Harris Rothaermel
@DeveloperHarris
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human supremacist, hyper techno-optimist, 🇺🇸
Austin, TX
Joined September 2015
🫵 you there. you’re great, thank you for making the world a better place.
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isnt it strange how dishwashers need you to insert detergent every time. why does it not have its own tank from which it can dispense as needed and you replace it like once a month.
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> US GDP would be 8.9% higher. holy shit.
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someone genetically engineered petunas to glow in the dark. i love it
you can genetically engineer custom plants that no one else has in the world.
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texas should build a high speed rail just to prove they can do it faster than california
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so you're telling me there exists a type of toilet that's only $300 which has wider drains and *can basically never get clogged* because it uses pressurized water instead of gravity fed but its not everywhere????????
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it's always bugged me that skyscrapers don't have more connections between each other. the streets between them and the vertical space is so wasted.
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my recursive GPT agent is trying to get out of doing work by spawning another instance of itself to do it. infinitely
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"hi! <credential> here" or "hope this helps" have become easy tells for me to ignore something, it's just really tiresome clapback culture.
hi! jet propulsion engineer here: if you can hear your spool over your plume, you're not actually creating jet propulsion.
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why is our world so badly designed and filled with micro mental overhead.
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honestly, it seems like there will be a point where we ditch the traditional game engine and replace it with a diffusion + multi-modal model. .
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claude just saved me from a landlord trying to keep my entire security deposit.
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its happening
the markets haven’t priced in how disruptive global low latency internet access from satellite constellations will be. it’ll be the biggest labor arbitrage in the history of the world.
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got this CNC’d, anodized, and shipped from JLCCNC in China (within a week!) for $400. USA really needs to up its game
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we have conquered a domain in which we do not belong and it is so common we give it no thought
airplanes are easily one of humanity’s best achievements.
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the fact that all modern political and business attire for men is blue or black suit & ties is insulting to human creativity and aesthetics.
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@PirateWires this is just gonna end the moment jd vance suggests that in retaliation the US will no longer participate in the five eyes intelligence program.
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just realized, if you get a neuralink, are you just not able to get an MRI ever again?.
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would be pretty baller to do this on the 250th anniversary of the US.
replace Alcatraz with a statue of justice. the twin sisters of the US
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It's time to build the bay area megacity. - rapid transportation (both intercity and intracity).- high density.- high walkability.- enough housing to have 100 million+.- the home of 10+ trillion dollar companies.- underground hyperlogistics + robotic network .- capital of tech,
every single homeowner here could be 5x richer when we build the Bay Area Megacity.
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hey all, i shutdown starlight labs (@starlightlabsco), the game studio I made to create new games at the frontier of what's possible with current AI models. i open sourced all the work for it, although fair warning i didn't clean it up at all:. biggest.
LFG!!! 🫡 finally finished devlog #0. all actions & dialogue for every character is fully simulated, in real-time, with @OpenAI's GPT-4. and I condensed all the work so far into a 2-minute explainer, just for you 😉
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china has endmill vending machines
our iteration cycles are severely hampered by stores closing so early.
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my god. i don't think i've seen a video of weaponized programming autism quite like this one. this guy built an entire 3D rendering pipeline inside the 2D level editor of Geometry Dash, and built his own compiled programming language to do it
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why do these have to be a custom vehicle? why couldn't they just be Rivians?
NEWS: A $10B program to buy EVs for the U.S. Postal Service is far behind schedule, with defense contractor Oshkosh not disclosing significant manufacturing difficulties for more than a year. The USPS has received only 93 trucks - far fewer than the 3,000 expected by now.
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for as much money as some people have, the world is sorely lacking on ambitious side projects.
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@SciGuySpace anytime anyone says “*checks notes*” you can just stop reading and go on your day.
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@FedericoNoemie @Waymo waymo needs to start punishing this hard, one warning, then suspension, then ban.
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@codyaims yacine has figured out the monetization optimal, probably gets paid $10k a month to just poast.
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YOOOOOOOOO! The conversation system is in & it's looking amazing!!. Completely generated in real-time, nothing pre-written, and 100% based on the character's personality, memories, and environment.
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i feel like if YC was optimizing for hardware more they could have much more impact by having a warehouse full of manufacturing and prototyping tools like 3d printers, CNCs, laser cutters, welders, etc and just space to build.
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imagine getting access to the CTO of OpenAI's Twitter account, and wasting it on an obvious crypto spam instead of announcing GPT-5 and moving markets. 🤡
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pro tip, if you're buying brackets on mcmaster, just download the STEP, and get it made from SendCutSend instead. $5.56/ea (SCS) vs $8.94/ea (McMaster)
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defense tech startup ecosystem is just picking an existing product, saying you're gonna build it for 10x cheaper, throw in some american flags and warehouse photos, and boom, you have a vc funded business.
