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I didn’t know anything about electric self-driving cars, so thought Elon was a genius. Likewise, I didn’t know squat about reusable rockets, so thought Elon was a genius. I know about software, and this man is a moron.
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That balloon, the one China sent for “intelligence gathering” over the US. It didn’t find any, which is why it’s floating around out there going 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Well, a connection I didn’t think of*, but 🤣 boingboing.net/2023/01/24/ki… *guess I should have though - the crown owns lots of property in the UK

King Charles III is suing Twitter over unpaid rent on its UK headquarters

Crown Estate, a property portfolio belonging to the King of England, is suing Twitter for unpaid rent on its UK headquarters in central London, reports BBC. The Crown Estate took…

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This is a really shitty way of doing layoffs, but not sure if informing everyone all at once or doing it more personally and everyone waiting to see if/where the axe will fall is any better.
Gergely Orosz
@GergelyOrosz20 Jan 2023
We'll look back at this week as an inflection point when Big Tech lost its former attractiveness. It will be stories like Justin's, and the countless ones to be told, where many realize that, during layoffs, people become numbers, and 8% of those numbers need to be "marked."
Screenshot of a LinkedIn post by Justin Moore saying: So after over 16.5 years at Google, I appear to have been let go via an automated account deactivation at 3am this morning as one of the lucky 12,000. I don't have any other information, as I haven't received any of the other communications the boilerplate "you've been let go" website (which I now also can't access) said I should receive. It was a (largely) wonderful 16 years, and I'm really proud of the work that I and my teams did over the years. I got to work with some great people and really help a lot of our users around the world in the Civics and Elections space. I was so incredibly fortunate. This also just drives home that work is not your life, and employers -- especially big, faceless ones like Google -- see you as 100% disposable. Live life, not work.

ALT Screenshot of a LinkedIn post by Justin Moore saying: So after over 16.5 years at Google, I appear to have been let go via an automated account deactivation at 3am this morning as one of the lucky 12,000. I don't have any other information, as I haven't received any of the other communications the boilerplate "you've been let go" website (which I now also can't access) said I should receive. It was a (largely) wonderful 16 years, and I'm really proud of the work that I and my teams did over the years. I got to work with some great people and really help a lot of our users around the world in the Civics and Elections space. I was so incredibly fortunate. This also just drives home that work is not your life, and employers -- especially big, faceless ones like Google -- see you as 100% disposable. Live life, not work.

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In any case this is a historic moment for tech - many (myself included) thought it was really stable and as long as performing well jobs were secure - I’ve seen too many excellent people announce their layoff to believe that, and in some ways it appears random. Bubble has popped
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I’ll help whomever I can during this period - intros, network, even if just venting over drinks. This is certainly a watershed moment, but not the end for any not many - tech is too engrained and will still grow, but it’s not the guarantee job for life at BigCo that it was 😢
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Please don’t get any AI to write comments like this - they are worse than useless. Some of the other ideas in this thread are good (especially writing template/startup code), some are “meh”, and others (like generating regex) GPT get very wrong, so don’t give it too much trust
Sergio Pereira
@SergioRocks12 Jan 2023
Replying to @SergioRocks
4/ Comment code We can extend the point 3 above by adding line by line comments to that code base we didn't build. But we can also make our own code properly commented before shipping, by asking ChatGPT to add comments. No more uncommented code in PRs.
comment code using chatgpt

ALT comment code using chatgpt

comment code using chatgpt

ALT comment code using chatgpt

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Well, that was an exciting afternoon and evening ;)
Seattle Seahawks
@Seahawks9 Jan 2023
#OnePride
Go Lions.

ALT Go Lions.

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Someone posted this image in LinkedIn, which I detest seeing political commentary there, but moreso shows a complete misunderstanding on how politics should work.
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Politics is a bad topic for lots of people, but that needn’t be so - politics, and politicking, can do good for either/both sides of the political spectrum, if honorable people debate in good faith. However, I’m sad to think there are few of those people in politics any more.
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Anyway, I won’t ever be using LinkedIn for my political beliefs, nor for my usual shitposting - that is solely reserved for here 🙂
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Sigh, here we go. If there were any more evidence republicans want to fuck up america here’s another one. They don’t want money coming into the treasury *that it’s owed* by tax cheats and their GOP sponsors. It’s not “going after average Americans”, it’s having a functioning IRS
RNC Research
@RNCResearch7 Jan 2023
Speaker McCarthy: "Our very first bill will repeal the funding for 87,000 new IRS agents."
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Mike Andrews retweeted
dalmoz@dalmoz_29 Dec 2022
Defcon BlackHat
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And everyone says correlation does not imply causation ;)
martin_casado
@martin_casado24 Dec 2022
The results are in from my straw poll of the most accomplished people I know ... ... the vast majority worked a ton, drank booze and ate poorly while on the rise. So ... if you want to get ahead, skip the gym, grab a beer and take out, and get back to work ..
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Oh noes!
Justin Elze
@HackingLZ24 Dec 2022
Breaking news
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BBC News (UK)
@BBCNews23 Dec 2022
Santa-filled armoured truck gets stuck in Cornish lane bbc.in/3VnNvOt
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I’ve got to say I’m kinda surprised that this hasn’t happened - testament to both the original engineering team, and those that remained. Sites with this much complexity and traffic are often teetering on a knife edge. I think a saving grade is not pushing many changes
Dan Luu@altluu11 Nov 2022
Replying to @altluu
What's the probability that Twitter will have an unprecedented outage by modern Twitter standards (1 day or longer, where >= 50% of U.S. users or >= 25% of global users find Twitter to be unusable) by 2024-01-01?
21%pre-Elon baseline (< 1%)
39%Unusually high (1%-25%)
20%Very high (26%-50%)
20%this_is_fine.jpg (> 50%)
336 votes • Final results
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Liz Hoffman
@lizrhoffman16 Dec 2022
Elon Musk's team is seeking new investors for Twitter, offering the same $54.20-a-share deal and trying to close by the end of the year. Scoop w/ @ReedAlbergotti semafor.com/article/12/16/20…

Elon Musk’s team is seeking new investors for Twitter

The managing director of Elon Musk’s family office reached out to potential investors this week.

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