Arne Roomann-Kurrik

@kurrik

Arne Roomann-Kurrik. Eng Mgr on Stripe Billing. Master of bread 🍞, practitioner of dark sandwich arts 🍞 🧀 🍅 👻 🍞. Related: ,

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    May 30

    People often ask me for the difference between Stripe and Square. They are merely projections of a payment processor in one and two dimensions, respectively. In this thread I will posit the existence of hypothetical Point and Cube processors, which... (1/128)

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  2. Jul 3

    There's no API support either, because bookmarking Tweets for other services to consume might constitute actual value bestowed by Twitter's API (anathema in post-2011 Twitter)

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  3. Jul 3

    My Twitter Bookmarks workflow is to triage bookmarked Tweets on (because no direct support) until I hit the silent 429 rate limiting error by removing more than 15 bookmarks in an hour

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  4. Jul 3

    Some context: I worked on Chrome Extensions for a couple of years and it wasn’t something I thought a lot about. I wish I had.

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  5. Jul 3

    Gmail supporting apps which read all of your email for a specific function is as bad as Chrome supporting apps which get access to all of your websites in order to share or clip content. Both are terribly broad in terms of privilege, and bad APIs for end user interests

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  6. Retweeted
    Jun 27

    instead of going to art school just buy this book by the dude who spent twenty years painting talking dinosaurs. it’s probably per pound the best art education currently available on the planet

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  7. Jun 20

    Me, giving up JIRA admin access

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  8. Retweeted
    Jun 16

    The current US policy of removing young children from their parents is immoral and an affront to the values for which many of us stand. I urge you to read the personal story shared by my colleague

    Most of you know me as a successful neuroscientist / deep learning researcher but I have a story that I want to share briefly. I grew up in a group home, which is basically an orphanage.
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  9. Jun 15

    Many engineers I work with deeply dislike cold recruiting. Here's an example of one I got which felt (1) predatory during an uncertain time and (2) smelled like bullshit. I've come back to this a couple of times in my head as I've thought about recruiting for my team.

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  10. Jun 15

    Ugh, I saw this in a theater 👴🏽

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  11. Retweeted
    Jun 15

    this little girl is the same age as my daughter. luna is the happiest thing. the funniest girl. and she is absolutely terrified to look around and realize she is too far away from us, even for seconds. the fear she would feel here fills me with rage and sadness.

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  12. Jun 6

    Why did they give it teeth

    MIT scientists created a "psychopath" AI by feeding it violent content from Reddit
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  13. Jun 2

    I bought this plant last year & left it alone outside. It withered, lost its leaves & was bug eaten but I replanted it indoors this year and it grew a brand new stalk. We call him chili boy and he’s my favorite plant now. I come home and ask “how is chili boy today?”

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  14. May 30

    project in 0 and 3 dimensions. Your intuition may be that a higher dimensional projection may have advantages, but this is incorrect. As we saw in Cixin Liu’s Death’s End, a lower-dimensional projection may exist in a higher dimensional space but not vice versa (2/128)

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  15. May 28

    Mind blown

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  16. May 28

    The great thing about being a competent 3d modeler is that you can obsess over home decor projects without needing to resort to "having taste" and "making decisions"

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  17. May 26

    Knot theory is crazy

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  18. May 22

    The most sophisticated rig I've put together from scratch so far

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  19. May 16

    Sitter has custody of the kid until 7 so I bought beer on my way home, then and I snuck into the backyard to pick ourselves a snack

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  20. May 15

    The Liu-Kurriks are officially in the worm farming business

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