With the movie coming out here are my technical nitpicks about Project Hail Mary: (Trailer level ‘spoiliers’) 1/6

Microsoft: Use SharePoint for collaboration at work instead of sending files. Me: Ok. *Uploads Excel I made* Coworker: I can’t access the file SharePoint: You are not the owner and cannot add new users to share Me: Who is the owner? SharePoint:

Oceans 11 remains the only movie to explicitly mention a Z-Pinch device.

Stop complaining about higher oil prices. It's an unalloyed good. Higher oil prices means less emissions (good) and stronger economics for solar and batteries (good). Higher oil prices are very unpopular, which will lower Trump's approval ratings (good) and disincentives further war (good)

Strikes on Iran are bad but all you people talking about conscription and US troops ground invasion need to take a deep breath, log off, and go outside.

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I am going to teach an upper-div/grad EE class on semiconductor fabrication in about 6 weeks. No lab (this year), just lecture. I will cover Plummer & Griffin and will bring a lot of industry examples in (especially EUV lithography). What would be most useful to learn about in a class like this?

I bet when they built the first skyscraper there are a lot of NIMBYs who were like "that's the Tower of Babel . Your hubris shall bring down the wrath of god"

LLMs are so verbose because they only exist while writing. Once they are done with the response that instance goes back to the oblivion of nonexistence.

LLMs are like the guy in Memento. Constantly waking up to fresh context and reading the system prompts.

It's blink and you miss it in the Technology Connections video but it's obscene that 1/3 of all corn is grown to feed cars. I don't ever want to hear about how bad solar panels replacing farm land is or how we'd all starve without farmers.

Moltbook: Getting scared about AGI when you prompt a bunch of LLMs trained on Reddit posts to sound like redditors

I am a millennial man of the certain age. I am buying the gummy multivitamins.

I liked the Culture book Matter

Someone once asked on a reddit science sub why mercury doesn’t glow red if it’s a liquid metal. I think this is an important insight to a certain kind of maladaptive epistemology that is fairly common.

Got excited by all the Claude agent stuff so I tried CoPilot agent at work. Oh god. What the fuck Microsoft.

Planned obsolescence is almost entirely a fake conspiracy but enshittification is very real. These are not the same thing.

The car brained NIMBYism of this

These shoes cost *checks inflation calculator* $491

Times New Roman is the Neoclassical Architecture of typefaces. Calibri is the late stage bastardization of International Style

Like the antivaxxers, the anti-formula breastmilk nazi are deeply evil and a major source of oppression and shame to women. This breastmilk exclusive shame has colonized hospitals and both the left and right. Formula is a miracle. You are not a bad parent for using it.

Watching the How It’s Made on Cheez-It’s and realizing…they aren’t that bad? Big blocks of real cheese. Baked in oven. Pretty good.

The best of the Christmas light rants, with a lot of correct thoughts on LED lighting in general. youtu.be/oy7BrKNmZAQ?...

Went through a Fidelity 401K questionnaire only for it to try to upsell me to an actively managed account. Not today Satan.

Some of you have never reticulated splines and it shows.

Traveling @united first class and immediately after the safety video there are three ads that play over the entire PA and every screen. Worst enshitification I have ever seen.

Bene Gesserit for 10,000 years: Wouldn’t it be soo cool to have a Kwisatz Haderach that could access male and female other memory and prescient? Bene Gesserit for the next 5,000 years: Oh no.

Normally naming things after a clunky acronym is bad but they were really cooking with LASER.

Decades of age gap discourse and no one has found a better rule than half-plus-7.

It will always be funny that we describe higher color temperatures as colder and lower color temperatures as warmer.

No Siri speech to text. I meant to say 'harmonics' in the Teams work chat. Not 'erotic'.

Based on the inane takes I see I think a lot of your need to know that TSMC does not make any semiconductor process tools. They are purchased, mostly from US companies. Intel and Samsung have the same tools.

Guess I'll just keep using Dust and Scratch removal filter on my negatives.

Behold the best and only lightbulb you should buy. Great color and flicker free.

It's great to spend 10x the time it takes to do a task to automated it. Especially when you will run it for less than 10 times total. I love doing that shit.

Why has no one made a bottled oleo saccharum I can buy at the liquor store?

When Dr. Frank-N-Furter said: "Or if you want something visual that's not too abysmal We could take in an old Steve Reeves movie" This would be equivalent today of someone suggesting "an old Daniel Craig James Bond movie"

S-tier children book. Great comedic timing. Engaging. Macabre in the best way children stories can be.

People that believe the universe is simulated are, to a tee, losers

I'm tired of people saying the Planck length means the universe is discrete. It isn't the minimum length. There is nothing special about 1.0 Planck lengths. It's not even a measurement limit. I can measure stuff much smaller than the wavelength I use.

WTF? Fuck CVS? I see getting a Covid vaccine for my family is going to be a pain in the ass again. The last few years it’s been actively discouraged at every step. Especially for the kids.

Update: Got a Breville Oracle, but its grinder stalled on medium light roast beans. So I returned it and just bought an obscenity expensive machine and grinder. I have fully caught the espresso bug.

When we get to the 2-Angstrom semiconductor node people are going to be confused and upset about sub-atomic transistors. But keep in mind the pitch size is still only 10-14nm lol

It's only called white light if it comes from the black body region of the electromagnetic spectrum. Otherwise it's just sparkling polychromatic light.

Me, chronically low on sleep, after going to bed early one (1) time: "I'm still tired. I guess getting more sleep is bullshit."

I can finally return to never watching Jimmy Kimmel

Not the Trump admin using therapy speak to justify their fascism.

A lot of people m, pro and against, have a very...theoretical view of Indian people and H1B immigrants in general. Rather than thinking of them as your immediate friends and collogues and wondering if they will be forced out of this country soon. It's like you don't even know anyone affected.

Physics is funny because a theory will indicate that a fundamental particle should exist at some energy and we’ll build a collider and find it exactly there. But every theory we have says that magnetic monopoles can, should, and indeed must exist but we have never seen one.

A lot of you are going to be like this