brian bulkowski

High performance software, databases and Flash, Founder of Aerospike

[brian bulkowski @bbulkow]

@peteskomoroch For me it's not quite true. LLM answers have mislead me and wasted my time frequently. Now I search first with standard search, if I can't find, LLM is my backup, and I try the answer before investing much time. I see LLM as an arrow in my search quiver, but not the strongest

[brian bulkowski @bbulkow]

@mattyglesias True that politics should be less identity driven, but I appreciate most people I talk to are identity driven, so I appreciate the practicality. Let's tell our friends and neighbors to do better by thinking bigger than themselves and their identity groups

[brian bulkowski @bbulkow]

.@Caltrain What trains are running electric during your current soft launch phase? Just a hint please! My sister saw one Sunday so I know they're out there

[brian bulkowski @bbulkow]

.@Caltrain Where are you posting except X ? I want alerts but X is not a site I have loaded or support anymore. Key public infrastructure should be posting lots of places.

[brian bulkowski @bbulkow]

@RouxJanis Who is this we you are representing?

[brian bulkowski @bbulkow]

@ArneParrott yeah, life. i run into a musician, they 'play guitar', until you hear them, they might have been playing since the age of 7 all over the world with style and power and versatility, or they have picked it up 6 months and and practiced hard, but... every skill has this.

[brian bulkowski @bbulkow]

It's not that I'm boycotting twitter / X, it's that the place makes my skin crawl. I'll admit that my opinion of anyone still posting here will be lesser, just a bit, anyway. Join me... anywhere else.

[brian bulkowski @bbulkow]

@washingtonpost Burning Man is not a festival. It makes no promises to customers, it does not have any burning man stages. Every year has weather, everyone participating knows to plan. To call it part of the festival industry is simply not truthful and creates wrong expectations

[brian bulkowski @bbulkow]

As an event, and an unusual one in a very harsh and unpredictable environment, the organization has no responsibility to the safety of attendees. Unlike a festival.

[brian bulkowski @bbulkow]

Burning man is not a festival. a festival is a series of concerts or shows or plays. Burning man is not that, because there are no spectators. Burning man does not bring in acts. It is an event.

[brian bulkowski @bbulkow]

To continue using the wrong word causes people to think it is a festival like coachella or bottlerock, and nothing is further from the truth.

[brian bulkowski @bbulkow]

If you are a web admin or business, remove the twitter share labels from your website. X's policies encouraging ugly speech don't deserve your support - and the data from those share images are a lifeblood. That is the boycott of X that we need.

[brian bulkowski @bbulkow]

Burning man is not a festival. Burning man is not for tourists. It's it a commitment to make art. I happen to have left early and avoided the mud, but were i there I would be enjoying.

[brian bulkowski @bbulkow]

We exodus'd at about 4, 4:15pm friday (hitting asphalt, which was slippery). According to BMmanTraffic, the gate closed "temporarily" at 7pm - and hasn't reopened. Although the adventure of burningman is the adventure, I'm glad to sit this one out. Flooded tents and no portos.

[brian bulkowski @bbulkow]

@JortsTheCat Jorts! pls get off twitter. It is no longer a place for an enlightened being such as yourself

[brian bulkowski @bbulkow]

@mattyglesias you really mean delhi at 999 for a week is less human impact? Caused also by fire, but human created bc clearing land for farming

[brian bulkowski @bbulkow]

San Francisco's question is when rents drop. Landlords and developers are holding to about $3k to $4k per month for apartments, vacancies piling up. We don't need more building to solve the 'housing crisis'

[brian bulkowski @bbulkow]

It is time to switch your browser search engine to Bing from Google. You will be shocked at the difference: almost no ads, instead of so many ads you can't find the results.

[brian bulkowski @bbulkow]

@DrawsMiguel @xlerb "small chips" - like the ESP32, these are chips that would have been jinormous 20 years ago, and I'm not sure Rust is smooth on ESP32 yet? Works apparently tho

[brian bulkowski @bbulkow]

I will miss being on twitter. I like the constraints of short form. Blowing off a little steam, carefully, now and again was fun. But the beginning of Musk Era has himself repeating a conspiracy theory, as expected, so I'll be out until things change. Do widzenia.