Peter Vosshall

Former Distinguished Engineer at Amazon Web Services (Retired). Marathon runner. Bainbridge Islander.

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Some personal news: I've retired from Amazon after over 21 years. I turned in my badge and access tokens yesterday afternoon and am starting a new chapter devoted to all of the things I love but never had quite enough time for.

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[ZachXBT @zachxbt]

Multiple former FTX employees confirmed to me they do not recognize these transfers for ~$383m

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They are the robots

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#Kraftwerk 3-D at the Paramount. Amazing experience.

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How to Want Less: The secret to satisfaction has nothing to do with achievement, money, or stuff. https://t.co/pO8TN7hch3

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People would be content
with their simple, everyday lives,
in harmony, and free of desire.

When there is no desire,
all things are at peace.

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@MyLeadFeet I’ll see your time and raise you 1 minute

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Wait, what?

[Katie Nickels @likethecoins]

Overnight, there was a *third* Log4j vulnerability released, CVE-2021-45105: https://t.co/nPwH25tzeC
Version 2.17.0 is now the most recent version that addresses all three vulnerabilities. https://t.co/pVy6BxB5hT I'm sorry.

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So far frontwomen are dominating the top 20 in the @kexp best albums of 2021 as voted by listeners. Love it! And still waiting to see where Arlo Parks, Dry Cleaning, and Wet Leg land https://t.co/C2QANfjXYV

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@heckj @colmmacc And an earlier paper from the same authors https://t.co/xP3yTuAAdq

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At re:Invent, “Shane and Carl demonstrated how much more energy efficient Rust is compared to every other language, with Rust emerging as approximately 50% more energy efficient than Java, and a whopping 98% more efficient than Python.” Nice. https://t.co/oc0GRNkeoe

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@heckj @colmmacc I believe this is the research they were citing https://t.co/OY9cRjsStz

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@ajassy Nice!

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Important👇

[Delip Rao e/σ @deliprao]

Don't confuse these two

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@DanielleMorrill Do lunch at Isla de Marin's, a great seafood hole in the wall away from the tourists. We also enjoyed the nearby Restaurante Barcelona Tapas -- great views!

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“The most popular calendar-reform proposal was for the year to consist of 364 days that always have the same weekday attached to them, and then to have a couple “blank days” at the end of the year that don’t count as part of any seven-day week.”

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“One neurological explanation that’s been suggested is that the seven-day week originated—or, more plausibly, survived—because humans are good at memorizing things up to seven. So the seven-day week could just be a good cognitive fit.” https://t.co/rkNScu36ln

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@CTOAdvisor Electric leaf blower is my favorite tool for this. The end of the blower is just slightly smaller than the duct aperture. Lint clog doesn’t stand a chance.

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#hugops

[SDOT Traffic @SDOTtraffic]

University Bridge is still stuck. Engineers are making progress to find cause of electric system failure, but still no estimate on when repairs will be done. Watch @SDOTTraffic for updates; electrical testing work may cause false updates from @SDOTBridges. https://t.co/1QWExMjNry

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@howiecohen @deepseadiverbnd 👋