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@mattyglesias Got data set? It’s just square root of (square x + square y) for each data point, then sort and pick the (n/2)th value.

I should probably do the actual math and see what is the radius for a Circle of Banality that encompasses a majority of the voters in this survey. Would be interesting.

I want to redefine the political axes in terms of a dense circle of boring normies versus a diffuse galaxy of freaks & ideologues.

@maxdubler What profit a man to park at a restaurant when there is no-one to serve the food? Seems like cost -shifting to those least able to afford it. Which, fine. But it seems to me jumping several steps to suppose there is a net benefit, with no justification here. Got empirics?

@phl43 @jbarro Wait isn’t that the place where they love that sausage made entirely of guts? The one with the basically inedible bread crust?

Just to be clear, I never made a single *argument* in this whole saga, I just stated an obviously correct fact and then people started to embarrass themselves in increasingly grotesque ways by denying it 😂

@kyledcheney Wait, why the fuck is *John Eastman* being interviewed on TV about matters for which he is under indictment? Seems foolish for a lawyer!

Eastman claims here that the Jan. 6 riot was “contrary to what we were trying to do” because it prevented a public debate on fraud. Yet his emails from Jan. 6 show he explicitly used the impact of the riot to make a final appeal to Pence to violate the Electoral Count Act.

@AaronGuhreen And I’m all for it, don’t get me wrong, it just seems incomprehensible to me to say that SJC isn’t building housing. It absolutely is.

@AaronGuhreen Bro I live in downtown San Jose and whil I couldn’t guarantee you anything broke ground in 2023H1 there are a shitload of residential buildings going up around me, more with permit notifications posed, and this has been going on for years.

@Noahpinion I don’t think this is true. I have a friend who works there and she definitely felt it was not an ordinary day!

Until right now, I was unaware that Emeryville had a place where there are regular giant brawls!

@AlecStapp @Noahpinion Which of those presents a greater danger tho? I don’t remember the last time a failed Nathan’s pipeline burninated the country side.

It's really dumb that federal permits for transmission lines take more than 7 years while natural gas pipelines get their permits in 3 years

@thinkx @aledeniz @VicVijayakumar @tomcudd Even the cloud still has lead times (shorter) and stockouts (less frequent)!

@delusionary @aledeniz @VicVijayakumar @tomcudd but.. it’s the “cloud”

My favorite architectural pattern is when an upstream API provider tells you to throttle your own requests so you don't kill their system. Story time: a little while ago, we needed to talk to an api that accepted async requests, did a bunch of slow processing, then hours later you could query for the status of your work. If it was complete, you could then ask for the deliverable. So one fine day I fired off 15000 requests. They immediately returned a 200 OK for all of them, excellent. I left for the day. Came to work the next day to multiple angry emails about how we crashed their production systems with unexpected volume. It turns out that instead of a queue, our jobs got written to a database (nothing wrong with this), which they queried periodically for jobs to be done (guessing the query had no LIMIT). And then... they forked workers to process all of them.

@StockMKTNewz Too bad they hate giving out equity so much.

Nvidia's $NVDA Q2 Net Income every year since it went public 1999: $7M 2000: $23M 2001: $33M 2002: $5M 2003: $24M 2004: $5M 2005: $74M 2006: $87M 2007: $173M 2008: -$121M 2009: -$105M 2010: -$141M 2011: $152M 2012: $119M 2013: $96M 2014: $128M 2015: $26M 2016: $261M 2017: $583M 2018: $1.1B 2019: $522M 2020: $622M 2021: $2.4B 2022: $656M 2023: $6.2B

@VicVijayakumar @tomcudd Reminds me of the time I kept complaining to LinkedIn’s time series metric provider service that their response times were shit, only to be informed that we were the whale beating on their fleet.

@tomcudd I too have received polite requests to stop that shit.

@aledeniz @thinkx @VicVijayakumar @tomcudd We (cloud service providers generally) have not yet mastered the art of producing GPUs out of thin air!

@thinkx @VicVijayakumar @tomcudd Also AMD GPUs.

@gabrielmalor How does public scrutiny of the face of an unconvincted person serve the interests of justice? Is guilt or innocence to be found within it?

@VicVijayakumar I once had this dev dead set on convincing me that it was cool to send a body with GET. Which, arguably, the RFC allows. But the load balancer did not.

It doesn’t matter if your API uses restful verbs or not. It doesn’t matter if you return an empty array or null if you’re consistent. It doesn’t matter if you never use PUT or PATCH. But god have mercy on your soul if you return 200 with a not found message. I will find you.

@RMFifthCircuit @GunjanJS @_jaewonkang Obvslu you should think of H-E-B.

@GunjanJS @_jaewonkang No I will not

Kroger is now the biggest sushi seller in America--its sushi sales are up **70%** over the past year “When customers think of sushi, we want them to think of Kroger" wsj.com/business/retai… @_jaewonkang

@VicVijayakumar There is a lot of value, for a PGM tool, to being tightly integrated with the system where the actual work is happening.

@VicVijayakumar I suspect that you should mebbe qualify that with “software projects” (IDK because that’s the only kind I manage), and that, further, companies using Jora for project management also use it for actual SWE work tracking, defects, etc.

How is Jira still the best project management tool? Startups have been trying to take their market share for decades.

@adastroworld @idonevenknowho @cldbrwszn @charlotte_dune Sir, San Francisco closes at 9 PM. Can’t speak to the trains.

@cldbrwszn @charlotte_dune Is San Francisco a normal city that everyone should ignore, or is it the center of the tech and financial universe on a global scale? I’m totally fine with SF shutting down at midnight if we all agree to stop pretending it’s a real city. Otherwise, gotta run more trains I fear

san francisco is really forever. there are many good things happening here right now - the quality of the intellectual life is simply unparalleled and getting better. you can go to random parties and find world class generalists who are conversant in just about anything

@HVNYrefugee I have bad news for you about Willie Nelson as well.

On the "hick-libs." 🧵 Several years ago I was shocked when I heard that a Texas country singer whose music I really enjoyed was a Beto O'Rourke-supporter (Ryan Bingham). For the life of me, I couldn't understand how someone associated with rural West Texas could be on the left.

@AliceFromQueens Heck, *I* see that ad 41 times a day, although I suppose technically my boobs are indeed small.

Wonder if Florence Pugh sees this ad 41 times a day like I do