Victor Caldentey

Reactive developer | 42 as meaning of life | Bodybuilder

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

Back in the early 90s, before the Internet, we had "Defrag and Chill". You'd start Disk Defragmenter on your 540MB hard drive, dim the lights, crack open a Surge, and just vibe while the little blue bars crawled across the screen like they were solving world peace. Forty-five minutes of pure, unfiltered anticipation. No notifications. No algorithms. Just the two of you, the gentle grinding of the hard drive, and the sacred promise that your Solitaire games were about to feel 3% snappier.

This is MS_DOS 6.22, which I worked on, but I honestly have no idea who wrote defrag. Iconic utility though!

[WarrenBuffering @WarrenInTheBuff]

ERRRRRBODY WANNA BE A PROGRAMMER, NOBODY WANNA READ THE SHITTY ASS CODE

[BLACK DUMPLING™ @BlackDumpling]

He's right, you know. For all the shit Peterson gets let's not forget that the man took on the juggernaut at it's apex, and he didn't have some media conglomerate or friendly billionaire or this or that defending him. Homey went into that arena naked and afraid, but in he went, entirely voluntarily, when he could've just as easily kept his mouth shut.

And look, I'm not saying he's a perfect person, not by any means but you're full of shit if you wanna tell me that old man didn't shine like a diamond in some very dark places.

We all see a lot of big courage these days, but that man was the real deal.

[Victor Caldentey @victuxbb]

@JoelWBerry i think is the opposite, simulation renders complexity when you look at it at any given context

[Sabine Hossenfelder @skdh]

here is the video on the Riemann hypothesis that YouTube took down

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

Hace unas semanas, un grupo de “expertos y expertas”, financiados por Open Society (Soros), acudió a la CIDH y a la ONU a, básicamente, pedir la liberación del 100% de los pandilleros arrestados durante el régimen de excepción.

Estos videos fueron vistos por el pueblo salvadoreño, lo que generó un fuerte rechazo hacia todas las ONG, “periodistas” y políticos que apoyaron el informe. Fue un desastre de relaciones públicas para las organizaciones de supuesta defensa de los derechos humanos.

Sin embargo, al ver la reacción y ser cuestionados por la gente, su excusa fue que no defendían a terroristas, sino a supuestos inocentes.

Así que decidieron intentarlo otra vez, esta vez ante el Congreso de los Estados Unidos. El plan era presentar al Gobierno de El Salvador como un violador de derechos humanos. Sin embargo, les salió peor: cuando les preguntaron directamente si estaban de acuerdo en que la MS-13 es una organización terrorista, no pudieron responder, y luego afirmaron que, independientemente de los crímenes cometidos, ellos estaban ahí para defender los derechos de esas personas.

Vean el video. Vean claramente cómo defienden a terroristas. Vean cómo dicen que, aunque hayan cometido crímenes horribles, ellos están ahí para defender sus derechos. No lo digo yo, lo dicen ellos con sus propias palabras en el Congreso estadounidense.

Que no los engañen: no están defendiendo a supuestos inocentes, están defendiendo a terroristas. Están diciendo que la MS-13 no es una organización terrorista y que, sin importar sus delitos, ellos igual defenderán sus derechos.

Que no quede ninguna duda: lo que buscan estos supuestos “periodistas”, organizaciones de “defensa de los derechos humanos” y políticos nacionales y extranjeros que los apoyan, es la liberación de estos criminales, para que puedan volver a someter al pueblo salvadoreño a su régimen de terror y volvernos a convertir en el país más peligroso del mundo.

Pero se dispararon en el pie, otra vez.

Vean el video y juzguen ustedes mismos.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Iron Dome for cats 😂

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Grok groks

[Victor Caldentey @victuxbb]

Agree, so epic!

[Kevin Rose @kevinrose]

if this is why ram is so expensive, i'm okay with it...

[Victor Caldentey @victuxbb]

This always reminds me of the greedy choice in software algorithms

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

When Copernicus proposed heliocentrism in 1543, it was actually less accurate than Ptolemy's geocentric model - a system refined over 1,400 years with epicycles precisely tuned to match observed planetary positions.

It took another 70 years before Kepler, working from Tycho Brahe's unprecedentedly precise observations, replaced Copernicus’s circles with ellipses - finally making heliocentrism empirically superior.

Terence Tao's point is that science needs a high temperature setting. If we only fund and follow what's most state of the art today, we kill the ideas that might need decades of work to surpass some overall plateau.

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

cakez77 is a legend

[Victor Caldentey @victuxbb]

That's for me the real multiplier!

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

One of the greatest advantages to an AI is that it helps you to THINK. It is great at organizing and analyzing and interrogating, and giving just the right information for you to make an informed decision.

It's, frankly, breathtaking.

