Dan Luu

Chatty alt of @danluu. Mainly on and

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@ryanglark @danluu @Cloudflare Seems like they fixed this an hour or two after they set the status to green? Well, I guess it's good that they fixed it.

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@molasalex @danluu cc @NovalisDMT , although I'm not sure that he checks Twitter (I only saw your response because I'm doing a project that involves classifying replies).

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@acidshill @danluu This is great! Can I use this video in a blog post (with attribution)?

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This didn't happen at all! I've gotten a lot more spam since the acquisition, especially DM spam, but just on my main account.

This mention didn't result in any spam that I could see.

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Just testing this out @elonmusk

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@rehevkor5 @danluu I proposed that, if we didn't want to try out this potentially risky kernel patch, we could experimentally make the quota somewhat higher (like, 20% or something) to see what the impact is, but I don't think anyone really ran those kinds of experiments until after the acquisition

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@rehevkor5 @danluu This was tried at Twitter long before I joined and teams found it extremely difficult (basically impossible) to do capacity planning properly because you lose so much performance under contention.

I've heard similar stories from other companies as well.

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@cis_female @adastroworld But even there, by volume, a good chunk of this elite ski training was literally just going on hikes. By modern standards, skiers had no idea how to train at all and if you look at younger sports like climbing, I think it's fair to say that people basically weren't training.

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@cis_female @adastroworld It sort of doesn't make sense that somebody with those genetics could be world class at multiple relatively major sports (2nd tier popularity) that require opposite body types, but it turns that good training can offset raw talent. Of course the absolute best skiers had both.

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@garethlewin @danluu @wbm312 It probably makes sense to do — insta totally dominates Twitter, so winning insta users is way more important, but that seems to decrease the odds that the communities I'm interested in will have a successful migration unless some version of "circles" finally works.

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@garethlewin @danluu @wbm312 On Twitter itself, it seems like a bad sign that tweets I didn't delete are disappearing.

On threads, I'm very curious what the impact of importing people's insta follow graphs will be. People I know have very different follow graphs on insta vs. here.

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@garethlewin @danluu fragmentation across Mastodon et al., cohost, bluesky, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc., with nothing resembling unificaiton, but I don't think users will have a nice experience unless they want to sit on one of the mega instances and miss content from people on some small instances.

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@garethlewin @danluu I think that best case there is that Threads significantly increases the fragmentation we're already seeing because some (a lot of?) smaller instances don't like the poor moderation the large instances have and silence or block them.

I think that's a better outcome than the