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Internet infrastructure, armchair bio geek, tech in general. A real person. This is my personal Tw. Follow if you think I'm boring.
Los Angeles Katılım Aralık 2008
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Happening today, join the Security Leaders Forum "Trust Under Fire: Turning Insider Threat Frameworks into Action". Register now: cfl.re/4rcspUv

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I won’t mince words: earlier today we failed our customers and the broader Internet when a problem in @Cloudflare network impacted large amounts of traffic that rely on us. The sites, businesses, and organizations that rely on Cloudflare depend on us being available and I apologize for the impact that we caused.
Transparency about what happened matters, and we plan to share a breakdown with more details in a few hours. In short, a latent bug in a service underpinning our bot mitigation capability started to crash after a routine configuration change we made. That cascaded into a broad degradation to our network and other services. This was not an attack.
That issue, impact it caused, and time to resolution is unacceptable. Work is already underway to make sure it does not happen again, but I know it caused real pain today. The trust our customers place in us is what we value the most and we are going to do what it takes to earn that back.
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@coinbase you spend a lot of time, money, resources on promotions and partnerships. The one thing that would actually make a difference and increase investment and trade velocity would be to drastically decrease trading fees. It’s annoying that you don’t just do that one thing.
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@uber Where can I file bug reports? On Firefox 144.0, MacOS 15.7.1 A scheduled order was erroneously rescheduled to asap when I went to confirm the order details. I could not cancel or change the order, four drivers were dispatched for a birthday cake that wasnt baked yet.
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@elonmusk big if true, an engineering challenge
phys.org/news/2025-08-c…
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@kalin_t Indeed, huge dependency epidemic out there. In biology, code is energetically expensive so genomes have natural regularization. In software the cost of code is lower so it bloats like crazy into brittle mess.
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How to build a thriving open source community by writing code like bacteria do 🦠. Bacterial code (genomes) are:
- small (each line of code costs energy)
- modular (organized into groups of swappable operons)
- self-contained (easily "copy paste-able" via horizontal gene transfer)
If chunks of code are small, modular, self-contained and trivial to copy-and-paste, the community can thrive via horizontal gene transfer. For any function (gene) or class (operon) that you write: can you imagine someone going "yoink" without knowing the rest of your code or having to import anything new, to gain a benefit? Could your code be a trending GitHub gist?
This coding style guide has allowed bacteria to colonize every ecological nook from cold to hot to acidic or alkaline in the depths of the Earth and the vacuum of space, along with an insane diversity of carbon anabolism, energy metabolism, etc. It excels at rapid prototyping but... it can't build complex life. By comparison, the eukaryotic genome is a significantly larger, more complex, organized and coupled monorepo. Significantly less inventive but necessary for complex life - for building entire organs and coordinating their activity. With our advantage of intelligent design, it should possible to take advantage of both. Build a eukaryotic monorepo backbone if you have to, but maximize bacterial DNA.

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@lexfridman @sundarpichai How does Sundar think about costs and scaling in an AI centered search world? What’s his entry point in the conversations with his staff?
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I'm doing a podcast with @sundarpichai soon. Let me know if you have any questions / topic suggestions.
The rate of AI progress has been insane. It makes me excited for the future (even more than usual 🤣) and excited to chat with leaders & engineers who are building that future.
PS: I'm trying to do a mix of both high-level & super-technical deep dives. Doing a 100 hour podcast with @dhh about super-specific programming topics is a slightly different thing than talking to CEO of Google & Alphabet 🤣 I really enjoy both kinds of conversations as a host and as a fan of other podcasts. Btw, here are some great podcasts that cover AI in unique & interesting ways, please check them out!
- @theallinpod
- @MLStreetTalk
- @dwarkesh_sp
- @latentspacepod
- @mreflow
- @twimlai
- @interconnectsai
- sorry if I'm forgetting some, let me know if you have recommendations
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@CaltransDist7 @MosWoke @CaltransHQ @CountyofLA @LindseyPHorvath @CHPWestValley @LAPDHQ @LHSLASD @santamonicacity @CityMalibu @LACity @ladpw Can you give us rough estimate or best current guess; is it days, weeks, months?
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@MosWoke @CaltransHQ @CountyofLA @LindseyPHorvath @CHPWestValley @LAPDHQ @LHSLASD @santamonicacity @CityMalibu @LACity @ladpw No estimated time of opening for TCB, yet.
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@FlyFrontier I've been trying for 3 days to book a flight on your site or ios app. Your site doesn't work on Firefox, my main browser. My login just spun on Chrome and the app. I've finally been able to login to the app and now the price has quadrupled. Help!
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@cvspharmacy please please please stop with the extra 36 inches of receipt. Maybe offer it as an option or something.
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@appleinsider please consider adding spec filters to your price guides. e.g. [x]storage 512GB and above
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