a computer does not understand the words you type into it no matter how much it gives the appearance of doing so

'Nobody uses Rust in production', he emailed (with Thunderbird) from his laptop (running Windows) to a mailing list (on AWS, behind Cloudflare), which I then read (in Firefox) on my phone (running Android) after clicking a link (in Discord) to the list archive (served by Fastly).

Burrito Justice darth™ I'll join:

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The current state of my Twitter experience: my DMs are now all bitcoin/cryptocrap phishing expeditions.

Tuesday is a Pittsburgh cat who has never been CONVICTED of a federal offense. She is very sweet, she has been spayed and has only allegedly punched fascists. Tuesday needs a home and you need a Tuesday
ADOPT: petfinder.com/cat/tuesday-55…

hi kids! it's me, your favorite sexagenarian here to tell you that when I was a kid we taxed the shit out of the wealthy and not only did we have money to build bridges and schools and moon rockets, rich people still had plenty of money left over to spend on rich people bullshit

The more I understand how bad SBF fucked the crypto industry the more I'm inclined to agree that he is an effective altruist

All previously banned accounts, domains, IoCs, networks, emails, hosts, or device identifiers are now allowed on your platform due to a recent policy change made by leadership.

45 years ago, dozens of turkeys met their unfortunate demise in a Cincinnati parking lot.

I feel this one all the way. <3 to Mina, Oswin, and Fezzik.

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I think I’m gonna add a new NALSD interview question to my arsenal. “Today, let’s design Twitter. 750M tweets per day, 750M DAU. Let’s make it easy, so say each tweet with metadata takes 1/2K to store. Let’s stick to just posting/reading tweets and some idea of a follower graph“.

Chad, you didn’t prepare for a system design interview, but I have a simple problem: show me the architecture you’d use to publish 50K tweets/s with a power law distribution for fan out. Your biggest user has 50M followers. Once you’re done, you can compare it to Craigslist

My reaction to this was not to kick the CEO out, but instead to remind them quietly that their presence had an effect on the people in the situation zoom. But we all liked that guy and it was a small-ish company. twitter.com/norootcause/st…

In the January diversity and inclusion report Twitter had 39% of leadership and 30.9% of technical roles filled by women.

From a tech friend: “People made fun of me for having no clue how twitter works so i made the engineers stay late and draw a services diagram for me but i can’t admit that so i’m calling it a code review”

Music for Airports (1978)
Beneath the Music for Airports (1980)
Escape from the Music for Airports (1981)
Conquest of the Music for Airports (1982)
Battle for the Music for Airports (1983)

Steven M. Bellovin UNC Computer Science From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Broo… about Fred Brooks: 'The most important single decision I ever made was to change the IBM 360 series from a 6-bit byte to an 8-bit byte, thereby enabling the use of lowercase letters. That change propagated everywhere.' May his memory be a blessing.

The assessment we were all hoping to read.