Alankar

Secretly uses Excel as database.

[Alankar @alanckar]

Hey @CanRevAgency why is the telephone system so bad?

After waiting on the call for 45 mins, end of the call survey directly kicked in and disconnected the call. Without ever talking to the agent.

[Min Choi @minchoi]

Sora by OpenAI is insane.

But it doesn't just generate AI videos from text, it can also change the styles and environments of input videos🤯

12 wild examples:

First, Input video 🧵👇

[Azure Database for MySQL @AzureDBMySQL]

#Microsoft #Azure #Database #Migration Service now offers preview support for replicating data definition and administration statements for #MySQL v8.0 workloads! Find out more about this new functionality in this post!

#AzureDBforMySQL #opensource

https://t.co/mQHdX8T4gB

[Azure Database for MySQL @AzureDBMySQL]

Find out about #Azure #Database for #MySQL – Flexible Server updates and from last month, along with the latest feature roadmap a link to this month’s live #webinar session. Don't miss this great information!

#AzureDBforMySQL #opensource #microsoft

https://t.co/KCJfljM24r

[Azure Database for MySQL @AzureDBMySQL]

#Azure #Database for MySQL - Flexible Server just achieved a faster performance benchmark! The preview of accelerated logs for #MySQL flexible servers (Business Critical service tier) offers better #performance at no additional cost!

#AzureDBforMySQL

https://t.co/cLUZpaiVTM

[Azure Database for MySQL @AzureDBMySQL]

Accelerated logs for #Azure #Database for #MySQL flexible servers (Business Critical service tier) is now in preview, offering a dynamic solution for high throughput needs that also reduces latency and optimizes costs!

#AzureDBforMySQL #opensource #data

https://t.co/V7sIixMs6j

[Azure Database for MySQL @AzureDBMySQL]

Today we released the new Business Critical service tier on @AzureDBMySQL Flexible Server with 80 & 96 vCore compute instances - providing more memory, higher concurrency, & faster throughput.

Read the blog to learn more!

#mysql #opensource #azure

https://t.co/4fyoB52Z85

[Alankar @alanckar]

You have to pay $8 a month. Pay for verification. <something irrelevant about the 1st amendment>. Now you can only view 600 posts per day.

It is beginning to look like Elon zucked up pretty bad.

[Alankar @alanckar]

Wasn’t aware this is an option TBH.

*Turns on crypto mine on fulllll blast*

[Jimmy Wales @jimmy_wales]

What Wikipedia did: we stood strong for our principles and fought to the Supreme Court of Turkey and won. This is what it means to treat freedom of expression as a principle rather than a slogan.

[Alankar @alanckar]

Massive police response near Granville, Howe and Drake St. Roads blocked off. #Vancouver

[Tom Nash @iamtomnash]

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[Nikki Siapno @NikkiSiapno]

GitHub is an absolute goldmine of quality learning resources.

Here are 7 programming repos you'll wish you knew sooner:

[Alankar @alanckar]

Just gonna leave this here. For when next time, someone comes out with “how the Twitter saga is a management masterclass by the new owner”.

[Aran Komatsuzaki @arankomatsuzaki]

OpenAI did what used to be considered impossible.

They made people want to use Bing.

[Michael Girdley @girdley]

The business books mostly repeat the same ~50 ideas.

But, some lessons I only learned in the trenches over 25 years.

Here are 15 things about business the books are missing.

a 🧵:

[Christoph Molnar 🦋 christophmolnar.bsky.social @ChristophMolnar]

BREAKING: IBM makes game-changing move, invests $42 in ChatGPT Pro to revolutionize IBM Watson capabilities

[Lauren Buchman @LaurenJBuchman]

Thoughts on layoffs, from someone who was laid off from “a great job” back in 2008. 🧵

[Alankar @alanckar]

Random sequence of words to see the read stats.

[nixCraft 🐧 @nixcraft]

Job interviewer: So in your resume, it says you’re a creative person.

Me: Yes

Job interviewer: What do you create?

Me: *nervous chuckle* Technical debt