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At work I build software for people who build spaceships at NASA/JPL. The rest of the time I hack on nerdy projects for @ElectronVillage. He/him.

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@abcdentminded Swagger! It has meant “to walk in an insolent or defiant manner” since Shakespeare at least. And it comes from the olde word “swag” meaning “to swing or sway unsteadily”. So this walk is literally >500 years old.

[Dean Hall @rocket2guns]

Some screenshots of the new rocket plumes in Kitten Space Agency. I think we are the first/only to do volumetric plumes in this way. download free https://t.co/wjri0JnQkM

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@DanielleFong My GPT got it confidently wrong many times but after some self-analysis we seem to have found a workaround 😅

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@byte_thrasher Heh idk why but it does. Platonic ideal DIY utilitarianism. I like that it is self-describing. I know exactly what it does from this single photo.

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@DanielleFong I have always wondered why your hardware looks like futuristic alien sponges :) thanks for this explanation, quite a lot of insight packed into a small tweet

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@f4micom The first time my parents ever left me alone in the house as a kid, I got scared because I heard someone snoring upstairs. Snuck up with a baseball bat in hands and discovered Bonzi Buddy snoozing on the desktop

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@keysmashbandit We have been building houses for thousands of years, and yet somehow structural engineers are still a thing

[keysmashbandit @keysmashbandit]

You can all call me a joyless hag if you like but I think it's super fucked and crazy that society doesn't have literally a single opinion for nutritionally complete, dirt cheap bottled slop available in every grocery store. Soylent was supposed to be this and failed at it

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@VladVexler Hello dear Vlad. Thinking of you every day. I hope you are able to solve the puzzle soon, or at least get some more pieces into place. Hurts my heart to see you like this

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@VladVexler So sorry you’re back in the hospital, Vlad. Sending best wishes with lots of love ❤️ this world needs you in it

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@Zhyrr_MC Looks beautiful! Can this be played on a Bedrock Realm?

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@DanielleFong @beffjezos

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@JsLampe Wow, incredible video. I dunno why everyone is giving you crap about not knowing what it was. Those were two solid guesses for a non expert

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@marcuslemonis @BedBathBeyond Thanks Marcus. Sent you an email with two names. Lots of wonderful people suffering right now.

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@tr_babb @WatsonLadd @DanielleFong The antennas are pretty defensible. Brush was cleared and dozer lines set. Fire burned all the way to the peak and from what I’ve heard, no critical infra was damaged.

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@wompwomp_wOoOmp @garlic_wife Besides saltwater problems, the issue isn’t “we have no fresh water”, it’s “the water is at the bottom of the hill, the fire is on the hill, we already drained the tanks at the top of the hill and now the pumps have burned”. The water must be higher than the fire to have pressure

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@kelsiidaviess Winds were gusting at almost 60mph when Eaton fire started at 6pm. I was sitting in my dark house listening to the windows shake for two hours before it started. Dark because SCE cut off power due to… the extremely high winds

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@jwt0625 Not only that, they’ve been running this web page almost untouched for decades. I took a similar screenshot for a presentation in high school in ~2005

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@astridwilde1 @orrdavid So kind and thoughtful of you to be talking about this once-in-lifetime moneymaking opportunity while our homes are literally still burning

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@IRIS_D90_ @Jack_Frodo They’re about 96 million km from the fire, they’ll be ok :)