Andy Maskin

I'm very appealing.

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Today's #ChatGPT experiment: "Write the premise for a Fast and Furious movie, but a major plot point is that none of the protagonists knows how to drive a manual transmission car." #fastx #family #AI

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#TIL that Tritium decays into a Helium isotope, which seems weird because where does the second proton come from? Apparently one of the Neutrons in Tritium turns into a Proton. I didn't know Neutrons could do that. #physics

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Now that @elonmusk owns @Twitter , #BigTech can't stop me from wondering whether it's too late in the season to put food in my #birdfeeder. Why not try, right? It's not like it will expire over the winter if it doesn't get eaten.

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Setting all else aside, I'd like to thank @TomBrady for being the last pro athlete in a major American sports league older than me.

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Which is to say I'm #nerding out on parking sign data this morning. Throwback feeling to @ITP_NYU and @dens, geolocating things for the first time back in 2006. ;)

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Per #NYC Open Data Parking Regulation Signs, there are over 407K #parking signs in NYC, 21,000 of which are "NO PARKING ANYTIME". https://t.co/XVhrTZ7OWW

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#ProTip: The data set is in units "usft" so make sure that's in the query string. Also the x coordinate is "easting" and the y coordinate is "northing". The spcZone for #NYC is 3104 (NY Long Island) make sure to include that too. e.g. ?spcZone=3104

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Bought a USB-C cable at @DollarTree for $1.25 . It's not especially long, but it works fine. Never thought USB cables could be so inexpensive. I blame airports. ;)

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Once you get the answer to the first question, the second question is a reasonable follow-up. #honeybadgers #autocomplete #search

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Have to head to airport, but "The Hunt for Red October" is on TV. It's a really difficult movie to turn off. #sogood #redoctober #subs #linearTV

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I'd guess that it's a disheartening job to genuinely and legitimately call people about their car warranties. #notspam #imreal

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Every now and then, I think about how diving into a giant pile of gold coins would hurt a lot. Also how did #ScroogeMcDuck actually make his money? Was he paid in gold coins or bought them from late night TV? #DuckTales

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If you've lost track of how many #IoT devices you have in your #SmartHome, try changing your WiFi infrastructure. You will become acutely aware of how much of an early-adopter you are as you move from light switch to light switch.

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Subwaydle 55 2/6

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Glad #baseball is coming back. Not happy (or surprised) about the #DH coming to the NL. I feel like 10 years from now the fences will all be moved in 175 feet and they'll be using aluminum bats.

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Listening to a very animated debate on drive time sports radio about ... #wordle. C'mon NYC sports teams, get it together. #WFAN

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No matter who wins or loses tonight, I'll be at least 6 years older than the winning head coach. #ouch #SuperBowl

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It feels somewhat humbling when you sit with the fact that nature doesn't care about our timetables.

[Dr. Angela Rasmussen @angie_rasmussen]

Vaccines work but not instantly. Polio elimination took years and that was with an extremely pro-vaccine public who couldn’t wait to not get polio. Just because the vaccines aren’t working on your timetable doesn’t mean they don’t work.

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Greetings from #CES2022 Here's my take from the first day of the show:
https://t.co/Brt9fkbhx1