Naveen Kumar Molleti

Optimist.

[Marco Bonelli @mebeim]

"Linux Finally Eliminates The strncpy API After Six Years Of Work, 360+ Patches" https://t.co/sqVtdUl7lm

[Netflix UK & Ireland @NetflixUK]

100 years old and still the coolest person alive. Happy birthday, Sir David!

[orph @orphcorp]

coke zero caffeine zero sugar zero calories is the even more technodharmic drink of choice bcs it is entirely synthetic, it has no taste analog in nature. it is a testament to the spark of divinity in man, evidence that we can prescind from our base conditions to mirror our creator in infinite creativity

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Your first meme was probably a Chuck Norris fact. Mine was. He died yesterday in Hawaii at 86, ten days after posting a video of himself throwing punches on his birthday. His caption: “I don’t age. I level up.” This is a little tribute.

The real Chuck Norris was wilder than any meme about him. He lost his first three karate tournaments, then went 65-5 over the next decade. Six-time undefeated world middleweight karate champion. Black belts in five different disciplines. First person ever inducted into the Black Belt Hall of Fame, and the only martial artist to be named to it three separate times.

His student Steve McQueen told him to try acting. That led to a fight scene opposite Bruce Lee in Way of the Dragon (1972), which became the highest-grossing film in Hong Kong that year. Then Walker, Texas Ranger ran 9 seasons on CBS, 194 episodes, broadcast in over 100 countries.

But his biggest cultural moment started with a college freshman’s joke. In 2005, a Brown University student named Ian Spector built a random fact generator on the Something Awful forums. It was originally about Vin Diesel. When the novelty faded, Spector ran a poll with 12 celebrity options. Chuck Norris wasn’t on the list. He won anyway, by write-in landslide.

By early 2006, the Chuck Norris Fact Generator was pulling 20 million pageviews a month. This was before Twitter existed, before Facebook was public, before YouTube had a single viral hit. A college kid’s joke website about a semi-retired action star became one of the most visited humor pages on the internet. It spawned six books (some hit the New York Times bestseller list), two video games, and a scene in The Expendables 2 where Sylvester Stallone’s character recites a Chuck Norris fact to Chuck Norris’s face.

When asked about his favorite fact, Norris said it was: “They tried to carve Chuck Norris’ face into Mount Rushmore, but the granite wasn’t hard enough for his beard.”

The meme ran for 21 years. Most memes last weeks. Chuck Norris Facts introduced more people to Chuck Norris than his movies ever did. For everyone born after 1995, he was never an aging action star or a karate champion. He was the guy who counted to infinity. Twice. The guy whose tears cure cancer, too bad he never cried.

The last thing the internet saw from Chuck Norris was him throwing punches on his 86th birthday. Which is, honestly, the most Chuck Norris fact of all.

[Тsфdiиg @tsoding]

OOP is a perpetual class struggle

[rachael 💫 @witty_genstein]

Babies are easy because when they are upset it is one of three easily verifiable things (hungry/tired/poopy).

Toddlers are hard because when they are upset it is because you disrupted some perceived esoteric order to the cosmos that is nearly inscrutable. Like “you can’t put the green crayon next to the purple crayon because banana goblins”

[James Blunt @JamesBlunt]

You’re a little slow to the party.

[basith @basithladoo]

to do list:
bite the hand that feeds me
put all my eggs in one basket
kill two birds with one stone
let the cat out of the bag
think inside the box
burn bridges
walk on thin ice
play with fire

[Sebastien Bubeck @SebastienBubeck]

Claim: gpt-5-pro can prove new interesting mathematics.

Proof: I took a convex optimization paper with a clean open problem in it and asked gpt-5-pro to work on it. It proved a better bound than what is in the paper, and I checked the proof it's correct.

Details below.

[Naveen Kumar Molleti @NOLFXceptMe]

Seems like most of them missed the joke. #grok #waifu

[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

Elon studied why VHS won over Betamax and was like "Say no more fam, I know what must be done."

[Aleksey Shipilëv @shipilev]

Wait, hold on, this "liquid glass" is basically what we did with Compiz on our Linux desktops 15 years ago for about a month until it got boring, right?

[greg @greg16676935420]

Finally I don’t have to pay for my hot dog combo all at once

[Wassup_Cara_mel @Wassup_Cara_Mel]

Barilla pasta has a Spotify playlist. Each playlist is the exact length of cook time for the varieties of pasta.

Press play, drop the noodles, music stops, al dente noodles.

[Jack Morris @jxmnop]

no AI here, just the coolest paper i've seen in a while

[mattparlmer 🪐 🌷 @mattparlmer]

The actual function of a roomba is to force you to pick up all the shit that you have lying around that is potentially obstructive to the roomba

[terminally onλine εngineer @tekbog]

yeah but imagine what he could have accomplished in an agile environment with a scrum master

[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

ASML machines are spice harvesters, turning sand into the most valuable resource that guides our ships and helps us predict the future

[Aravind Srinivas @AravSrinivas]

Official @awscloud blog, which includes @perplexity_ai's presentation at the keynote stage of AWS re:Invent 2023, on how Perplexity and Amazon work together on SageMaker, to train and serve models on https://t.co/2nWfr8KQ0j with high throughput and low latency.

[Naveen Kumar Molleti @NOLFXceptMe]

Yet another Google product bites the dust. Google Podcasts was really good. Forcing customers to use YouTube Music is just weird.

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

'Red Dead Redemption 2' was released 5 years ago today