@adamdoyle

Conservative libertarian. America First. Senior Engineer at a 'major cloud provider.' Opinions are my own.

Virginia, USA
Joined December 2008
My Tesla is the best and lowest maintenance car I've ever owned. A few of the highlights, in no particular order: ⭐ Wake up every morning with a "full tank of gas" ⭐ Fastest acceleration of virtually any production vehicle. You press down on the pedal and it just immediately gets there. No lag. ⭐ Memory everything. Memory seat positions, air vent positions, mirror positions, settings, etc. ⭐ Ability to program keys (keycards, phones, etc.) self-service on the touchscreen. Non-Tesla vehicles require dealer visits and $100+ of fees. ⭐ Full self driving available for $99/mo. And smart summon can pick you up at the front of the parking lot ⭐ Sentry mode records from all cameras while you're away, helping to deter vandalism. Also has a dashcam when you're driving. ⭐ Watch Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, etc. on the screen when parked. (e.g. supercharger or waiting for your food order at somewhere like Sonic) ⭐ No concept of "idling" (like in a conventional car) means you can tell the car to maintain the temperature while you're away. e.g. When I'm hiking on a hot day, I tell the car to maintain the 70°F interior temp while I'm gone so I don't come back to a hot car. ⭐ There's a "dog mode" that maintains the interior temperature and puts a message on the screen that says "My driver will be back soon. Don't worry! The A/C is on and it's 70°F" in case you need to make a quick stop while you have your dog with you. ⭐ One-pedal driving. Press down to accelerate, let up to brake. Kindof like a go-kart. It's weird at first but far superior once you get used to it. ⭐ Light show. You can play music from the car's exterior speakers, synchronized to the lights and motorized parts of the car (trunk, windows, mirrors, etc.). They recently pushed an update allowing you to trigger it from your phone, which is cool because you can do that when you're looking for your car in a big parking lot at night. ⭐ All the typical premium features you'd expect like heated seats, self-dimming mirrors, heated wipers, wiper fluid that comes directly out of the wiper, projection headlights, etc. Double-pane frameless windows. ⭐ Whole-car defrost mode. Press a button in the app, wait 30-ish minutes, and it melts the snow/ice off all windows and roof. ⭐ Premium sound system. They designed it custom with a bunch of former Bang and Olufsen engineers. ⭐ No concept of "On". You get in, put it in gear, and start driving. ⭐ Everything is super low latency and streamlined. My wife's Chevy takes like 6 - 10 seconds before the touchscreen lets you start pressing buttons. My Tesla always reacts immediately, within milliseconds. When I open the door, the music is *already playing.* The music volume lowers automatically when I open the door and raises back up afterwards. ⭐ Calendar integration. If I have an event on my phone calendar, it automatically queues that up in the car's navigation ahead of the event time. ⭐ Entire roof is glass. Makes for an awesome sunroof and makes it very easy to clean. (Just need some Windex) ⭐ Extremely low maintenance. No oil changes. No transmission fluid changes. And the brakes don't wear down as fast because most of the "braking" is done with regenerative braking that doesn't actually use the car's brakes. And I'm definitely forgetting tons of other features. And the OTA updates allow them to keep pushing out more and more features. In addition to regular updates throughout the year, they have a Christmas update every December with a bunch of nice "big" features.
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Adam Doyle 🇺🇸 retweeted
What’s the difference?
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This is what’s going on with the (foreign) doctors:
The way this worked was that state U trained local boys who liked their home. Local boy bought a practice from old local boy. He bought radiology, labs, etc and billed the local hospital that he was on the board of. He got fairly rich and locals knew their doctor. (1/x)
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Coming soon:
🤖 Made with AI
.@elonmusk: “Drivers are gonna love driving this truck because it just has so much acceleration. It’s almost like a sports car in truck form. So it’s gonna be the funnest truck to drive.”
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Urbanism is bad for you.
Research shows playing in the dirt isn't just fun — it's critical to health. And studies show it transforms children's immune systems in just 28 days. A groundbreaking experiment in Finland replaced gravel and asphalt in nursery playgrounds with patches of forest floor, complete with mosses, leaf litter, and wild undergrowth. The results were staggering: within just 28 days, children who played in these rewilded yards developed more diverse skin and gut microbiomes along with higher levels of regulatory T-cells. This suggests that the biodiversity hypothesis—the idea that our sterile urban environments are linked to rising allergy and autoimmune rates—is a tangible reality we can change by simply reintroducing nature's microbial network to our daily lives. This shift from aesthetic gardening to functional micro-biodiversity is the driving force behind modern rewilding efforts. Whether you manage a sprawling backyard or a small city balcony, introducing native leaf litter, moss, and living substrates serves as a direct investment in human health. By replacing sterile surfaces like gravel or rubber with living ones, we are doing more than creating wildlife corridors; we are rebuilding the microbial foundation essential for human resilience. Embracing natural complexity—dirt and all—is a foundational step toward a healthier future for both our families and the planet. source: Roslund, A. S., Puhakka, R., Grönroos, M., Nurminen, N., Oikarinen, S., Gazali, A. M., ... & Sinkkonen, A. (2020). Biodiversity intervention enhances immune regulation and health-associated commensal microbiota among daycare children. Science Advances.
