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They say, Any Sufficiently advanced engineering is indistinguishable from art. This is what that looks like. A 5-axis Hermle machining centre isn't simply shaping metal. It is coordinating five axes of motion simultaneously while its spindle turns at up to 18,500-41,000 RPM, following tool-paths that can contain hundreds of... thousands or even millions of lines of CAM-generated code. It cuts materials that would be impossible to drill by hand, titanium, Inconel, hardened tool steels, cobalt-chrome and aerospace-grade stainless alloys,while holding tolerances measured in microns, smaller than a fraction of a human hair. A fully equipped machine like this can cost well over €2.5 million. Because it can repeatedly manufacture aerospace-grade components with micron-level precision in a single 10-20 hour machining cycle, parts that would otherwise require multiple machines, repeated setups, days of manual work, and still struggle to achieve the same accuracy and tolerances needed for high performance parts.show more

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The Apple Watch launched 10 years ago today (and has sold over 200 million units). An interesting manufacturing detail is that Apple is the world’s largest buyer of Swiss CNC machines. These automated precision tool cost ~$2m each and make small metal parts. Rolex used to be the largest buyer of CNC machines. But that title now belongs to Apple, which owns 100s of them. Why? For the Apple Watch: the tool is used specifically to make slots for swappable wrist straps. That’s it. How precise is the CNC (computer numerical control) machine? Per The Verge, an average CNC machine can cut pieces with a precision of +/- 50 microns (for comparison, a strand of hair is 70 microns). The Apple Watch is even more demanding: it requires a cut within +/- 5 microns. That’s a comically tight tolerance band. The multi-hundred million dollar investment has already paid for itself: Watch straps are a $1B accessory business. *** Links Found this video of a CNC Machine from Cox Manufacturing (not sure if Apple’s looks exactly the same but added the white lotus theme music because why not): The Verge has a fascinating breakdown on the Watch engineering for the slot: :

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Ammanichanda

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"In a fantasy or science fiction story, you can get away with one big lie. You can include one thing that's convenient for the author in order to make the plot work. In Children of Time, the question is 'what if a species of a spider developed a society, civilization, and technology. But the big lie is literally that there is a nanovirus is assisting the uplift of the spiders, and the lie is the amount of time that'll take. Because of the nanovirus, that happens in tens of thousands of years rather than hundreds of millions of years, which you would need by evolution. People need to read a book and think 'that's a thing that could happen.' It gives your book a weight and gravity that it would not have if it was magic talking spiders. So in order to support your One Big Lie, everything else needs to be true." — Adrian Tchaikovsky

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🚨This is what American engineering looks like… in real time. No hype… no CGI… no trick editing. A man takes industrial structural adhesive… Applies it correctly… lets it cure… Then lifts a 7,000 lb Tesla Cybertruck OFF THE GROUND… Tesla With glue. Let that sink in. Not bolts… Not welds… Not steel reinforcement… Glue. This isn’t arts and crafts… this is aerospace-grade chemistry meeting precision engineering. The product used… Fusor 2098 Is designed to create bonds so strong… they rival or exceed traditional mechanical fastening in specific applications. And it showed. That joint held under full load… No snap… No shear failure… No separation. This is the level of innovation people underestimate. America doesn’t just build things… It reinvents how things are built. From automotive to aerospace… From composites to bonding science… We are engineering at the molecular level now. While others are debating… We’re designing materials that can hold up a truck with a layer you can barely see. That’s not just impressive… That’s dominance in applied science. #SilentMajoritySpeaks #AStoneGroove

🚨This is what American engineering looks like… in real time. No hype… no CGI… no trick editing. A man takes industrial structural adhesive… Applies it correctly… lets it cure… Then lifts a 7,000 lb Tesla Cybertruck OFF THE GROUND… Tesla With glue. Let that sink in. Not bolts… Not welds… Not steel reinforcement… Glue. This isn’t arts and crafts… this is aerospace-grade chemistry meeting precision engineering. The product used… Fusor 2098 Is designed to create bonds so strong… they rival or exceed traditional mechanical fastening in specific applications. And it showed. That joint held under full load… No snap… No shear failure… No separation. This is the level of innovation people underestimate. America doesn’t just build things… It reinvents how things are built. From automotive to aerospace… From composites to bonding science… We are engineering at the molecular level now. While others are debating… We’re designing materials that can hold up a truck with a layer you can barely see. That’s not just impressive… That’s dominance in applied science. #SilentMajoritySpeaks #AStoneGroove

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534,242 views • 3 months ago

Elon’s been saying this for years. His view is that AI will eventually make a lot of jobs obsolete, and in that future, UBI, universal basic income will be needed so people can still have a living while machines do most of the work. He’s called UBI “necessary” in a high-AI future, but he’s also said it should be more like a “universal high income” tied to making sure people benefit from AI productivity, not just getting a basic check to survive. He’s repeated this on interviews and on X multiple times.

