Chris Fournier

@Reddit Search Infra staff eng, pythonista, former NLP researcher, former manager/staff dev at @Shopify, lover of triathlon, and amateur photographer. He/him.

[Mt. St. Helens @MtStHelensWA]

Imagine dinosaurs posing with an asteroid

[National Capital Commission @NCC_CCN]

SURVEY | Tell us about your experience with this year’s active use program on the parkways! 👩‍🦽 🚶 🚴‍♂️

Share your thoughts: https://t.co/i6UnIVjF6M | #OttBike #OttWalk

[Chris Fournier @cfournie]

@softwaredoug Wouldn’t happen to have an invite code would you? 😄

[Alex Elliott @alexpotato]

After almost 15 years of working in technology as an SRE (before it was even called that), here is a list of things that I wish I had at every firm I’ve worked at.

OR

How to be the best tech firm you can be.

A thread.

[Chris Fournier @cfournie]

@harrybrundage Do you have an IoT connected generator that you’re trying to write a script for?

[Chris Fournier @cfournie]

@gailcarmichael For me they don’t fog up my glasses 😄, but because they get such a good seal they build up some moisture inside after a while

[Scientific American @sciam]

Microphones capture ultrasonic crackles from plants that are water-deprived or injured https://t.co/FsMSGGgECE

[roon @tszzl]

you shouldn’t think of machine intelligence as ‘just matrix multiplications’. think of it as the living holy mathematics conducted at the very edge of the known physics of information density on silicon compute surfaces in data centers that consume as much power as medium cities

[Chris Fournier @cfournie]

@evadoescosplay That’s some next level procrastination 😄

[Vinay Hiremath @vhmth]

At approx. 10:21am PST yesterday @loom went through a security incident. This situation sucks. We've let our users down. But we've root caused and remediated. This is a technical overview of what happened.

[Chris Fournier @cfournie]

@khosrow Wait what? Your snowboard has gone international now?

[follow @bencollins on bluesky @oneunderscore__]

Journalists who cover Elon Musk have been suspended on Twitter tonight: @Donie O'Sullivan from CNN, Aaron Rupar and the Washington Post's @drewharwell.

Rupar tells me he has "no idea" why it happened.

[Avid Halaby @AvidHalaby]

The stuff uncovered in the Twitter whistleblower report is much crazier than anything in the "Twitter files" but it's much less politically/tribally salient so it got no attention. Going to do a thread on some of the craziest things, in no particular order.

[Chris Fournier @cfournie]

@evadoescosplay Promise them a long walk later

[Brandon Bay 🇺🇦 @BrandonBay]

If you're undecided - especially if you're torn between me and Catherine - please vote for them. I wish we lived in a world of ranked ballots and this message was different, but this race in this system is too close for me to do anything else.

#ottawa #ottpoli #ottvote
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[Emilie Taman @EmilieTaman]

An Ottawa City Councillor once said to me “You and I both know that no one who earns over $100K would ever take public transit.” This is the kind of (flatly wrong) thinking that got us a third rate transit system and this will change with @cmckenney as our mayor. #ImWithThem

[JOANNE CHIANELLO @JCHIANELLO]

The ⁦@NCC_CCN⁩ master plan for the Greenbelt runs out next year, and green space needs more official protects, say critics. Read the in-depth report from ⁦@kristynease⁩ #ottnews #ottvote https://t.co/DDJRkPPrKi