skyking
@jkachmar.com
sounding rockets & bad computer programming
formerly Groq, Soostone, NASA Wallops, among others
formerly Groq, Soostone, NASA Wallops, among others
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the best possible remake of Rogue One would be a third season of Andor which is just Rogue One
rogue one is bad folks. i have believed this since i saw it in theaters and no subsequent rewatch has changed my mind. basically a chop job until the final sequence, which is good (for star wars)
November 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
the best possible remake of Rogue One would be a third season of Andor which is just Rogue One
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This was such a fun photo to set up, taken by Thomas Reiter through a sleep station window on Mir. The sun was so bright we were all squinting like crazy. But I love how it shows the texture of the Shuttle's rough, protective hide, and the glimpse of humanity (and my moustache) against the universe.
November 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
This was such a fun photo to set up, taken by Thomas Reiter through a sleep station window on Mir. The sun was so bright we were all squinting like crazy. But I love how it shows the texture of the Shuttle's rough, protective hide, and the glimpse of humanity (and my moustache) against the universe.
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What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?
November 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?
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new tshirt, fuck yea
@sarahmackattack.bsky.social
@sarahmackattack.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
new tshirt, fuck yea
@sarahmackattack.bsky.social
@sarahmackattack.bsky.social
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my ai take is that this banner is kind of ass. Don't you have a trillion dollars
November 22, 2025 at 2:52 AM
my ai take is that this banner is kind of ass. Don't you have a trillion dollars
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my most butlerian jihad coded belief is that we should probably make it illegal – and more importantly, we should work toward a cultural consensus that it is immoral – to design a computer program whose interface uses the first person
November 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
my most butlerian jihad coded belief is that we should probably make it illegal – and more importantly, we should work toward a cultural consensus that it is immoral – to design a computer program whose interface uses the first person
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It’s really cool watching people on this website cry about how anti-technology and progress the world is re: AI and hearing, from the small number of instructors I know in real life, how this stuff is just destroying traditional instruction with no effective mitigation for public education systems.
My students don’t even bother to remove “ChatGPT said…” from their assignments half the time…
We are doomed.
We are doomed.
November 21, 2025 at 4:56 AM
It’s really cool watching people on this website cry about how anti-technology and progress the world is re: AI and hearing, from the small number of instructors I know in real life, how this stuff is just destroying traditional instruction with no effective mitigation for public education systems.
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Lo-Fi Beats to Bun to
November 17, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Lo-Fi Beats to Bun to
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0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. He is starting to suspect Kras Mazov *fucked him over* personally with his socio-economic theory.
October 16, 2025 at 7:57 PM
0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. He is starting to suspect Kras Mazov *fucked him over* personally with his socio-economic theory.
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THAT'S RIGHT -- now that I know you've redeemed your strawman, it's obvious:
* You're a "free man on the road," and don't NEED to register your car.
* The government IS improperly charging so-called "income taxes" under admirality law.
* ... and you don't have to pay child support, either!
* You're a "free man on the road," and don't NEED to register your car.
* The government IS improperly charging so-called "income taxes" under admirality law.
* ... and you don't have to pay child support, either!
i do not think it is a good idea to use chatbots which are trained to be sycophantic to give tax advice to non-expert consumers
November 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
THAT'S RIGHT -- now that I know you've redeemed your strawman, it's obvious:
* You're a "free man on the road," and don't NEED to register your car.
* The government IS improperly charging so-called "income taxes" under admirality law.
* ... and you don't have to pay child support, either!
* You're a "free man on the road," and don't NEED to register your car.
* The government IS improperly charging so-called "income taxes" under admirality law.
* ... and you don't have to pay child support, either!
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cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents
November 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents
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Wow! And as soon as it demonstrates any of these capabilities - or any capability Anthropic can sell at a profit - I will revise my policy of "assuming everything an LLM-company CEO says is a lie or distortion until proven otherwise."
Juuuuust gonna wait right here. For that. Any time now.
Juuuuust gonna wait right here. For that. Any time now.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei thinks AI could help find cures for most cancers, prevent Alzheimer’s, and even double the human lifespan. cbsn.ws/4oRZ8Nm
November 17, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Wow! And as soon as it demonstrates any of these capabilities - or any capability Anthropic can sell at a profit - I will revise my policy of "assuming everything an LLM-company CEO says is a lie or distortion until proven otherwise."
Juuuuust gonna wait right here. For that. Any time now.
Juuuuust gonna wait right here. For that. Any time now.
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NASA posted a photo of Jupiter under ultraviolet light 🏳️⚧️
November 13, 2025 at 11:27 PM
NASA posted a photo of Jupiter under ultraviolet light 🏳️⚧️
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One thing I started noticing recently is that competent engineers give up their credibility due to AI.