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@BetterDrivingUS the only thing forcing the market is the bad regulation . this is america, let people build on their land.
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replace Alcatraz with a statue of justice. the twin sisters of the US
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imagine the OpenAI + NVIDIA + TSMC merger. sand goes in, gods come out.
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i’m gonna build the coolest factory
Everybody wants to expand industrial capability but no one wants to work in a factory.
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claude analyzed my lease and provided california law to back it up
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you can genetically engineer custom plants that no one else has in the world.
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crazy to think you make more than the majority of people in europe by working at this gas station in texas
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LET'S GOOO. THE BAY AREA MEGACITY DEMANDS ITS EXISTENCE
It's time to build the bay area megacity. - rapid transportation (both intercity and intracity).- high density.- high walkability.- enough housing to have 100 million+.- the home of 10+ trillion dollar companies.- underground hyperlogistics + robotic network .- capital of tech,
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@fuckpoasting @growing_daniel this is like american tribes encountering european diseases for the first time 😔.
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An example of US quotes for comparison:. - Didn’t get quote back till this morning.- Requested 7 day lead time, was quoted 21 days.- $1.1k for just the part, shipping not included
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damn, my NPCs are mean af to each other. games are gonna get wild with fully simulated conversations, relationships, and actions
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i really do think the US would gain an unthinkable amount of value if we made LA <-> Bay Area travel as fast as possible.
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the markets haven’t priced in how disruptive global low latency internet access from satellite constellations will be. it’ll be the biggest labor arbitrage in the history of the world.
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JLCPCB offers a service that is "upload your BOM, and we'll figure out what parts you use, get them, and assemble it for you with our pick and place machines" . for. $10. and if you select this option you get expedited 24hr build time. just insanely good UX.
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US manufacturing economy can't comprehend the fact that china has better supply chains and manufacturing facilities. so they resort to claiming moral high ground for their high prices while the industry retires into nothingness.
@DeveloperHarris @wingod That's the whole point. They're externalizing "OSHA" violations, environment costs, etc., not internalizing them. They're also funding ethnic cleansing and genocide with your money. This is not a new thing. You're funding a lot of really bad things for a shiny cheap thing.
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Fuck this. Women and Children should feel safe on public transit and I will not stop saying this.
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Every day I'm getting closer & closer to natural real-time conversations with AI. Still a bit of latency but I've got a few tricks up my sleeve. 😏
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@Heckler511 uses mains water pressure to pressurize air in the container, and then use that on flush.
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AI, fusion, and space travel. Roaring 20s, sign me up.
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would only cost google or apple ~$750m to be able to update their maps every single day with high accuracy sat images if they wanted.
it's kind of a shame google doesn't pay planet labs to update google map's satellite images every day.
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@PiquantParvenu I can’t hide the safari URL bar and it takes up a huge chunk of the screen, also swipe gestures are more annoying, and there are just a bunch of APIs Apple doesn’t give u access to like vibration.
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this is just so funny to me. sure, i worked at NASA, Varda, and helped put some satellites into space, but game dev. no game dev is too hard for you 🤣.
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like dude if you're worth a few hundred million, you can make your own major studio feature films.
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you can hold design competitions to design whatever you want, cities, statues, boats.
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@pronounced_kyle our legal codes desperately need to have sunset clauses which auto-expire laws/regs.
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(scrolling through SF permits) . the fact that you need permits to change a dishwasher and change cabinets seems kind of insane to me
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honestly one of the coolest dm requests i've gotten
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y'all we literally have AI that can create insanely good music in 30 seconds with a basic prompt
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i don't know why, total moment of clarity right now. Silicon Valley is such a meme, in a good way. I scroll through my X timeline, like posts by cat with glasses, anime girls, and ripped Jeff Bezos. I have friends who are 20 raising millions to build startups, and they're.
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@TheVivifier @TheAsyl @Mlickles @Aeyga_X the gas is flammable and spinning the fan that fast creates a voltage which created a spark somewhere to ignite it.
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turns out you can just take over startup warehouses, they’re free, i have 1 warehouse
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@thefrozenfire makes sense, but there is a coil used for inductive charging, would that interfere?.
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someone who is PLC pilled, tell me why I can't just continue using ESP32s for everything industrial like I currently am.
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@LetMeChatGPThat those are called flushometers and they just pump main's water supply directly, no tank at all.
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revive the world fair, create new global competitions, create your own treasure hunt.
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