Adam DeConinck

@ajdecon

Sysadmin. Distributed storage at FB; previously HPC at LANL, NVIDIA. Before that, physics! ❤️. Opinions my own. He/him. - 🥌📚🐈💻💾🚀🔬⚔️🐉🌃💥🥃🍺☕️🍰

Seattle, WA
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Joined March 2009
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    Aug 3

    It continues to amaze me that computers work at all.

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  2. 19 hours ago

    Good strategy overall in my experience.

    My favorite writing advice for academics isn’t to ‘dumb it down.’ It’s to assume a reader isn’t especially familiar with your area of expertise but is overall more intelligent than you.
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  3. Aug 25

    Something about playing Minnesota makes me want to break out cheers. ;) Hey, MN blockers, you sieves!

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  4. Aug 25

    Let’s go ! Take down these hosers!

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  5. Aug 25

    If you haven’t read it yet, this story on the damage caused by the NotPetya cyberattack is amazing and terrifying.

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  6. Aug 25

    Well this is terrifying

    So, Russian trolls amplified divisive content and helped spread vaccine misinformation. 😱 Look, the challenge before us is to redefine *critical thinking* to include figuring out what to believe, not just how to be skeptical. Personal and institutional.
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  7. Aug 25

    I agree with all of this.

    I'm +1 to skepticism of the motivations of cloud providers, but the Redis Labs / Commons Clause debacle mostly gets me roiled b/c of assertion that cloud providers are unfairly profiting off other people's work: that assumes most of their value is in the original implementation
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    Aug 23

    Son: Do you know what two-factor authentication is? Me: Uh, yeah? Son: I get a free dance on if I enable two factor. Can we do that? Incentives matter.

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  9. Aug 22

    5 of 5 stars to Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman

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  11. Aug 19

    Main reason I don't play video games much anymore: the task of being sysadmin for my own Windows PC is enough to keep me from turning it on to play games. 😂

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    Aug 19

    This is really cool

    Netflix Cloud Security SIRT releases Diffy: A Differencing Engine for Digital Forensics in the Cloud
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    Aug 18

    Things that are older than students starting college this Fall: —The Matrix —Toy Story 2 —Your favorite mug —Smash Mouth's "All Star" —That weird single hair on your neck —Several working papers —That review you promised —The t-shirt you're wearing —Your vague sense of regret

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  14. Aug 19

    Amazing thread

    Ok, so, look. The Constitution. Way back when in like the dawn of time or whatever, I dunno, everyone from then is dead, well, GW gets this law to allow for six friggin frigates built. Which is CLUTCH bc T Jeff is gonna be all "gunboats, fuckers" which DOESNT WORK
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    Aug 18

    I am a little agog at how many academics are weighing in to recent viral threads to defend having sex with students.

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  16. Aug 18

    . is my favorite twitter troll

    Answer me cowards
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  17. Retweeted
    Aug 17

    💜: please respond to a message from a friend

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  18. Aug 16

    This seriously made my day.

    An infinite number of of mathematicians walk into a bar. 1st one: "I'll have a beer." 2nd: "I'll have half a beer." 3rd: "I'll have a quarter of a beer." 4th: "I'll have..." The bartender slams two beers on the bar. "You all need to know your limits."
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    Aug 16

    My fellow techies, we need to chat about this whole "failing is good" thing. When those of us established in our careers espouse advice like "don't be afraid to make mistakes! mistakes are part of learning!" we neglect the context that we're speaking from a privileged position.

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  20. Retweeted
    Aug 15

    Time until someone born after 9/11 can enlist to go to war in Afghanistan:

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    Aug 14

    In celebration of the launch of Turing ray tracing hardware, I am making my three ray tracing books are available as free pdfs. I have donated half the money people have sent to , a really neat organization. Trace those rays! …

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