B Long

Engineer, Husband, Dad, Ice Hockey, Bike Commuter
Formerly Gmail, now Google Cloud Serverless (GCF/GAE/Run). he/him

[Steren @steren]

The recording of the "Run Al with Cloud Run" live event is already on YouTube: https://t.co/zVTL9JUqUH
Check it out for great demos:
- Easily deploy Ollama on Cloud Run
- Scale from 0 to 100 GPUs in 4min
- @nvidia NIM on Cloud Run
- Cloud Run function calling @Ollama with @Firebase Genkit
- @huggingface transformers on Python Cloud Run functions.

[JB Pritzker @JBPritzker]

My bad.

[Granite Man 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @GraniteDhuine]

So you don't like my jokes about ghosts having sex with owls? Well, boo-fucking-hoo.

[B Long @blong42]

@feelsdesperate @MarkJacob16 Their golden visa program https://t.co/XaN9UpTJKZ

[B Long @blong42]

@mateosfo Wfh broke my brain, my perfectly natural 45m bike or train commute now feels like a huge imposition. The old billboards "if you lived here you'd be home already"... Except if you worked here, you'd be home already

[B Long @blong42]

@mateosfo Car sprawl and point to point suburban offices are the more likely killer, wfh killed the longest commutes and the most expensive office space.

[B Long @blong42]

@Daniel___Owens Eh, higher on my list would be the Safeway in front of it or the former blockbuster over there

[Niall Murphy @niallm]

s/historian/staff engineer/

[B Long @blong42]

@popelizbet _The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant_ where the protagonist has leprosy stuck out from my childhood reading...

[B Long @blong42]

@bellachu10 And exhaust, sitting at a light in the bike lane behind any gas engine is so awful... especially those 2 stroke bike jobs

[B Long @blong42]

@Rinkimekufu1 @bellachu10 Or depends on what you include, social security or military spending are usually not direct funds to states, but do benefit them

[B Long @blong42]

@Rinkimekufu1 @bellachu10 One challenge with this is that the federal government spends more money than it brings in... and the amounts also vary by year. Both of these make the list of taker states change from year to year and include more blue states than you'd think.

[Gia Vang @Gia_Vang]

BREAKING: An autonomous Waymo vehicle is intentionally set on fire in Chinatown, according to SF Fire. Firefighters said they got reports around 10 people were involved.

Waymo said “a crowd surrounded and vandalized the vehicle, breaking the window and throwing a firework …

[David Zipper @DavidZipper]

This is exactly right:

"The focus on young e-bike riders’ safety can obscure the bigger crisis: People driving cars and trucks are killing more people on our roads."

"If the goal is to understand what makes streets dangerous, we have to look at cars."

https://t.co/5t9F9enhpu

[B Long @blong42]

@LukeBornheimer But self driving cars don't know how to drive

[big_pedestrian @big_pedestrian]

I put together a summary of motordom messaging guidelines. They may kill tens of thousands of people a year but they have message discipline. Every single one of the NY Times think pieces hits most, if not all of these points, especially 1, 5 and 6.

[Peter Flax @Pflax1]

Forgetting to drink enough water on a summer morning ride is a training accident.

This is not something that should be confused with vehicular manslaughter.

[Kashmir Hill @kashhill]

For this weekend’s paper, I wrote about @techdirt founder @mmasnick who has been blogging about tech for an astounding 26 years and has the ears of lawmakers, activists, journalists, and Mark Zuckerberg. https://t.co/hvEGo7ovkZ