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Naming "nothing" for an small island is really throwing some shade on this humble island. https://x.com/_benjmyers/status/961257079091712002

Get the best internet connection on Amtrak by combining WiFi, your cell phone's data plan and passing notes up and down the aisles.

OK, Ford's turn to chuck a Focus at Jupiter.

Google's API tells you if a text is toxic, from a white supremacist, neo-nazi point of view. https://x.com/danluu/status/896176897675153409

I just look like the sort of person who would use ReSharper.

(from google chromes "search for this image") https://x.com/mistersql/status/960891201980391424/photo/1

What is the regex for "starts with a quote, ends with a quote and has an insipid, smarmy quote in the middle" - I'd like to mute those from my newsfeed.

Something about owls and eagles. Twitter is like all about ornithology today.

KATA: write a short app that tricks a interlocutor into thinking that a human is listening to them. (e.g. with the optimal amount of uh-huh, wow, well, actually and tangential interruptions)

Also works for "why is this query so slow." Eminently quotable fellow. https://x.com/DavidUberti/status/902626557868564482

IDEA: Twitter account binary classifier, but instead of finding fake accounts, it finds poseurs.

I'm trying out speedify- it does a bunch of tricks to make wifi on the train faster/more stable, including offloading some load to phone. So far, it feels faster. http://speedify.com

Preferred compensation enhancement

META: If you unadvisedly merge bot tweets into your own tweets, at least tag them so people can mute the crap without muting your human voice.

A nuclear war in Korea would tank Korea's economy and take down the US stockmarket with it. Just putting that option on the table is going to deflat e asset prices.

Why are youtube comments so bad? It sorts by # of replies, so flame wars float to the top. The bile drives away all but the bottle throwing commenters. Also, it is really hard to find someone's comments, making them effectively anon.

https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/internet/2016/10/why-are-youtube-comments-worst-internet

All of DC:
"So, what do you do?"
"Go on dates. They are comfortable, feel like meetings." https://x.com/shanazfc/status/959206306698747904

AWS:

I want to do A. Before you can do that, you must learn B.
Ok, I want to do B. Before you can do that, you must learn C.
Ok, I want to do C. Before you can do that, you must learn D.
Ok, I want to... it's 6:30, play again tomorrow.

KATA: Implement an equals function that returns a list of possible ways that two numbers could be equal if one or more pairs of digits were transposed.

Meal kit delivery service, but for alligators. https://x.com/SubMedina/status/957361208545464321

Incredible technique illustrated: if you chart the distribution of join dates of an accounts followers, you can find the artificial clusters. This technique is as powerful as charting the likely timezone/work schedules in identifying psy-ops/machine driven tweeters https://x.com/mistersql/status/957295648835014656

Influencer stats on twitter that don't take into account bots/fake accounts are worthless

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/27/technology/social-media-bots.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

Which disease did you pick this year?

Sophos virus scanner for mac tries to unzip every file on my entire machine every day, pegging cpu at 100% & filling up the hard drive. So...compressed files will have to be stored off HD so they can't be scanned every day. ref https://community.sophos.com/products/free-antivirus-tools-for-desktops/f/sophos-anti-virus-for-mac-home-edition/4446/my-boot-disk-is-full-yet-again

"...couldn’t figure out items from a well-known menu. Is this a sign of cognitive decline?"

Shoot man, in Brooklyn restaurants, I got dementia!

https://live.washingtonpost.com/carolyn-hax-live-20180126.html

This nightmare of teleological angst has replaced the one of me waking up in the middle of the night and thinking I have a college exam I haven't studied for. https://x.com/rpgove/status/956912767805607936

An Apple iPhone update can make 300 bricks per millisecond. https://x.com/businessinsider/status/956271409155620864

Galaxy brain:
(irrealis) I think it's a test, I mean, I'm not sure. Didn't throw an exception on my machine. Actually, this includes changes since yesterday, and who knows what all is in there. https://x.com/sethpuckett/status/956268076638580736

You have to take off the tin foil hat before being videoed or you they will listen. Actually, if there is a video, it probably has sound, so not exactly James Bond worth, yet. https://x.com/nvioli/status/955827819589918720

I know all three of those letters, and to be honest, so do my toddlers. https://x.com/anildash/status/955476924402487296

Sci-fi twist...everyone playing farmville has actually been working for free as a mechanical turk for semi-robotic farms. https://x.com/evankirstel/status/953767430253350913

People always fail to recognize that the problem problem of Artificial Intelligence is actually a version of this much larger, general problem of string templating and madlibs. https://x.com/timhwang/status/954848865265610753

Philosophy: if two bots are broadcasting the same content, are they the same bot? Or maybe it is better to say, one botnet with a reach of the sum of all its followers/viewers. https://x.com/Kantrowitz/status/954481758191300609

IDEA: website "government down or just for me" where you enter the name of a government and it reports if it is down or if it is just you. Venezuela and US are down at the moment for me, you too?

USDS is actively recruiting, they were on my short wish list of place to work last time I was job hunting:

https://www.usds.gov/join

Who is running the left-wing bots that look just like the right-wing bots? I don't understand the psy-ops benefits of running at the same time the pro- and anti- of whoever funds these bots.

This is your iPhone after you update the OS. https://x.com/ameeflowers/status/953821255727120384