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Sep 18, 2022

I've been writing code for over 40 years and I still just fucking love it. I do it for work, I do it for fun. There's just nothing like it.

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we've entered the cheese zone

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New owner lined up for 15th Ave’s Smith — UPDATE

Dec 26, 2022

Twitter is an eventuality consistent system that seems more eventual than usual lately

I did it. I found the single weirdest moment in the Jan. 6 committee transcripts released so far. Between witness Samuel Armes and his lawyer Anessa Santos. january6th.house.gov/sites/democrat

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Ah man,

is one of my go-to favorite places and has been for a long time. Hard to imagine what replaces it will be as good. :/

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2023 could bring a new start for a longtime part of the 15th Ave E food and drink scene with new ownership lined up for Smith. A new owner with designs on keeping the restaurant’s longtime re…

“The [Atari 2600] console itself had only 128 bytes of RAM. That's 1024 bits.” !!! evoniuk.github.io/posts/pitfall.

Dec 21, 2022

This week, I started my Win 11 laptop and the start menu didn't work. Lots in event log about StartMenuExperienceHost.Exe crashing. After lots of (fruitless) searching, uninstalling this update fixed it. Windows Update > Update History > Uninstall support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/de

Dec 17, 2022

Wanted: a bumper or window sticker for my Model Y that is a witty version of "car good elon bad" or "yes I think he's an asshole too" or the like

When Amara Strande was just 16, a 15-pound tumor was found embedded in her liver. Nearly the size of a volleyball. She was one of many students at Tartan High School in Oakdale who got cancer. Students joked about the water fountains, saying, “Don’t drink the 3M cancer water.” 🧵

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Really don't think it's fair that my generation - had to help our parents use the printer - have to help our kids use the printer

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Dec 10, 2022

This is one of the greatest books ever, but really who chose this author photo on the back? I mean is that a guy you’d be like yeah read books to my kids?

Dec 9, 2022

Ok now I can’t stop laughing what a joke

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Dec 9, 2022

4. This first installment covers the period before the election through January 6th. Tomorrow, @Shellenbergermd will detail the chaos inside Twitter on January 7th. On Sunday, @BariWeiss will reveal the secret internal communications from the key date of January 8th.

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Slow motion videos of objects falling in water, with highly unexpected but extremely satisfying geometries and shapes. Source

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Nov 30, 2022

One of the things that struck me about Covid was that its possible to weaponize _anything_. Even the most obvious basic fact is easily captured and reframed, there is no thing so atomic that we can all agree on it and act. This thread gives a good hypothesis into why that's true

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David Roberts

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Nov 29, 2022

Rather than doing something useful, I feel like writing a thread that's been on my mind for a while. You will not be shocked to hear that it's related to epistemology. Yes, I'm on that old bullshit again. So, let's talk about arguments.

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Nov 30, 2022

This is one of those wild things that is a mix of ground-breaking and "that is so cool wait is that a good idea"? Pretty impressive stuff tho, kudos

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i trained an ai chatbot on my childhood journal entries - so that i could engage in real-time dialogue with my "inner child" some reflections below:

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Nov 29, 2022

Could be worse. At least I didn't grow up in St Louis, just saying.

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wtf #Spokane

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NOT ELON MUSK

@scottunfiltered

Nov 29, 2022

Spokane: Tied for #2 for police killings per population in the nation. :\ mappingpoliceviolence.us/cities

They Come With a Kit Before my son was born, I assumed I'd be able to mold him. It may be possible on the margins, but I now think each kid comes out with a personality and perspective on the world—their kit. Our job is to harness it in accordance with a strong set of values.

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It feels a little like high speed charging is a bit of a gimmick since it only seems to touch max power for a moment then comes right down again.

Nov 27, 2022

Having worked at companies run by big personalities this tracks

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Yoloking of $TSLAQ

@yoloption

Nov 23, 2022

Former #SpaceX employee explains that $TWTR is a shit show because it doesn't have an intermediate layer of management that knows how to manage Elon to protect the company from him. Sounds pretty accurate. $TSLA $TSLAQ tumblr.com/numberonecatwi

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Back when I was at SpaceX, Elon was basically a child king. He was an important figurehead who provided the company with the money, power, and PR, but he didn’t have the knowledge or (frankly) maturity to handle day-to-day decision making and everyone knew that. He was surrounded by people whose job was, essentially, to manipulate him into making good decisions.

Managing Elon was a huge part of the company culture. Even I, as a lowly intern, would hear people talking about it openly in meetings. People knew how to present ideas in a way that would resonate with him, they knew how to creatively reinterpret (or ignore) his many insane demands, and they even knew how to “stage manage” parts of the physical office space so that it would appeal to Elon.

The funniest example of “stage management” I can remember is this dude on the IT security team. He had a script running in a terminal on one of his monitors that would output random garbage, Matrix-style, so that it always looked like[...]

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I’m a little puzzled by this. When looking up the underlying async await execution model… “No built-in runtime is provided by Rust. Instead, runtimes are provided by community maintained crates.” That seems v different than Go which strives for common semantics?

I’ve been Rust-curious lately and was curious about perf differences b/t Rust and Go. Very surprised to find the low quality of what passes for analysis. Out of 5 articles only 1 had numbers! Not surprisingly: Rust seems generally faster than Go but C++ still wins.

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Nov 24, 2022

Out of nowhere, my nephew just asked, “Do you think Pavlov thought about feeding his dog every time he heard a bell ring?” and now I’m going to be haunted by this question

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Orion has now reached the Moon, here's how it will get back to Earth on the 11th of December.

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Finally, there was no retention plan for those that stayed. No clear upside for sticking it through the storm on the horizon. Just “trust us” style verbal promises. But tweeps overall were untrusting after the 7 months of acquisition drama, recent tweets, and leaks etc.

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Employee #146,987 at Google ($735k/yr TC) who works 13 hours per week waking up to discover that Twitter is still running with 700 employees.

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I've seen a lot of people asking "why does everyone think Twitter is doomed?" As an SRE and sysadmin with 10+ years of industry experience, I wanted to write up a few scenarios that are real threats to the integrity of the bird site over the coming weeks.

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OK, who invented Gradle and what do they have against software engineers?

I realized this morning why the whole "Elon arguing with Twitter devs and firing them" brouhaha of the last few days has hit me on a physical level. It's because, as a senior IC dev, one of the most important aspects of my job is preventing crap like this. (Long 🧵incoming...)

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very nearly resulted in a coffee spit 👏🏼

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@fixedpointfae

running low on disk space on macOS or linux? remember to empty out your recycle bins (located at /usr/bin and /bin)

Sage advice for any leader.

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Bill Higgins (he/him)

@BillHiggins

I’ve been unpleasantly surprised that some people seem to condone the public criticism of employees and/or the public firing of an employee for responding to this criticism. Here are my thoughts on these topics, which I hope would be obvious to any decent leader. (1/22)

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Lets all chip in and get Elon a shirt that says "I'm weak and sad inside"

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Casey Newton

@CaseyNewton

NEW: Employees who have criticized Elon Musk in Twitter’s Slack channels were fired overnight over email. “We regret to inform you that your employment is terminated immediately,” they’re being told over email. “Your recent behavior has violated company policy.”

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The revenge firings will continue until productivity improves

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