@jordanschnyc: THREAD: The US government's new export controls are wreaking havoc on China's chip industry. New rules around "US persons" are driving an "industry-wide decapitation." The following is the translation...… | Continue reading
@echetus: If you use Wikipedia, you've seen pop-ups like this. If you're like me, you may have donated as a result. Wikipedia is an amazing website, and the appeals seem heartfelt. But I've now learnt the money...… | Continue reading
@LinaAsahi: There's a lot of weird debate about whether Rust in the kernel is useful or not... in my experience, it's way more useful than I could've ever imagined! I went from 1st render to a stable...… | Continue reading
@HindenburgRes: Trevor Milton, billionaire founder of $NKLA, is currently on trial for fraud. Shortly after his hydrogen truck company was exposed, an army of hackers and spies started targeting his critics and whis...… | Continue reading
@BurggrabenH: Let's talk electricity. Europe is in danger of rolling electricity shortages from what I call a crisis of confidence. I will explain why, back it with data & kindly ask YOU to share it as...… | Continue reading
@usemoogle: Our neighbourhood grocer recently created a WhatsApp group with about a hundred people (without asking us) 😯 By the time I noticed, 60-65 people had exited the group 😂 But this is not to shame the...… | Continue reading
@samczsun: 1/ Nomad just got drained for over $150M in one of the most chaotic hacks that Web3 has ever seen. How exactly did this happen, and what was the root cause? Allow me to take you... | Continue reading
@andrew_randall: Some Linux distros (e.g. @FedoraCoreOS and @flatcar) use Ignition instead of cloud-init for machine initialization. ⚡️What is ignition, and how is it different from cloud-init? Kudos to @RedHat for ...… | Continue reading
@macfarbt: 8 tips on how to run focus groups for early-stage founders working on Product-Market-Fit. An incomplete guide 😉 Just wrote these for a sharp CEO I advise in the @LoyalVc portfolio. 1. Set expectations: - ...… | Continue reading
@crabcrawler1: Blackrock isn't just all about buyin' everyone's houses, don't you know? In this thread, I'm going to talk about it. At my own pace. I didn't know how to make an image to represent this...… | Continue reading
@SystemSunday: If you want to give yourself a personal MBA (in 6 months), read these books: Hi, I’m Ben. I received an MBA from Cornell. I’ve also read 300+ business books. Trust me: You can get... | Continue reading
@zarkonnen_com: I'm reading and watching stuff about 80s and early 90s game development, and it's stuff like this: "Spluvix Games was founded by high school buddies John and George in George's parents' basement. In ...… | Continue reading
@HvnsLstAngel: “A still of Kermit The Frog in Blade Runner 2049 (2017)” #dalle “A still of Kermit The Frog in The Matrix (1999)” #dalle “A still of Kermit The Frog in Spirited Away (2001)” #dalle “A...… | Continue reading
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@random_walker: I mis-clicked on one of my 150 open tabs and it happened to be a tab that's been open since 2019 with a paper that has a solution to the exact research problem I've been... | Continue reading
@giannis_daras: DALLE-2 has a secret language. "Apoploe vesrreaitais" means birds. "Contarra ccetnxniams luryca tanniounons" means bugs or pests. The prompt: "Apoploe vesrreaitais eating Contarra ccetnxniams luryca ...… | Continue reading
@BrixtonHatter: In praise of the humble Sheffield stand: the best, most practical & most efficient bike parking solution. Simple, cheap, easy to install & suitable for the vast majority of bikes, allowing riders to ...… | Continue reading
@joshfraser: Important PSA: Do you run a @discord server? Your private channels are probably not as private as you think. A thread. 👇 1/15 I recently discovered you can glean insights into the internal workings of...… | Continue reading
@Gankra_: everyone's always on about the Virtual Boy as the origin of virtual reality or whatever but this completely erases the far older history of "Wink-o-Vision" which clearly defined all the standard conventions...… | Continue reading
@DaliaShea: One of the companies I interviewed with ended up restoring my faith in technical interviews. Before the interview, they had me check out a GitHub repo in my language of choice, get familiar with the code...… | Continue reading
@DoublyList: To some extent the internet incentivizes the production of meta-games. Which are games outside of the game itself. Consider commenting on an internet forum like HackerNews, The game is trying to contrib...… | Continue reading
@yishan: I've now been asked multiple times for my take on Elon's offer for Twitter. So fine, this is what I think about that. I will assume the takeover succeeds, and he takes Twitter private. (I have...… | Continue reading
@InfoSecDJ: Alright, you wanted me to do it, so here goes. A real quick and dirty tutorial on how to use #Universal #Radio #Hacker or #URH to do something useful. You can find the tool here: github.com/jopohl/urh...… | Continue reading
@kamilkazani: Why Russia is losing this war? First I'll discuss why Russia *is* losing. Then I'll give my version of how it could happen. The key to understanding lies in the Soviet/Russian military doctrine. It giv...… | Continue reading
@BusinessInsider: Employee burnout is now recognized by the World Health Organization as a "syndrome." Think pieces on burnout often blame the mass shift to remote work or that it’s a worker problem. But these lies ...… | Continue reading
