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Thomas LaRock

@SQLRockstar

Microsoft CSA, Data Professional, and #bacon lover (not in that order). #data #analytics #python #infosec https://t.co/l3sg3yqiSg

Massachusetts Katılım Ağustos 2008
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wayne winston
wayne winston@winston3453·
Here is NFL success rates on two point conversions 2020-2025. RUnning is better, but run location does not matter much,
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wayne winston@winston3453·
But on 3rd down and <=10 yds to go running outperforms passing.
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Jordan Moore
Jordan Moore@iJordanMoore·
A wild stat… France has more wins at Gillette Stadium this World Cup than the Jets do since 2011. That number is 2. The Jets are 1-14. The Jets play at Gillette once a year 💀
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Keith Townsend
Keith Townsend@CTOAdvisor·
Don't be fooled by @GoogleCloud remixing existing services at Next. That's the whole point. Knowledge Catalog is Dataplex reframed. ADK is Vertex AI agent tooling consolidated. Agent Runtime is Cloud Run with agent-specific optimizations. The cross-cloud lakehouse is built on Iceberg and Cross-Cloud Interconnect that already existed. The industry looked at 250 announcements and said "nothing new." They're right. And they're missing what matters. When a vendor announces a brand-new product, you're looking at a roadmap. When a vendor remixes existing capabilities into a new control point, you're looking at something closer to production-ready. The pieces have been running already. Google didn't spend three days in Vegas talking about models or benchmarks. The keynote wasn't about the labs. It was about the gap between demo and production. That's the gap where every enterprise is stuck right now. And here's what the neocloud price war is missing. The $4/hour GB200 is a Layer 0 fight. Compute. Hardware. Infrastructure. Real value, real price advantage. But Google isn't competing at Layer 0. They're competing at Layer 1C and Layer 2C — the judgment layers. The catalog that models what your data means. The agent governance that determines what your agents are allowed to do. The identity framework that controls which agent accesses which context. We've seen this before. How much do you pay for CPU in your Lambda functions? You don't know. You don't care. AWS won by making the infrastructure invisible and the abstraction indispensable. Google is running the same play. The GPU is not the moat. The borrowed judgment above it is. I wrote the full analysis. Link below.
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Covie
Covie@covie_93·
If the 14th amendment was only meant to protect the “babies of slaves” then the 2nd Amendment is only meant to protect the right to own a musket.
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Terrible Maps@TerribleMaps·
Believe it or not, Germany’s 5 largest cities lie perfectly on a 4th-degree polynomial
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Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦
Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦@cmclymer·
Trump and Robert Mueller were born two years apart, both into wealthy families and both with private school upbringings. Trump received five draft deferments during Vietnam and became a parasitic real estate baron. Mueller volunteered for service, graduated from Officer Candidate School and Ranger School, was wounded in combat, and received a Bronze Star w/ Valor for rescuing one of his wounded soldiers under intense enemy fire. And that pretty much crystallizes both the difference between the two and Trump's toxic jealousy toward Mueller.
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Chad Dotson
Chad Dotson@dotsonc·
The kids these days with their fortnites and minecrafts will never know the sublime pleasure of a perfectly-executed one-timer in NHL 95 on Sega Genesis.
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Elon Musk
Elon Musk@elonmusk·
They really hated Louis XIV for building Versailles, but now it’s a national treasure of France 🇫🇷
Christian Heiens 🏛@ChristianHeiens

If you build a system that either explicitly or implicitly argues that all people are politically equal, all human rights are universal, and all political authority is derived only by the voluntary consent of the governed (a mythic impossibility that has never truly existed anywhere on Earth at any point in history), then it’s basically inevitable that you’re going to sooner or later get mass democracy. And mass democracy ALWAYS leads to forced wealth redistribution and endlessly expanding bureaucracies, along with an infinite expansion of new made-up “rights” that actually attack things which were once considered universally necessary to the maintenance of civilization. And to secure all of this, ever more coercive amounts of centralized power have to be wielded by the state, often to a degree that would make the absolute monarchs of the 17th century look like anarchists by comparison. The power the Jacobins wielded over France in 1793 was infinitely more absolute and totalitarian than anything ever wielded by the guy who literally called himself the “sun king” and once declared “I am the state”.

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Keith Townsend
Keith Townsend@CTOAdvisor·
As my sons started their professional careers (logistics and CS), I warned them the average co-worker isn’t that productive. I warned them not to measure their output by the standards of their coworkers. They were still surprised. Most people view work as something they do to pay bills. That’s perfectly fine. What companies are looking for are people passionate about infrastructure. You want a list of those people? Take a look at who has attended multiple @TechFieldDay events as a delegate.
martin_casado@martin_casado

Nearly every board meeting : "Hiring strong infra folks is incredibly hard right now"

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Steven Rogers@StevenR14415997·
@elonmusk A bigger bill should be your trophy
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Enguerrand VII de Coucy
Enguerrand VII de Coucy@ingelramdecoucy·
Thing of absolute beauty. Give whoever made this video a big fat raise, Wyze
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