s3krit

high tech nolife
narrowboater, wanderer, idiot
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[s3krit @s3krit]

@roikfbuwgc254 We do this in Britain too! On November the 5th it’s a big celebration to celebrate the death of ‘Guy Fawkes’, a man that wanted to blow up Parliament. Fireworks and bonfires sometimes with a Guy Fawkes effigy on top

[CaveStoryRap @CaveStoryRap]

After a significant amount of time, chipping away on and off, I have finally completed what I'm sure is the first ever "Lyrical Walkthrough" for what I'm sure is one of the best games ever... Cave Story.
Enjoy...
https://t.co/SmilqqdgCC

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@theoldbloke I assume they mean the one at Clifton cruisers

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@fljczk @suchnerve Tastes great!

[the Rich @Duderichy]

The problem with roko is that he’s not very smart

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@EflSimpsons

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@DaftLimmy Mate, do you know about GOPHER?

[dayvonjersen @dayvonjersen]

@DaftLimmy I made a website! https://t.co/d5kX7SmkEy there's also https://t.co/ata9ViQKk5 I love websites!

[Jokester Extraordinaire @PerfidiousNorf]

If you made a frozen rod out of Captain Morgan's alcohol, and put it in a bottle of Irish cream, and gave it to a barrister played by Leo McKern to drink, would it be the Rum Pole of the Baileys? #baileys #christmas #lawyer #jew #joke #titter #funny #legal #rum #alcohol

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@KonradWalk @Renatta “brb lmao”

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@notch Took me way too fucking many times. What was your build? I think I ended up with calcium + slutty rocket or fireball as second weapons, movement was also massively useful (think I had three jumps)

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@CryptoCraeg @bryan_johnson 5g of mushrooms, which translates to they think roughly 25-30mg of psilocybin. which, when put into orange juice, will start metabolising into psilocin (the actual active ingredient)

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

it officially hit

[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.

[Parity Technologies @paritytech]

This is the reality check we need more often.
👏 @byteboro

Web3 isn’t a “cloud” yet, and that’s okay.
It’s the assembly of decentralized components that, together, can give people control back over data, identity, and value.

Step by step. Vision with engineering. ⚙️

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@somewheresy Hey fuck you guys

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@somewheresy Leave me alone

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lol. lmao

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@__tux I don't want to stare at a man's ass all day ok?! (though actually...)