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Shane da Silva

@sds #17

Building @warpcast and @farcaster. Previously Coinbase, Brigade, Causes.
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Was curious how much more radiation I was exposed to while flying, and was surprised by the magnitude of the difference.

This prompted looking into the trade off of increased exposure vs time saved. In short, for the occasional flyer: still totally worth it.

But if you go to the CDC, you’ll get a lot of facts…and no clear answers.

https://www.cdc.gov/radiation-health/data-research/facts-stats/air-travel.html
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Always wondered why I felt useless when trying to work on a plane.
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What does the world look like when AI is funnier than a human?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6tH55syq0o
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Once DCs are decentralized, you won't need email. One day...
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He’s not exaggerating. This team iterates.
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Josh is criminally under-followed. Good suggestion here to double-check your systems don't have CUPS enabled.
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"Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it."
— Bertolt Brecht
https://javascript.tm
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Very slick: https://postgres.new

Now make a system that takes your schema and inspects pg_stat_statements on your production system and makes actionable recommendations of migrations to improve performance.
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Officially prepped for doomsday.
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Really interesting analysis on how LIFO-based processing of requests can be faster than FIFO for large spikes in load.
https://medium.com/swlh/fifo-considered-harmful-793b76f98374
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One of those ideas that sounds good at first but upon deeper reflection reveals otherwise (project abandoned). Might still be useful for querying information about your infrastructure, but not for creating.
https://iasql.com
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You know you’re at SFO when:
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Just squeaky clean fun.

Particularly loved hearing Protoculture's "Out of Reality" (~1:00:20) and Underworld's "Dark and Long - Dark Train" (~1:23:23) elegantly incorporated into modernity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcIgj2Qt1-A
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Going to be experimenting with OrbStack this week. If its promises hold true, could be quite a perf boost for local dev with Docker.

Anyone have personal experience?

https://orbstack.dev
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Out of Africa
Movie · 1985 · ★★★½☆

Didn’t know what I was getting into with this one—was just looking for an African-themed film for the flight. Ended up springing a few leaks in the process.

While the delivery is at times clumsy in the typical way of 80s cinema, Streep and Redford’s performance shines through to showcase a precious kind of love—two minds simply wanting to be together—but with a complexity most relationships could not withstand.

Impressive cinematography (for the time) with respect to filming wildlife altercations. Makes one want to watch a documentary on how they did it.
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Killers of the Flower Moon
Movie · 2023 · ★★★★★

Late to this one, but that's what long flights are for.

In traditional Scorsese fashion, it's a slow, painful burn—poignant.

Casting all around was stellar, but the Lily+Leo interplay was particularly special.
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Privileged to be “stuck” in Istanbul due to a missed connection. People here know how to enjoy the present moment.
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FSMs as a core data primitive are going to get more popular. Combined with a runtime library for your preferred language, and you have a way to formally verify statements about business logic in your system.

https://raphael.medaer.me/2019/06/12/pgfsm.html
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Stoked for this.