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Alex

@wrd83

Into outsoorsy sports and things with engines.

Opinions are my own.

Ex-FAANG Engineer
Freelance Consultant

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calendar_today18-04-2009 08:11:05

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Remember when Schumacher lost his drivers title for causing a collision? I wonder if verstappen is similar in nature to that driver... #f1

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I sometimes wonder if the borrow checker in #Rust is too constrained. How do you model a concurrent hashmap with mutliple mutating owners? Yes you can do it, but does it make sense to do so?

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Back in the trap of fixing a Microservice. The fix is small.. spending two hours on figuring out how to compile it ..

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Looking at the #espn athletes of the century. I think Sébastien Ogier or Sebastien Loeb should've made the list. Verstappen and vettel for F1. Marc Márquez and Valentino Rossi for motogp. Marcel hirscher, adam ondra, janja gambret... It's very us centric.

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I'm against electric cars in its current form, but I think short distance trips should not be cars. So I'll get an ebike.

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I get the impression the EU lacks feasibility of their plans and great execution behind it. We're not doing what's needed to make impact, but telling people how to do it right ..

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I never thought about it more deeply. But I think Germany's expansion on gas and shutdown of nuclear is one of the reasons I ended up in Switzerland...

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I remember the task on my jira board, onboard corporate coffee machine to snmp monitoring... These days coffee machines are quite complex and data driven. .

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linkedin.com/pulse/thoughts… This technology hype cycle has featured all kinds of speculation that GenAI will become all-powerful and be the downfall of human civilization. That’s just silly: it’s like saying that having the ability to multiply huge matrices will end humanity.