Peter Smith (he/him)

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Peter Smith (he/him)

Peter Smith (he/him)

@peterdsmith

Now a retired Program Manager and developer at Microsoft, Peter used to be a hot-shot developer for the Teradyne, BBN, and WildTangent.

Katılım Aralık 2008
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Peter Smith (he/him)
Peter Smith (he/him)@peterdsmith·
@JenMsft My old boss was Alex St. John, who famously invited a bunch of peripheral makers for a conference and then forgot all about it. He goes in one morning, and there they all are, ready for a conference that hasn't been prepared at all. Well done for starting before the meeting?
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Jen Gentleman 🌺
Jen Gentleman 🌺@JenMsft·
Lol the meeting went over and I didn't even get to present anyway 😅
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Jen Gentleman 🌺
Jen Gentleman 🌺@JenMsft·
"So, you left everything to the last minute and now you're racing to finish your slides before they start presenting in this meeting"
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Peter Smith (he/him)
Peter Smith (he/him)@peterdsmith·
@RepGregMurphy Wait -- what's that "... study population that are not currently practicing"? Is that why the population drops to zero after 25 years?
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Congressman Greg Murphy, M.D.
Congressman Greg Murphy, M.D.@RepGregMurphy·
Unless our Medical Schools do a better job of screening admission candidates, we won’t have any Doctors. If you don’t want to practice FULL time for at least 20-25 years, pick another profession.
Paleoncologist@PaleoOnc

This graph tells a better story than the average. Almost immediately after graduation, doctors start quitting, and it drops at a continuous pace for 25 years. No plateau. Just continuous decay. Looks as bad as some of the survival curves in oncology! 20% are gone in 5 years! 5 years!! They train for 7 years after college and quit in less than that. They get out as soon as they can! That says one thing clearly - Graduating doctors are realizing that this is not what they signed up for The gaslighting during med school and residency fades fast in private practice. Doctors are not dumb.

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Peter Smith (he/him)
Peter Smith (he/him)@peterdsmith·
@RealJamesWoods My own ancestor's religion told them to burn quakers to death for the crime of being the wrong kind of protestant. Maybe change is good?
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Brian Heywood - That Damn Mormon
Brian Heywood - That Damn Mormon@bkheywood·
Imagine a private company promising investors a product or service they could never deliver and then using the government to force annual contributions from its investors and then not delivering but suggesting more government taking was required … welcome to sound transit Excerpts “Stations promised to voters in 2016 — in Ballard, South Seattle and Tukwila — were deemed unaffordable in a proposed project list this month, putting their futures in doubt. The reality of a nearly $35 billion funding gap has set in.” “Residents who have waited decades for their promised light rail stops and paid Sound Transit taxes since 1997 are beside themselves.” seattletimes.com/seattle-news/t…
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Peter Smith (he/him)
Peter Smith (he/him)@peterdsmith·
@windowsdev : WinUI3 has the weirdest namespace defaults. Sometimes it's, "Must Use Microsoft.UI.Xaml!". And other times the it's all "except for these classes here which are in the old, decrepit, unsupported Windows.UI namespace". And there's no hint for which is which!
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Peter Smith (he/him)@peterdsmith·
@RndmStreetMedic There's basically nowhere in NYC where these are legal to ride. Personally, I hate when jerks buy obviously non-street-legal vehicles and they ride them (loudly) on the street.
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Street Medic
Street Medic@RndmStreetMedic·
This is just another reminder that NYPD is a state sponsored street gang. All the video does is flaunt them engaging in theft and property destruction. "We stole your ATV and destroyed it. What are you gonna do about it? Nothing. Fuck off."
NYPD NEWS@NYPDnews

The NYPD is crushing it when it comes to taking illegal mopeds and scooters off our streets. So far this year, the NYPD has seized over 5,700 of these dangerous, illegal vehicles — and we are not letting up.

