Family man. Programming, cycling, cooking, DJing. Entrepreneur, RoR, Apple aficionado. Owner - Gray Olive, CTO WhereiPark. https://xitter.cf/t.co/VwyXwgSgpN
Toronto, Canada
Joined March 2007
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Whoever invented the phrase “sleep like a baby” did not have kids. – at Toronto, Ontario
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LinkedIn CEO @ryros: "Pre-pandemic, ~1% of all jobs posted on LinkedIn were remote. As of today, that number is ~14%...but that's not the fascinating part. What's fascinating is north of 50% of all job applications on a daily basis on LinkedIn go to that 14% of remote jobs" $MSFT
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In Shimabara, Japan the street's gutters are so clean to be home to hundreds of swimming koi fish
The unusual habitat is a product of the 1792 Unzen tsunami that created fresh water springs
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Journalists need to stop framing GPT as "behold, we are on the very precipice of artificial intelligence magicks" and start explaining it as what it actually is: "Google autocomplete for everything else"
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Stunning team member section over on the Fora site:
→ fora-concept.com
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Letting Midjourney do the visuals for my @Rubyconfth keynote. It's pretty good for this purpose: slightly trippy, guaranteed to be visually interesting, no copyright issues, and can give it some funny prompts
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A particularly beautiful murmuration of starlings captured in Piazza della Repubblica, Rome, in January 2022
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"If there's one tenet that defines democracy... it's called majority government. And somehow the idea that you can get rid of it and say, 'trust me,' is bizarre." — former Toronto mayor @david_crombie tonight at 8/11pm | Producers: @spaikin & @Mariasarrouh #topoli #onpoli
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"Oh, look, a combinatorial-explosion problem that's about as easy as hunting tigers with a bow and arrow! Let's go!"
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USA’s Antonee Robinson consoles Iran’s Ramin Rezaian after America’s victory. Iran’s regime has tried hard to brainwash its people against the US, but most Americans who’ve been to Iran will tell you it’s among the friendliest places they’ve ever visited.
Want to help get This Christmas by Donny Hathaway to number one?
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The Backblaze Nautilus Data Center is kind of incredible - it's on a barge in the river and uses water cooling to reduce carbon footprint. Read more buff.ly/3isE4Q8
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OK so tonight might just be the best I’ve ever seen. Mesmerising doesn’t come close.
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So if we can have 2000+ ppl on bikes per day on a single bike path counter (see the counter in the end of video) in these conditions here at 65th latitude, I'd like to know what's your city's excuse.
#MeanwhileInOulu #Oulu #Finland
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Cross hook ups are a chronic problem that #greatlakes sewage utilities should be checking yearly. toronto.citynews.ca/2022/11/…
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Maximize the picture, close your left eye and look at the line of the left that is perpendicular to the line across the image. Move your screen back and forth until the ball on the right is no longer visible. This is your blind spot
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If you are under a certain age, let me assure you this apple pie was served at the surface temperature of the planet Mercury.
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As a Dutchman coming to live in Toronto, I was told you can only cycle half the year. Struck me as odd since I also heard that Canadians wear shorts until it is -10ºC.
Now I know. It is not so much the weather. It is that they mostly only clean roads for cars, not for bicycles.
