@rlazarus

SRE at the Wikimedia Foundation, tweets are mine not theirs (he/him)

Joined April 2009
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today's my 36th birthday! it's the 36th one in a row where I'm cancer-free, but the first one where that didn't happen by itself
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today, athletics scientists announced Antepenultimate Frisbee (4)
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did you get me this?? it's perfect, thank you so much, and also, it came without a receipt, who are you???
a gorgeous coffee table book called "Apollo Remastered: The Ultimate Photographic Record" by Andy Saunders

ALT a gorgeous coffee table book called "Apollo Remastered: The Ultimate Photographic Record" by Andy Saunders

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mystery solved, but also I'm really glad to have so many of the kind of person in my life who could have plausibly done this <3
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I WROTE A THING about how I love the space shuttle and also about how I am old [deleted and re-tweeted bc wrong url] 1972: the year space policy in this country changed from “we choose to go to the moon” to “this is all we can afford right now" slate.com/technology/2022/08… via @slate

How American Spaceflight Entered Its Era of Compromise

Looking back, it makes sense how much Nixon was involved.

slate.com
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[unfolding a sheet of paper and looking into your eyes] In these wedding vows, the key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.
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A "three nines" system is available at least 99.9% of the time. A "three and a half nines" system is available at least...
31%99.95% of the time
21%99.968% of the time
48%go take a walk
58 votes • Final results
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thanks everybody, glad that's sorted out once and for all
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if we want the rewards of having done thing, we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of doing thing
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saw this cool street sign earlier -- sorry it's so small, I couldn't get any closer
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Hemingway was once challenged to write a compelling mystery story in six words, or up to a maximum of thirteen words if the additional words were in parentheses and printed slightly smaller
c a i t l i n@hello__caitlin12 Jan 2022
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Helpful reminder: "Is William Shatner too old to go to space??" was already one of the major themes of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, a movie that was filmed closer to Shatner's bar mitzvah than to the present day
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Happy belated birthday to this incredible thing @sarahclazarus wrote, a story about a completely relatable reaction to a completely alien situation, and a piece so good that it feels like it raised the bar on everything I'll ever do. crooked.com/articles/coronav…

Coronavirus, Charity, and the Trolley Problem | Crooked Media

Coronavirus confronts helpers with an awful question: When does human life become too risky to save? The answer is up to us.

crooked.com
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uh oh, I tried running "sed -s statement" and the cat turned into cement
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a Google search result for "at least symbol" where the featured result actually shows the less-than-or-equal-to symbol

ALT a Google search result for "at least symbol" where the featured result actually shows the less-than-or-equal-to symbol

a Google Opinion Rewards survey asking "How much do you trust that the search results for 'at least symbol' provided correct and reliable information?" Completely trust, mostly trust, moderately trust, somewhat trust, or do not trust at all

ALT a Google Opinion Rewards survey asking "How much do you trust that the search results for 'at least symbol' provided correct and reliable information?" Completely trust, mostly trust, moderately trust, somewhat trust, or do not trust at all

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one space after a period, two spaces after an emoji
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Reuven Lazarus retweeted
Katherine Maher@krmaher27 Oct 2020
Did you know that you can listen to @Wikipedia? Did you know that you can listen to Wikipedia go into stealth mode as our awesome SRE team performs our annual data center switchover? Watch for 3:50 when we come back online... (courtesy of @cdanis) youtube.com/watch?v=ZVw6ccKX…
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#hugops to my Slack friends, and... #slackops to my... hug friends?
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I keep having to check and reconfirm that today is an ACTUAL Friday, unlike the last three Fridays we had this week
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Reuven Lazarus retweeted
Chris@cdanis17 Mar 2020
everyone's working from home now and @slackhq be all like
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