skyking
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sounding rockets & bad computer programming
formerly Groq, Soostone, NASA Wallops, among others
formerly Groq, Soostone, NASA Wallops, among others
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 7:18 PM
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.
it'll be interesting to see if this holds; I used to live in the area & there's a bunch of government contracting work there, but otherwise it's quite conservative
November 5, 2025 at 12:31 AM
it'll be interesting to see if this holds; I used to live in the area & there's a bunch of government contracting work there, but otherwise it's quite conservative
i’m just saying someone with your skill can turn this into grade A content
November 1, 2025 at 11:51 PM
i’m just saying someone with your skill can turn this into grade A content
mfw i click through to this person’s profile page & it genuinely appears that she is not a bot.
imagine living in NYC for any length of time and not realizing the gleeful disdain Andrew Cuomo has for everything that makes this city beautiful.
imagine living in NYC for any length of time and not realizing the gleeful disdain Andrew Cuomo has for everything that makes this city beautiful.
October 30, 2025 at 2:03 AM
mfw i click through to this person’s profile page & it genuinely appears that she is not a bot.
imagine living in NYC for any length of time and not realizing the gleeful disdain Andrew Cuomo has for everything that makes this city beautiful.
imagine living in NYC for any length of time and not realizing the gleeful disdain Andrew Cuomo has for everything that makes this city beautiful.
looked up Somerset County food banks earlier tonight (ty Rutgers for making a list of these) but after getting into an argument about this with a crypto-cash chud ex-coworker i want to direct that anger to something productive.
never let anyone tell you spite cannot be a force for good.
never let anyone tell you spite cannot be a force for good.
October 27, 2025 at 3:52 AM
looked up Somerset County food banks earlier tonight (ty Rutgers for making a list of these) but after getting into an argument about this with a crypto-cash chud ex-coworker i want to direct that anger to something productive.
never let anyone tell you spite cannot be a force for good.
never let anyone tell you spite cannot be a force for good.
this is the sort of stuff people are dooming about (cf. blueskyfeeds.com/bluesky-user...)
October 17, 2025 at 11:41 PM
this is the sort of stuff people are dooming about (cf. blueskyfeeds.com/bluesky-user...)
doesn‘t help that Omarchy is expressly a project in service of advancing his personal brand.
not only is he the author, but the project is nominatively his, presumably because he’s bitter that Ruby on Rails doesn’t also say “by DHH” on the landing page.
not only is he the author, but the project is nominatively his, presumably because he’s bitter that Ruby on Rails doesn’t also say “by DHH” on the landing page.
October 13, 2025 at 9:21 PM
doesn‘t help that Omarchy is expressly a project in service of advancing his personal brand.
not only is he the author, but the project is nominatively his, presumably because he’s bitter that Ruby on Rails doesn’t also say “by DHH” on the landing page.
not only is he the author, but the project is nominatively his, presumably because he’s bitter that Ruby on Rails doesn’t also say “by DHH” on the landing page.
REPORTER: hi, quick question it sounds like that would introduce a lot of latency, care to commen-
October 8, 2025 at 1:45 AM
REPORTER: hi, quick question it sounds like that would introduce a lot of latency, care to commen-
new entry in the PL bad takes hall-of-fame
October 6, 2025 at 5:40 PM
new entry in the PL bad takes hall-of-fame
@utopia-defer.red more evidence for the “Twitter makes you dumber and more racist, and there appears to be no floor to it” pile
October 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
@utopia-defer.red more evidence for the “Twitter makes you dumber and more racist, and there appears to be no floor to it” pile
contrast this with Mitchell Hashimoto’s perspective, which is (imo) much more clear-eyed.
September 30, 2025 at 6:57 PM
contrast this with Mitchell Hashimoto’s perspective, which is (imo) much more clear-eyed.
follow-up: is using www4 based or cringe?
September 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM
follow-up: is using www4 based or cringe?
reporting back from the group chat in exile
September 20, 2025 at 1:04 AM
reporting back from the group chat in exile
picked up some fish & decided to make a whole day odnif
September 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
picked up some fish & decided to make a whole day odnif
the “all” map is even more absurd
September 17, 2025 at 3:44 AM
the “all” map is even more absurd
learned there’s a bakery just down the road with pumpernickel that looks like this, so I guess that’s what I’m doing tomorrow morning
September 16, 2025 at 3:18 AM
learned there’s a bakery just down the road with pumpernickel that looks like this, so I guess that’s what I’m doing tomorrow morning
that’s a wrap folks!
time to pack up the site, we’ve struck a vein of pure Old Twitter and it’s unfortunately all downhill from here.
time to pack up the site, we’ve struck a vein of pure Old Twitter and it’s unfortunately all downhill from here.
September 13, 2025 at 7:37 PM
that’s a wrap folks!
time to pack up the site, we’ve struck a vein of pure Old Twitter and it’s unfortunately all downhill from here.
time to pack up the site, we’ve struck a vein of pure Old Twitter and it’s unfortunately all downhill from here.
also be sure to disable notification content
September 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
also be sure to disable notification content
for some reason Zone of the Enders popped into my head as a a comp even though it isn’t synth wave at all lol
August 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
for some reason Zone of the Enders popped into my head as a a comp even though it isn’t synth wave at all lol
my perspective’s mostly coming from this section of Rick Hauck’s discussion of the mission.
historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPo...
historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPo...
![In early to mid-January 1986, we were working an issue having to do with redundancy in the helium actuation system for the liquid oxygen, liquid hydrogen dump valves, and it was clear that the program was willing to compromise on the margins in the propulsive force being provided by the pressurized helium. We were very concerned about it. We had discussions about it with the technical people. I went to John Young about it. And by the way, John Young called this mission “Death Star.” That was his name for this mission, which he said with humor, but behind humor, there’s a little bit of truth. I think it was conceded this was going to be the riskiest mission the Shuttle would have flown up to that point.
So John and I and other members of the Astronaut Office, I’m sure—I think Dan Brandenstein—I’m not sure if Dan—no, Dan wasn’t the head of the Astronaut Office yet. I think John was still, then. I’m not sure. But this was in January of ’86, and we went to a board to argue why this was not a good idea to compromise on this feature, and the board turned down the request. I went back to the Crew Office and I said to my crew, in essence—this isn’t a direct quote. I don’t know precisely what I said, but, “NASA is doing business different[ly] from the way it has in the past. Safety is being compromised, and if any of you want to take yourself off this flight, I will support you.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ewbx5zqcsd4nb6s2zflilh37/bafkreihnyx6dme4lnwdq2ysjqvwkegrhsavyjmqiyuptu6kufkfujahecy@jpeg)
July 27, 2025 at 8:08 PM
my perspective’s mostly coming from this section of Rick Hauck’s discussion of the mission.
historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPo...
historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPo...
[slaps the roof of my own head]
July 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
[slaps the roof of my own head]