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Brian

@bwnash.bsky.social

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Hiking, fitness, cooking, Japanese metal, and Braves baseball. DevOps in finance by trade.

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Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 6h

Position sizing, people. You can have some beta, but it has to be in moderation.

Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 7h

What dutiful little scribes for the kleptocracy you are! Did you ask him to prove his claim, or did you just write it down uncritically?

Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 7h

It's not going to be OK. The US trade relationship with China, and dozens of other countries is permanently impaired now. China has no need for the US, and will now be the world's leading economic power.

Nice job, assholes.

Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 8h

"Get out of here."

"Why don't you shag your fat ass down here and make ne, pedo?"

Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 8h

Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 9h

Ought to be trying to sell him that you can only enter heaven after doing bad things to children if you confess publicly and tell the world about everyone else who did, too.

Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 9h

And I hope it *really* fucking hurts, too, whatever it is.

Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 9h

Somebody got bad news at Walter Reed on Friday.

Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 9h

Can't go to heaven if you raped children. Them's the rules.

Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 9h

Man, if they were upset at the public reaction to the Kirk dude, imagine the shit-hissy at the worldwide celebration after this motherfucker buys the little farm.

Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 13h

Summary of Thiel's philosophy:

Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 14h

Thiel is completely bugfuck crazy. Is there any reason other than money why anyone would have a shred of respect for him?

Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15h

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 14h

The whole plate.

Big shoutout to @grillospickles.bsky.social , which I just discovered: they taste like they were made by someone pure and chaste of heart. Simple, but every little detail is absolutely perfect.

Slightly more expensive than Vlasic; worth every fucking penny.

Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 14h

Made LGBTs for lunch (spinach instead of lettuce, which we prefer).

The guacamole was magnificent and dead-simple. I'd picked up a small container of pico from the grocery store. Mashed a ripe avocado, two spoons Pico, a spoon sour cream = bowl of whoopass.

Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 14h

My best industrial fuckup was dumping a 1000 gallon vat of hot steam-cooked dog food on a processing floor.

Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 15h

Now that's a boss babe move! Proud of you for that one.

Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 17h

"as the country’s political environment and strong dollar continue to deter foreign travelers"

$USD is down 11% this year. So, what is it specifically about "the political environment" that deters them?

Strangely, the article doesn't specify. Any special reason for that omission?

Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 17h

I'm only interested in engaging with Nazis in person within pistol range.

Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 17h

I'm not sure what informs the decision to throw $trillions in compute at it.

Every single time in my career I've seen someone throwing hardware at a piece of code, it was because they were too lazy to refactor and optimize that code. Every big program contains a small program trying to get out.

Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 17h

I think I broke the kids' brains when I told how we'd use the Intel ROL and ROR instructions for multiplication/division by powers of two because they could use as little as 1 processor cycle, when integer divide might be 85.

Then I started talking about loop unrolling...

Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 18h

I wrote my annual review last week. It was a dry, technical numerically-oriented document.

I let Gemini tart it up to be more approachable by junior MBAs who were dropped on their head repeatedly as children, because that's who I work for. Came out pretty compelling.

Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 19h

Accountability thread for the week ending 10/12/2025. 3 days progressive overload training, 1 each top half, bottom half and back, with a couple of short dog walks Friday and Saturday.

Strained Achilles still bothering me quite a bit.

Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 19h

Grits bowl for breakfast.

A bowl of cheese grits with a sunny-side egg and bacon for breakfast.

Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 1d

Every single one of them should refuse to work, unless they're paid a $million a day, in cash.

Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, seems like I've heard a word for that before, can't quite put my finger on it.. rhymes with 'bravery', I recall.