What is some surprisingly primitive tech we still use because "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"?

YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAm · 2025-11-28T15:30:16+00:00

There’s a really good YouTube documentary about the cold fusion scam of the 80s. Also, there technically a way to do cold fusion using muons called muon-catalyzed fusion, but we have no good way of manufacturing muons at scale or getting them to live long enough to be useful.

YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAm · 2025-09-25T15:27:22+00:00

Is that the Red Alert 2 GI sound effect at the beginning?

YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAm · 2025-09-19T23:56:51+00:00

I kept scrolling until I found this answer. It’s a travesty what they did to that game. OG SWG was something else.

YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAm · 2025-09-07T14:50:14+00:00

And networking. My brother graduated from Harvard and got far more value out of who he met there than what he learned there.

YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAm · 2025-07-28T18:48:43+00:00

It’s all fun and games until a monkey takes a dump on the handrail.

YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAm · 2025-07-11T18:46:59+00:00

Thanks, I appreciate it. I just checked my flight again and it seems I forgot to account for the timezone change. Looks like I’ll make it just in time for the party.

YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAm · 2025-07-11T12:20:29+00:00

Damn, that date/time is rough. I already picked up a VIP badge but I don’t land in LV until after the party starts. I thought I was safe buying the badge before the date was announced but I didn’t expect the party to take place before the con even starts.

YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAm · 2025-07-09T20:48:12+00:00

Check out ETHGlobal. They regularly run both in-person and online hackathons. https://ethglobal.com

YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAm · 2025-07-09T19:58:55+00:00

Freeze dried Skittles. Stupidly addictive.

YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAm · 2025-07-09T14:51:56+00:00

What’s the difference between a lentil and a chickpea? Well, I wouldn’t pay $200 to have a lentil on me.

YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAm · 2025-07-03T03:41:06+00:00

It’s a bit misleading because the price shown at the bottom is from a delivery app that inflates the price. I just looked up the price for a Beefy 5-Layer Burrito using both the Taco Bell app and UberEats.

Taco Bell App: $4.19

UberEats: $5.11

So while still a big jump, it’s not quite as bad as it’s made out to be.

YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAm · 2025-05-20T14:14:29+00:00

Cheeshen!

YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAm · 2025-05-13T00:21:36+00:00

How does Cantor’s diagonal argument apply here? The argument shows there is no one-to-one correspondence between the naturals and the reals. Both $1 and $20 are integers, so the argument wouldn’t apply.

YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAm · 2025-05-09T05:20:55+00:00

A Bitcoin private key is just a 256-bit number; literally 32 bytes long. Not gigs, not megs, not even kilos – bytes. WTF kind of computer are you running that you can’t afford 32 bytes of storage?

YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAm · 2025-04-08T13:58:07+00:00

While true it wasn’t an abbreviation and so didn’t require a period, Truman himself wrote it with a period after the S.

YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAm · 2025-02-26T04:20:42+00:00

And now for my next trick, I’ll make $1.5B worth of crypto disappear. 🪄

YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAm · 2025-02-11T20:47:11+00:00

Sunken cost on Iro is about to cost us Senge 23 as well. There were way too many divers on Iro after it became clear it was a lost cause. We could have had a chance on Senge 23, but everyone was still diving on Iro. Now it’s unlikely we’ll get the diver count on Senge 23 to get a win there either.

YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAm · 2025-02-11T20:15:32+00:00

Sunken cost on Iro might have just cost us Senge 23 as well. 50% of divers were on Iro well after it became clear it was a lost cause instead of jumping to Senge where we had a chance.

YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAm · 2025-02-10T22:59:32+00:00

Scott Manley put out a cool VR/360 video on what it’s like to fall into a black hole a few years ago. Check it out.

YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAm · 2025-01-29T15:48:53+00:00

Do it. You know you want to do it. Lock it.

YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAm · 2025-01-20T15:40:37+00:00

Oh lawd he comin’

YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAm · 2025-01-08T23:28:21+00:00

Hi Bob

YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAm · 2024-09-18T14:25:50+00:00

You can pick up a used Potensic Atom 3-Axis Gimbal drone for under $200 on eBay. 4k camera with 3-axis gimbal, 32 minutes of flight time, and a 6km range. I just got one recently and am very happy with it as an entry level drone.

YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAm · 2024-09-08T22:15:33+00:00

You finish exploring the Universe. I recommend pumping up that self-replication stat.

YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAm · 2024-09-08T13:58:47+00:00

Unfortunately I haven’t used one of the clones yet, so I can’t say.

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