@SoothSpider @davepl1968 I don't see any metrics supporting their claim that their implementation is more performant. There are some embarrassing uses of STL inside this library as well. Hard pass for me.

@davepl1968 Meanwhile in some cases, STL doesn't cut it for some companies so they roll their own. 😉😉😉 Better to make their own than improve the original. github.com/electronicarts…

@EricLDaugh Nick is learning to say more with less when he speaks to the public like this. These statements are incredibly effective. Keep it up, @nickshirleyy !

🚨 HOLY CRAP. Nick Shirley DECIMATES Gavin Newsom 🔥 “The governor of California is an ENEMY to the people of California. He’s literally working to support the fraudsters!” “He COULD be working to expose the fraud.” “How STUPID do you have to be to say ‘let’s go after the guy exposing the fraud, let’s not go after the fraudsters?’” “That is what he’s doing. Why don’t you say ‘Hey Nick, great video - how can we help?’” “These tax dollars don’t say right or left on them, Republican or Democrat. Each tax dollar is a dollar for the American people.” “And when they go and steal these dollars from us, they are not robbing liberals or Democrats, they are robbing everyone.” “Then the governor gets mad at the person exposing the fraud? How crazy do you have to be to think that logic?!” @nickshirleyy Mic drop. H/t @TVNewsNow

@CombatActionDad @markgadala Came to the replies to say exactly this.

@markgadala Same training we've been doing here.

This is wild. 143 million people thought they were catching Pokémon. They were actually building one of the largest real-world visual datasets in AI history. Niantic just disclosed that photos and AR scans collected through Pokémon Go have produced a dataset of over 30 billion real-world images. The company is now using that data to power visual navigation AI for delivery robots. Players didn't just walk around with their phones. They scanned landmarks, storefronts, parks, and sidewalks from every angle, at every time of day, in lighting and weather conditions that staged photography would never capture. They documented the physical world at a scale no mapping company with a fleet of vehicles could have replicated on the same timeline or budget. Niantic collected this systematically, data point by data point, across eight years, while users thought the only thing at stake was catching a rare Charizard. The most valuable AI training datasets in the world aren't being assembled in data centers. They're being built by people who have no idea they're building them.

@phexus01 @TheCinesthetic Agreed, I absolutely loved this one as well. Watched it several times. I would watch anything Neill Blomkamp directs.

@TheCinesthetic Elysium. I don’t care if the message is on the nose. It’s fn’ great.

What movie do you love despite agreeing with every single criticism of it?

@BCambridgeEdit @TheCinesthetic This is a great pick. Absolutely underrated in my opinion.

@TheCinesthetic The Postman

@TheCinesthetic Big Little Lies White Lotus Industry

What’s an HBO series (that’s not The Wire, The Sopranos or GOT) that y’all would recommend?

@adxtyahq @eevblog Very similar rules in automotive software development. MISRA-C is the quality standard.

NASA writes mission-critical flight software in C. And the rules are absolutely INSANE. > No recursion. Ever. > Every loop must have a provable upper bound. > No dynamic memory allocation after initialization. > Max ~60 lines per function. > Minimum 2 assertions per function. > Every return value must be checked. > Zero compiler warnings allowed. > Daily static analysis. Zero warnings there too. > No function pointers. > Restricted pointer dereferencing. This is how they write code at NASA / JPL for mission-critical systems.

@TheCinesthetic Requiem for a Dream (2000)

What is the most screwed up movie you have ever seen?

@eevblog You're talking about it like a stock that reports earnings. I thought it was supposed to be a store of value, in which case losing half of its purchasing power every couple of years (on average) isn't normal behavior.

OMG, Bitcoin has fallen over 40% from its peak! It's over! Just like it's done 5 times before in 2011, 2013, 2017, 2021, and 2022. And yet now, when it's got institutional backing, market backing with ETF's, investment bank backing, and government backing, people want you to believe it's finally done for? LOL.

@mikeabiezzi @cybrtrkguy A Prius gets 57 mpg and is therefore $0.053/mile. How did you jump from a truck calculation to a Prius? 2026 Toyota Prius | Toyota.com share.google/ZMdxDlwuW4mfMc…

It’s not an apples to apples comparison. Gas isn’t cheaper at home like electricity is. Most EV drivers do a bulk of their driving without public fast charging and charge at home. We pay net 15c/kWh with the eMPG of ~80 for a CT, which is ~7c/mile A gas truck gets ~20MPG at $3/gallon, which is ~15c/mile. fuel costs are half with an EV. 50c/kWh is high and superchargers are closer to 35c/kWh, which is on par with the cost of gas at $3/gallon for a gas truck. It’s amazing that the CT is more efficient than a gas Prius.

$0.50/kWh seems to be the going rate in Michigan for non-member DC Fast Charging above 150kW. That seems really expensive, no? My Cybertruck can do ~2mi/kWh (usually 1.75). That's $0.25/mile. Gasoline is $3.00/gal here today. Meaning... a 13mpg truck is cheaper to drive.

@anthonypunt @megbasham To clarify, you're saying you remove and replace them? With what? In homes or businesses?

@skelliam @megbasham I pull out so many of these. People lured in by cheap ink. Terrible software, terrible WIFI

Do any printers work? My experience is that I have to buy a new printer about every third document or so.

@anthonypunt @megbasham I'll take them. Has been working fantastic for me for many years.

@phyddeaux @AutismCapital @elonmusk @Medtronic Pacemakers have been out for decades. No Bluetooth. The data itself could be processed automatically and flagged if an expert analysis is required. For the $75k it cost to get this device, this service should be included.

@skelliam @AutismCapital @elonmusk @Medtronic Health aside, at least it's at YOUR choosing, not at an app's or a corporation's.

Tesla will stop selling FSD after Feb 14. FSD will only be available as a monthly subscription thereafter.