Will Blanchard

extremely online | bad data takes | great pyrenees dad | technically still an Actuary | DS @ Meta

[Will Blanchard @bmailliw]

Absolutely cannot wait until my AR implants show me a vision of Tim Allen in my kitchen and while I sob he starts reciting unedited chunks of disqus comments because they overindexed DIY blog posts from 2011 and it doesn't understand "old craftsman home galvanized pipes leaking"

[Sahil Lavingia @shl]

Every job will be automated until four remain: engineer, entrepreneur, investor, artist.

[Will Blanchard @bmailliw]

@matsonj @alex_gude Every single time I pull government data for any reason

[Will Blanchard @bmailliw]

@matsonj Could also be a pure product decision and not infra related though. It's an interesting thought experiment to draw a line between "messaging" where users could reasonably expect privacy vs "broadcast media" in which they would expect publicity and so should be using a Page.

[Will Blanchard @bmailliw]

@matsonj I don't know anything about this actual decision, but my guess is that it's related to key exchange protocols. It's an (every member x every device) and then you have to cycle them whenever people join or leave, etc

[Will Blanchard @bmailliw]

@bastard_brian Got me right in the feels

[Will Blanchard @bmailliw]

Reflecting a lot on my "Bring Your Whole Self To Work" training

[Will Blanchard @bmailliw]

@SwiftOnSecurity " Looking into it "

[Will Blanchard @bmailliw]

@NewRiverInvest Ok but what's ur insta fam

[Will Blanchard @bmailliw]

@pdrmnvd We would like to see the bird photos please

[Will Blanchard @bmailliw]

@guituary GenAI is the future /s 😔

[Will Blanchard @bmailliw]

@ajordannafa The next step is to start using <<- regularly (but not always, and inconsistently).
Abandon what you love and become as powerful as you can be

[Will Blanchard @bmailliw]

@ajordannafa Once you accept that no one will ever truly review your code for njts like this, you are free to become the monster you hate the most

[Will Blanchard @bmailliw]

@just_cameron This is fine. Count it

[Will Blanchard @bmailliw]

i'm sure it's been said a thousand times before but restful is a misnomer

[Will Blanchard @bmailliw]

Just to be clear - I have no concerns that DoorDash/Uber/Lyft/et al would ever fail because of their respective insurance divisions. I trust the CAS folks.

I just love imagining major tech companies burning a bunch of Excel files to a CD and mailing them to a PO box in Hawaii.

[Will Blanchard @bmailliw]

The words "DoorDash's Captive" really sent me off the deep end tonight so I had to come back to tell all 7 people on Actuary Twitter about it

[Will Blanchard @bmailliw]

The deets https://t.co/JQzpCZDulF

[Will Blanchard @bmailliw]

@matsonj @arnabdotorg One of the stranger things I learned tonight is that Uber, Lyft, and Airbnb all own captives in Hawaii