Alex Howland @backslash

SWENG. Gamer. Cosplayer. Early eng at @Oculus and @anduriltech. I like side projects, Oxford commas, and lists with three items. Cosplay ig: @backslash_alex backslashcosplay.com Orange County, CA Joined August 2007

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Alex Howland @backslash

2 years ago

Same tho

National Hurricane Center @NHC_Atlantic

2 years ago

Same tho

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Alex Howland @backslash

2 years ago

Finally planning cosplays for DragonCon and I bought so many wigs that I tripped a card fraud alert.

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2 years ago

Spending more than 1 hour in Florida has reminded me: - mosquitos are a scourge upon the planet - who invented humidity and why - denim

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2 years ago

Anime Expo is a wrap! Three days, five cosplays, one very tired cosplayer.

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2 years ago

reminder to journalists: the submarine's game controller is standard use for submarines, tanks, drones, etc. for the military. i know it sounds funny to you but it's actually one of the least remarkable things about the submarine vice.com/en/article/bvj…

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Alex Howland @backslash

2 years ago

A day in the life of a lead engineer

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2 years ago

"Be a dear", my grandma said. Me, not understanding homophones:

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Alex Howland @backslash

2 years ago

Humans are really, really, extra, super, stupid good at inappropriately ascribing human form and behavior to non-human things. Animals. Electronics. Natural phenomena. Please keep this in mind when using and assessing AI chatbots. LLMs are the written equivalent of Jesus Toast.

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Alex Howland @backslash

2 years ago

So 'verified' now just means 'paid subscriber' and there is no way to determine if anyone is really who they say. Great. Great job twitter dot com

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2 years ago

So 'verified' now just means 'paid subscriber' and there is no way to determine if anyone is really who they say. Great. Great job twitter dot com

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Alex Howland @backslash

2 years ago

Why autocorrect gotta be so aggressive about 'ducking' but it doesn't touch 'slask message'

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Alex Howland @backslash

3 years ago

Lotta armchair finance folks on the bird app today assuming SVB's failure was due to {bad bets, tech collapse, something something crypto} when they were a really sound bank whose poor messaging just led to a good old-fashioned bank run

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Alex Howland @backslash

3 years ago

.@NikkiMoxxi and I tearing up Katsucon for the 4 hours our jetlag let us (repost at because I forgot starting with @ still makes your post am unthreaded reply)

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Alex Howland @backslash

3 years ago

Get you a girl / faun who can do both

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Alex Howland @backslash

3 years ago

Please remember this when evaluating earthquake """predictions""". If I say there will be an earthquake next week, I'm probably right! It doesn't mean my methods are sound. Moderate to large earthquakes happen ALL THE TIME.

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Alex Howland @backslash

3 years ago

Putting a lot of faith in my flossing skills here, eating beef jerky 24 hours before a dentist appointment

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Alex Howland @backslash

3 years ago

I don't know who needs to hear this (it's @mimsy) but you don't need to tear down others to get ahead as an influencer. It doesn't make you look better, it just makes you look sad and insecure. Lift others up instead, and push yourself to be better every day!