Nickolai

Operator :: I make shit happen. Previously InvBanking (HY). Now tech ops.

[Nickolai @NicholasXVIX]

@Carnage4Life Everyone wants to be King Shit until they realize how much shit must be eaten to assume the throne.

Then they’re all like “I’m so proud of the work we’ve done but I need some time to focus on my family”.

[Alan Carroll @alancarroII]

Seeing my neighbor who invested in stocks get a new car while I hold Ethereum

[Nickolai @NicholasXVIX]

@asianmomriot @HumansNoContext Never seen this in any of my Emirates flights. What I saw were a lot of older people who were being given the experience of a lifetime (presumably by their children).

[Nickolai @NicholasXVIX]

@staysaasy @VicVijayakumar @aparanoidbw Are y’all still talking about sex? I lost track.

[Nickolai @NicholasXVIX]

@devahaz @DeepDishEnjoyer WHAT

[Young Urban Professional @YoungUrbPro]

NYC interns, here are 3 tips to get a return offer

1. Wear a nicer watch than your boss
2. Try to sound smarter than your boss, especially in front of others
2. Wear white Nike socks with your dress shoes; it shows you were an athlete and therefore great at time management

[Nickolai @NicholasXVIX]

@JuddLegum Bro loved jail so much that he decided he’d go again

[Corey Quinn @QuinnyPig]

@reidhoffman Reid, with respect, the founder of the largest masturbatorium for middle managers ever constructed does not need to be coaching the rest of us on conversation.

[Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸 @vc]

I’ve introduced a bill to confiscate Bernie’s house. He has 60 days to move out before I put it on the market.

I’ll distribute the proceeds to everyone who votes for my Bill.

Who’s with me?

[Matt Turck @mattturck]

CEO: “we have tens of thousands of AI agents running in production at massive scale right now”

CTO:

[annie @soychotic]

Jr dev just fixed a dunce hat-level memory churn issue I accidentally created 3 years ago and then she charitably said “I’m guessing you did it like that for a reason back then!”

[A. Mando @AMandoSch]

Being a lawyer is saying "I just need to get through this hearing/deposition/other appointment this week and then things will calm down" for forty years and before you know it you are 70 years old telling people that you have been practicing law for 40 years with no Bar Grievances filed, and finally your reward arrives in the form of a heart attack or a stroke out at your work desk and the state Bar finally takes an action on your status but it's just to mark you "deceased."

[Nickolai @NicholasXVIX]

@VicVijayakumar Have you tried the Speediance?

[Nickolai @NicholasXVIX]

@thirdmetax What’s crazy is that Bill Gates isn’t talking to me either

[gian @giansegato]

spent my 11-hour flight back from europe working on a very long report. started as a slack message but morphed into a several pages long doc. wifi was as shitty as it gets. after finally making it home i realized that the computer had forcefully restarted. opened slack: draft was gone :(

hail mary: claude pls save me, no clue how but pls try

it checked APFS snapshots, time machine, slack indexeddb, write-ahead logs, service worker / http caches, local storage, app logs, hibernation image... nothing. all gone

but then... it realized i have alfred installed. so it checked the clipboard snapshots alfred keeps in sqlite. sad news: alfred clipboard memory gets deleted after 24h. aggressive retention policy. however! when sqlite runs DELETE, nothing gets actually deleted. it only marks pages as reusable, but it doesn't override the physical bytes. so claude decided to do a raw-scan of the db, reverse eng alfred data format, figure out the portion containing the timestamp, stitched everything back together across overflow pages... and handed me the exact final version of my report, the last one i cmd+C'd

all this, in a single shot

... day 200 of "what if you had an elite hacker you can ask anything to"

[Nickolai @NicholasXVIX]

@RoKhanna Moron

[Nickolai @NicholasXVIX]

@Aleppinian87 @AndrewCraft What happened that triggered this rampage, I wonder

[mads campbell @martyrdison]

i have a friend who is a disney adult

she works as a manager at starbucks and is one of the happiest people i know

her life revolves around how much pto she gets, vlogging, planning her next disney vacation or cruise, her husband, and her three dogs

she bought a house before anyone in our friend group, owns two cars, has a great family, and got married before the entire ny/sf/la crowd

every time i see her i think “holy shit, i’ll never be this happy.”

sometimes i wonder if i’m the one doing something wrong

[Chris Bakke @ChrisJBakke]

For the last 6 years I’ve been buying well-run small businesses for 5x earnings.

In the first 30 days, I take the websites offline, move the companies to sad office parks with drop ceilings, install fax machines at the front desk, and bringing in 75 year old actors to pose as the CEO.

I then sell the companies to people with MBAs for 10x revenue so that they can feel useful “turning the company around”