Matt Michie

former @meta, former @twitter, former @awscloud, former @uber, currently

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@ThePrimeagen Imagine a YouTuber thinking he has the credibility to question the rsync maintainers.

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@FiredUpCoug Needs the 3 seashells!

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@ChShersh Weird, I worked at Meta and people were encouraged to try to find their own answers, but if you were spinning for more than an hour, ask the question and move on.

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@bryanrbeal Disneyland was built in one year also.

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@peer_rich AWS already has internal
GitHub that they could just promote to external.

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@exQUIZitely General Yeager was active on Twitter. @GenChuckYeager Never leaving this platform.

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@gregorykennedy @FEEInc Amazon already has HQ2, but hilariously Virginia is going to go down the same route as Washington now.

I think Amazon would be moving way more jobs out of Seattle, but Andy Jassy loves living in Cap Hill and working downtown.

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Fine. Not bad Claude, not bad.

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@ameliom612 It's slow on everything. Perhaps it's my own fault, I set CLAUDE_CODE_EFFORT_LEVEL=max when Anthropic turned on dynamic effort. Even if so, it's tiring working with a tool that you can't depend on day to day.

I'm using Opus 4.7 (1M context) with a Max plan.

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Claude 4.7 is so slow it's making me want to turn off all AI agents and just do shit manually again.

[GeekWire @geekwire]

Seattle mayor floats moratorium on new data centers in city limits https://t.co/QMdtOISvBt

[Javarevisited @javarevisited]

Software engineering is also the only career where you couldn't get the job after 20 years of experience because you failed to answer 2 random questions

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Just released cardsharp v0.6.0, a Python blackjack solver that computes exact house edge without simulation. New combinatorial mode matches Wizard of Odds published values within rounding, 10x faster with parallel execution.

$ pip install cardsharp

https://t.co/pB1qD2BwL8

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@ShawnChittle You’ve got a beverage on me anytime for that. It’s such a good movie 🍿

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@mayonakasoda Just when I thought I couldn't love the Japanese more... Here's a picture when I saw them in the Tacoma Dome in 2022.

[Megalithic Mysteries @Megalithic12000]

🚨 Japan placed stone warnings along its coastline centuries ago. In 2011, the ocean proved them right.

Scattered along Japan's coast are hundreds of ancient markers known as tsunami stones. Some are over 600 years old.

They carry one message: do not build below this point.

🔹Aneyoshi obeyed and survived 2011
🔹Some stones are over 600 years old
🔹Hundreds placed along Japan's coast
🔹Over 20,000 killed in the 2011 tsunami
🔹Towns below the markers were destroyed

One stone in Aneyoshi reads "Remember the calamity of the great tsunamis. Do not build any homes below this point."

The village obeyed.

When the 2011 tsunami hit, the water stopped just below the stone. Aneyoshi survived. Surrounding towns that built below the markers lost over 20,000 people.

A Tohoku University professor said "It takes about three generations for people to forget." Survivors carved warnings into stone because they knew memory fades.

Civilisation after civilisation did the same thing thousands of years earlier.

If the Japanese stones proved deadly accurate after 600 years, why do we assume the older warnings are just myths?

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@2ray_degenemax Japanese truck and American guns. Let’s go Japanese brothers!

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@Frozen_Frog_8 What a great story, I even studied Japanese two years in college and never knew about this! Also trying to translate the cookie to double check broke my artificial intelligence!

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@Frozen_Frog_8 Wow, I always imagined it would be completely in Japanese.