Tommy Reins

computer engineer, startup founder, ex big tech pm, rustacean, nimrod, triathlete

[Tommy Reins @makeitreins]

Engineering The Bright Future

[Tommy Reins @makeitreins]

@sama Drinking again

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

To the Americans:

I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States.

And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness:

You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence.

This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns.

Success is equated with exploitation.
Ambition is looked upon with contempt.

This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom.

But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated.

This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet.

And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America:

Thank God for the United States.

Thank God for the wisdom of its founders.
Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man.
Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners.

Long may your admirable country dominate the world.

Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states.

May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning.

Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill.

Thank God for the USA.

Happy 250th.

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

[Marcin Plaza @marcinplaz]

I watched the Midjourney scanner get built from my desk; here's a look behind the scenes

[Tommy Reins @makeitreins]

@signulll How about Seattle since 2016

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🤡

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

New York: it's hot out there, and the power grid is working overtime to keep us cool.

Set your AC to 78 degrees, turn off lights/electronics you're not using, and unplug what you can.

Our City is doing its part too: maintaining the 78 degrees rule in our buildings, dimming/turning off our lights during peak electricity demand, asking private partners to do the same, and powering down non-essential equipment.

A stable grid means the AC stays on, and lives are saved. Let's ease demand — and get through the heat — together.

[Tommy Reins @makeitreins]

@i2cjak Boycott?

[punguita @saiberpunga]

@usgraphics Sauna core

[Tommy Reins @makeitreins]

Sure hope my company is on that list 🙄

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: The Trump Administration has struck a deal with Anthropic which grants the company permission to release its Mythos 5 model to a group of ~100 companies and federal agencies, per CNBC.

Details include:

1. Senior Anthropic staffers flew to Washington DC to meet with members of the Trump Administration

2. Anthropic said earlier this month that it disabled access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models to comply with an export control directive from the government

3. The Trump Administration and Anthropic have been in a two-week-long standoff over its latest models

This deal will have industry-wide implications.

[Tommy Reins @makeitreins]

@CoastalFuturist Heard about it from this guy:

[Roy @usr_bin_roygbiv]

I think about the fact someone with an engineering background with omp and 5.5 is likely 10-100x as productive as someone using claude code.

Someone using claude code is likely 10-100x as productive as someone using google/stack overflow or copilot even.

Someone using google or copilot is 10-100x as productive as someone who only does books/courses.

That person is 10-100x as productive as someone not using computers at all or maybe excel.

All of these coexist in the current economy in the US.

That's not to mention the massive differential in understanding how llms, training, hosting, infrastructure, harnesses, software work generally, or how things are currently priced, the supply chain for silicon and datacenters. Everything is incredibly mispriced at every layer of the entire stack from money printing and how quickly things are moving.

This is just completely unprecedented.

[Tommy Reins @makeitreins]

@CoastalFuturist https://t.co/ATpHOUdpuI

[Tommy Reins @makeitreins]

@CoastalFuturist Have you heard the omp hype? Was thinking I might try it.

[Tommy Reins @makeitreins]

@stoolpresidente Caine and Abel

[Oh, Shenandoah @longhunter09]

10 mile run through my neighborhood

[Millennial Moron @Mill_Moron]

X wins as fin exec nixed after nicked Knicks bin sin

[𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚍 𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚎𝚜 @Know_Bueno]

Kids today will never know that before the internet, we sat down on Sunday nights to watch Bob Saget host TikTok on television

[Tommy Reins @makeitreins]

@kai_fell Gosh I can’t remember

[Tommy Reins @makeitreins]

Never forget

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@LUFC1992_v2 Welcome