Greg Halter - Yearofthedad

Software Engineer. Christian. Dad. Loves to play video games.
Owner of

[Greg Halter - Yearofthedad @greg_halter]

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[Greg Halter - Yearofthedad @greg_halter]

@shwnhll I would argue that 90% of all AI users are not customizing or using their AI models to the fullest potential. I don’t keep up with Open AI as much as Claude but seems most users just are still amazed at what it can do out of the box

[Greg Halter - Yearofthedad @greg_halter]

@shwnhll It's a rite of passage for devs.

[Being Libertarian @beinlibertarian]

GM

What is the most important change the Libertarian Party can make to attract new members?

[Eskimo Libertarian @EskimoLiberty]

What's your favorite Thomas Massie meme?

[Greg Halter - Yearofthedad @greg_halter]

@shwnhll 100% true. 10 years ago when I said to myself I wasn't going to waste my time after hours doing things that no one noticed and spend that time with my kids it changed everything.

You can always do the building after they go to bed.

[Greg Halter - Yearofthedad @greg_halter]

@elonmusk Leave it alone!

See people talk about it all the time but don't think about those that live in areas where it greatly affects if it was only one way or the other.

[Being Libertarian @beinlibertarian]

Schumer out here pumping us all up

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

Thomas Massie: “Congress has paid over $17Million in hush money for sexual misconduct behind closed door inside this building. This was taxpayer monies.”

I want to know who for. Don’t you?

[Greg Halter - Yearofthedad @greg_halter]

I love Vivek but this is an absolutely terrible take. Should we encourage more science and tech in USA. Yes. But that isn't why companies are looking for foreign born workers. And they are in no way superior to any American born workers.

[Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy]

The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:

Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.

A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.

A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers.

(Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates).

More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.”

Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.

Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.

“Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China.

This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.

That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

[Pocketpair - Craftopia @PocketpairGames]

We've applied a patch to the Steam version of Craftopia!

We've introduced mitigation measures to address the issue where automated facilities connected by pipelines would collapse when loading the game.

This will fix the positions of the pipe exits and entrances of buildings connected to pipelines.

Other bugs have also been fixed.

▼Release Notes
https://t.co/DZ3qPmRnsg

[Being Libertarian @beinlibertarian]

Abolish the TSA

Pass it on.

[Palworld @Palworld_EN]

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[Being Libertarian @beinlibertarian]

GM

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

This isn’t complicated.

Separate the bills and vote on them individually.

one vote on the clean CR

one vote on the debt limit

one vote on disaster relief

one vote on farm bailouts

Radical right? Individual bills for each issue.

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

Tonight, I forced a vote to block Biden from canceling $4.65B of Ukraine’s debt at the expense of U.S. taxpayers. His plan shifts the burden onto hardworking Americans already struggling with inflation. Sadly, the Ukraine 1st, America Last Caucus defeated my resolution.

[Being Libertarian @beinlibertarian]

DOGE suggestion:

The agency with the highest percent of their budget cut at the end of the year gets a pizza party

[Being Libertarian @beinlibertarian]

Today, let’s hope journalists will take a break from asking Congress about men in women’s bathrooms and start asking about US weapons being used by Americans in Russia on behalf of Ukraine.

It might be more important

[Greg Halter - Yearofthedad @greg_halter]

@PicturesFoIder Don’t worry you get to experience this trash with NFL games on Netflix in December

[Greg Halter - Yearofthedad @greg_halter]

@NFL it’s not too late to pull those Christmas games off Netflix. Tonight proves they are not ready

[Greg Halter - Yearofthedad @greg_halter]

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