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Where can I find a man
Who has forgotten words?
He is the one I would like to talk to.
– Zhuangzi, as translated by Thomas Merton
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Neil Kandalgaonkar ➡️ @[email protected]
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Neil Kandalgaonkar ➡️ @[email protected]
@NeilKNet
@[email protected] My nephew: “I heard that you work for computers”
Vancouver, Canada Sumali Ocak 2007
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@kymeriandawn @thinkingshivers Yes, but seeing from what others have done maybe I got lucky
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With 4o Image Generation, it's time to revisit Scott Alexander's bet against Vitor. Although Scott declared victory back in Sep. 2022, some commenters (myself included) felt this was dubious.
For each prompt, I'll generate exactly four pictures and post all of them.🧵
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@MichaelCalifra @JustinWolfers Canadian here. Historically speaking that is very untrue! Don’t get too cynical
Arguably your biggest problem is that you are too used to having a relatively free, open, and welcoming society. Many of you can’t imagine that it can be taken away
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@JustinWolfers It's hard to imagine worse neighbors than the US.
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Honestly, I like Canada, I like Canadians, and it's hard to imagine having better neighbors.
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Neil Kandalgaonkar ➡️ @[email protected] nag-retweet
1/3 Here’s a plea to all of Twitter. If you agree, please retweet, because I think it’s important.
If you’re going to leave:
1) Don’t delete your account, because someone else could grab it.
2) Don’t delete your tweets, because they are part of a unique historical snapshot.
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It’s been about a month since I went to Mastodon. It’s much better for me.
Also, I only follow people I’ve met. Without anyone with an agenda to engage me, my feed takes 3 minutes and all of it enriches my life.
Only coming back to ask: why are you still here?
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@alexeheath I'm a little disappointed. Given the source, I think we have to be skeptical that the initiative is real, and we should be careful when he name-drops others to make it seem more real.
In particular, did you attempt to confirm this with @moxie?
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@samgoodwin89 Two things can be bad at the same time
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@NeilKNet @VasiliyZukanov @pmarca It recognizes that most people in large organizations are doing very little actual impactful work. This was true at amazon and is probably true everywhere. Top performers love what’s happening. Squatters hate it.
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If I were a coder in my 20s again, I know exactly where I would go work right now. What an incredible moment.
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@VasiliyZukanov @pmarca You have to be trolling. What about “report to my office with screenshots of your code” strikes you as dev-driven
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@carlsverre I wouldn't have found out about a lot of interesting tech stuff otherwise. Like @goodside, that's Only On Twitter
However, as Knuth (quoting Eco) said, "I have reached an age where my main purpose is not to receive messages" www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.h…
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@carlsverre I got a lot of value here from early-breaking news (like nearly 2 months advance warning for COVID) and alternative takes (masks are good actually!)
However, this comes at the cost of being driven somewhat insane the rest of the time
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I’m intrigued by the number of people who say that they will go down with twitter rather than finding an alternative. Is the cost of rebuilding your network elsewhere too high? Are there too many choices? Why not leave before? So curious… 🫤
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Neil Kandalgaonkar ➡️ @[email protected] nag-retweet
Why I left @twitter or rather why I did not sign up for “extremely hardcore” Twitter 2.0
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legal and moral implications? unconscionable impacts to life and liberty of users and employees? you might get fined or testify before Congress?
has this stopped the guy before?
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tbh I expect they are going to bumble along with a lot more downtime and the engs will get used to shutting down and restarting services in sequence, with throttled % of users
this is usually the last resort and it will become their 1st resort
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This is all true, but don’t expect Twitter to just die suddenly
There are options – a lot more options! – once you are willing to accept the loss of some sleep, some users, some reliability, some metrics, some reputation, and some of your immortal soul
Mosquito Capital@MosquitoCapital
I've seen a lot of people asking "why does everyone think Twitter is doomed?" As an SRE and sysadmin with 10+ years of industry experience, I wanted to write up a few scenarios that are real threats to the integrity of the bird site over the coming weeks.
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I actually reached out to some journalists but didn’t get any replies.
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I’ve been telling you all that they’ve been using “eugenics” approvingly
Thomas H. Ptacek@tqbf
Extremely cursed paragraph:
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@lennysan Thermopop. A good instant-read kitchen thermometer is life-changing. thermoworks.com/thermopop/
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What's something under $100 that you bought (or were gifted) that makes you very happy?
Can be work stuff, kitchen stuff, books, gadgets, subscriptions, experiences—anything at all.
Thinking about doing a gift guide again this year, and looking for inspiration 🎁
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@wanyeburkett @GordonByBike (It might be unethical if you're dragging norms down, but Musk already did that, and as CEO he actually has the primary responsibility to set norms)
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@wanyeburkett @GordonByBike It's definitely never a good tactic to harshly criticize anyone you work with in public, and I doubt anything was gained here.
But it's not inherently unethical or immoral.
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@starsandrobots I don’t even know what this means but I’m gonna guess
🌈⭐️
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