RC Seerz

Engineer, hacker, homebrewer, dad. Antiauthoritarian cyberneticist. I'm mostly here for shitposting. All tweets are my own.

[Jason Koebler @jason_koebler]

New: Hackers have been stealing high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI support chatbot to change the email associated with the account they want to steal.

Shockingly easy, terrible flaw associated with offloading support to AI:

https://t.co/PvRm8u0MV7

[RC Seerz @robsears]

@ProudSocialist

[RC Seerz @robsears]

@MorosKostas @robdoar @LeiderRob @2Aupdates @Robert_J_Olson

[RC Seerz @robsears]

Gell-Mann Amnesia, but it’s for this textbook I’m reading that is conflating standard deviations of normal distributions with confidence intervals, and every time I see it my blood boils a little.

[RC Seerz @robsears]

Lacey tried to explain why she likes salads with olives and feta cheese, but it was Greek to me.

[RC Seerz @robsears]

@SlimothyTV @ProtonMail @ProtonPrivacy @ProtonSupport Ditto. @ProtonMail what is you doin' rn!?

[RC Seerz @robsears]

See also: the Potato Paradox

https://t.co/cgGi8rheNO

[RC Seerz @robsears]

% lefties = x / (x + 1). So for the room to be 98% lefty:

0.98 = x / (x + 1)

0.98(x + 1) = x

0.98x + 0.98 = x

0.98 = x(1 - 0.98)

0.98/(0.02) = x

(0.98/1) / (2/100) = x

(0.98 * 100)/(1 * 2) = x

98/2 = x

49 = x

99 - 49 =50 lefties have to leave.

[Interesting STEM @InterestingSTEM]

This is the 1% question. It’s tough! But then only 1% of people can get this in 30 seconds.

CAN YOU?

[RC Seerz @robsears]

The people saying only 1 lefty has to leave would only be correct if that lefty was *replaced* by a righty.

But if one lefty leaves and isn’t replaced, the denominator is no longer 100, it’s 99. And you’d have 98 lefties out of 99 people, which is 98/99 or about 98.9%

[RC Seerz @robsears]

I have a degree in rocket science, which had a humanities requirement.

Every humanity I took was a joke; read a few essays and summarize what you read in another essay. Watch a movie, write a couple paragraphs. Multi choice tests.

Meanwhile, I had an engineering prof ask this:

[Austen Allred @Austen]

Look, two things are true:

1. Calculus is among the easiest of classes for some majors

2. There are many majors that don’t have a single class as difficult as calculus

[RC Seerz @robsears]

@bakar_cheemmaa @realDonaldTrump Wrong RobSears, I write code not poems 😄

[RC Seerz @robsears]

Each year, the challenge gets slight more technical. By 2070, candidates will be asked to resolve a bunch of Node dependencies after a dev gets mad and delists a core package from the public repo.

[RC Seerz @robsears]

We should replace the electoral college with a literal race.

We sit each candidate down at a computer and hand them a thumb drive with a PDF on it.

First person to successfully print it to the right printer is president. Second place is VP. They can’t ask for help.

[RC Seerz @robsears]

This debate has surpassed "Scott's Tots" for the cringiest thing that's ever been broadcast. Logging off to go die of secondhand embarrassment now.

[RC Seerz @robsears]

@chosen_the88 @unusual_whales It's measuring "net worth", so I'd guess it's heavily biased towards middle class, white collar, dual-income households who bought homes between, say, 2014 and 2019.

[RC Seerz @robsears]

@omaha_scanner

[RC Seerz @robsears]

You know what Netflix needs?

“Blockbuster Mode.”

Friday/Saturday nights, you open up Netflix and have like 6 options, all movies that were released like 2 months ago.

So much easier to choose what to watch when you don’t have access to 1M things. Plus the troll factor.

[RC Seerz @robsears]

@omaha_scanner Waterloo, NE

[RC Seerz @robsears]

I replaced my 21+ year old Civic with a gently used PHEV back in January, and it’s become my wife’s daily driver

I fueled the car Jan 21, then finally refueled it today when I drove thru a car wash

We only burned 8 gal of gas in 71 days and ~1,600 mi. Floored by the performance

[RC Seerz @robsears]

You can drive 10,000 hours in Washington, DC and never lose sight of the White House.

The European mind can not comprehend this.

[Slazac 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇹🇼🌐 @TrueSlazac]

You can drive 84 hours in France and still be in France. The American mind cannot comprehend this