Hawkspar

Dumb Internet Things & Pictures of my Cat. I also read a lot.

[waiting. @GreenOnionDuck]

As a software engineer I have to unfortunately inform you that if medicine was held to the standard of software engineering there would be mass death.

[Tuor Eladar @AgitpropMaster]

We used to have tons of them
but we called them ADVENTURES

[Dan Loewenherz @dwlz]

Just plugged in a 20 year iPod nano (MA489LL).

No lag. No loading indicators. UI is practically instant. No touchscreen.

I plugged in my Bose headphones and played Black Eyed Peas like 2006 was yesterday. Just fucking worked. Incredible.

Technology has gotten worse in so many ways. Younger people have no idea.

[Here's What I Reckon: @angryaboutbikes]

I genuinely think the biggest lesson that the business world is going to have to learn about AI is that “I used AI to do 90% of a task so now you just need to clean up the last 10%” is not a task 90% done by you and 10% by me, it’s a task done 5% by you and 95% by me.

[Westside L.A. Guy @WestsideLAGuy]

People underestimate the intelligence gap between classmates at the same elite college.

So I have a friend, let's call him Joe. Asian American, met him at one of those "gifted" summer programs. Top of his class at MIT CS, worked at a top quant hedge fund, also a YC founder. He is significantly smarter than me.

One day I said "man, you were probably like the smartest kid at MIT when you were there." He looked at me like I had horns and said "dude not even close. There were so many times I felt dumb."

He then told me about a classmate of his, let's call him Ron. White guy. He was a legendary math olympian, and MIT classmates called him the Great White Hope. Joe was struggling with a math problem set, no progress after hours of laborious work. He finally swallowed his ego and asked Ron for help. Ron was playing video games, thought for a few minutes, and solved it with very little effort. Joe was stunned. That was his come to Jesus moment when he realized the limits of his intelligence that nature endowed him with. That there were levels to this.

I was reminded of this story when I read the Scott Wu profile on Colossus.

[Alex Song @alexsongis]

Crazy how true this is.

Still remember Physics 61 at Stanford. Advanced honors freshman physics or whatever.

First final. Class avg 41. I get a 43. Pat myself on the back.

I see “DS” with a casual 100. Shat my pants and decided to quit physics on the spot.

Levels.

[WOODKID @Woodkid]

15 years ago today, IRON, my first single, EP, and video came out and my life changed forever.
To celebrate 15 years of Woodkid, here’s a series of photo dumps from 2011 to 2026.
Let's start with 2011 and how it all began ⏬️

[Nick @nicksterwixter]

I hate that I had to grow up in the generation that got to see what life was like before the internet and then have to watch as it single-handedly destroys every single social entertainment space. Video rental stores, movie theaters, malls, arcades, bowling alleys, etc. The infinite access to at-home entertainment is turning us all into lazy, antisocial, depressed hermits and we’re just willingly allowing this to happen to us. The long term ramifications of this are so dire.

[Hawkspar @Hawkspar2]

Do we think shes culturally aware enough to have selected 44 as the ingredient count or a happy lil accident trying to dunk on asians

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

Love Asian cuisines, but they absolutely are the worst to cook at home. You have to buy 44 ingredients to make one dish and it’s not something you’ll want to have more than once a week. Extremely time intensive and best left to the experts. I took a Vietnamese cooking class once and the ingredient list to make it at home looked like a scroll.

[clover 🍀 @avaluciarevilla]

at uni in china i was summoned to provide my visa name before the council so i told them it was 威震天 (Wēi Zhèn Tiãn) eliciting a gasp and wide eyes as they asked who named me which ?? so i gave my mentor’s name and they sat me down to explain mf named me “megatron” 😭😭😭

[Hawkspar @Hawkspar2]

@sibladeko arent you like 60 now :3c

[gabe @allgarbled]

Please make sure you are only drinking as much water as you REALLY need. We need that for the datacenters. If you’re thirsty, grok is thirsty too.

[anna !!! :)) 🇵🇸🌸✨🌸🇵🇸 @frogs4girls]

no shade but i think u need to read more books

[Zack Stentz @MuseZack]

I just learned that the Falkland Islands had a native wolf species that was so gentle and friendly that they'd literally swim out to greet boats coming ashore. They were quickly driven to extinction by settlers and now I'm mad at a 150 year old environmental crime.

[Shivani @ilovemy__house]

Scrolling.. good take… bad take… nothing take… cyber bullying… beautiful woman

[carl 🥦 @NightlifeMingus]

Coolest part of being pope is getting access to all the endgame Catholic loot

[Legendary Drops @ALegendaryDrops]

I'm sick of this "is Expedition 33 a JRPG?" debate.

It's not.

It's a Je'RPG.

[Vivian @suchnerve]

100 men vs. actually playing the games they’ve already bought on Steam

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

i still believe in democracy but sometimes reading comments on this site makes me waver