Nicholas Weaver

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Researcher, ICSI
Chief Mad Scientist, Skerry Technologies
i would like to point out that there is, in fact, a very important lesson to be found in this whole Twitter clusterfuck, and that lesson is: don't do cocaine.

In particular: I'm not that happy with either Ardupilot or Betaflight.

Ardupilot is way too heavyweight and bloated, and at the same time does weird things (e.g. autopilot on my counter thinks it is yawing, when there is a compass that should keep it straight).

Betaflight is clean but it only really supports multicopters: So much of what is interesting is in fixed wings and ones that transition from multicopter to fixed-wing.

Plus I want something for students to muck with.

I've taken to referring to TFG's current platform as правда Social
Must Resist Urge to write a clean-sheet autopilot in Rust...

hey nerds! the offspring is looking for a new graphics card for their gaming rig so they can play latest shiny stuff!

with GPU shitcoin mining having been condemned to hell where it belongs, i understand that prices are in the realm of sanity now.

nvidia or amd is fine, just as long as it's the good stuff. a generation behind the latest is fine.

so what's good in the UK for a windows 10 gaming rig this week?

(plz boost, the more suggestions the better. think of the gamer children.)

UPDATE: we're probably going for a 3060, there's some damn fine deals and it should be able to deal with the hipness for a few years yet.

He's the richest man only because Telsa is a memestock.

Once people realize Tesla's value is high for the same basic reason FTX's was*, it'll normalize down to something a lot smaller.

* people put money in, and number go up; and because number go up, more people put more money in. All while paying lots of attention to the brand and the memes but without paying much attention to the fundamentals of the business

My experience so far here is not terribly different from Twitter, to be honest. I'm here because most of the people I care about moved. But a substantial fraction of my mentions are people interpreting my every word as uncharitably as possible and telling me what an awful person I must be.

When blocking them gets too exhausting, I'll probably just drop off, and you'll have to tell me how awful I am via email or USPS. In person by appointment only,

@hacks4pancakes honestly I think I’m missing a ton of #blacktechtwitter folks I followed 😞 I’ve been keeping an eye on threads (here and on the bird site) about creating safe spaces for Black people over here or elsewhere, but haven’t seen a ton of movement yet.
@Lockdownyourlife Or, men could call out other men and help stop the misogyny as well as support the women being harassed.
#StopMalePrivilege
#FuckPatriarchy
#Feminism