Senior Director of Technology and Security @SequenceBio. Group leader with a strong background in security, user experience, and software development. he/him
Newfoundland
Joined December 2009
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I have a new, 4096 bit PGP key.
Fingerprint:
106E B1FA E15E 78A9 82DE 8DEA 460D CAF1 9A82 B546.
Also available at:
keybase.io/alainodea/pgp_key…
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I'm repeatedly impressed by this book. Great when I first bought it in 2022 and it has stayed fresh and gotten better with each revision. Most recently massively updated to account for Go 1.22's improvements to ServerMux and router patterns.
@ajmedwards
Bridge westbound on Pitts above TCH is blocked after TCH east exit. Not sure why. Police and highway enforcement on scene. #nltraffic
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zfs is less of a 'file system' that you can format a 'block device' with, and more of a hypervisor that abstracts over virtual file systems on virtual block devices,,,,,
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Science ran a big experiment on itself for the last ~60 years. It didn't work out.
experimentalhistory.substack…
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Announcing a collab with @impurepics 🎉
A series of @_yesbut_-inspired Haskell memes!
Part #1: A deceptive one-liner
ALT A Yes, But meme with the Yes part: updateCity = set (user . address . city) and the But part: {-# LANGUAGE FlexibleContexts #-} {-# LANGUAGE FlexibleInstances #-} {-# LANGUAGE MultiParamTypeClasses #-} {-# LANGUAGE RankNTypes #-} {-# LANGUAGE ScopedTypeVariables #-} {-# LANGUAGE TemplateHaskell #-} {-# LANGUAGE TypeFamilies #-} {-# LANGUAGE UndecidableInstances #-}
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Did you know? ⚓️ 🚢
🧵 1/7. The passenger steamer SS Warrimoo was quietly knifing its way through the waters of the mid-Pacific on its way from Vancouver to Australia. The navigator had just finished working out a star fix and brought Captain John DS. Phillips, the result.
I do my software estimates like Install Command Line Developer Tools. 1 year, no 45 days, no 26 hours, no 5 minutes. Okay it's done.
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This image was not generated by AI.
It's a 450 year old painting called The Librarian, by the wildly inventive artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo.
And his other paintings only get stranger...
ALT The Librarian by Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1566)
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Have others told you there are not enough raw materials to transition to 100% renewables?
Did they say minerals are the new oil?
Maybe they believed @SimonMichaux of @GTK_FI?
If so, please explain to them they were fooled, by showing them this thread.
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My fool godson, William, went down to the basement to get a snack four days ago
I told him--every time I tell him--to COUNT the stairs as he goes down. There's only 12. If it goes to 13, come back up and try again. And don't follow the thing singing down there
But does he listen?
Another great scoff centred around Labrador Gem Seafoods. Had fresh linguine with basil pesto topped with seared Labrador Gem scallops. Absolutely delicious.
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I found a vulnerability that allowed me to unlock any @Google Pixel phone without knowing the passcode. This may be my most impactful bug so far.
Google fixed the issue in the November 5, 2022 security patch. Update your devices!
bugs.xdavidhu.me/google/2022…
