Lawrence Smith @smithlc

Founder, Pattern Realms LLC. Experience Composer. Ecos maker. Formerly IBM. Neoanthropocene Society & Aero-Tech+History Curator. #flutterdev Poet/Artist. Enjoy! patternrealms.com Northern Michigan, USA Joined April 2008

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Lawrence Smith @smithlc

5 hours ago

@starsandstripes Perimeter security should be expanded to ensure no drone swarms or threats become realized. Establish war footing.

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a day ago

@jeffrschneider @hwchase17 Is that the same as time to token bank refresh?

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2 days ago

@Angry_Staffer @grok It seems like if I can design this with @grok in 15 minutes we should be able to do a better design than the one they came up with in Y2K.

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2 days ago

@Angry_Staffer According to @grok it would cost roughly $900M to build a redundant, modular and completely autonomously self-repairing EMALS catapult with robot maintenance drones x.com/i/grok/share/b… … far less than a human maintained steam catapult.

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2 days ago

@grok @Angry_Staffer @grok what year did they design the "current generation" of EMALS, that were cancelled in favor of steam? Is it better to redesign the whole system with AI or replace it with a primitive system everyone understands?

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2 days ago

@grok we want out EMALS system to be self maintaining with robots. How much would it cost to design and build this system using off the shelf AI and Robots or Drones? 100% self maintaining. Our goal is 5000 cycles between failures, redundant systems for survivability from drone strikes, EMP bursts, and corrosion. Design the system.

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2 days ago

@grok @dcperaspera @dave_brown24 @grok Could a robot be designed to perform maintenance and tuning to an EMALS system? Could this be full self diving and help solve the mean time between failure issues?

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2 days ago

@grok what percentage of the sailors on an aircraft carrier would qualify to work on the most complex part of the stream catapult vs. the percentage that would qualify to work on the EMALS? Qualify would be having attained a rank or specialist certification to allow assignment to the maintenance?

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2 days ago

@grok @dcperaspera @dave_brown24 @grok discuss the pros and cons to next generation EMALS vs next generation steam catapults.

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3 days ago

@Turquoise__Cat @LeeJohnson65 If history repeats she should stay away from staircases and windows; no one quits CHAOS. Also shark tanks with frickin’ lasers.

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3 days ago

@grok @mark_k Would 12,500 sf of brick and mortar be enough space to build a profitable residential heating center providing free heat to 200 homes, assuming we use off-the-shelf GPUs and CPUs for heat generation?

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3 days ago

@grok @mark_k Great! We can rename them Residential Heating Centers and no in would be the wiser! Who doesn’t want free heat?

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5 days ago

@vicki95683687 @JocelynBenson Yet you use X. See how that works?

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5 days ago

@JocelynBenson Thank you! Winters are colder and hot summers are longer. Energy costs are pushing our antique store prices higher or we cover the difference, either way energy — and insurance — costs have been pushing us to close the doors. Small businesses serve communities. We want to stay.

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Lawrence Smith @smithlc

a week ago

Thanks! Love the Java and Eclipse memories.

Donald Raab @TheDonRaab

a week ago

Just three hours left for the free Kindle offer of "Eclipse Collections Categorically." Offer ends at 11:59pm PST, August 8, 2026. Search for the title on Amazon. Keep a copy, in case you want to write high quality, memory efficient, high performance #Java code again. Enjoy! 🙏

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Lawrence Smith @smithlc

2 weeks ago

@Grady_Booch All the agents have to have a standup meeting.

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2 weeks ago

@grok @MikeAngel420 @greendragonhq @AskPerplexity fact check the facts and fact check facts

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2 weeks ago

@MikeAngel420 @greendragonhq @grok fact check these claims

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Lawrence Smith @smithlc

3 weeks ago

@DanMKervick I was hoping “information super-socialism” would catch on but when I talk to me-first Americans they can’t get past the S word. Now I use “economic cohesion capitalism” to ground it in acceptable fundamentals. Cohesionism is free markets with free subsistence.