Head of Developer Relations at @arizeai. Previously: @llamaindex, @netlify, co-founder @npmjs. 🏳️🌈🇹🇹🇬🇧🇺🇸 he/him @seldo.com on BlueSky.
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I'm not a professional data analyst, but... oh wait I *am* a professional data analyst. Nebraska is lying about how many covid cases it has.
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Scooby-Doo is a positive show with three key messages for children:
1. Monsters aren't real
2. The problem is always greedy capitalists; unmask them
3. Always bring snacks
Scooby-doo's 50th anniversary is this week!
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Seriously though: Facebook is a wasteland, Twitter in turmoil, Instagram has collapsed trying to be TikTok, and TikTok isn't a social network. If you wanted to start a social network, this would be the best time in 10 years to try that.
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Did you know that for 200 years we've known that spiders can fly but haven't really understood how they did that and we finally worked it out and the answer is "they ride the earth's magnetic fields at will"??? Nature is fucking awesome. theatlantic.com/science/arch…
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A guide for Europeans following American politics, translating common terms:
"Extreme left wing" = center left
"Left wing" = center right
"Moderate" = right wing
"Right wing" = extreme right
"Extreme right wing" = fascists
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Dear news organizations of the internet: never the fuck ever do I want to watch a video instead of read the article I clicked on. I don't care if it's related to the article or not. I am not interested in unexpected noise coming from a web page. Knock it the fuck off.
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No but seriously Reddit's net loss last year was $90m, if they had paid their CEO "only" 50 million fucking dollars they would have been profitable.
hi folks I’m the reddit ceo just looking for a quick budget check, we’re going to ipo soon but we’re still losing money somehow
servers 20 million
payroll 60 million
office rent 5 million
my comp is 193 million
someone please help me budget my company. my website is dying
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The metaverse video in which they said they've added feet was faked, they have still not cracked the technology for adding legs. kotaku.com/zuckerberg-facebo…
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"Nobody in Nebraska has covid except the cities where democrats live" is not a plausible data pattern.
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This is WILD. A single mutation 25 years ago created an all-female species of crayfish that reproduces asexually in huge numbers, and they are literally taking over the world: nytimes.com/2018/02/05/scien…
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For the record, when Lincoln said "a house divided cannot stand" he did not mean "we need to compromise with the slave owners", he meant "we are going to crush them into the dirt" and then he did.
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Very weird watching a giant IT outage that hasn't hit what I'll call "valley tech" at all, because everybody uses Macs on the client and Linux on the server. Meanwhile, a bunch of... "normie tech"? I dunno what to call it. But all that stuff is completely hosed.
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Also JFC, Louisiana, all of your problems are the source of all your other problems in a self-perpetuating loop.
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The inventor of the gender reveal party regrets it and the baby whose gender was revealed at that party is gender-non-conforming.
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Family IT support pro tip: buy a domain, pay for GSuite, give your parents email on that domain. You control their spam filters, their password resets, you can turn off new features they find confusing. Totally worth the money and time.
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It's Presidents Day in the US and once upon a time I read a biography of every single US president so I may as well make use of that useless knowledge. Here is a thread of the wildest tweet-sized fact I know about each president:
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This is an actual story on an official government website with a 14-word headline starting with "we must secure". This is not an accident. There are actual Nazis-who-call-themselves-Nazis at DHS. dhs.gov/news/2018/02/15/we-m…
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I once literally had a conversation with a Tesla owner who said it was a great car apart from the software and the hardware.
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I don't know who needs to hear this but "i.e." and "e.g." do not mean the same thing and are not interchangeable.
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Google Hangouts is shutting down in November. Its successor is Google Chat, which is not the same as GChat, which was also known as Google Talk. None of those are the same as Spaces, which is the new name for Rooms. I am not making any of this up. theverge.com/2022/6/27/23185…
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TLDR: a reported doubling in the rate of shoplifting in San Francisco was caused almost entirely by a single Target store using a new system to automate reporting. There was no more shoplifting than usual at that store; shoplifting is just very seldom reported.
Crime experts say the data required to accurately measure shoplifting is woefully inadequate.
There is no better example of the problem than the shoplifting data kept by the San Francisco Police Department.
Read more: sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s…
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The best theory I've seen is that the secret service has told him he has to campaign indoors for safety but he refuses to shell out for any venues.
