Robert Sim

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🕡 - a reminder

[Robert Sim @robertsky_]

Sometimes all it needs are sounding boards to get the ship back on course.

[Charly Wargnier @DataChaz]

Google’s level of disrespect is OFF THE CHARTS right now.

Anthropic really thought they had us locked down with Claude Design’s ridiculous rate limits…

…and now Google has literally countered it straight away by open-sourcing DESIGN.md 🤯

[Pejuola| HR🗣️ @Pejuola_a]

DO NOT POST IN REAL TIME

- Tag the restaurant when you leave.
Not while you're eating.
- The photo goes up after the flight.
Not from the seat.
- Show the hotel once you've already left. Not while you're sleeping there.
- Not everything has to be live.
Not everything needs an audience.
- The internet doesn't need to know where you are, who you're with, or what you're doing in real time.
- Protect your energy and what's still taking shape.
- Live first, post later. The moment is yours, only

[Prof. Ryan Katz-Rosene @ryankatzrosene]

D is the right answer: Not only does it include Butter chicken, Pad Thai, Dim Sum, Pho, Ramen noodles, and Korean BBQ, it also includes Kebab, Baclava, Shawarma and Falafel… AND… if you zoom in, a little bit of Sicilian pasta, pizza, Greek salad and Moussaka. Seal the deal with a nice New Zealand rack of lamb, a glass of Shiraz and Pavlova for dessert.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Sure, your eyes aren’t tricking you. That clip looks better than the new trailer, and the reason has nothing to do with talent. The VFX supervisor on Amazing Spider-Man 2 in 2014? Jerome Chen. The VFX supervisor on Brand New Day? Also Jerome Chen. Same person. Completely different system around him.

In 2014, Chen had 50 effects artists at Sony Imageworks, the largest VFX crew the studio had ever put on a single project. They handled about 1,000 of the film’s 1,600 VFX shots on a $255 million budget. The crew shot on real film (not digital), on location in actual New York City, scanned Times Square with 36,000 photographs of over 100 billboards, and built physical lighting rigs on set so the CGI would match the real world.

Now look at how Marvel makes Spider-Man movies. No Way Home had 2,500 VFX shots spread across 12 studios and about 3,000 artists. The budget was $200 million, $55 million less than TASM2 despite having 56% more VFX shots. Digital Domain, one of the VFX vendors, was delivering final shots days before the December 17, 2021, release. They kept reworking shots into mid-January, after the movie was already in theaters.

Zoom out, and the math gets worse. Marvel released 6 films between 2008 and 2012. From 2023 to 2025, they pushed out 7 films and 7 TV shows. The Hollywood union representing VFX workers reported that Marvel pays artists about 20% below industry average and staffs one person where other studios hire three. Artists described 64-hour weeks and breakdowns on the job. Then, in February 2025, Technicolor, the parent company of MPC (three-time Oscar winner for Life of Pi, The Jungle Book, and 1917), collapsed almost overnight. 4,500 jobs gone globally. The studio had been actively working on Disney and Paramount films when the lights went out.

Brand New Day has four months before release, and trailers routinely show unfinished shots. But the gap between a 2014 Spider-Man and a 2026 Spider-Man has nothing to do with technology going backwards. The industry has been asked to do three times the work for less money per shot while its biggest studios are going under.

[Nikolaj🇺🇦🇵🇸 @nikicaga]

She's a pro-Palestine daughter of an Asian refugee who shared anti-Trump posts during the Olympics, don't pretend you wouldn't have wanted her deported last week

[Robert Sim @robertsky_]

@twiinklex wooo.. where's that stall?

[화사 hwasa’s twit 🌸 @whoreforhyejin]

this high schooler asked hwasa everything fans never dared to 😭

[Robert Sim @robertsky_]

Much honoured to be a finalist for Singaporean of the Year.

[The Straits Times @straits_times]

Singaporean of the Year finalist: Meet the internet’s janitor whose fingerprints are all over Wikipedia https://t.co/v5geMLabH3

[Robert Sim @robertsky_]

Got to keep reminding myself that for all the suffering I go through due to a stomach bug, the silver lining is that I lose weight.

[David Fowler @davidfowl]

I’ve not seen anything defeat developers like CORS does.

[Cloudflare @Cloudflare]

On November 18 Cloudflare experienced a service outage, triggered by an issue with a Bot Management feature, impacting multiple Cloudflare services. Here's a detailed breakdown of what happened. https://t.co/7WArlr5ghI

[Dane Knecht 🦭 @dok2001]

I won’t mince words: earlier today we failed our customers and the broader Internet when a problem in @Cloudflare network impacted large amounts of traffic that rely on us. The sites, businesses, and organizations that rely on Cloudflare depend on us being available and I apologize for the impact that we caused.

Transparency about what happened matters, and we plan to share a breakdown with more details in a few hours. In short, a latent bug in a service underpinning our bot mitigation capability started to crash after a routine configuration change we made. That cascaded into a broad degradation to our network and other services. This was not an attack.

That issue, impact it caused, and time to resolution is unacceptable. Work is already underway to make sure it does not happen again, but I know it caused real pain today. The trust our customers place in us is what we value the most and we are going to do what it takes to earn that back.

[Robert Sim @robertsky_]

Dreamt of an impossibility and then be kept awake for until day breaks. 🫠

[Robert Sim @robertsky_]

1-2 week down time due to flu. should have gotten that shot when I could.

[Robert Sim @robertsky_]

Dr. Jane Goodall’s Final Message To The World | Famous Last Words | Netflix https://t.co/kmuKQh2fpA via @YouTube

[まーたん @maatan_223220]

期末レポート提出したら「このレポートもろWikipediaパクりなので受け付けません」ってメール来たから，「そのWikipedia書いたの僕です」ってアカウントと資料リスト送り返したことがある

[Robert Sim @robertsky_]

A couple of days ago I had a weird dream of house sitting at a neighbour's new house and then was interrupted by a call from someone I've not talked to for a while 'do you remember about the place where...' I had to check my phone to see if I did receive the call when I woke up.

[Robert Sim @robertsky_]

Feel the rain on your skin... Perfect song for this weather of 3-day and counting of non-stop rain.
https://t.co/IkUSdpGC6V

[Robert Sim @robertsky_]

and once again... the flu strikes. hermit mode for the last few days.