OG Leonidas

Purveyor of uncommon sense. Unoffendable. Computer Engineer. Father. CO native. George Orwell was a prophet.

[OG Leonidas @og_leonidas]

@VicLombardi @AltitudeTV This loss hurts worse than when we choked away a game 7 to them a few years ago.

Blow it up.

Do right by Jokic and trade him to a contender so he can get another ring and cement his status as an all-time great.

[OG Leonidas @og_leonidas]

So, so, so good.

Can't believe this app is free.

[bubble boi @bubbleboi]

"Show me the critical path."

"Uh, right here. It’s the multiplier it’s failing setup by 1.2 nanoseconds at 600 megahertz."

"A nanosecond and a half. An eternity. You’re missing the clock edge by a fucking eternity?"

"Well, the synthesizer isn’t packing the DSP slices efficiently, and the routing delay to the accumulator is—"

"Stop.

Do not blame the tools. The tool is a hammer. You are the carpenter. If the table wobbles, you don’t blame the hammer. You blame the incompetent carpenter who doesn't know how to drive a nail. Pull up the RTL... now.
Scroll down to the accumulator block. Line 450... read it to me, what does it say?"

"Ugh... always @(posedge clk) begin if (reset) acc <= 0; else acc <= acc + mult_result; end"

"Do you see it?"

"...See what?"

"He doesn’t see it. The grad student from MIT. He looks at a block of sequential logic and he doesn’t see the cancer he just planted in my silicon. Where is the pipeline stage for mult_result before it hits the adder?"

"Oh. I… I didn’t think I needed one there. The simulation showed the data arriving in time."

"Yes because the simulation is fucking Mario Kart. It’s a fantasy land where physics is a suggestion and wire delay doesn’t exist. We are building fucking hardware. The electrons move through copper traces at a fraction of the speed of light. Do you understand the difference between a video game and reality?"

"Ugh...Yes, Mr. Bubble. I just thought the logic depth wasn't that—"

"THE LOGIC DEPTH IS TWENTY-FOUR GATES DEEP!"

"You have a 32-bit multiplier feeding directly into a 64-bit adder in a single clock cycle at 600 megahertz! What do you think happens to the propagation delay? Do you think the electrons just teleport because you wrote a pretty line of code?"

"I—I can add a register."

"Where? Where do you add it? Show me on the floor plan." Look at this shit. It looks like a plate of spaghetti thrown against a wall by a toddler. You're starving the chip. Are you lazy? Or are you just stupid?"

"I’m not… I was trying to optimize for latency."

"You are burning resources like they’re free. You’re at 85% LUT utilization because you’re coding hardware like a Python script kiddie. Now erase the multiplier module."

"What?"

"Delete it. The whole file."

"But… that’s three weeks of work."

"It’s three weeks of garbage. Delete it."

"Now. You are going to rewrite it. You are going to manually instantiate the DSP48 primitives. No inference. You are going to pipeline it three stages deep. And you are going to floorplan those slices right next to the Block RAMs. Now start typing dickhead....

And if I see another timing violation you won't just be off this project. I will make sure the only digital design you ever do again is programming the microwave at Wendy's."

*door slams*

[OG Leonidas @og_leonidas]

This perfectly encapsulates the era of US politics that desperately needs to become extinct

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

I will be pushing for a moratorium on the construction of data centers that are powering the unregulated sprint to develop &amp; deploy AI.

The moratorium will give democracy a chance to catch up, and ensure that the benefits of technology work for all of us, not just the 1%.

[OG Leonidas @og_leonidas]

@neogoose_btw Gorgeous

[OG Leonidas @og_leonidas]

@mrgeorgeonx @realDonaldTrump Behold:

the same limpdick neocon garbage rhetoric at the epicenter of the last 30 years of policy failures which are directly responsible for the dumpster fire we have today.

Go sit in the corner and listen to some Jeb Bush re-runs while the big kids get to work.

[OG Leonidas @og_leonidas]

I have become 100% convinced that the media overlords are intentionally trying to rage bait a race war

[CBS News @CBSNews]

The growing popularity of Korean fried chicken reflects a greater familiarity with Korean culture. But its origins can be traced back to African American soldiers fighting in the Korean War.
https://t.co/DvU8dAjWOE

[OG Leonidas @og_leonidas]

@Sean_Barnard1 @soshtry @Sean_Brace Bro saw Kendrick Perkins call Shedeur the new Obama and said hold my beer.

In all seriousness, you should be thrown in jail for this take. Domestic terrorism plain and simple.

[OG Leonidas @og_leonidas]

Hall of fame crash out. Good grief.

By this logic the other 600+ members of Congress might as well quit too 🤷

[Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 @FmrRepMTG]

Typical of Republican men telling a woman to “shut up get back in the kitchen and fix me something to eat.”

F*ck you in the sweetest most southern drawl I can enunciate.

I have been trying tell all you “men” that our kitchen pantry is empty with spider webs, our house has been ransacked, the windows and doors are broken and busted, and the greedy rich bastards have twisted your minds into a sick state that you all continue in the two party toxic political system that acts like college football playoffs yet is burying you and your children and their children and their children in a pine box in a shallow grave.

