RobRoy @RobRoy@schelling.pt
Systems Engineer, New Dad, Software enthusiast.
If I follow your account its probably because its either:
Engineering and engineering management
Aerospace Defense industry
Rationalist adjacent
Crypto
Political, but politically neutral
Photography focused
or DIY focused
I block accounts that are too politicized
Joined Aug 2023
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New psyop: make cybersec ppl believe that a faction of normies are directly and specifically acting against their cybersec training to protest the level of cybersec obligation imposed on the end-user. At least it will be a useful myth for cybersec ppl to talk about undue obligation.
Men are designed for adventures.
They spend the best years of their lives doing great deeds in order to earn their place in the world.
Leaving home
Wooing women
Late nights fighting for a degree
Traveling across the country for a paycheck.
After years of blood, sweat, tears, risk, and fear they might be so lucky as to earn their place in the world.
But, there will always be a little part of them that misses the days where they were building something.
Because Men are designed for adventures.
My kids stroller doesn't have a cup holder and that's absolutely outrageous
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Mastodon🐘 4.2 released - article on Mastodon blog @Mastodon - upgrades to search and web interface; local instance/server upgrades occur on admin's schedule https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/09/mastodon-4.2/ #SocialMedia #OpenSource #software #tech
I gets frustrated about how otherwise good accounts post or boost a ton of niche politics. It would be nice nice if I could block the activism but keep the memes
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I've devised a perfectly efficient system, the only requirement is that all agents act rationally
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Captured both aircraft of the Growler Demo Team in vapor cone, Sunday at Airshow London. This was a completely lucky combination of drive speed and when I chose to begin shooting; this fleeting moment lasted a fraction of a second. #AviationPhotography #avgeek #airshow
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“If you feel like there’s something out there that you’re supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.” —Wanda Sykes
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich and poor alike from defecating on sidewalks
Survival tip: "If you're ever lost just remember: Solar panels always grow on the south side of a house"
If SyFy made a movie about it I'd make fun of the unreasonable premise
I'll tell you what, "Look out for the hurricane hitting Death Valley" was not a sentence I ever thought I would say
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The stoic practice of oikeiosis formalizes the moral schema of "near" and "far" ethical obligations. In modern practice, the inclusion of the "far" margins of ethical life have been recognized in 2 ways:
1. The most popular practice is to find the most ethically "far" constituency and to use this constituency as the cause that you champion as demonstration of your ethical commitment.
2. The less common approach is to identify the seams, the frontiers of discontinuity for ethical practice.
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There's an undeniable irony in the idea of the British Museum firing someone for stealing art treasures.
So I've been trying to find cool accounts to add to my feed, and it's stunning to me how many people talk casually about how they don't have their lives together. I'm certainly not perfect, but I've never really had that feeling of "I'm feeling insecure with my life, the world, and everything" that seems endemic in some corners of the internet.
People tend to overestimate their own capabilities especially when they watch something a lot without doing it themselves. One way this operationalizes is in public policy. People will look at some massive complex bill that was the result of thousands of hours of consideration and compromise and make a snap judgement on it. That's not to say politicians are always right. But we should try to be more confident of our own blindspots and lack of expertise.
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It's always "empathize with vegetables and icebergs" and it's never "empathize with people in a non-hip part of the third world with mixed moral status."
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Right now if you search for "country in Africa that starts with the letter K":
- DuckDuckGo will link to an alphabetical list of countries in Africa which includes Kenya.
- Google, as the first hit, links to a ChatGPT transcript where it claims that there are none, and summarizes to say the same.
This is because ChatGPT at some point ingested this popular joke:
"There are no countries in Africa that start with K."
"What about Kenya?"
"Kenya suck deez nuts?"
Google Search is over.
Systems Engineer, New Dad, Software enthusiast.
If I follow your account its probably because its either:
Engineering and engineering management
Aerospace Defense industry
Rationalist adjacent
Crypto
Political, but politically neutral
Photography focused
or DIY focused
I block accounts that are too politicized
Joined Aug 2023
