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Max Headroom

Pecan pie is nature's most nearly perfect food.

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I'm not a paleontologist. I'd like to buy a trilobite fossil, just as a curio/conversation piece.

What's a good place to buy one where a complete n00b won't be ripped off?

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Eric's Risk Assessment

8. THE ALGO. Spend some time on mastodon instances. You notice its different. Ppl are polite. You interact, not yell. Its not combat. Its like the old Internet.

I withdraw from being a rage farmed engagement crop for eyeball monetisation

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Tom Lyon ✅

Belated #introduction #ComputerHistory

I'm a retired (3rd time) techie with an incredibly lucky career and family.

I'm most famous as being employee number 8 of #SunMicrosystems, and I got to work with the Bell Labs #UNIX team for a summer during the birth of V7 #UNIX.

My Silicon Valley career started with #Amdahl in 1978, followed by Sun for 12 years. I've since founded 4 startups (see profile).

I toot about #ComputerHistory; I've been there for much of it.

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PaulWrightyThen

Some random pieces #ConceptArt #MastoArt #Blender3d #SciFi

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pivic

:heart_fire:

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Max Headroom

Former justice resigns from the SCOTUS Bar with a scathing rebuke of Roberts.

slate.com/news-and-politics/20

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Jason Weiser

“Then the spaceman took over the bird site so we all started tooting at the elephant place.”

“Oh…ok grandpa. Let’s get you back to bed.”

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Max Headroom

@pj I got a (fantastically expensive) HP45 for high school graduation. Better than getting a car!

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Mastodon Migration

Mastodon Day

Friday November 18, 2022 - An Incredible Day In Internet History

You were here.

It started with the Twitter lockout. 10,000 new users an hour. Almost a quarter million migrated to Mastodon in one day. The servers struggled. Remarkably, admins all over the world built up capacity in real time. New users were patient. The system held.

It's running better now. There will be more hard days ahead, but people powered social media has arrived.

#twittermigration #NewUsers #Welcome

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Max Headroom

@freemo On behalf of all citizens of QOTO, we *demand* that you immediately publish the PayPal or Venmo account to which we may contribute, to defray these costs.

It's very likely that when you do, you will quickly be 'overfunded". So, you should monitor said account, and when the balance becomes unseemly, temporarily close it to further contributions.

While it is a PITA for you, transparency about how this account is deployed will ensure a continued influx of funds from your very grateful QOTO'ers.

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@freemo I haven't been here long, but already I am in your debt. Thanks in no small part to you, QOTO is very likely more resilient than you think. Please remember to take care of yourself.

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A Concerned Scientist

@freemo

This sounds like something I talk about a lot, actually. Scientists, generally speaking, will have a method on how to do things. We're used to SOPs and process is often our thing.

The majority of the world doesn't think like that. If your instant and immediate reaction isn't what they want, then you're automatically against them.

I'm not going to write a novel, but look at how the non-scientists in the world handle information on things like COVID or climate change. If it changes, it's inherently bad in their opinion. Only the first opinion they heard matters, to a large number of people, and they'll go to the grave believing it.

TLDR; scientists and non-scientists often struggle with communication. Thank you for coming to my TED talk :)

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Max Headroom

How to improve something 1,000,000 X:

Humans understand complex things via layered abstractions. Many very accomplished people become an expert in one of these layers; you're either a great driver or you know how to tweak a fuel-injection system, but usually not both.

Each layer usually has a well developed set of tools & techniques, and a set of baseline assumptions about how they must connect to other layers. Whether the car is electric or ICE, it should have a "gas" pedal on the right, and a "brake" pedal in the middle. These well-defined boundaries are convenient and help reduce learning curves.

But, if you want to make a *big* improvement relative to the state of the art, the principle of diminishing returns becomes a formidable enemy. You can often pick up a factor of two, or even ten with a bit of effort. But if a really big leap forward was that easy to find, one of the experts would have noticed it already.

An alternative is to intentionally break the rules imposed by the abstraction boundaries. To define a narrower problem, that doesn't require the full generality of each boundary crossing. It's much easier to get 10X at each of six different problems (abstraction levels) than to get 10^6 at any one of them.

The downside is this approach tends to create "brittle" systems. They work astonishingly well, but only as long as whatever constraints you had to impose to puncture the abstractions hold.

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Max Headroom

Hello everyone!

I'm a recent arrival, still figuring things out, but seems delightful so far!

About me:
* Electrical engineer (chiphead) by training.
* Software architect/dev-herder (of late) by vocation.
* Computational quantum chemist by avocation.
* Tool-builder by compulsion.

Designed chips, joined/lead a few startups, VC wannabe for awhile. Then the wavefunction collapsed.

Technophile.
Autodidact.
ADHD sufferer/beneficiary.
Burner (the Man).
Dysthymic.
Romantic.
Kitten foster Dad.

I learn differently than others.

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Jürgen "jkr" Kraus

Perspectives.

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Mike McHargue

This article is an excellent summary of the cultural differences between #Mastodon and #Twitter, and how the #TwitterMigration is decidedly complex for the existing people in the #Fediverse.

This is an absolute must read.

hughrundle.net/home-invasion/

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