[Lauren Chen @TheLaurenChen]

Thinking Timothee Chalamet is more attractive than Henry Caville is what happens when you've been on birth control for 10 years

[Victor Caldentey @victuxbb]

cmon Elon, you did it on purpose right?

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Hello Mr. Stiller.

You: "War is not a movie."

Also you: wrote, directed, and pocketed $188M from Tropic Thunder, a film whose entire premise is actors who mistake a war for a movie. You literally already made this point, for profit.

Let's check your oh-so-virtuous leftist credentials.

Your film put Robert Downey Jr. in blackface. You directed that. Your script used the word "r*tard" 17 times. You wrote that. Twenty-two disability organizations (Special Olympics, The Arc, National Down Syndrome Congress, the AAPD) launched a national boycott. That actually happened.

You took the $188M and kept every frame.

2018: "I stand by my apology."
2023: "I make no apologies for Tropic Thunder. Proud of it."

Pick one.

Your father: Jerry Stiller. Your mother: Anne Meara, an Emmy-nominated actress. Your first job: Saturday Night Live. July 2021, asked about Hollywood nepotism: "Show biz is ultimately a meritocracy. Untalented people don't really last if they get a break because of who they are or who they're related to."

The ultimate nepo baby telling people the game is fair... equity is for everyone who isn't you, apparently.

At the Comics for Kamala fundraiser you raised $150,000 for Harris. At that same event you said: "Every white Jewish guy wishes he was Black."

You are a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador. In June 2022 you flew to Kyiv for a photo with Zelensky.

Summing it up... A $200M Hamptons liberal who played everyman for profit. Blackface on screen, a disability slur 17 times in the script, an apology issued and then retracted, a humanitarian title treated as a press credential, and now... outrage that someone used your war movie about war.

"War is not a movie."

No. But your career has been.

[Saul Sadka @Saul_Sadka]

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is wrong. Grokipedia will crush Wikipedia. It’s not AI that stole Wikipedia’s work without permission—it’s Wikipedia that stole the work of millions of volunteers and handed it over to the most evil people in the world to use as propaganda.

Wikipedia persuaded people to donate tens of millions of hours of their free time—thousands of human lifetimes—to build something collaboratively that would be a repository of human knowledge. Then they handed their work over to shills for everyone who hates the West, freedom, and life itself, and let them use it to rewrite history on behalf of the world’s most evil people. Wikipedia’s leadership betrayed all those people, stole their good work, and turned it evil. So Wikipedia will die, and that's a good thing, but the work of those volunteers will be salvaged.

[Lina Seiche @LinaSeiche]

The crazy thing about the unrealized gains tax (aside from the dystopian concept of taxing income that DOES NOT EXIST) is that it’s the deliberate nail in the coffin of an already crumbling system.

Why do people invest? Because if they leave their money in the bank, it loses value through the state’s money printing.

Inflation is punishment for saving money.

But an unrealized gains tax is punishment for investing.

So you punish people for saving instead of investing, but you also punish people for investing instead of saving.

Congratulations, you created the problem and killed the solution.

Another proud day for the “First World.”

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

I've been married 32 years, and we didn't know I had ASD/Asperger's for the first 25. Which means my wife lived with it for three decades before we figured it out. Which, as you might guess, makes her something of an angel.

I don't have multiple personalities as Grimes asserts Elon does, unless "two" counts as multiple... but there is a VERY distinct break between "chill Dave" and "burn it all down, we're solving this right now, my way" Dave. That "flip" can be palpable for those around me. In the Musk biography, they call it "Demon Mode", and I find that a little harsh.

You don't want that mode in the ticket line at Disneyland, but in a real crisis, you WANT me on that wall. You NEED me on that wall. It's like that. Something about the way my brain processes Dopamine makes me a monster in tough moments. Until I miss a flight connection and it breaks me later.

What I thought were "episodes" were meltdowns. What I thought might be a personality disorder turned out to be autism. Over the course of five years of writing and self-discovery, I've figured most of it out.

I'm not "cured", but I'm self-aware enough to manage things far better than earlier in life.

And so, I'm not here to say "get diagnosed". But I will repeat at all costs that singular advice from aeons ago. No matter who you are or what you've got going on:

Know Thyself

Then act accordingly.

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

.@collision and I interviewed @elonmusk.

0:00:00 - Orbital data centers
0:36:46 - Grok and alignment
0:59:56 - xAI’s business plan
1:17:21 - Optimus and humanoid manufacturing
1:30:22 - Does China win by default?
1:44:16 - Lessons from running SpaceX
2:20:08 - DOGE
2:38:28 - TeraFab

[Nostalgic Gamer @16bitnostalgia]

Duke Nukem 3D released 30 years ago today!

Hail to the king, baby!