NietzscheanNull

Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan. Can't recommend it enough.

Are these bot/LLM accounts? The user of the post I'm replying to and the thread parent user (@crnvbikwblcps) seem to be randomly generated sequences, both very recently created.

Curious as to why "Minotaur" wasn't the mythological creature of choice – seems to me like it would fit the metaphorical bill.

The probability in GP's comment assumes that everyone has an equal chance of attaining billionaire status, and that the percentage of billionaires in the world remains constant. Given heritability of wealth and access to better education and healthcare, wealthy children have much lower barriers to success. The second assumption may not hold either, as the current overall economic trends seem to favor increasing concentration of wealth.

It'd be interesting to see just how steeply those advantages decrease the odds for the rest of us. I'd be willing to bet that—even in a comparatively wealthy developed country—the true chances for an average person achieving >$1B are orders of magnitude lower than the figure quoted.

Judging by the fact that they mentioned being in grad school at the time and that the laser was infrared, I imagine engraving steel isn't too far off from what they were using it for.

I believe the parent commenter is aware of that - they’re describing their wish for a tool that makes monitoring native application requests easy and transparent, similar to the experience of using browser devtools with web apps.

I really love the design/idea, but after hitting “Shuffle” a few times, it looks like it threw an unhandled exception due to an async error (now I just get a TypeError on every page load):

  O@https://mood.surf/build/routes/tweets/$tweetId-ID4B42CB.js:1:8106
  Zi@https://mood.surf/build/entry.client-R3Z7O5RV.js:5:64683
  li@https://mood.surf/build/entry.client-R3Z7O5RV.js:5:74110
  bs@https://mood.surf/build/entry.client-R3Z7O5RV.js:9:104095
  Kf@https://mood.surf/build/entry.client-R3Z7O5RV.js:9:104026
  st@https://mood.surf/build/entry.client-R3Z7O5RV.js:9:103886
  yi@https://mood.surf/build/entry.client-R3Z7O5RV.js:7:100770
  yi@[native code]
  @https://mood.surf/build/entry.client-R3Z7O5RV.js:5:50511
  @https://mood.surf/build/entry.client-R3Z7O5RV.js:1:4097
  _s@https://mood.surf/build/entry.client-R3Z7O5RV.js:5:50458
  we@https://mood.surf/build/entry.client-R3Z7O5RV.js:5:50393
  Ve@https://mood.surf/build/entry.client-R3Z7O5RV.js:7:98358
  bi@https://mood.surf/build/entry.client-R3Z7O5RV.js:5:69948
  bi@[native code]
  onChange@https://mood.surf/build/_shared/chunk-23IGV2EQ.js:9:31745
  u@https://mood.surf/build/_shared/chunk-23IGV2EQ.js:9:18647
  @https://mood.surf/build/_shared/chunk-23IGV2EQ.js:9:26238
  asyncFunctionResume@[native code]
  @[native code]

promiseReactionJobWithoutPromise@[native code]

I received mine recently, and I’ve been consistently impressed at both the build quality and overall attention to detail. I know many Kickstarter projects (and hardware startups in general) end up aggressively compromising on features and construction to meet deadlines and cut down on BOM costs, so I was very pleased to see no evidence of that with the Flipper Zero. It’s one of those products where you can immediately tell that a very passionate team invested a ton of time and took special care with the engineering and design process.

I get the same meme image on refresh unless I open Chrome DevTools and right-click the refresh button, hitting 'Empty Cache and Hard Reload.' [Edit: looks like a regular hard reload also does the trick.]

Seems to me like the image may need to be served with a cache-buster? If it helps, I'm running Chrome version 90.0.4430.212 (64-bit).

At this point, I don't believe this story can be categorized as simply "politics." This is momentous historical event that's absolutely unprecedented in modern U.S. history.