It actually states, “This destroyes the RSA cryptosystem.”

Seems a bit like the way an old pirate might speak, or at least someone hundreds of years old.

Its a meme. "This kills the crab."

And whenever I hear time crystal, I think of bad sci-fantasy 80s movies.

“Mondor, you must grab the time crystal before the second moon equinox, or the Flarborg will be released from their electronic pen and ravage us like they’ve never ravaged before!”

“Oh. Well, we wouldn’t want that would we?”

Following that

Wheel of Fortune bot, who knows the whole dictionary and was trained with the data of all past games, wins a car and waves from the passenger seat.

And spins the wheel to always land on the best option haha

I have ADD and typically eschew watching video if I can get the same, quality content faster in text.

I loved this and watched it to the end.

To any that feel the need to hide or disparage this because it seems to promote doing things on your own vs in the cloud, this isn’t some tech ops Total Money Makeover where you read a book and you’re suddenly in some sort of anti-credit cult. This is hard shit, and it’s the basics of the hard shit that I grew up with as being the only shit.

Yes, you can serve your own data. No one should fault you for doing that if you want. It takes the humble intelligence of the core team and everyone at IA to pull that off at this scale. If you don’t want to do the hard things, you could use the cloud. There are financial reasons also for one or the other, just as there are reasons people live with their family, rent, lease, and buy homes and office space- an imperfect analogy of course.

I hope that some of the others that could go on to work at the big guys or have been working there and want a challenge consider applying to IA when there’s an opening. They’ve done an incredible job, and I look forward to the cool things they accomplish in the future.

Thank you for this! It was definitely geared towards an internal audience but it makes me very happy to know that it was enjoyed and appreciated more broadly.

I am going to get a transcript done and up soon as well -- I just gave the talk on Friday so haven't had time to do so yet.

Tolerable(sp.), not tollerable.

What is the strangest thing you’ve ever seen in a chip? (e.g. has anything ever hinted at either a lucky accident that relied on physical laws that weren’t understood or tech that seemed too advanced to have been developed by the team that developed it?)

Also- the strange parts of the chip spell DDB, which may be relevant, as the V DDB is mentioned in one of the MAU design patents. Or DDB possibly could be the initials of the team or designers. It could have also served a practical purpose.

I've seen a few things on chips that don't make sense, such as wires to nowhere. Then I figured out that these were bug fixes where they had cut connections.

Occasionally I find interesting chip art such as a tiger on a Dallas Semiconductor chip: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_art

Chip art is a lot of fun! Years ago when I was working at a startup, we had a wooden statue in the office of a monkey holding a cell phone. Over time he was further accessorized with a hardhat and an official company badge. On one of our prototype tapeouts, we made a not-insignificant effort to render a proper photo of it onto the top layer metal.

The tricky thing was getting multiple colors (shades, really) using what amounts to a single color. Back then, we didn't have any fancy filters like "sketch mode" to turn it into a line drawing, and we were limited to some extent by process design rules for metal size, spacing, density, etc.

We ended up opening the image in GIMP, and converting it to grayscale, then true black and white (1-bit color) by upscaling and using some filter where it preserves the shades by setting the average density of black pixels in an area to match the shade of gray of the pixel in the original. Then we wrote a script that mapped black pixels to solid metal, and white pixels to empty space, on a grid in such a way that all Design Rules were met.

It wasn't a perfect result but I think it turned out alright! https://imgur.com/a/AkB10A0

What was the function of that piece of silicon?

The whole die was a cellular transceiver. If I remember correctly that particular spot happened to be empty on the top layer. Foundries require a minimum density of metal on every layer, so we would have had to put dummy pieces of metal there anyways. We figured why not put a picture

Left-handed for those that need clarification. :)

I am related to a left-hander who hates being a synonym for evildoing, so now it sticks out to me when people use it that way :p

...when do people use it that way? "Sinister" in English has just the one meaning; the sense of "left" is restricted to Latin.

And even there, "left" is a pretty different concept from "left-handed".

On a different note, French for left is "gauche".

A few different English dictionaries include "on the left" as a current definition for sinister.

From American Heritage Dictionary 4th Ed. (En-En)

> sinister

> sin·is·ter (sĭnʹĭ-stər)

> adj.

> 4. On the left side; left.

> From Merriam-Webster's Collegiate 11 (En-En)

> sinister

> a. : of, relating to, or situated to the left or on the left side of something; especially : being or relating to the side of a heraldic shield at the left of the person bearing it

> of, relating to, or situated to the left or on the left side of something; especially : being or relating to the side of a heraldic shield at the left of the person bearing it

The bar sinister? Calling that a sense of the English word would commit you to saying that "vert" is English for "green", "gules" is English for "red", "or" is English for "gold", etc.

Nobody uses it that way — they use it to mean evil/wicked/malevolent, but then said relation will usually gibe "why yes they are very left-handed" so I have stopped using it that way lol

Instead of 'sinister', you could try 'gauche' or 'awkward' as terms for left-handed.

None of OP's criteria for unfollowing/muting people was them saying things they disagree with.

It's the difference between not watching NBA games because you're not interested in basketball, and refusing to watch the local news because "they have a (left|right) bias".

There is more content out there competing for your attention than you have time in your life to consume it. Rather than letting twitter's default algorithm feed you the most "engaging", OP is saying a more mindful approach works for them.

I've started to wonder if "bubbles" are a good thing. Others beliefs shouldn't be foisted on me at any given moment of my day, and if I don't care to hear them there isn't anything wrong with that.

Moreover, communication seems less hostile and more nuanced when we aren't forced to discuss everything with everyone at once. That is why more focused communities like this one seem to be more enjoyable to use.

That’s an interesting take. What is the difference between building a social media bubble and hanging out with friends because of shared interests? It’s almost as if social media comes with this intent that you’re supposed to confront yourself with the world or you are becoming blind, while this can often be a very alien concept in the real world that few intentionally do.

Following that logic, you are in a bubble in any situation except where you have a feed of every single person's tweets. I don't think that is a very sustainable view.

Only if you get distracted by political bullshit.

I follow on twitter:

- A group of museums and people who work on Roman ruins in the UK and post a lot of ancient history content

- Local news reporters in beats I care about

- A few tech journalists and “celebrities” or podcasters

- Cat and dog video accounts

- Some money people

- Baseball related stuff

I do not follow people I know on Twitter and haven’t logged into Facebook for years. The magic of Twitter is that you can purge content you don’t want to read very easily. I actually have family involved in politics... they never ever want to talk shop, ever. There is nothing more vapid and boring than yakking about political bullshit.

If you think you are in a bubble about politics because of your social media friends, seriously get new friends or mute anyone who talks about how great their guy is. It will measurably improve your life.

I challenge you to explain why this matters.

Sure, but I use Twitter to relax and enjoy specific types of content. It doesn't need to be your source of knowledge.

Sure but it's a bubble of comic book artists, people that like video games, comedians cracking jokes, etc.

That would depend on the person. Lots of people are very interested by people who disagree with them in certain ways.

I'm aware of the bad takes anyway, since they're pretty much unavoidable.

only if what you want to see is just people who agree with you, in which case you'll live in a sad bubble in any case ..

That’s someone who understands bubble physics. They tend to join like that before they pop.

The issue is that predicting that a specific thing will rise doesn't mean anything, for all we know you've been predicting EVERYTHING will rise, and got no false negatives but a million false positives.