Elon’s been saying this for years. His view is that AI will eventually make a lot of jobs obsolete, and in that future, UBI, universal basic income will be needed so people can still have a living while machines do most of the work. He’s called UBI “necessary” in a high-AI future, but he’s also said it should be more like a “universal high income” tied to making sure people benefit from AI productivity, not just getting a basic check to survive. He’s repeated this on interviews and on X multiple times.

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Pi was built when there were already agent harnesses around. Here’s why Mario Zechner(Mario Zechner), found them suboptimal and built Pi, a minimalist self-modifying agent: #1 - Mario initially was a believer in Claude Code: "I was a believer in Claude code because they were the first that packaged agentic search up in a really compelling package. And at the time that fit my workflow really well. Everything around the LLM was kind of nice and tidy and easy to understand. I was super happy. I was proselytising Claude code." #2 - Reverse engineering Claude Code highlighted the degradation that Mario felt as a user: "I personally like simple tools that are stable and that I can rely on. Even if they have non-deterministic parts, all the deterministic parts should be as stable as possible. That was just not the experience with Claude Code around summer 2025. They would take away your control of the context. They would inject stuff behind your back, which is bad. Then, your workflows stopped working because there's now a system reminder that you don't even see in the UI that would modify the behaviour of the model. They would also do this to the system prompt. I built a little service where I can track the progression or evolution of the system, prompt and tool definitions and, with every release, it was messing with stuff. That just messed with my workflows and I don't appreciate that." #3 - PI was built with an appreciation for simple and reliable tools: "If I commit to a development tool, I want it to be a stable, reliable thing like a hammer. I don't want my hammer to break a different spot every day. That's terrible. We need somebody who goes the full velocity kind of way. But I don't want to work with a tool like that."

Pi was built when there were already agent harnesses around. Here’s why Mario Zechner(Mario Zechner), found them suboptimal and built Pi, a minimalist self-modifying agent: #1 - Mario initially was a believer in Claude Code: "I was a believer in Claude code because they were the first that packaged agentic search up in a really compelling package. And at the time that fit my workflow really well. Everything around the LLM was kind of nice and tidy and easy to understand. I was super happy. I was proselytising Claude code." #2 - Reverse engineering Claude Code highlighted the degradation that Mario felt as a user: "I personally like simple tools that are stable and that I can rely on. Even if they have non-deterministic parts, all the deterministic parts should be as stable as possible. That was just not the experience with Claude Code around summer 2025. They would take away your control of the context. They would inject stuff behind your back, which is bad. Then, your workflows stopped working because there's now a system reminder that you don't even see in the UI that would modify the behaviour of the model. They would also do this to the system prompt. I built a little service where I can track the progression or evolution of the system, prompt and tool definitions and, with every release, it was messing with stuff. That just messed with my workflows and I don't appreciate that." #3 - PI was built with an appreciation for simple and reliable tools: "If I commit to a development tool, I want it to be a stable, reliable thing like a hammer. I don't want my hammer to break a different spot every day. That's terrible. We need somebody who goes the full velocity kind of way. But I don't want to work with a tool like that."

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Elon Musk: Any country that allows unfettered mass immigration will cease to exist. “The mass immigration is insane and will lead to the destruction of any country that allows unfettered mass immigration. That country will simply cease to exist. At the end of the day, it is a numbers game, a numbers situation. If there are 8 billion people in the world, and let's say you're a country of 50 million, 60 million, for a medium-sized country, but even for a country like the United States, which is 350 million, given that there are 8 billion people in the world, it only takes a few percent of the rest of the world to move to the country to where it is no longer that country. A country is not its geography. A country is its people. This is a fundamental concept that is truly obvious. If you took the people of Italy and you teleported the people of Italy to, say, some part of the United States, it would still be Italy. But if you teleported a bunch of people from some other part of the world to Italy, where the Italian people are no longer because they've been teleported to America, then the region, the geographic region, would no longer be Italy. It would be that other country.” From: Interview with Matteo Salvini, April 5, 2025

