Dan Luu

@ryanglark @danluu @Cloudflare Seems like they fixed this an hour or two after they set the status to green? Well, I guess it's good that they fixed it.

@danluu @Cloudflare fwiw I was just able to log in successfully

@molasalex @danluu cc @NovalisDMT , although I'm not sure that he checks Twitter (I only saw your response because I'm doing a project that involves classifying replies).

@danluu hi Dan, is it possible to get the dataset you used for the analysis? thx

The impossibility of agreement on what should be allowed: danluu.com/impossible-agr…

@acidshill @danluu This is great! Can I use this video in a blog post (with attribution)?

@danluu my best guess is that instead of rendering text via html, normally, the way every other website does it, they built some godawful custom rendering system or something else that gets in the way of what a browser normally does, and then didn't test this system on safari or firefox

I'm doing mobile benchmarking on various slow phones (ones sold in "developing" countries), on a low-latency high-speed internet connection (Mac WiFi gets ~1Gbps with a few ms latency). Using default themes, which blogging platform do you predict has the BEST performance?

This didn't happen at all! I've gotten a lot more spam since the acquisition, especially DM spam, but just on my main account. This mention didn't result in any spam that I could see.

Just testing this out @elonmusk

@rehevkor5 @danluu I proposed that, if we didn't want to try out this potentially risky kernel patch, we could experimentally make the quota somewhat higher (like, 20% or something) to see what the impact is, but I don't think anyone really ran those kinds of experiments until after the acquisition

@rehevkor5 @danluu This was tried at Twitter long before I joined and teams found it extremely difficult (basically impossible) to do capacity planning properly because you lose so much performance under contention. I've heard similar stories from other companies as well.

@danluu Also I'm curious about your thoughts on using CFS without quotas. Is your statement "How the CFS scheduler deals with unused slack time from the CFS bandwidth slice has shown to be ineffective." still true?

@cis_female @adastroworld But even there, by volume, a good chunk of this elite ski training was literally just going on hikes. By modern standards, skiers had no idea how to train at all and if you look at younger sports like climbing, I think it's fair to say that people basically weren't training.

@cis_female @adastroworld It sort of doesn't make sense that somebody with those genetics could be world class at multiple relatively major sports (2nd tier popularity) that require opposite body types, but it turns that good training can offset raw talent. Of course the absolute best skiers had both.

Is there any good writing about skill changes in various hobbies? @danluu makes the surprising claim to me that good 16 year old climbers today are better than *anyone* 40 years ago. Is this true? Is it true for other hobbies/fields of endeavor? Why?

@garethlewin @danluu @wbm312 It probably makes sense to do — insta totally dominates Twitter, so winning insta users is way more important, but that seems to decrease the odds that the communities I'm interested in will have a successful migration unless some version of "circles" finally works.

@garethlewin @danluu @wbm312 On Twitter itself, it seems like a bad sign that tweets I didn't delete are disappearing. On threads, I'm very curious what the impact of importing people's insta follow graphs will be. People I know have very different follow graphs on insta vs. here.

Since I've been trying to write down more predictions, I'll say that I expect (> 50% chance) within 1 year, Threads will, have more DAU and MAU than each of {Twitter, Bluesky, Nostr}.

@garethlewin @danluu fragmentation across Mastodon et al., cohost, bluesky, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc., with nothing resembling unificaiton, but I don't think users will have a nice experience unless they want to sit on one of the mega instances and miss content from people on some small instances.

@garethlewin @danluu I think that best case there is that Threads significantly increases the fragmentation we're already seeing because some (a lot of?) smaller instances don't like the poor moderation the large instances have and silence or block them. I think that's a better outcome than the