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I know there are guns with considerably more force, but you'd be unlikely to be caught falling holding on to them. Oh well.

By my calculations duel-wielding AK-47s would only slow your terminal velocity down to ~107MPH, and in practice angling your body as required to point them downward would likely significantly reduce your drag coefficient and speed you up.

Hypothetically, could a sufficiently powerful and rapid firing machine gun be used to slow a fall from human terminal velocity down to survivable impact speeds?

RT @AlecMuffett: This barnstorming @sarahjeong piece from 2015 should be writ large across the current end-to-end encryption - and online s…

This barnstorming @sarahjeong piece from 2015 should be writ large across the current end-to-end encryption - and online safety - debate: https://t.co/X4NErc7Ge3 https://t.co/ZmPT6zMweb

And I hope they take that even further too: they should machine learn which of your tweets are unpopular. “Are you sure you want to tweet about the New York mayoral race? 28% of your followers are tired of hearing from you about it”.

That’s just, uhh, an example, that I uhh, made up,

Not only do I think this is a good idea, I hope they expand it further: you should be able to see when people you follow (and only people you follow) dislike your tweets. https://t.co/MlAbDJl4b8

Twitter is testing Dislike buttons 👎 (via @iglehart97) https://t.co/7TRAb5LlzT

About once a week I turn my bed into a Pilates studio https://t.co/6Nt3jPHVcf

This is cool, but the CODEX anagram is just sitting there begging to be used https://t.co/81SQfJ2ENK

RT @SwiftOnSecurity: WiFi before couch always

RT @halvorz: people desperately want to find people it is socially acceptable to be cruel to

RT @the6p4c: fixing a python syntax error, aka re-indenting the wheel

grep this https://t.co/4wnTIeybOS https://t.co/NMSembExNF

There are billions of people in the world who have never grepped.

Love to see work on new command line interfaces. Can’t wait to try this. Also, check out this good privacy page. A new product that is focused on end user agency over their own data, yes please! https://t.co/ylvXbyy7E3 https://t.co/pFgrwSc8eq

Excited to come out of stealth and share what we've been working on: Warp is a blazingly fast, Rust-based terminal for the modern age. With Warp, you get -Grouped commands and outputs -A full text editor for input -Visual menus for history & completions -Command palette 1/7 https://t.co/jiAN4iSQL1

This is just normal now. Honestly pretty clean compared to today, when I have a whole ass additional keyboard (the ivory kind, at least skeumorphically) https://t.co/9YrqrRQWQ3

@edent One reason I do like PDFs is that they are a copy of what I have sent - not automatic for web forms (though of course I could save it before sending if I think about it, or a well-built one could email me my submission) https://t.co/x6ZieZaakd

I love this idea because employers deserve it 😈 “Is this... what's the word... ethical?” “Our investors think so!” https://t.co/eqopRV5mkJ

RT @SwiftOnSecurity: The hawk's talons crunch into your clavicles, creeks of blood disseminating into forest below, its sky-filling cries o…

@m_ashcroft I was surprised to read this, because I experience pain (rsi, sitting), and paying much _more_ attention to how I move (eg Pilates) helped me alleviate it. But I've also heard that Alexander Technique might help, so it's strange to hear it is the opposite of that. Interesting.

The hawk's talons crunch into your clavicles, creeks of blood disseminating into forest below, its sky-filling cries overriding your own. You should have installed that Windows update.

That is to say, what the public wants is to be able to Get A Manager when something is happening that they don’t like.

(Similarly, one of my cryptocurrency takes is that people do not actually want to trade revocable credit card transactions for irrevocable cash transactions. Might be too spicy for the tl tho, I’ll hide it down here in a reply. FWIW, I do want (the option of) that trade myself.)

One job AI cannot do is feel bad or express contrition or regret when chastised by the public or the law. The public will not like this. Also true of smart contracts! https://t.co/aSh4ZKuRzB

🤔🤔🤔 https://t.co/Pz6yf5XGOM

Web browser feature wish: form submission history. Would be really nice if the browser kept a record of what I sent in e.g. companies' "Contact Us" forms, which are write-only and don't always send an automatic email confirmation.

RT @NanoRaptor: https://t.co/KoVEW3yUL3

To protect your account, please answer the following Insecurity Questions https://t.co/JdgPhmmo4H

This is the most honest account online https://t.co/8vpr76FeOX

@aeden If I haven’t pushed yet it’s good, but sometimes I’ve published my mistake 😬. Sometimes the mistake is obvious in hindsight, but other times I’ve got a carefully written explanation in a commit message that’s just totally wrong, and that’s when I’d most use a feature like this.

@mrled Any reason --amend won't work for you in this case?

Interesting method that partly accomplished these goals, from dnsimple https://t.co/rP4OqwXRON https://t.co/4kkO9hXHXY

It’s not as flexible as what I wish for, because it only works once at PR time, and it relies on your git host to link the squash merges to PRs. On the other hand, it works today.

"Keeping UI designers on staff is like having standing armies in peacetime" All the Safari Beta posts have kept this phrase top of mind lately. https://t.co/asmXgJYcKy https://t.co/AM7hXFprsS

Dope. I love little typing-driven apps like this - almost like a command line. https://t.co/Cw1y2TFeMw

Band: “Single Letter Variable Name”, but it’s just written as “x”. Like Prince.

Stacks that use a modern design are so clean and elegant https://t.co/8VxCQAGNlr

Imagine if emulators were designed as a cluster of microservices where instructions were delivered via individual POST requests… https://t.co/UcMdJqSaYi

@OldObiBenKenobi @Twitter @SubstackInc Shit like this is one reason I refuse to “sign in with X” everywhere, maybe one or two exceptions.

RT @pee_zombie: so all of a sudden we're down with IP when the GPL is involved huh

It’s longer than you think, dad! Longer than you think! https://t.co/XJgpLS2exs

Canonically, what happens inside the Pokéball? 🤔

RT @MachinePix: Fractal vise for holding irregular shapes by Mantle & Co, restored by Hand Tool Rescue. https://t.co/ucbRtsjC66

Come to think of it, why don't github/stackexchange study whatever gray hat SEO sludge gitmemory is doing and copy it? Genuinely confused how github/stackexchange and google - both incentivized to get real results higher - have let this go on for so long now.

Is there a writeup or technical explanation of why sites like gitmemory[.]com show up so high in the google search results? They copy content from github/stackexchange and show up on the first page of results a surprising amount of time.

And since Google is built by engineers who presumably occasionally search the web looking for code on github and answers on stackexchange, my guess is that Google search engineers have seen gitmemory.

But it's spam! If they are aware of it, why are they letting it stick around? Am very curious as to the technical/policy reasons they allow copies of open licensed content like that to rank so highly.