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All sorts of SRE things. Breaker of all things. Source of the #botrosd hashtag. Professional finder of problems. Author of High Performance MySQL 4th edition
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Everyone should tell @avleen.com to go the fuck to sleep
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[email protected] sharing the best kept secret of senior ICs.

A weekly email to your boss is better than a hype document. #StaffPlus
GOOD MORNING HAZEL. This thread is 🔥
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From one protocol designer to another: the best protocols are built by thinking of the use cases and tooling and enablement first.

Here’s a secret: Design for the margins and the marginalized, then the capabilities fall out naturally and the resulting protocol is extraordinarily robust
You aren’t even the first to send me this today
Today is Tuesday. And that is some bullshit.
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Subscribe to The Onion and help us become a bigger newspaper than The Washington Post by next year. It can happen!

membership.theonion.com
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It is engineering malpractice that this site has not yet implemented an option to allow people to private their accounts, given that they’re a US based company, and the US is going through what it’s going through.

But hey, waffles, amirite.
Oh Emily. It’s always good when I open this app and you’re the first post I see 😂
My toxic trait is buying clothes when I have a business trip coming …
We disabled the monitor
I wish that worked…
My oldest of all people has discovered him and has been playing him in my car. She’s 14.
We have so many non student days here too it’s annoying.
Just finished the chapter on the buildout of data centers in South America by Google and Microsoft and truly is there an end of the trail of destruction?
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One day the industry will recognize the drawbacks of AI agents and nondeterministic automation, and rediscover the UNIX philosophy of chaining together small purpose built tools in a low cost and predictable way, otherwise known as shell scripts.
Facts.
If you were in tech and decent at posting between like 2010 and 2018 it opened a lot of doors.
Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?
Today I got to use my special powers for good

It was a good day.
John don’t encourage him I have to deal with this all day at work 🤣
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Back in the day people used to have a slide at the end of their presentations saying "and that's how the brain works" as an inside joke about Hinton since he was known to talk confidently out of his ass.

Now, the Nobel committee brought this upon us like they give the peace prize to genociders.
anyway, here is 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics winner Geoffrey Hinton discussing what we know about large AI models on 60 Minutes.
Man I am begging the leadership of this website to get some media training.