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President&founder of @crankuptheamps; making fast software faster; dad of 4; married to @lvcircuscenter; Vegas; Let's juggle.

Las Vegas, NV, USA
Joined June 2009
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The derivatives of the Position vector with respect to time have interesting names: Velocity (v) = change in Position Acceleration (a) = change in Velocity Jerk (j) = change in Acceleration Snap (s) = change in Jerk Crackle (c) = change in Snap Pop (p) = change in Crackle 🧐
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OH MY GOODNESS. I never thought I would ever say this . BRYCE MITCHELL IS FUCKING SPITTING
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Rate my sorting algorithm 😎
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Alysa Liu recently went viral for her Teen Vogue rant on MMX. “Most Pentium MMX vectorization was premature micro-optimization & aged poorly. The same code rewritten a few years later with streaming SIMD or even compiled automatically often outperformed it with far less effort.”
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Setting expectations appropriately
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The contents of Zuck's Instacart shopping list...
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Claude 4 just refactored my entire codebase in one call. 25 tool invocations. 3,000+ new lines. 12 brand new files. It modularized everything. Broke up monoliths. Cleaned up spaghetti. None of it worked. But boy was it beautiful.
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10 years later on one of the weirdest tweets.
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Oops I did it again 🤭 #TotalSolarEclipse
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BREAKING: Apollo has said that the current AI bubble is bigger than the 1990s tech bubble.
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Unless there is legislative change, it no longer makes sense to start a bootstrapped software startup in America anymore It’s hard to overstate how catastrophically bad Section 174 is for software companies Here’s an overview for anyone hearing about this only recently:
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UPDSouth - UNLV UPD Alert - UNLV University Police continues to respond to an active shooter in BEH. Continue to shelter-in-place. Unlv.edu/info
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"Most people die at 25 and aren't buried until they're 75" - Benjamin Franklin Why? 4 reasons and solutions:
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David Hampton planted douglas fir and larch trees in a forest in Oregon to resemble a face. Every autumn the larch pines turn orange and the smiley face stands out The face is about 300 feet in diameter.  rope was used to measure the circle douglas fir was planted for the eyes and mouth and the rest of the face was filled out with larch. both species will eventually be harvested but will smile at least for the next 30-50 years
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Update: The Linq has already flooded. – at Las Vegas, NV
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Maximum size of a PDF, version 7: 381 km × 381 km. commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki…
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Just fucking kill me now reddit.com/r/programmerhumor…
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Robots can't break bad habits either. Where'd Bard learn this from?
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