Andrew Tergis

Andrew Tergis

@terg.is

Electrical Engineer, Expert Abyss-Starer

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this is a "duh" moment for me - pretty simple explanation for global warming triggering extreme weather, more water in atmosphere = more energy

Pam Kan-Rice@ucanrpam.bsky.social

”You see an acceleration in the hydroclimate cycle overall. You see more extreme precipitation when it is raining and more extreme evaporation when it is not, simply by virtue of the temperature being higher than it used to be.” @weatherwest.bsky.social said

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Oooh, Copper has released the 2.0 version of Charlie, its electric induction range. It now can plug into a normal 120V outlet! Bigger battery, more power. NYC is gonna buy a bunch of these for public housing, help bring the cost down.

copperhome.comCharlie - battery-equipped induction rangeMeet Charlie, a powerful battery-equipped induction range that plugs into 120v and 240v outlets. Ranges are built in the U.S. and installed across the country.

Boy howdy asking Hermes / Claude to write optimized C code really feels like giving a loaded gun to a monkey. But for a small utility with low "foot-gun" surface...

Uh hoh, i'm asking claude code to write a waybar widget to show remaining claude API usage limits. Does this mean i'm already cooked?

For those skating on the thin ice of burnout, I can see how you could be particularly vulnerable to the constant dopamine hits of an Agentic workflow. Maybe all you need is a little extra push / a little extra momentum to get moving, but something about it feels hazardous.

Is it filed under "list of capitalism inventions that really should be identified and controlled as addictive" with all the other things we haven't yet come to grips with as a society? Less destructive? More destructive?

A fun new thing my smartwatch is telling me - I get the most stress alerts when I try to briefly unwind with a chill RPG videogame. My body literally doesn't want to me relax, great!

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Is anyone more cartoonishly pathetic than the weak little babies yelling at Fauci The saddest YOU’RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME toddlers who just couldn’t fuckin pitch in like everybody else

I mean, the play here with agents and loop engineering is just for AI providers (read: claude) to own the execution environment, right? Don't write your own cron job, pay us the tokens Right?

I've generally not needed to exercise 5G, but today i've been working from random doctors office while tethering and realized I needed to pull a few large AI models. I grimaced, and hit enter... and it pulled 53 MB/sec down! First time it's actually mattered

Every so often I remember I haven't listened to any Philip Glass in a while and put some on while working and

This to me has been one of the stupidest and most dangerous parts of our current timeline, that so much vital logic with LLM systems lives within imprecise human language. It's a house of cards built and trained on other houses of cards...

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social

Top notch safeguards I see

Cool cool cool, my son is due to get his last shot in a month 🤞

Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social

2) Those changes could presumably take many forms — there are lots of vaccines on the schedule, which guides when kids get their shots. But it seems increasingly likely that RFK Jr will suceed at delaying hepatitis B vaccine. Here's a good @kffhealthnews.org story on that possibility/probability.

They'll all get extorted for carve-outs. The rest of the little guys will be the ones getting slammed.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

B of A: “.. An average vehicle has 1k-3k semiconductor components.” Industry estimates suggest a 100% tariff rate on chips and semis could “increase vehicle production costs by $4,800-$10,000.” $TSLA, $F, $RIVN “most impacted”

God, I'm already tired enough of this - so if all the expensive items on my BOM go up by 100%, but the import cost of a finished good is 20-40% from an Asian country with good PCBA expertise, why again would I being that production onshore?

I switched back to Chrome because on the day I was set to return back to work from a lengthy leave, Firefox (on wayland+sway via regolith) decided to render menus and tab text invisible. My current toddler situation doesn't give me the time to debug this, even if I might have 100% caused it somehow

Unfortunately i'll have to put up with all of the nefarious shenanigans of Chrome because "just make google meet work so I can get through my workday please"

I continue to be sad that Mozilla has forever shunned WebUSB, among many other reasons because it locks people out from this feeling of exuberance when talking to hardware in fun new ways.

Catherine@whitequark.org

how cool is this?

How else is anyone expected to crack open a cold one with the boys and talk about the size of the shit they just took?

The New York Times@nytimes.com

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had the consumer messaging app Signal set up on a computer in his office at the Pentagon so that he could send and receive instant messages in a space where personal cellphones are not permitted, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.

For some reason my sleep deprived brain read this as Tool, the band

Dylan Flesch@dylanflesch.bsky.social

“Imagine a world where there are tool libraries in every neighborhood, and they’re third spaces for people to hang out without having to spend money,” she said. “There are potlucks to share food, and urban farms.” truthout.org/articles/no-...

Sheeeeeit, I've been waiting for Novavax to drop. Would love the reduction in reaction symptoms

Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis@jeffjarvis.bsky.social

Dangerous fuckers. The FDA was moving to grant full approval for Novavax’s Covid-19 vaccine. But it missed the April 1 deadline after the agency’s vaccine chief was forced out. www.wsj.com/health/healt...

It's pretty wild how thorough and systematic the GOP playbook for disassembling the government is in contrast to the democrats. At this point it's a smoothly oiled machine: force way into building and systems, fire probationary employees, bully leaders out, wipe out rest with a RIF. Over and over.

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A nonsensical threat to: One of the most important advances in biotechnology of our time, already being used to successfully treat refractory cancers, enable genome editing, develop vaccines for infectious diseases for which there are none, treat autoimmune diseases, and more.

Alex Wayne@aawayne.bsky.social

Exclusive: NIH officials have advised scientists to remove reference to mRNA vaccines from their grant applications, in expectation the Trump administration intends to abandon most research in the field. By @arthurallen202.bsky.social kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Used Claude's new CLI for a simple coding task (writing python docstrings). It only processed 4/21 files, and erroneously tried to refactor two functions. Not taking over anytime soon.

Barry Dorrans@blowdart.me

Ah the find out of coding ais

I hate to say it, but "flood the zone" is really quite effective terrorism of the electorate, most effectively against the left. My social media feeds are undoubtedly stressful and demoralizing.

BOO! This strip of open streets rules, it's really idyllic, It should be re-extended through Sunday

Streetsblog NYC@nyc.streetsblog.org

Vanderbilt Avenue will only be converted to a car-free paradise on Saturdays from May to September this year, a money-saving rollback for a thriving neighborhood institution that used to be all weekend from early spring to fall.

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Last month, Streetsblog published a massive feature on a rogue e-bike company, Fly. The MSM failed to follow up. So we did, exposing oversight and contracting flaws that now make Fly the go-to company for a new NYC DOT bike-swap program. Read it here: nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/02/13/d...

nyc.streetsblog.orgCity E-Bike Swap Program Uses Bikes from Fly, a Company With Safety Violations - Streetsblog New York CityWhy is the Department of Transportation paying an out-of-state middleman to buy electric bikes from Fly E-Bike?