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@bbrks_

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  1. Retweeted
    Aug 24

    A former Tesla employee, who worked on their IT infrastructure, is posting in a subforum of a subforum, a little-known place for funy computer forgotten by time. His NDA has expired. He has such sights to show us. Join me and I will be your silent guide into a world of horror.

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  2. Aug 23

    This warning in IE5 when using HTTPS. They were different times... 😂

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  3. Aug 23

    What the hell.

    Windows 2000 emulated in WebAssembly ! Run a browser inside Windows emulated in your browser :
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    Aug 23

    How to scale Bitcoin to 1 billion, err... actually more like 20 million users: just have everyone sign up for a Coinbase account and do off-blockchain book transfers on Coinbase's MongoDB instead of the blockchain:

    In fact, Bitcoin has long scaled to billions of users. It's called . You can always send money to their hub, and you could send it *for free* to any other user of that hub. It's been in production for 6 years! Payment channels/LN is basically 2.0 of this process..
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  5. Retweeted
    Aug 22

    Yet another milestone for us as another update for Go SDK has been released!

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    16 Aug 2016
    Replying to

    Personally, I prefer to increase the spacing for each successive indent according to the Fibbonaci sequence:

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    May 25

    Because of , USA Today decided to run a separate version of their website for EU users, which has all the tracking scripts and ads removed. The site seemed very fast, so I did a performance audit. How fast the internet could be without all the junk! 🙄 5.2MB → 500KB

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  8. Aug 17

    Shady GDPR consent colour scheme... Made me think all were on by default.

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  9. Aug 16

    Spotify's shuffle algorithm is infuriatingly most definitely not shuffled. Sort a large playlist by song title, play with shuffle, and miraculously all of the songs start with the same letter!

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  10. Aug 15

    or golang

    To err is human. To err repeatedly is research.
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  11. Aug 8

    :slowclap:

    TIL Azure enforces DOS restrictions on Linux systems. If you create a file called "COM1" on an azure disk, it will crash...
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    Aug 7

    Go is the fastest growing languages on GitHub in the last quarter 2018.

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    Aug 5

    the slides for my talk Scorch! a New Index for Bleve are now online (sadly without the soothing campfire sounds)

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    Aug 2

    From now on, every time you see a bee flying away, you will think "See you later, pollinator", and I accept complete responsibility for that.

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    Aug 1

    Web: We noticed you're using an Ad blocker Me: I noticed you're using 32 tracking services.

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    Jul 31

    Two years ago, I published a blog post in which I explained the most important color tools for data vizzers. Many people told me they found it helpful. So this week I took the time to update & improve it:

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    Jul 30

    horse shoe theory: not tech savvy: I just want a simple house that I understand and can easily maintain. tech savvy: I can't get enough smart appliances. Alexa! Order more smart appliances! programmer: I just want a simple house that I understand and can easily maintain.

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  18. Jul 25

    Actually this might be a British Airways app design flaw 🤷‍♂️

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  19. Jul 25

    SFO why do you label your international terminal "Terminal I" (yes that's a capital i). Holy crap. Almost got lost wandering terminal 1

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    Jul 16

    So British Airways is asking for people's personal data over social media "to comply with GDPR", and some people are even replying directly in the public feed. uwotm8

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