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@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Player mouthguards have accelerometers and communicate wirelessly with the officials. When a big enough contact is reported, the player goes off and undergoes concussion protocols. I wondered if the NFL has adopted these, but as far as I can tell they are just using them for dat...
@jmoiron.bsky.social The test in Joburg yesterday was immense; underestimate the All Blacks at your peril. An early turning point was Kurt-Lee Arendse going off for HIA and failing. Ref Matt Carley at the time said "mouthguard." Somehow this tech had escaped me: www.world.rugby/the-game/fac...
Argent-Matter/gcyr created comment on issue #122: verify rocket building works across both cardinal axes - Can't reproduce this based on orientation, but I did run into an issue with the scanner popping off ...
@jmoiron.bsky.social "We had too much traffic and a component failed" is a board meeting report, not an outage postmortem. The solution of rate limits and CPU/Mem alerts is state of the art for 2014, a time when Github still let engineers publish proper postmortems: github.blog/news-insight...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: "To think, you have to write. If you think without writing, you only think you're thinking." -- Leslie Lamport
@jmoiron.bsky.social Regarding Jason Arday, I keep thinking about James Frey, a congenital liar who sold the public on a fraudulent version of himself, was publicly caught and dressed down (by Oprah no less), but wasn't harassed to death.
@jmoiron.bsky.social I was wondering how they were watermarking text and apparently most people use SynthID or a system like it. During word gen, choices are biased by a private watermarking key, and you can easily verify the bias remains in the result. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fMF...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: How many false dawns do we need before the "rational" market catches on and stops chasing fairy tales.
by jason moiron, 2026