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I have left this crummy site and so should you. @tjd@mas.to

Joined October 2014
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❄️A little bit of personal news!❄️ I've joined @SnowflakeDB as an Eng Manager. I'm excited at the prospect of scaling up our team in Dublin. If you're interested in talking to me about opportunities in Dublin, please reach out. (and pls RT) careers.snowflake.com/us/en/… #SRE #DevOps
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if you're wondering how this happened, i'll give you a hint: as @bitshiftmask pointed out, a DMA controller is basically just a special kind of thread that only knows how to do memcpy
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Took a break from lasers for the last few weeks to help with this prototype of a storage library for data stored in glass platters: youtube.com/watch?v=5OYQafF-… If you look carefully at 38s you can see me peeking round the end of the row.
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Tim Deegan retweeted
My most deeply ingrained ritualistic superstition is that I will, until the day I die, always type "sync" twice before rebooting.
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WFH: Working for whom? I'm excited to join Stanza! We help folks make sense of their systems. Come take a look: stanza.systems/ #jobchange #startup #reliability #sre #developers
Hi! We are Stanza and we're on a mission to help you make sense of production. We’ve brought together some of the most experienced SREs and developers in industry to create an ML-enhanced platform bringing SRE wisdom to any engineer. Want to know more? stanza.systems
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SRECon EMEA's CFP is open and accepting talks! Deadline: Thursday, June 30 I'm delighted to be back on the program committee and would be excited to read your proposal! First time? Just nervous? Want to talk about what you need to do? DM's open! usenix.org/conference/srecon…
Turns out our central heating is built on the "box of snakes" design.
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(Seems to be a dodgy thermostat - I did not have to dislodge the snakes)
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Unreasonably excited.
Introducing Return to Monkey Island, a new game by Ron Gilbert coming in 2022. returntomonkeyisland.com
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C is a language with many useful functions: strtod converts your string to a double, strtol converts your string to a long, and strtok converts your string to potassium
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My team builds the tools that build Squarespace. Come join them. Dublin/NYC or Remote in compatible TZ. DM's open. RT's welcome. squarespace.com/careers/jobs… – at Dublin City, Ireland
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Tim Deegan retweeted
1970: We're going to build a global network that can withstand a nuclear war. 2021: AWS is down and my coffee machine doesn't work.
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Boo. @TheEconomist should know better. and if you read the article it's clear that they do know better but did it anyway.
Alice has ventured into DeFi-land. And so have we. Join us as we journey down the rabbit hole for The Economist's first ever non-fungible token (NFT) auction econ.st/3C7F4hp
Tim Deegan retweeted
A distributed engineering team is one in which the failure of an engineer you didn’t even know existed can render your own product unusable.
What advice would you give to someone leading their first distributed engineering team?
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I look forward to many happy hours arguing about how much of it counts as "formal methods".
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This is false, you can also be an acquitted-for-murder crime writer who has gone on a walking holiday as a distraction from the aristocratic detective who keeps asking to marry you.
You should only worry about a “beach body” if you are a Belgian detective with a fine moustache whose summer holiday in Devon has been interrupted by a grisly murder.
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My colleagues on MSR Cambridge's holographic storage team are hiring. It's got lasers! And machine learning! And lasers! The job title is researcher but you don't need to be an academic. A systems programmer with experience in storage would fit right in. aka.ms/projecthsd
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The main utility of having my Apple Watch unlock my iMac when I sit down in front of it is that I immediately type my password straight into IRC
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