Get off your ass and fix your own damn food and clean up the kitchen when you’re done.

[OG Leonidas @og_leonidas]

@spittinchiclets Moser = goated

[OG Leonidas @og_leonidas]

An exceptionally astute summary of the state of America. The "high trust" paradigm is decaying at a rapid pace

[Shylock Holmes @shylockh]

The filibuster is going away because it is the most gentlemanly of gentlemen's agreements. "We listen to you, though we don't have to, because we trust you will do the same for us. We could trivially stop doing so at any time, but don't."

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[OG Leonidas @og_leonidas]

@VicLombardi The refs were so ridiculous in that fourth quarter, just jaw dropping. And they gave free throws to win it on another ticky tack call.

Outcome was rigged and you can't convince me otherwise.

[OG Leonidas @og_leonidas]

Easily a top 10 post in the history of this app.

[Andrew McCalip @andrewmccalip]

Data centers in orbit? Of course that’s your contention. Of course it is.

You just finished watching a Scott Manley video on radiative heat transfer and now you think you’re gonna disrupt AWS with a few solar panels and a rideshare slot.

You’re gonna believe that right up until next month when you crack open DeWitt and Incropera and start throwing around σT⁴ like you just invented radiation physics, quoting emissivity tables for polished aluminum like they’re forbidden knowledge.

Then you’ll finally open SMAD and realize your radiator isn’t some static plate glowing into the void. It’s a dynamic structure with a wicked case of thermal flutter reminiscent of Hubble’s arrays. You’ll be quoting beta angles and Earth albedo coefficients and wondering why your deployable array grenaded in vibe when the first bending mode clocked in at 38 Hz instead of the 50 Hz you promised in CDR.

After that you’ll get real ambitious, quoting Johnson and Fabisinski on inflatable polyimide PV structures, pretending you actually understand what happens when your 25-micron Kapton sail is tensioned off a Toray T1100G Cycom 5250-4 boom that has been sun-baked at 120 °C for six months in LEO. You’ll cite “areal density optimization” like gospel while your resin creeps, your modulus drops, and your perfectly flat film turns into a potato chip.

"Well, as a matter of fact, I won’t, because launch costs are about to fall another order of magnitude once Starship hits cadence. The cost per kilo will—"

Drop by tenfold and the economics flip.
Yeah, I’ve heard that one. The Wired 2012 quote, “You wouldn’t build a Boeing 747 and throw it away after one flight.” I remember. I even asked him about that over lunch once, whether the market was actually elastic enough to handle the supply increase from reusability.

Turns out it wasn’t. Non-Starlink launch mass in the United States grew at 13.7 percent CAGR from 2015 to 2023. Payload demand didn’t scale with flight cadence, so prices didn’t collapse, margins just swelled. That’s why they had to invent Starlink. When the market can’t absorb your rockets, you start building your own payloads.

Is that your thing? You read some Marc Andreessen “American Dynamism” manifesto and suddenly start ignoring the engineering realities?

You start throwing around a few buzzwords to impress the Twitter anons and earn some street cred for having a contrarian opinion?

One, don’t do that.
Two, you dropped a 500-thousand-dollar seed check on a concept that could have been debunked by a dollar-fifty worth of tokens from Grok.

"Well, at least I’m a capital allocator. We’ll be skiing in Hokkaido while you’re doing bolt preload calculations for some bridge somewhere."

Yeah, maybe. But at least I won’t be unoriginal or anonymous. I’m out here asking why the hell we’d melt the brains of a thousand aerospace engineers just to save four cents per kilowatt-hour on solar electricity.

First principles isn’t about getting nerd-sniped by a shiny-object problem. It’s about asking whether we should be solving that problem at all.

But hey, if you’ve got an issue with that, we can always take it up with E.

[OG Leonidas @og_leonidas]

@GMHikaru Heartbreaking news.

Danya was a tremendous inspiration to me.

[OG Leonidas @og_leonidas]

Top 5 funniest tweets in social media history

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Can a reporter please ask Trump why he posted an AI video of himself dropping poop on me from a fighter jet? That would be great thanks

[OG Leonidas @og_leonidas]

@curtisgrant77 @NUCLRGOLF Agreed, it's terrible and creates an unnecessary awkwardness on every green.

[OG Leonidas @og_leonidas]

@DiscoOrpheus Impossible to understate

[OG Leonidas @og_leonidas]

Unreal list right here

[Bad Hombre @Badhombre]

Not a year into Trump’s second term and so far we’ve gotten Democrats to:

- Sell their Teslas at a loss.

- Cancel their Washington Post and Amazon Prime subscriptions.

- Boycott CBS, ABC, and Disney.

- Hold candlelight vigils for Venezuelan narco-terrorists.

- Fly to El Salvador to have margaritas with MS-13.

- Refuse to stand up for a kid with cancer.

- Get fired for cheering political assassinations.

- Mock the victims of a school shooting for praying.

- Overdose on Tylenol to spite Trump and Bobby Kennedy.

[OG Leonidas @og_leonidas]

@MattWalshBlog Worst pick of Trump's 2nd term by a long shot.

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

Jesus defeated death so you can live.