Twice already highly competent engineers I respect sent a PR that turned out to have very subtle issues. These issues would not be possible if a human understood it.
Twice already highly competent engineers I respect sent a PR that turned out to have very subtle issues. These issues would not be possible if a human understood it.
November 15, 2025 at 12:40 AM
One thing I started noticing recently is that competent engineers give up their credibility due to AI.
Twice already highly competent engineers I respect sent a PR that turned out to have very subtle issues. These issues would not be possible if a human understood it.
Twice already highly competent engineers I respect sent a PR that turned out to have very subtle issues. These issues would not be possible if a human understood it.
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Wire Mother, in @clarkesworldmagazine.com, which is about being a TEENAGE GIRL and HATING YOUR MOM. also its about AI.
clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_10_25/
clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_10_25/
Wire Mother by Isabel J. Kim
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
clarkesworldmagazine.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Wire Mother, in @clarkesworldmagazine.com, which is about being a TEENAGE GIRL and HATING YOUR MOM. also its about AI.
clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_10_25/
clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_10_25/
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'A House Collapsing on Two Firemen, Shoe Lane, London, EC4'
(1940) by Leonard Henry Rosoman
(Imperial War Museums)
(1940) by Leonard Henry Rosoman
(Imperial War Museums)
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
'A House Collapsing on Two Firemen, Shoe Lane, London, EC4'
(1940) by Leonard Henry Rosoman
(Imperial War Museums)
(1940) by Leonard Henry Rosoman
(Imperial War Museums)
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Just released quick-junit 0.5.2, containing (from what I can tell) the first industrial-strength (i.e. with fuzzing and roundtrip property-based testing) JUnit XML parser for Rust!
quick-junit's serializer is used by cargo-nextest.
Check it out:
quick-junit's serializer is used by cargo-nextest.
Check it out:
crates.io: Rust Package Registry
crates.io
November 11, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Just released quick-junit 0.5.2, containing (from what I can tell) the first industrial-strength (i.e. with fuzzing and roundtrip property-based testing) JUnit XML parser for Rust!
quick-junit's serializer is used by cargo-nextest.
Check it out:
quick-junit's serializer is used by cargo-nextest.
Check it out:
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This is one of the most remarkable academic debacles I've ever seen.
A large RCT got published in BMJ. There are currently 44 Pubpeer comments, mostly about the data, including...well. Read for yourself.
pubpeer.com/publications...
A large RCT got published in BMJ. There are currently 44 Pubpeer comments, mostly about the data, including...well. Read for yourself.
pubpeer.com/publications...
PubPeer - Prevention of acute myocardial infarction induced heart fail...
There are comments on PubPeer for publication: Prevention of acute myocardial infarction induced heart failure by intracoronary infusion of mesenchymal stem cells: phase 3 randomised clinical trial (P...
pubpeer.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:19 AM
This is one of the most remarkable academic debacles I've ever seen.
A large RCT got published in BMJ. There are currently 44 Pubpeer comments, mostly about the data, including...well. Read for yourself.
pubpeer.com/publications...
A large RCT got published in BMJ. There are currently 44 Pubpeer comments, mostly about the data, including...well. Read for yourself.
pubpeer.com/publications...
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
please someone who is good with money help me my military industrial complex is dying…
you are free to take my word for it or
not, as you please, but Palantir’s brand of consulting is fairly well-characterized as being functionally equivalent to McKinsey, Accenture, et al.
in purely economic terms they are a tremendously obvious grift.
not, as you please, but Palantir’s brand of consulting is fairly well-characterized as being functionally equivalent to McKinsey, Accenture, et al.
in purely economic terms they are a tremendously obvious grift.
November 9, 2025 at 7:19 PM
please someone who is good with money help me my military industrial complex is dying…
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A plea for help. 🙏
One of the lead playtesters of Blue Prince, Iggy, has polycystic kidney disease and has only a few months to find a living kidney donor.
His story, contact and donor information can all be found on
iggyland.org
Please help us in sharing his story and getting the word out.💙
One of the lead playtesters of Blue Prince, Iggy, has polycystic kidney disease and has only a few months to find a living kidney donor.
His story, contact and donor information can all be found on
iggyland.org
Please help us in sharing his story and getting the word out.💙
November 8, 2025 at 12:42 AM
A plea for help. 🙏
One of the lead playtesters of Blue Prince, Iggy, has polycystic kidney disease and has only a few months to find a living kidney donor.
His story, contact and donor information can all be found on
iggyland.org
Please help us in sharing his story and getting the word out.💙
One of the lead playtesters of Blue Prince, Iggy, has polycystic kidney disease and has only a few months to find a living kidney donor.
His story, contact and donor information can all be found on
iggyland.org
Please help us in sharing his story and getting the word out.💙