Alexander Kyte
@ipvkyte
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I’m a platform engineer. I build platforms. Conversational ML for MS, previously Mono core(C#) Author: https://t.co/6qMJ6RUu6Q… he / him / his
Boston, MA
Joined July 2016
@DreamLeaf5 This is all stuff that was hated by conservatives of the time. Very ironic message.
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A Tesla gets 4.1 miles per KWh. So one transaction costs 2,546 miles. Seattle to Boston is 3k miles. Paying for a burger with bitcoin has the same environmental cost as driving that burger to you from the other coast.
And the scale of this waste has some scary numbers attached to it. A single bitcoin transaction alone consumes 621 KWh, or half a million times more energy consumption than a credit card payment. (8/).
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@TheRocketRalph It’s wild being the one poor kid in the room at 18 while someone far wealthier than you walks over and throws up gang signs and explains their plans to become the town rapper.
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@the_ason @RedEviction You’re right, get rid of exploitative hourly jobs with low hours clocked, outside of transitionary contexts.
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@erinbwriting @JnxOuaquaga Everybody wants to “save a kid” from XYZ, nobody wants to help a kid with PTSD from XYZ learn to handle school stress.
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@truesacre Imagine just going and eating a sandwich after a jog and you end up as the cover photo for a mental illness.
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@GrantSlatton @powerbottomdad1 It’s hilarious to think that atomic still being associated with war in their minds means that the efficiency of the atom itself is what has a bad name. Because they’re not blowing up fertilizer plants. The Haber process has a way bloodier history than the atom.
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@alicemazzy I heard a town councilman say the word “LARP” the other week in the context of people wearing militarized clothes.
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@ICBMinvestments @sacrelicio Bro acting like people leave the desk at 5:00 like paratroopers being dropped.
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When someone asks to see the code I am debugging and I still have all of my debug printfs in:
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@MIKEV_G @clickholebot @LITTLEBlRDS Can’t use emulsifiers, can’t use tomato or other strong acids, porous to meat microbes.
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@catshouldnt Those cats get paid $5 an hour to prevent theft and sun damage to the saddle. True facts, I wouldn't lie to you.
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@therealbigjonno @dwnloadhistory If I meet someone in the woods on the East Coast I think I’m about to have some hippie’s dog jump on me and give me love. If I meet someone on the woods on the west coast I can *see* them place their finger on a trigger while they walk past me and smile.
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@Jess_inthewild In my own lifetime (30 yo) I’ve seen insect-swarmed woods that would kill you if you spent all day out there turn into completely sterile pine hills. The birds followed the bugs.
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@_lbowes @SOPHONTSIMP @SunsetRex @ashlee3dee I mean imagine a fire truck arm that extends one of these rather than a human-basket towards the fire and allows it do firefighting
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@cairoasmith @YIMBYLAND Florida asks “What if you felt like the water in the air you were breathing smells like it came from an objectionable source”?.
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@bryan_johnson I want an AG1 vs Blueprint Olympics. Find an indicator species and have both products fed and try to see which product results in the oldest population of Guinea pigs.
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@tobypinder @alicegoldfuss Ah, they want to join a network that doxes all members and has a two year imprisonment sentence for profanity. That's like breaking into prison.
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@ryanb______ Get the cayenne pepper. Not the “chili powder” but powdered pepper. Not hot sauce, that has vinegar. The expired little salt shaker on the rack. Just dump as much as you can on it. It’ll start tasting good.
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@thesaladshooter @stilloranged I’ve found it difficult to explain to a bunch of tech transplants the true existential horror you face when you see someone’s stance on civil rights *change* before your eyes, because of a bumper sticker saying that sounds so good on the tongue. It’s lonely, is what it is.
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@Nobummmer Some dude will forsake his entire family’s legacy of banking just to spread the love of toast and fancy clothes to his neighbors and I think that’s beautiful.
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@MattyCiii They act like they’ve caught hooligans when in fact you have like two dozen families using a road taking up the volume of a single car. If they all drove it would look like a presidential motorcade.
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@oh_hey_josh @hiangelali I'm quite secure about my height and every time I go to cow country I get teased by random middle aged women for being short (5'8"). I can definitely see why some guys would internalize it.
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@depthsofwiki The weirdest thing about driving around all of the “worlds Nth steepest roads” in the US is that they all have a *metric ton of deer*. Like every grill, deck, post box. And you never see them on the way up, only down.
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@TheChowderhead Living on the East Coast does not prepare a person to watch landscapes be shaped by a few peoples hands.
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@softminus What if you drove an F-35 past a speed trap at like 90mph, would you get a ticket or would you be a very angry bumblebee to it.
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@johnregehr @sibinmohan “C is the most secure language because you cannot statically analyze it”.
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@FTostapane @Boenau I remember driving through here and I hit a road that was all flooded (and it hadn’t rained in a while) and this house had big images of trucks underwater that tried to drive through the puddle with the words “you won’t make it” on the sign.