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Peter Smith (he/him)
Peter Smith (he/him)@peterdsmith·
@WheelerRipWA Quick web search says: nope. No such thing as a senate bill 626 in Washington. It's pointless AI spam
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Rip Wheeler
Rip Wheeler@WheelerRipWA·
Just found this official decree from the Washington Governor’s Office… They’ve officially banned aimless driving. No more cruising. No more joyrides. No more “I’m just clearing my head, officer.” You must have a lawful destination at all times or face a $1,000 fine. Welcome to the People’s Republic of Washington, where even your Sunday drive needs prior approval. Governor Ferguson has solved traffic congestion by making driving illegal unless you’re going somewhere productive. Next up: banning “aimless walking,” “purposeless staring out the window,” and breathing without a five-year plan. Washingtonians, start practicing your excuse scripts now: “Yes officer, I am driving to acquire oat milk for my emotional support latte.” This is peak 2026 energy. Government: “We care about your safety!” Also government: “But first, show me your destination on this here form, citizen.” The only thing aimless now is common sense. Hopefully you got a chuckle. Now days I wouldn’t put anything past them. #AimlessDrivingBanned #WashingtonWay #BigGovernmentEnergy #JustLetPeopleDrive
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Peter Smith (he/him)
Peter Smith (he/him)@peterdsmith·
@CartoonsHateHer Fun stats fact! There's a sample size where you can jump from "painfully accounting for a small sample" to "use this simpler math because you have a large sample". And it's like, 10. That's all it takes to be a "large" sample. (PSA: the real killer is biased samples)
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Cartoons Hate Her!
Cartoons Hate Her!@CartoonsHateHer·
Sometimes I worry my sex surveys don't have enough people because it's "only" 4,000 people who saw the link on Twitter but then I look at professional studies that are cited everywhere and the sample size is like 29 German college students in 2004.
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Peter Smith (he/him)
Peter Smith (he/him)@peterdsmith·
@davidpattersonx When you're poor, you can become a soldier. Middle class people join as officers The very wealthy get the president to invade a country for them. So why wouldn't the very wealthy have to pay more? They get more!
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David Scott Patterson
David Scott Patterson@davidpattersonx·
If taxes were fair: You earn $100,000 per year and pay $30,000 in tax. Your neighbor earns $1,000,000 and pays $300,000 in tax. Your neighbor is paying 10X more than you. If taxes were fair, you should both pay $30,000, since you both receive the same government services.
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Peter Smith (he/him)
Peter Smith (he/him)@peterdsmith·
@PatrickHeizer The factual part of the statement (that all 50 states have property tax reduction for disabled veterans) is wrong. WA only has help for old poor spouses of dead veterans and help for people who are disabled (or old). Disabled people only get deferral.
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Patrick Heizer
Patrick Heizer@PatrickHeizer·
One thing I've yet to hear mentioned w/r/t veteran disability, is not only are these fraudsters getting monthly checks from the government, but they also get reduced property taxes. So not only are they getting checks from the feds, but they're not contributing locally either.
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Rexha 🐸@RexhaRexhaRexha

Caleb Hammer’s audit guest, who was a cook in the Army, reveals he has an 80% disability rating and receives a disability check of $2,100-$4,000 per month, despite being discharged for selling vapes. “Well, I got honorably discharged because I never got caught.”

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Peter Smith (he/him)
Peter Smith (he/him)@peterdsmith·
@unconed RE: 32-bit integers: a super smart tech person once told me: "the number of problems where 2 billion isn't enough, but 4 billion is, is pretty small"
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unconed 🛸💫🌞
unconed 🛸💫🌞@unconed·
Signed vs unsigned for integers is a funny one in the line of "make illegal states unrepresentable". In theory you never need to [index] negatively or allocate negative sizes. But as soon as you have +1/-1 offsets, with or without cyclical wrapping, unsigned leads to footguns, whereas signed does not. And with 64-bit integers, losing half the size space isn't actually an issue like it was with 32. #some-notes-on-the-changes-in-c3" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">c3-lang.org/blog/unsigned-…
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Raven@Ravenismeee·
People who sleep naked do ya'll ever think about emergencies? What if someone breaks in?
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Peter Smith (he/him)@peterdsmith·
@amazon : aws.amazon.com/ai/our-story/ Also Amazon: we know that you've never watched sports, ever. But we insist on showing you a giant ad for sports shows before showing you anything like the content you've ever watched.
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Peter Smith (he/him)
Peter Smith (he/him)@peterdsmith·
@LorenCulp And then there's you, friends with people violently overthrowing the government, and clueless about the geography of your own state.
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Loren Culp
Loren Culp@LorenCulp·
There are two types of politicians that are ruining our country. The power hungry and the go along to get along. Both types have r's and d's behind their names. What's the solution?
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Brian Heywood - That Damn Mormon
Brian Heywood - That Damn Mormon@bkheywood·
This ad by sound transit, paid for using the exorbitant car tab fees taken every car owner, every year , mocking those same car owners for stupidly wanting to drive their car seems like the most perfect metaphor for the mindset of WA state government. Clueless Condescending Careless with our money Incompetent Over-budget Behind schedule But somehow we are the problem
Ari Hoffman@thehoffather

🧵EXCLUSIVE: Sound Transit, which is massively over budget & perpetually behind schedule, is rolling out a series of ads on May 7 calling Washingtonians "Mindless" zombies for driving The agency is so badly run that it is $20-30 billion over budget despite gouging taxpayers

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Peter Smith (he/him)@peterdsmith·
@heresyfinancial What you say: "pay ... of ALL the taxes" Your chart shows data one of the three main tax systems in America and ignores the other two.
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Joseph Brown
Joseph Brown@heresyfinancial·
When will the poor start paying their fair share? The top 1% pay 38% of all the taxes The bottom 50% pay only 3%
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Peter Smith (he/him)@peterdsmith·
@Notwokenow Does that include "political activism" like, "our politics run more smoothly when we have free schools open to all children"? In the past, that was an explicitly political question.
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Peter Smith (he/him)
Peter Smith (he/him)@peterdsmith·
@letsgowa "Not only have voters rejected it every time it’s been on the ballot ..." is untrue. The initiative in 1932 passed, 70% to 30%.
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Let's Go Washington
Let's Go Washington@letsgowa·
The State Supreme Court rejected our petition for a referendum on the income tax based on previous precedent. Precedent should be the very reason they rule Ferguson's income tax unconstitutional in their hearing at the end of the year. letsgowashington.com/lgw-statement-…
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