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Adam Doyle 🇺🇸 retweeted
👉 Sydney Sweeney is attractive 👉 she should keep her clothes on 👉 libs have no room to complain when they advocate for women to be naked on ads and tv all the time 👉 conservatives shouldn’t defend nude ads or tv/movies or call it good
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Matrices don't feel pain. Let's be serious.
call me a lib, but having some researchers work on AI welfare (investigate if it [they?] feels pain) is prolly net good idk
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Hmm... where have I heard this before?
Having at least one "lazy day" per week can reduce stress, high blood pressure and the chances of having a stroke.
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But America should totally slow down AI development.
JUST IN: China officially opens the world's first mass-production plant making a humanoid robot every 10 minutes
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Adam Doyle 🇺🇸 retweeted
ODU FUMBLES VT GETS A SCOOP AND SCORE BUT THEY FUMBLE BEFORE THE GOALINE AND ODU RECOVERS ON THE VERY NEXT PLAY ODU FUMBLES AND VT GETS A SCOOP AND SCORE Just had to make this combined clip and Video via @TheCW_Sports
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I trust Elon. Things aren't always as they seem.
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We're going to get a DMV version of AI now. This is one of the greatest tragedies ever.
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AI scientists are on some level deeply upset that everyone else doesn't make them stop developing AI which they believe has 10% odds of killing everyone. Everyone else is uspet the scientist are making 10% risk of AI killing everyone, everyone else's problem and why they don't handle stopping themselves.
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Adam Doyle 🇺🇸 retweeted
America is so culturally dominant that most of the world doesn't consider it culture at all but simply a default state of existence.
lmao i promise you nobody outside america knows this logo is sports related…. as a kid i just thought it was the default hat design 💀💀 bc of how common they are
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Reminder
What is going on with the Boy Scouts? This is happening in Virginia. At a training for troop leaders.
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Data centers are "the cloud."
Replying to @KellyLMcCarty
Data centers are "the cloud." ~20 years ago, most companies were installing their own servers "on prem" in their own facilities. This wasn't practical for many companies, especially smaller ones. If you're, e.g., JC Penney, and you want to provide a website with online shopping, you don't want to hire a database administrator, specialists to maintain the hardware, etc. You just want to write the code for the actual "business logic." Later, companies like AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft, etc., started providing "cloud computing" services. The cloud lets companies "rent" servers that these companies (e.g. AWS) own and maintain, since there's a lot of expertise involved in doing this the right way. They also let you "rent" different types of databases, email-sending products, call center software, etc. More recently, cloud providers have added AI products to their offerings (e.g. AWS Bedrock). "The cloud" is made up of these data centers. A data center is just a big warehouse full of computers ("servers"). As the Internet grows, so does the cloud. And a bigger cloud requires more data centers. AI especially, since it's extremely compute (GPU) intensive. What's AI being used for? One major use is automating software development. Two years ago, every software engineer wrote code manually by hand. Today, a significant fraction (most?) use AI to speed up their software development. The more advanced ones have multiple AI "agents" working for them in parallel. Also, you've got products/services that are generating images and video, creating transcripts of meetings, etc.
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Adam Doyle 🇺🇸 retweeted
Replying to @KellyLMcCarty
Data centers are "the cloud." ~20 years ago, most companies were installing their own servers "on prem" in their own facilities. This wasn't practical for many companies, especially smaller ones. If you're, e.g., JC Penney, and you want to provide a website with online shopping, you don't want to hire a database administrator, specialists to maintain the hardware, etc. You just want to write the code for the actual "business logic." Later, companies like AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft, etc., started providing "cloud computing" services. The cloud lets companies "rent" servers that these companies (e.g. AWS) own and maintain, since there's a lot of expertise involved in doing this the right way. They also let you "rent" different types of databases, email-sending products, call center software, etc. More recently, cloud providers have added AI products to their offerings (e.g. AWS Bedrock). "The cloud" is made up of these data centers. A data center is just a big warehouse full of computers ("servers"). As the Internet grows, so does the cloud. And a bigger cloud requires more data centers. AI especially, since it's extremely compute (GPU) intensive. What's AI being used for? One major use is automating software development. Two years ago, every software engineer wrote code manually by hand. Today, a significant fraction (most?) use AI to speed up their software development. The more advanced ones have multiple AI "agents" working for them in parallel. Also, you've got products/services that are generating images and video, creating transcripts of meetings, etc.
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"Reasonable people should know that we're scamming them."
Sony says "reasonable consumers" know they don’t own the digital PlayStation games they buy. It argues that it's "not plausible" to suggest that when they buy a digital game they actually believe they're "obtaining ownership" of it. vgc.news/news/sony-says-reas…
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Adam Doyle 🇺🇸 retweeted
If your answer to every failure of government is MORE government, you are like an alcoholic trying to drink yourself sober.
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