Nick D.
@kid-icarus.bsky.social
Shitposting to infinity. Being professional. Robots, music, AI.
I hope we feel like this forever
Forever, forever ever? Forever ever?
Forever never seems that long until you're grown
Forever, forever ever? Forever ever?
Forever never seems that long until you're grown
September 17, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I hope we feel like this forever
Forever, forever ever? Forever ever?
Forever never seems that long until you're grown
Forever, forever ever? Forever ever?
Forever never seems that long until you're grown
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This is what is wrong with computing today. Our old abstractions are breaking apart in exchange for marketing blab. Can we place have a meaningful discussion about the impact of computing and how to fix it in today's society instead?
This is what is wrong with computing today. Our old abstractions are breaking apart in exchange for marketing blab. Can we place have a meaningful discussion about the impact of computing and how to fix it in today's society instead?
Data Warehouse vs. Data Lake vs. Data Lakehouse: An Overview of Three Cloud Data Storage Patterns
What are the differences between popular data storage architectures? Check out our data warehouse vs data lake vs data lakehouse comparison.
www.striim.com
June 12, 2025 at 7:11 PM
www.striim.com/blog/data-wa...
This is what is wrong with computing today. Our old abstractions are breaking apart in exchange for marketing blab. Can we place have a meaningful discussion about the impact of computing and how to fix it in today's society instead?
This is what is wrong with computing today. Our old abstractions are breaking apart in exchange for marketing blab. Can we place have a meaningful discussion about the impact of computing and how to fix it in today's society instead?
Me: (watching Picard, trying to catch up and explaining to my wife) See the borg were a group of cybernetic beings who converting folks into robot like beings [... interrupted]
My wife: yeah but are you seeing this interior facing stone?
My wife: yeah but are you seeing this interior facing stone?
May 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Me: (watching Picard, trying to catch up and explaining to my wife) See the borg were a group of cybernetic beings who converting folks into robot like beings [... interrupted]
My wife: yeah but are you seeing this interior facing stone?
My wife: yeah but are you seeing this interior facing stone?
There's a through link to the misdirection in Apple's "Think Different" advertising in the mid 80s given that so much of the WIMP interface was stolen from PARC and the stolen credit of so many AI companies to early prototypes.
Go to the source. Find some new prototypes and develop them.
Go to the source. Find some new prototypes and develop them.
May 6, 2025 at 7:50 PM
There's a through link to the misdirection in Apple's "Think Different" advertising in the mid 80s given that so much of the WIMP interface was stolen from PARC and the stolen credit of so many AI companies to early prototypes.
Go to the source. Find some new prototypes and develop them.
Go to the source. Find some new prototypes and develop them.
How I feel about Blue Origin open.spotify.com/track/1TG7pP...
Whitey on the Moon
Gil Scott-Heron · The Revolution Will Not Be Televised · Song · 1974
open.spotify.com
April 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
How I feel about Blue Origin open.spotify.com/track/1TG7pP...
We've never needed the beastie boys more than this moment.
April 16, 2025 at 1:14 AM
We've never needed the beastie boys more than this moment.
I would not be surprised if there was a massive exodus of scientists from America right now. Funding is drying up on real research problems and there is a threat of rescinding grants already in the pipeline. All while PhD students are being deported. I just don't understand this strategy for America
March 20, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I would not be surprised if there was a massive exodus of scientists from America right now. Funding is drying up on real research problems and there is a threat of rescinding grants already in the pipeline. All while PhD students are being deported. I just don't understand this strategy for America
I'm seriously concerned about where this country is going.
March 12, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I'm seriously concerned about where this country is going.
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M'lord the peasants say you have given them the ick
February 12, 2025 at 2:57 AM
M'lord the peasants say you have given them the ick
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Looking forward to the future Responsible Technofeudalism gatherings
February 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Looking forward to the future Responsible Technofeudalism gatherings
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Traditional companies cascade goals top-down: executives set targets that trickle down layer by layer. But according to John Doerr, this model is broken.
February 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Traditional companies cascade goals top-down: executives set targets that trickle down layer by layer. But according to John Doerr, this model is broken.
You should know who benefits form current forms of AI: energy and chips. Anyone promising to replace workers is selling you a plate of sugar.
What scares me the most is that I think business is falling for it so much that they're going to do it anyway.
What scares me the most is that I think business is falling for it so much that they're going to do it anyway.
February 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
You should know who benefits form current forms of AI: energy and chips. Anyone promising to replace workers is selling you a plate of sugar.
What scares me the most is that I think business is falling for it so much that they're going to do it anyway.
What scares me the most is that I think business is falling for it so much that they're going to do it anyway.
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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There, there. Don't you fret. Just seven more years and it'll all be over.
YR4: the asteroid with a tiny chance of hitting Earth
The asteroid named YR4 has a 1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032
www.bbc.com
February 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
There, there. Don't you fret. Just seven more years and it'll all be over.
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Los Angeles faces a choice, our architecture critic writes. It can remake itself into something largely familiar or take a bolder path and emerge as a new metropolis.
What Kind of Los Angeles Will Rise From the Fires?
The city faces a choice: remake itself into something largely familiar or take a bolder path and emerge as a new metropolis.
nyti.ms
February 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Los Angeles faces a choice, our architecture critic writes. It can remake itself into something largely familiar or take a bolder path and emerge as a new metropolis.
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If I were Canadian PM I would immediately:
1. Create a new $15B science fund
2. Offer any credentialed US scientist funding for lab startup and replacement of NIH grants if they move to Canada
3. Immediate permanent residency
4. Citizenship after 2 years
Overnight a science superpower
If I were Canadian PM I would immediately:
1. Create a new $15B science fund
2. Offer any credentialed US scientist funding for lab startup and replacement of NIH grants if they move to Canada
3. Immediate permanent residency
4. Citizenship after 2 years
Overnight a science superpower
January 31, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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If I were Canadian PM I would immediately:
1. Create a new $15B science fund
2. Offer any credentialed US scientist funding for lab startup and replacement of NIH grants if they move to Canada
3. Immediate permanent residency
4. Citizenship after 2 years
Overnight a science superpower
If I were Canadian PM I would immediately:
1. Create a new $15B science fund
2. Offer any credentialed US scientist funding for lab startup and replacement of NIH grants if they move to Canada
3. Immediate permanent residency
4. Citizenship after 2 years
Overnight a science superpower
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"Liang said in a July 2024 interview with Chinese tech outlet 36kr that, like OpenAI, his company wants to achieve general artificial intelligence..."
What a pointless, ill-defined, harmful goal. A race to the bottom for this shit.
www.vox.com/technology/3...
What a pointless, ill-defined, harmful goal. A race to the bottom for this shit.
www.vox.com/technology/3...
DeepSeek is bad for Silicon Valley. But it might be great for you.
The DeepSeek saga that’s transforming AI, explained
www.vox.com
January 29, 2025 at 10:55 PM
"Liang said in a July 2024 interview with Chinese tech outlet 36kr that, like OpenAI, his company wants to achieve general artificial intelligence..."
What a pointless, ill-defined, harmful goal. A race to the bottom for this shit.
www.vox.com/technology/3...
What a pointless, ill-defined, harmful goal. A race to the bottom for this shit.
www.vox.com/technology/3...
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He's not blaming DEI, he's blaming women and non white people.
January 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
He's not blaming DEI, he's blaming women and non white people.