Elon Musk: Any country that allows unfettered mass immigration will cease to exist. “The mass immigration is insane and will lead to the destruction of any country that allows unfettered mass immigration. That country will simply cease to exist. At the end of the day, it is a numbers game, a numbers situation. If there are 8 billion people in the world, and let's say you're a country of 50 million, 60 million, for a medium-sized country, but even for a country like the United States, which is 350 million, given that there are 8 billion people in the world, it only takes a few percent of the rest of the world to move to the country to where it is no longer that country. A country is not its geography. A country is its people. This is a fundamental concept that is truly obvious. If you took the people of Italy and you teleported the people of Italy to, say, some part of the United States, it would still be Italy. But if you teleported a bunch of people from some other part of the world to Italy, where the Italian people are no longer because they've been teleported to America, then the region, the geographic region, would no longer be Italy. It would be that other country.” From: Interview with Matteo Salvini, April 5, 2025

ELON CLIPS

27,107 views • 1 year ago

Two data points dropped in the last few months that should terrify every software company that thinks its codebase is a moat. First, one engineer at Cloudflare, working with Claude via AI agents, rebuilt 94% of Next.js, one of the most widely used frontend frameworks on the internet, built over 10 years by a large engineering team in a single week. Total cost was $1,100 in API tokens. The result, called Vinext, is a drop-in replacement that builds production apps up to 4x faster and produces client bundles 57% smaller and customers are already running it in production. Second is Cursor CEO Michael Truell deployed a swarm of hundreds of GPT-5.2 agents that ran uninterrupted for an entire week and built a fully functional web browser from scratch called FastRender. 3 million lines of code, thousands of files and a custom Rust rendering engine with HTML parsing, CSS layout, text shaping, and a custom JavaScript VM. Total cost was roughly $30,000. For context, Google has spent billions of dollars and decades of engineering building Chrome. And the benchmarks say by next year, you will be able to one-shot prompt anything. The moat that software companies spent decades building, the complexity of their codebase, the years it would take a competitor to replicate it, the switching costs that moat assumed humans were the unit of production. AI does not care how long it took you to build it, it only cares how long it takes to rebuild it. And right now, the answer is one week.

Two data points dropped in the last few months that should terrify every software company that thinks its codebase is a moat. First, one engineer at Cloudflare, working with Claude via AI agents, rebuilt 94% of Next.js, one of the most widely used frontend frameworks on the internet, built over 10 years by a large engineering team in a single week. Total cost was $1,100 in API tokens. The result, called Vinext, is a drop-in replacement that builds production apps up to 4x faster and produces client bundles 57% smaller and customers are already running it in production. Second is Cursor CEO Michael Truell deployed a swarm of hundreds of GPT-5.2 agents that ran uninterrupted for an entire week and built a fully functional web browser from scratch called FastRender. 3 million lines of code, thousands of files and a custom Rust rendering engine with HTML parsing, CSS layout, text shaping, and a custom JavaScript VM. Total cost was roughly $30,000. For context, Google has spent billions of dollars and decades of engineering building Chrome. And the benchmarks say by next year, you will be able to one-shot prompt anything. The moat that software companies spent decades building, the complexity of their codebase, the years it would take a competitor to replicate it, the switching costs that moat assumed humans were the unit of production. AI does not care how long it took you to build it, it only cares how long it takes to rebuild it. And right now, the answer is one week.

Milk Road AI

16,781 views • 3 months ago

Spiritual Transformation Is The Only Mechanism To Go Beyond This World Science fiction, and even many whistleblowers in Ufology, often claim that incredible feats can be achieved through technology alone. Technology can be Psychic! Machines exist that can take you into the higher dimensions! You can augment yourself with technology to gain spiritual abilities! Any serious student of Spirituality should be able to see, from a mile away, that a machine cannot seriously achieve these things. The modern day spiritualization of technology is a clear symptom of a society that has lost its spiritual underpinning. It is a sign of a world that has yet to turn inward. What we are really seeing with the spiritualization of technology is human beings that are trying to externalize, and project, inner, spiritual processes and capacities onto machines. This is because it is far easier to externalize something, to project it outward, than to actually understand it's inner meaning and process within ourselves. Ultimately, externalization and projection mean that we can avoid our personal responsibilities. The reality is that machines cannot truly be psychic. Machines cannot take you anywhere you want to go in time and space. Machines cannot create spiritual abilities for you. The only reason why we believe this as a society is because we do not acknowledge the soul. And, even if we do not, as a collective, acknowledge the existence of the soul, we will still yearn for it. We will still seek it even if we do not believe it exists. And, it is this innate seeking to experience Spirit that will lead us to project it where it could not possibly exist. The Esoteric Keys to Disclosure: Audience Questions

