Electronic alchemist - rpmalloc author - Technical Director @ Epic Games
Linköping, Sverige
Joined February 2011
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Mattias Jansson retweeted
ALT A post on reddit, with Batman interrogating someone saying "Why is Windows installed in the C drive? Where are the A and B drives?" Below, a picture of Obi Wan has been appended, with the caption "B drive - now that's a name I haven't heard in years"
Mattias Jansson retweeted
designing the autopilot program to shut off less than a second before impact so your company can deny it was the cause of the impact is simply epic
Mattias Jansson retweeted
The seduction of social media is feeling like your voice itself has intrinsic power. It doesn't.
This is not a public discourse. You are a tourist entering into an algorithmic game run by hustlers, on a street policed by the illiterate, under a regime paid by taxing attention.
Mattias Jansson retweeted
Explore the future of interactive storytelling and entertainment with #UE5. Download ‘The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience’ for free on @PlayStation 5 and @Xbox Series X/S: unrealengine.com/wakeup
Mattias Jansson retweeted
How do we know what is real?
Pre-download ‘The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience’ for @PlayStation 5 and @Xbox Series X/S for a glimpse into the future of interactive storytelling and entertainment with #UE5: unrealengine.com/wakeup
Mattias Jansson retweeted
If you are having a bad day, whoever and wherever you are, I hope reading this will cheer you up. This is monumentally good news for all of humanity.
🧠A vaccine against Alzheimer’s disease could be on the horizon after scientists carried out successful trials in animals.
Researchers were able to reverse memory loss in mice and are keen to move quickly to human trials
Thread 🧵👇
telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/11…
Mattias Jansson retweeted
Patents are bad.
They're the death of knowledge sharing and human innovation.
They spit in the face of everyone who contributed to build this enormous mountain of knowledge you're standing on, while you add your patented grain of sand and surround it with red tape.
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There, I finally had the nerve to say it. Exception handling is a giant mistake.
news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
Mattias Jansson retweeted
New article on the economics of bitcoin and why it's a rubbish investment that siphons wealth from the public on top of being an environmental disaster.
Bitcoin: The Postmodern Ponzi
stephendiehl.com/blog/ponzi.…
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And the scale of this waste has some scary numbers attached to it. A single bitcoin transaction alone consumes 621 KWh, or half a million times more energy consumption than a credit card payment. (8/)
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Let's have a frank discussion about bitcoin hype. Bitcoin is really an symptom of the problems of our era, of a post-truth world awash in crackpottery and of a breakdown of trust in our institutions. 🧵 (1/)
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Friendly reminder: Myers-Briggs was developed by two white supremacist eugenicists, with the goal of "scientifically proving" the superiority of the white race. When it failed to do that, they remarketed it as a "personality indicator" for the corporate business circuit.
Mattias Jansson retweeted
I have decided to start a group for women who are new in tech that would like to fellowship and connect with other women. This will be a safe space for us to ask questions, post resources, and have a monthly hang out online to make it feel more personal. If you are interested
Mattias Jansson retweeted
Engineer: “I can write that code.”
Senior Engineer: “Should we write that code?”
Staff Engineer: “We should delete that code.”
Principal Engineer: “Delete all the code.”
Mattias Jansson retweeted
Announcing C11 & C17 Standard support in MSVC: aka.ms/c17
