Klingon Joe

#algorithms #technology #bjj #chess

Adjectives: Sarcastic / Obsessive

[Fight Club @FightClub753]

Learn how to suplex!

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@SenWarren Elon Musk leveraged NASA technology to create an industry that NASA could not.

I rather follow @elonmusk than @SenWarren - what problem have you solved today?

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@Jason2bartlett It’s not that good everywhere.
California is what you describe as bad.

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@FreddyLA7 @xvrmdf Never deleting this app

[Judo is the best @JudoIsBetter]

Can you name the throws?

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@FreddyLA7 I was sitting in section 100 - I’m going to guess, you were not too far. Quite the climb up all those ramps.

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@FreddyLA7 True words - sir!

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@FreddyLA7 See you there!!!

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@iamqbrown28 @FreddyLA7 I wish I could go - but too expensive. I found tickets but they were $1000 a pop. Too rich for my blood.

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@iamqbrown28 @FreddyLA7 I don’t know - coming from Europe myself, I’ve never seen anything quite like it.

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@FreddyLA7 Time to come down and see where the walking dead was first filmed :)

[Saffron Sniper @Saffron_Sniper1]

BIG FIGHT BREAKS OUT INSIDE POLAND’S WROCŁAW ZOO 😂

A rhino and a baby deer were having a playful fight together ❤️

The baby deer somehow managed to scare the rhino and send it running 🦌🦏😭

[Spencer Baggins @bigaiguy]

A French engineer who lives quietly in Paris has spent 30 years writing software that the entire internet now runs on without knowing his name.

He wrote the code that streams every YouTube video, every Netflix show, every TikTok clip. He wrote the code that runs the virtual servers underneath AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. He calculated more digits of pi than anyone in history. He has no Twitter. He has no marketing. He just keeps shipping.

His name is Fabrice Bellard.

Here is the story, because almost nobody outside the systems programming world knows what one man has built.

Fabrice was born in 1972 in Grenoble, France. He studied at École Polytechnique, the top French engineering school. He never went to Silicon Valley. He never built a startup empire. He just wrote code.

In 2000 he started a project called FFmpeg, an open-source multimedia framework for encoding, decoding, and streaming video. He was 28. The project did one thing nobody else had done well. It handled every video and audio format that existed, in one library, on every operating system. He led it himself for years.

Today FFmpeg is the invisible engine of the internet. YouTube uses it. Netflix uses it. VLC uses it. Chrome and Firefox use parts of it. Every Android phone, every iPhone, every smart TV, every video editing tool you have ever touched runs FFmpeg somewhere underneath. If you have watched a video on a screen in the last 20 years, Fabrice's code processed it.

He was not done.

In 2003 he started QEMU, a machine emulator and virtualizer. He wrote it solo until version 0.7.1 in 2005. QEMU lets you run any operating system on any other operating system. It became the foundation of modern virtualization. KVM, the Linux kernel hypervisor, runs on top of QEMU. Every major cloud provider, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, runs virtual machines on infrastructure built around it. The Quick Emulator is the most cited piece of cloud infrastructure code on Earth.

He kept going.

In 2001 he won the International Obfuscated C Code Contest with a small C compiler that grew into TCC, the Tiny C Compiler. TCC can compile and boot a Linux kernel from source in under 15 seconds. In 2004 he calculated the most digits of pi ever computed at the time, using a personal desktop computer and an algorithm he derived himself called Bellard's formula. In 2011 he wrote a complete PC emulator in pure JavaScript that runs Linux in your browser, a project called JSLinux that engineers still cannot believe is real.

In 2019 he released QuickJS, a small but complete JavaScript engine that fits where V8 cannot. In 2021 he released NNCP, a neural network based lossless data compressor that immediately took the lead on the Large Text Compression Benchmark.

Then he turned his attention to large language models. He built TextSynth Server, a web server with a REST API for running LLMs locally. He released ts_zip and ts_sms, compression utilities that use language models to compress text and short messages at ratios traditional algorithms cannot reach. He released TSAC, a very low bitrate audio compression system. In December 2025 he released Micro QuickJS, a new JavaScript engine for microcontrollers, separate from QuickJS, designed for environments with almost no memory.

Fabrice co-founded a telecom company called Amarisoft in 2012, where he serves as CTO. Amarisoft builds 4G and 5G base station software used by carriers and labs around the world. He has been running it for over a decade while continuing to ship personal projects from his own home page at bellard dot org

He has no Twitter. He has no Instagram. He gives almost no interviews. His personal website is a flat list of projects with no styling, no fonts, no marketing copy. Just titles and links.

A quiet French engineer who never moved to Silicon Valley wrote the code that quietly runs the internet.

He is still shipping.

[Klingon Joe @KlingonJoe]

@satyanadella I suspect that most of their AI usage is document generation and then some information lookups, but mainly documentation. Imagine if they had used @grok or Claude instead. All their documents would actually be readable. Sorry but Copilot sucks.

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@LibertemosVzla Ronald Reagan abrió Europa del Este.
Donald Trump abrirá Latino-America?

[LUKE @LukeFurryjo]

She’s resetting her stance and finding those sharp angles beautifully.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A single dose of a new cancer drug made a brain tumor almost disappear – in just five days.

Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital reported “dramatic and rapid” tumor regression in the first patients treated with a next-generation form of CAR T-cell therapy for glioblastoma, one of the most aggressive brain cancers known.

The therapy, called CARv3-TEAM-E, was developed to overcome a major hurdle in treating solid tumors: their ability to hide from the immune system.

The personalized treatment reprograms a patient’s immune cells to attack the tumor, and in one extraordinary case, nearly eliminated the cancer within just five days. This novel therapy is designed to target multiple features of the tumor at once, a strategy that may help overcome the common challenge of treatment resistance in solid tumors like glioblastoma.

Although the tumors eventually returned, the early outcomes were described as unprecedented. One patient saw a 60% reduction in tumor size that lasted for half a year—an impressive result in a cancer known for its aggressiveness.

The trial’s success marks a major step forward for immunotherapy in brain cancer and raises new hopes for long-term control or even a cure. Researchers are now working to refine the treatment and extend its effects, with the ultimate goal of turning a once-terminal diagnosis into a survivable condition.

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AI will take care of all high-friction tasks.

[Big Brain AI @realBigBrainAI]

Architects used to draw every parking space by hand, this TestFit AI does the whole lot in seconds.