Battlebots: OK we got two robots stuck together, we’re going to send in our technicians to separate them.
Technicians:
Time to sit down and watch the “Macys Thanksgiving Day Massive Misappropriation Of Precious Helium Parade”!
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Some half-technical people on tiktok are trying to stir up a huge story that Twitter is running a development build in production because of some CORS warnings in the console about sourcemaps. Twitter isnt running a dev build in prod, and it’s not that big of a story if they were
Changing careers to “wacky caribbean bush pilot who is hung over sleeping on a hammock that the plucky adventurers have to roust to get to death island and I probably have a monkey for a pet”
I’m imagining some long-haired datacenter dude plasma cutting the datacenter door down right now to access the router with one of those light blue Cisco serial cables. #facebookdown
Not gonna lie, the “I’m an edgy developer advocate with tattoos and stuff so gtfo out my way” schtick is getting old. Why do these positions still exist?
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So @docker has a new monetization strategy that's definitely innovative. "Docker Desktop requires you pay them if you're at a large company," which they define as over $10 million in revenue or 250 employees.
docker.com/blog/updating-pro…
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Replying to @csanchez
You know what scares me most?
cpu: 1000m
memory: 1g
JAVA_OPTS: -Xms1G -Xmx1G -XX:+UseG1GC
“Let’s not make this a tools discussion” is my new pet peeve IT saying. At some point, yes, tools need to be discussed.
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And now, a small thread on what to do in your first two weeks of starting a new job.
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Data center disk encryption - wasting your compliance office's time with incorrectly prioritized bullshit since forever
Of all the “smart” appliances that exist, smart ovens should be the most prolific. Yet they are barely a thing. Imagine preheating your oven while you are still at Papa Murphy’s!
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So I’ve been gone for awhile, catch me up. Are we still losers if we aren’t 100% serverless? Kubernetes still sucks right?
So let me get this straight. The US government feared Tiktok was engaged in privacy violations and shady business practices.... So they let ORACLE buy it?!!
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OK, so I need to do a brief rant on something hugely important that almost no one cares about. Humor me.
To wit: in the absence of an as-yet unidentified break through in storage tech, hydrogen is never going to be anything other than a niche player in energy mkts. Thread:
Is hyperconverged infrastructure scalable to enterprise, or is it a med-large business focused tech?