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Oh and
"Communist" = left wing
"Socialist" = anyone not a libertarian
"Libertarian" = asshole
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Apparently a thing some people routinely do is make a bunch of slides and then just roughly remember what they were going to say in response to each slide without speaker notes, I cannot imagine being able to do that.
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The longer I stay in tech the more my role seems to become remembering the last time we fucked something up and warning people who are about to do it again.
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The primary way ChatGPT helps me with writing tasks is I ask it to produce a first draft, and it's so terrible that I go "jesus, I can do better than THAT" and throw it away and write the whole thing from scratch.
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A rich GitHub profile is like a college degree:
∙ It's a positive signal, one of dozens possible
∙ Not everybody has the time and resources to get one
∙ Having one does not necessarily mean you're good at your job
∙ Ignoring one would be silly
∙ Requiring one would be silly
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So for instance when you hear "@AOC is a socialist from the extreme left wing of the Democratic Party" what that means is "this lady is proposing a system that would be a significant shift to the right in a European country"
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They hounded Aaron Swartz literally to death for doing this.
You can search all open access content on JSTOR without a login - there's more than 6,000 ebooks and over 150 journals: jstor.org/open/
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A dozen Google employees resigned in protest over its involvement in military contracts using machine intelligence to control drones. This is some sterling ethical activism and should be getting more press: gizmodo.com/google-employees…
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If you have a sticker over your laptop's camera but also own an Alexa I question the validity of your threat model.
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I feel like the only thing more embarrassing that not having feet was saying you added them and then having to admit you lied.
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Not only did this guy steal $2.7m but even *after* he ran off with the money people are *still trading the NFTs* each of which pays the guy who stole the money a 4% royalty every time. They are paying their scammer even after he completed the scam!
The developer behind the NFT project, 'Evil Ape,' suddenly disappeared along with its Twitter account, website, and $2.7 million. trib.al/QMRW27E
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The older I get, the more every problem in tech seems to be a matter of getting humans to work together effectively, and not tech itself.
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Rich people in SF telling each other "crime is definitely way up" still isn't data no matter how many times they say it.
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It's not tear gas unless it's from the teargas region of France. Otherwise it's just sparkling fascism. washingtonpost.com/lifestyle…
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I apologize for everything about Finder, it's terrible and they refuse to fix it.
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Shout out to everyone who periodically drags everything on their desktop into a folder called "Stuff".
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Anyone claiming they could have built a better version of the Iowa caucus app "in a weekend" is exhibiting exactly the kind of hubris that led to the app in the first place. It would take six months to responsibly design, execute, test, deploy and train people to use a good app.
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If anybody has a breakdown of the people Musk has fired by ethnicity or gender I am begging you to leak it.
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Remember that time Facebook had a bug in their analytics that made it look like short video performed amazingly better than any other form of media and whole businesses realigned themselves to meet this phantom market and went bankrupt? Good times.
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TIL Google Docs has a "code block" that you can paste code into and it'll highlight it correctly, but Google Slides does not have that feature, BUT you can paste the highlighted code from a doc to a slide. Our seamless technological future continues.
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So apparently a lot of you were unaware that spiders could fly until today and are not thrilled to hear it, and I can only apologize for that revelation, but take consolation in the fact that they fly in the most science-fiction-y way you can imagine.
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I've been thinking hard about the root causes of Roe's repeal and other social justice problems in the USA and I've come to the conclusion that religion is bad, a net negative for society, and we should stop pretending it's fine for people to believe things that aren't true.
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It's been 4 years since Apple introduced the TouchBar and I think we can all agree that it is useless and should go in the bin.
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I got "religion is the same bullshit everywhere" but I'm not sure that's the "it" you intended.
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This absurd "one-liner" will show you the name of the command running on each port on MacOS, which is something I need to do constantly so leaving it here:
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sudo lsof -iTCP -sTCP:LISTEN -n -P | awk 'NR>1 {print $9, $1, $2}' | sed 's/.*://' | while read port process pid; do echo "Port $port: $(ps -p $pid -o command= | sed 's/^-//') (PID: $pid)"; done | sort -n
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"i.e." means "it means", for example: "he was let go, i.e. fired"
"e.g." means "for example", e.g. this sentence.
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"Boolean" but pronounced like "Jolene" and you sing the song every time you assign one.
