Alexander Codes

data engineer

[Alexander Codes @alexander_codes]

@thebadstats mashup request:
every time he answers a question with an analogy

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podcasters in shambles

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@beffjezos

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@LH @ZedLang category theory mentioned

[Sick @sickdotdev]

Using a stick of RAM to stir my coffee this morning, fuck you, Sam Altman

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@TheUgliest_Man wow I can't even imagine how insightful you're going to be after visiting three countries

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@anish_koka ludicrous assumption -> fantastical probability

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@OukaroMF @qquinnsworth 噩 - boxception

[OukaroMF @OukaroMF]

Let's learn some Chinese characters today.

占 shampoo without labels
卣 shampoo with labels
點 black shampoo
岾 mountain shampoo
鮎 fish shampoo
粘 rice shampoo
颭 wind shampoo
玷 king shampoo
蛅 insect shampoo
覘 looking at shampoo
倫- House
只- Tv
모 - laptop
卣 - shampoo
串 - skewers
口 - box
吕 - 2 boxes
品 - 3 boxes
㗊 - 4 boxes
晶 - 6 boxes
𣊭 - 8 boxes
畾 - 12 boxes
㗊 Microsoft Windows
占 - empty shampoo
鹵 - expired shampoo
區 3 boxes in a container
区 nothing in a container
侶 someone carrying 2 boxes on the back
回 a box containing a smaller box
迴 a snail
壘 - 12 boxes on a table
儡 - a person standing by 12 boxes
壨 - 16 boxes on a table
吊:A man gooning
丄:upside down T
日:a box but ½
目:a bot but ⅓
冖:A hat
屮:Cactus
呂 - dumbbell
不 - ⬆️top
曱 table tennis racket

[Alexander Codes @alexander_codes]

@_Evan_Boyle vague-posting.md

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bad news is good news

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nothing makes me more bullish than listening to Ed

[The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart @weeklyshowpod]

“Is this just a big circle jerk?” Jon welcomes Ed Zitron (@edzitron), host of the podcast Better Offline, to make sense of the financial house of cards propping up AI and big tech. New pod out now!

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@mattpocockuk unsloppable

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now do Doom

[Charlie Marsh @charliermarsh]

Here's an N-queens solver in Python type annotations powered by ty, courtesy of @0x00B1.

It supports arbitrary Peano board sizes. Each tuple in the revealed type is one solution.

[Alexander Codes @alexander_codes]

@charliermarsh @0x00B1 very cool

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I worked in a bar once, and a lady asked for 'rum and ting'

I said 'sure... what do you want with it?'

'ting'

'yeah, what thing?'

'ting is a drink'

[John Greene @HotBoiGreeny]

At a bar ordering a drink from a British bartender

Me: “Can i get a tequila soda, splash of lemonade?”

Bartender: “uhh what do you mean, like sprite?”

Me: “no tequila soda with lemonade”

Bartender: “I’m confused what you want”

Does lemonade not exist in England?

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this TS stuff is extremely cool

[Lubos @heyapi.dev @mrlubos]

Instant TypeScript SDK from your @FastAPI app without codegen or OpenAPI.

And you get to keep the generics.

[Dwayne @CtrlAltDwayne]

Lex Fridman interviews a PHP security researcher

Lex: My guest today discovered a critical vulnerability in PHP. What is a vulnerability.

Researcher: A weakness that allows an attacker to compromise a system.

Lex: But aren't we all vulnerable.

Researcher: Yes, but

Lex: Is love a vulnerability.

Researcher: We're talking about remote code execution.

Lex: Could an attacker remotely execute love.

Researcher: No.

Lex: Stalin executed millions.

Researcher: What does that have to do with

Lex: Do you think Stalin was happy.

Researcher: I have absolutely no idea.

Lex: Fascinating. We're 3 hours in. Let's talk about consciousness.

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@MikeIppolito_ stocks

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@vithushaji are there any B2B use cases?

I still can't think of anything other than defi.