Alexander Nicholi 🧧 @alex@schelling.pt

been idly thinking about potential business ideas that involve the huge caches of delivery vans amazin is going to leave behind when the beznostate inevitably crumbles

because theyre going to be auctioned off at a pittance, lucky to not be straight up crushed

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RT @MorePerfectUS
Horrifying details are emerging about the tornado disaster at Amazon's warehouse in Illinois, where at least 6 workers were killed on the job.

Before he died, Larry Virden reportedly texted his girlfriend: "Amazon won’t let us leave." He leaves behind four children. https://t.co/3ZRLik9VIs
https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1470513075489054720

but you know, Progress marches on, no matter what it takes, because people want it to

thus this generation of crises is also a vacuum of potential that can be seized by people willing to work informally
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RT @eigenrobot
Basically I am speculating that the government is generating the Cancel Crisis through extremely boring administrative law that most Americans know nothing about.

I am skeptical of any improvement because it is from …
https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1276695247813148673

i have come to believe that it is not practical to scale & thrive in today’s wild world through any kind of social vehicle that can be understood as a formal institution

these machinations spell the death of the Corporation as the vehicle of progress
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RT @eigenrobot
3. Large organizations fire people who develop a reputation as a bigot at the drop of a hat because of (1) if nothing else

4. (2) + (3) ===> you're done if you get the …
https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1276694210192633857

ah yes, the two genders: Women and Brigham

my favourite aspect of immaculate complexity is the unintended consequences.
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RT @ncweaver
I was today years old that I learned when you hash a URL in Java it does a DNS lookup to get the IP address associated with the hostname as part of the hash function. https://twitter.com/floydophone/status/1469775366562541571
https://twitter.com/ncweaver/status/1470453024870912000

really feel like this needs to be pointed out but mr. works on pie-in-the-sky project at google is literally expecting the impossible

needs to because its dishonest and sets everyone else up for failure. its an abuse of his expertise. we all trust people like him not to mislead.

making CPUs that engineers at google are too incompetent to ever be able to program, AMA

i guess when you live inside the Tyrell Corporation you don’t realise how defenestrated and barren everyone outside is https://nicholatian.com/tyrell

this is not practical for anyone who isn’t part of a professional salaried team of people who do this full-time for a living
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RT @raggi
We have millions of lines of 3p code.
We read it all.
You can too.
And you should.
It's different from review, it's a skill you must learn.
It will make you safer.
It will make your dependencies better.

You can, you should, get on it.
https://twitter.com/raggi/status/1470482973539676165

nice trick question, the answer is zero

and even if you had machine code instead of easy-to-decompile bytecode it could still be patched
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RT @matthew_d_green
What percentage of Java software can’t be patched because the companies that developed it have lost the source code?
https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1470504921086758930

(youtube countdown voice) secret number one: dumbledore is gay

how do you sell a million copies of something that doesn’t come out for another 3 months
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RT @clrs4e
Dropping on 22 March 2022.
https://twitter.com/clrs4e/status/1470073166013902853