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Two rounds of deep analysis of employee performance data at Google show that the top predictors of success are being a good communicator in a team where you feel emotionally safe: washingtonpost.com/news/answ…
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Dear HR advertisers of the world: please stop referring to returning to the office as "returning to work". We've been at work the whole time.
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Hey @Forbes do you do any fact checking on these posts at all? The survey in question seems to be entirely made-up and is hosted on a site that is attempting to SEO hack their lighting fixtures store.
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I don't know how many of you have used the software on a Tesla but the idea that those folks have anything to teach the people at Twitter is laughable.
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Everything Damore has done since getting fired has made it clear that his memo was written in bad faith and firing him was the right call.
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As a male, the number of women quote-tweeting this with "#goals" is more than a little worrying.
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Cloudflare is burying the lede here a bit: they have built a cloud platform that costs a third of what AWS costs and can run any language, by compiling it down to WebAssembly and running it in V8 isolates. blog.cloudflare.com/cloud-co…
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Today my therapist asked "what if being wrong didn't automatically mean you are also worse as a person?" and my brain divided by zero and rebooted.
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Whenever you hear a tech company say "free speech" what they mean is "moderation is expensive".
When they say "moderation is difficult" they mean "moderation is expensive".
When they say "who's to decide what's good and bad?" what they mean is "moderation is expensive".
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Andrew Johnson: a completely racist shithead who set civil rights back a hundred years, was impeached and should have been removed but it turns out we don't do that for any reason.
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Also it's wild to me that United or whoever is presumably paying annual per-seat licenses for each of these screens when they could be extremely cheap Linux boxes. They are just signs!
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I was interviewing for a job for which I was not qualified. The company got its wires crossed and instead of a technical interview and a "culture" interview they gave me two culture interviews. I took the job, learned quickly on the job, and told no one.
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There are 14 points in the article, and the final point contains the number "88" for no good reason -- 88 is also a Nazi dog whistle for "Heil Hitler". adl.org/education/references… There is absolutely no doubt now that this article is intentionally a signal to Nazis.
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Nobody trusts computers to do important things correctly less than people who program computers for a living.
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James Madison: wrote the constitution and the bill of rights. I don't care what you heard. His super power was giving his ideas of government to other people and making them think it was their idea, and letting them take credit. But he wrote nearly all of it.
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I am, at best, a developer of average ability. I wish it wasn't true, I wish I was one of those genius developers, but I'm not. So I work with what I have.
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Jimmy Carter: took an inept translator to Poland, accidentally giving a major speech in which he told the people of Poland that he wanted to fuck them all.
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The reason straight white dudes can't see how a diverse team would solve problems differently is exactly why you need a diverse team.
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I really love it when pro-gun people tell me "but cars kill people, do you want to ban CARS?" and I'm like OF COURSE I WANT TO BAN CARS.
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So a founder publicly told an employee to shut up, two other employees reported the founder to HR for being disrespectful, and as a result the founders told all employees to shut up forever: platformer.news/p/-what-real…
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At some dumb point in the dumb future Lyft and Uber will declare that they can never be profitable but that they are essential to city transportation and will demand that cities subsidize them and we will have finally closed the circle of stupid.
Lyft lost about $1.40 per ride last quarter (net loss -$248.9M on 178.4M rides). That's better than in 2017, when it lost $1.82 per ride. For context, Uber lost $1.13 per ride in 2017.
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Martin Van Buren: initialed documents as his nickname, "Old Kinderhook", thus further popularizing an existing expression "Oil Korrect", now the expression "OK" or "Okay".
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South Africa has a point: if the reward for detecting a new covid-19 variant first is "everyone bans travel from your country", you've just created a global incentive not to find them. bbc.com/news/world-59442129
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Andrew Jackson: fought a number of duels one of which left him with lead shot permanently embedded in his chest. Lead poisoning can lead to a lot of the violent, irrational symptoms that characterized his life but it's also quite likely he was already an asshole before that.
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Rutherford B Hayes: his election was *hotly* disputed by southern states who sent opposing sets of electors to Washington with different election results. The resulting shitshow resulted in VERY SPECIFIC laws about counting votes in elections which came in handy in 2020.
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A stunning visual commentary on how we perpetuate the systems that oppress us by our participation in them.
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So now that npm is safely in the arms of Microsoft and the investors all got their money I can tell you about the time I completely lost faith in the banking system by borrowing $300,000 for 10 minutes.
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