Computer person by profession. I like: common sense, mild insanity and five course proper Italian meals with matching wine.

Amsterdam, NL
Joined September 2011
Hoi @bol_com, ik ontvang spookfacturen van jullie en ben daardoor in een geautomatiseerde incassoprocedure beland. Dat heet acquisitiefraude en is bij mijn weten strafbaar. Ik hoef toch geen aangifte te doen tegen de winkel van ons allemaal?
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Speaking of misinformation these days, can we talk about those emails with [Action Required] at the start of the subject?
Best email I ever got from them!
When FLoC goes mainstream, I will start a marketplace where smaller / medium volume web properties can offer up their distribution and tallies of FLoC IDs for sale for extra income without having to serve ads. This will be so much better than cookies! #FLoC #adtech
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Why does it feel like every individual @googlecloud Python client library was written by a different team, from a different organisation, from a different planet?
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Machine learning meets keyboard layouts...
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To whom it may concern (you know who you are): I told you so. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/…
walkfromhome.lol/. Use the last working week of the year to take a hike with your colleagues! A tool to create pairs who can conveniently meetup outside for a walk, by uploading a spreadsheet with your co-workers' postal codes.
Am I the only one wondering how many resources are wasted auto-updating Garage Band on macOS?
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New post on dealing with integration for B2B SaaS startups: friso.lol/your-b2b-saas-inte…
I am picking up the basics of contemporary frontend development. Two days in, I wish I could go back to simpler things like distributed systems, or machine learning.
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I just bought this WiFi router to connect to a wired ethernet device because it was cheaper than a Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter.
Question on @GCPcloud disks: if I successfully fsync/fdatasync from a pod in a StatefulSet to a regional persistent disk, what guarantees do I have of reading back all writes prior to sync when subsequent failure causes the pod to be rescheduled (assuming the OS actually syncs).
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I think this is as far as the docs go. While reassuring, it's not overly specific...
Replying to @KVK_NL
@KVK_NL Hoe lang duurt het voordat een aangeschaft uittreksel per e-mail verzonden wordt?
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Hmm... Blijkbaar net iets minder lang dan het beantwoorden van berichten op Twitter. Thanks anyway.
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Things that benefit from one additional click for confirmation: deleting important data, large financial transactions, perhaps even agreement to EULAs, etc. Thing that really does not: ending a video call. @zoom_us @Webex
As a rule of thumb, the amount of money you need to pay someone to use a product or service they don't need is equal to the amount at which incentive fraud becomes interesting...
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New post: An Algorithm for "Visually Appealing" Image Ordering. friso.lol/an-algorithm-for-v…
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