@FlorianMKern: Zoltan Pozsar is one of the world’s most respected money market specialists and predicted the repo crisis in September 2019. Here he is getting it wrong, as he misses key aspects about the gold market...… | Continue reading
@kamilkazani: Let's discuss what's happening in Russia. To put it simply, it's going full fascist. Authorities launched a propaganda campaign to gain popular support for their invasion of Ukraine and they're getting...… | Continue reading
@Kasparov63: We are witnessing, literally watching live, Putin commit genocide on an industrial scale in Ukraine while the most powerful military alliance in history stands aside. It's impossible not to be emotional...… | Continue reading
@KofmanMichael: Long thread about how I think the first 96 hours have gone, still very early/incomplete impressions. The initial Russian operation was premised on terrible assumptions about Ukraine’s ability & will ...… | Continue reading
@kamilkazani: Why Russia will lose this war? Much of the "realist" discourse is about accepting Putin's victory, cuz it's *guaranteed*. But how do we know it is? I'll argue that analysts 1) overrate Russian army 2)...… | Continue reading
@jsrailton: Re: @elonmusk's starlink donation. Good to see. But remember: if #Putin controls the air above #Ukraine, users' uplink transmissions become beacons... for airstrikes. Some background 1/ 2/ #Russia has de...… | Continue reading
@bettersafetynet: I've had 3 calls so far today (it's not even 10) about defending against Russian cyber ops I'm tired of having the same call... so... here's what I've told everyone. This is the playbook you...… | Continue reading
@punk6529: 1/ There are no other constitutional rights in substance without freedom to transact Being meaning to write this for 6 months, but the Canadian response to the trucker protests is illustrating this so viv...… | Continue reading
@cesifoti: Want to read an insane tenure denial story? I was denied tenure at MIT in 2018. I was the only Hispanic faculty at my department, had 13k+ citations, 2 books, & papers in Nature, Science, &...… | Continue reading
@json_dirs: find paper. click button. read paper. have paper. auto-update .bib-liographies. share annotations. talk. build knowledge together. remember this is the floor of what's possible, constantly crushed by inf...… | Continue reading
@NoMansSky: Joe Danger is relaunching on iOS today 🥳 Remastered with improved visuals, high frame rate, ProMotion and Gamepad support Still one of the best looking games on iOS 😍 It's all because of a fan mail...… | Continue reading
@wesyang: Conservatives and libertarians must reckon with the fact that a jurisprudence and governing philosophy that sought to aggrandize the rights of private actors to rule without any outside interference is foun...… | Continue reading
@chrisxmunn: Microsoft recently acquired Activision for $68B. But why? Is their strategy an attempt to BUY the entire internet? Let's dive in & see what they're up to👇 Some background In 1998 the U.S Government sued...… | Continue reading
@theryanking: YCombinator is not worth it, a thread: These days, I get asked by founders all the time: “Should I do YC (YCombinator)?” My answer used to be: “Probably not worth it, but if you really...… | Continue reading
Thread by @david_perell: 21 ideas from 2021: 1. The Mind Creates Reality: The American Psychological Association once invited William James to give a talk on the first 50 years of psychology research. He simply sai...… | Continue reading
Thread by @NathanLeamerDC: Four years ago today the FCC rightly repealed #netneutrality regulations. And guess what? The Internet works fine. But never forget the hyperbolic predictions. Thread below CNN called thi...… | Continue reading
Thread by @ZenOfDesign: Nope. The economics of the $60 price tag for what are now nine figure budgets are too risky, and the margins become too thin. Corporations exist to make money, yes, but if you...… | Continue reading
Thread by @Schandillia: [QQT: VOICE] 1/20 In 1980, a professor at MIT with a background in electrical engineering and communication sciences published a paper. In this paper was the source code for something that w...… | Continue reading
Thread by @FoldableHuman: For days now I've been accepting every spam NFT Discord invite I've received, and it's getting dire Then there's World of Wojak which is just Wojaks and also promising to maybe throw a...… | Continue reading
Thread by @stackbit: You’ve never heard of Dan or Bob. But you should have. They built a company, VisiCalc, that led to Apple first big success and changed computers forever. Here’s their story. The year is 1976...… | Continue reading
Thread by @TraceEvader: 1/ For those who have not read @danheld article titled “Bitcoin’s Security is Fine” you would do yourself a great service by heading over to blog.picks.co/bitcoins-secur… and reading it now....… | Continue reading
Thread by @dkedrosky: Glass: the most underrated medieval technology? (thread) 1/ Europeans had been making glass since the Late Bronze Age (and Egyptians even earlier), but despite considerable advances in the Hel...… | Continue reading
Thread by @LeviBroderick: Enjoying the recent drama regarding Wash. state COVID vaccination QR codes? Missed out and want to know? Join me as I take you on an unofficial history. 🧵... Disclaimer: I was not involved...… | Continue reading