Spiritual Transformation Is The Only Mechanism To Go Beyond This World Science fiction, and even many whistleblowers in Ufology, often claim that incredible feats can be achieved through technology alone. Technology can be Psychic! Machines exist that can take you into the higher dimensions! You can augment yourself with technology to gain spiritual abilities! Any serious student of Spirituality should be able to see, from a mile away, that a machine cannot seriously achieve these things. The modern day spiritualization of technology is a clear symptom of a society that has lost its spiritual underpinning. It is a sign of a world that has yet to turn inward. What we are really seeing with the spiritualization of technology is human beings that are trying to externalize, and project, inner, spiritual processes and capacities onto machines. This is because it is far easier to externalize something, to project it outward, than to actually understand it's inner meaning and process within ourselves. Ultimately, externalization and projection mean that we can avoid our personal responsibilities. The reality is that machines cannot truly be psychic. Machines cannot take you anywhere you want to go in time and space. Machines cannot create spiritual abilities for you. The only reason why we believe this as a society is because we do not acknowledge the soul. And, even if we do not, as a collective, acknowledge the existence of the soul, we will still yearn for it. We will still seek it even if we do not believe it exists. And, it is this innate seeking to experience Spirit that will lead us to project it where it could not possibly exist. The Esoteric Keys to Disclosure: Audience Questions

Gigi Young

17,200 views • 2 years ago

A LINUX KERNEL DEVELOPER PROVED THE THING YOU PUSH CODE TO IS SECRETLY A DATABASE THAT CAN VERSION ALMOST ANYTHING AND THAT MOST DEVS HAVE ONLY EVER TOUCHED A TENTH OF IT 42 minutes from Josh Triplett -- a longtime Linux kernel and Debian developer -- showing that Git is a general-purpose, tamper-evident versioning engine that just happens to be famous for code. -> The moment it clicks, Git stops being "Where my code lives" and becomes what it really is underneath: a content-addressable store that can version almost anything -- your configs, your notes, your servers' state, entire datasets. People run whole wikis on it. They version their entire machine's configuration with it. They ship websites by pushing to it. They track data too big to email. None of it is a hack -- it's the same handful of objects you already use for code, pointed somewhere new. Treating Git as a code-only tool was never the ceiling -> it's a versioning engine for anything, and the people who see that automate what the rest of the team still does by hand. And as AI agents start spitting out not just code but configs, docs and data, the one system that can version and audit all of it at once is already sitting on your machine. You learned five commands to survive. This is the talk that shows you were standing on top of a database the whole time. It changes what you think the tool is even for. Bookmark & Watch it today ↓

A LINUX KERNEL DEVELOPER PROVED THE THING YOU PUSH CODE TO IS SECRETLY A DATABASE THAT CAN VERSION ALMOST ANYTHING AND THAT MOST DEVS HAVE ONLY EVER TOUCHED A TENTH OF IT 42 minutes from Josh Triplett -- a longtime Linux kernel and Debian developer -- showing that Git is a general-purpose, tamper-evident versioning engine that just happens to be famous for code. -> The moment it clicks, Git stops being "Where my code lives" and becomes what it really is underneath: a content-addressable store that can version almost anything -- your configs, your notes, your servers' state, entire datasets. People run whole wikis on it. They version their entire machine's configuration with it. They ship websites by pushing to it. They track data too big to email. None of it is a hack -- it's the same handful of objects you already use for code, pointed somewhere new. Treating Git as a code-only tool was never the ceiling -> it's a versioning engine for anything, and the people who see that automate what the rest of the team still does by hand. And as AI agents start spitting out not just code but configs, docs and data, the one system that can version and audit all of it at once is already sitting on your machine. You learned five commands to survive. This is the talk that shows you were standing on top of a database the whole time. It changes what you think the tool is even for. Bookmark & Watch it today ↓

slash1s

384,056 views • 1 month ago