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@LavanyaSunder If the Amish become known as the people who avoided the entire 5-decade foolishness of our times and leapfrogged right to post-singularity, I will laugh very hard.
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@robinhanson The worst part of any modern serrated blade is that they’re almost impossible to sharpen or maintain and so their inherent disposable nature leads to poor materials. Putting a motor in the plastic handle is not a big upgrade.
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@skooookum I can’t tell if she’s saying to lose weight or to bulk up to survive the winter lean body mass loss.
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@Boaz2curious @carlvellotti This would make my Guinea pig go feral. She always tries to use them as handles and gets really yanky.
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@timharrison @EngineerDustin @PlanningShit A slide would be better, and a bale of hay at the bottom.
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@rickasaurus Meanwhile I remember having codeine tylenol and it was like five hours of my body being like “what’s wrong with you why are you so floppy clench those muscles dude come on stop being so soft and jello”.
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@bencsmoke It’s really telling that the “rest of it” part that they treat as the majority driving is essentially gunning it down a straightaway or sitting in stop n start.
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@RiverTamYDN Every realtor I’ve tried to talk to is obsessed with the idea of me buying a property for the resale value and not for the fit of actually living in it and it’s very annoying.
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@Soul0Engineer CIA agent watching from a shell on the baseband chip and being like “not bad, not bad at all. I’d better keep an eye on this wizard”.
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@RealDianeYap @AMAZlNGNATURE A polar bear will kill you just for being edible. Black bear will kill you if you look like a nuisance. A brown bear will check that you aren’t hiding any berries and then leave.
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@UnderwaterBepis @magicianbrain When AI solves programming problems in a way acceptable to end users but abhorrent to engineers, then it will be a similar analogy.
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@maddb3457 @DavidZipper Most of the energy a cyclist loses isn’t due to steady state air resistance, it’s stopping and starting for cars. This uses regen, so it prevents you from losing that energy at heat on the brake pads.
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@Carzonfye Homes is on a flight to an apartment in a city with no traffic cameras for a while.
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@IanColdwater Every field of engineering I become familiar with makes me that much less comfortable with the world around me.
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@maxdubler If an apartment was $800 and half were empty, nobody would care if half of the city was full of billionaires.
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@ne0liberal @__justplaying I wish there was a system where people trying to run to the US from Europe could easily swap passports with people trying to run to Europe from the US.
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@THEPRINCEWIFE I actually would love to see someone like Zendaya play a guy named “armpit” while Brad Pitt wears rattlesnake venom in his red nail polish and uses it to kill people by scratching them like a feral cat.
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@thetyronwilson How are Denmark and the Netherlands so perfect while Germany is ripping their countryside up for enough coal to equal a single gram of uranium.
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@fruitpilled Yo you have no idea how much discipline it takes to have a stomach that only makes one roll when you sit all flabby like that. Even the majority of “fit” people are up at 3 rolls or so, because all the fat is visceral. I’d bet she’s in the top five percent for VO2 max.
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@dwaldenwrites It is pretty clear that if you come upon a bunch of strangers you need to treat the guy you hate the most as if he was the evaluation of your goodness. That’s the only thing I remember from veggie tales.
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@hereicommunism @FadezAlt @razza699 For £600, destroying their building was probably better emotional compensation than watching them lose in court.
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@liz_love_lace What a horrible society where getting focused on something for even a few days results in a massive pile of todo items.
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@GrantSlatton If you’ve never helped out at one of those shelters, it would be apparent that the expensive part is in controlling the behavior of people who are risks to themselves or others. If they’re your responsibility, you have responsibilities for them. It’s not a campground.
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@kathleen_belew I would make iOS stop absolutely destroying the battery life with each update.
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@PaulSkallas Which is why rural people lobby hard for cities to cater to them when they come visit, claim any kind of toll is unreasonable.
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@danielleweisber @plt_abbie Me: Sweaty, has to press plastic buttons all day, mortal, nutrition expensive, buys furniture. Fungal body: Eats literal lightning, immortal if lucky, trees give sugar all day, lives in ground.
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@VividVoid_ Broke: Chop wood, carry water. Woke: Saying the words “chop wood, carry water” before my adoring crowd.
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@DanielleFong “But doctor I am the original architect, and this is the original floor plan”, cries Pagliacci.
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@MrSoggyRamen @ItsMrsRabbitToU Specifically the difficulty is creating arms with the right weight and usability that the child doesn’t have to learn compensationary movements during formative years in ways that compromises their intellectual ability.
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@RohitaKadambi What’s wild is when I see someone use it to help with *reading*. Evolution is going to whittle our frontal lobes down to nothing.
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@SwiftOnSecurity It also makes people not understand that decreasing by N% and then increasing by N% doesn't put you back to square 1 because both of those percentages are out of a different whole.
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@geejreal @MeirKadmon @ENBrown Referring to them as "bodies with vaginas" seems identical to calling disabled patients "wheelchairs" . You dehumanize the person who gave you the reason to work by referring to them only as the concern that you service.
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