Gregory Williams

Creator of SPARQL tools and query engines. CS Ph.D. Santa Monica native. Formerly with Getty, Hulu. @[email protected]

[Gregory Williams @kasei]

Losing my mind/laughing about hacker news commenters who have no idea about how people live in the Alaskan bush.

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@scottiebateman @AlaskaAir Personally, I find this sort of announcement reduces my anxiety as I know it’s expected.

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I got a lot of value out of Twitter over the years.

Fuck Elon Musk.

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I’m sad and nervous about losing the SPARQL community on Twitter if things take a turn for the worse here. Not sure if mastodon or solid or whatever is a technical alternative, but the immediate loss of the built-up social network is going to hurt.

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@quoll The target demographic isn’t middle aged parents!? 🥺

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@azaroth42 @workergnome You should try this with made up accession numbers and titles, and then try funneling that information into something like DALL-E or Stable Diffusion 😆

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@workergnome @azaroth42 AI filling in the artist and description from a prompt of title and accession number?

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It’s going to be nice seeing the fail whale again. I’ve missed that guy.

[rat king 🐀 @MikeIsaac]

so my understanding is at twitter HQ, the folks running things in the “war room” are Musk, David Sacks, Jason Calacanis (VCs/Elon pals) Sriram Krishnan (exTwitter/current a16z), Elon’s legal and finance head guys (Spiro, Birchall) and a fleet of Tesla/BoringCo engineers

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@azaroth42 @juansequeda @ennomeijers @wikidata @vrandezo With a *huge* difference being that you can see/query/export the entire dataset.

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I was treated to some great views (and unfortunate pumpjacks) as we entered Southern California, and a wonderful sunset passing through Hollister Ranch.

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Just back from a work trip to Seattle last week. Great to finally meet coworkers face to face for the first time in over two years.

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At the end of the week, I boarded the @Amtrak Coast Starlight for an enjoyable (albeit slow) journey home. #flyingless

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@Amtrak are these “BidUp” emails legit? Both “Learn More” links in the email go directly to a “Wrong Link” page on a https://t.co/eyof5U9xFj page.

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@sandhawke I’ve always bristled at “engineer” because real engineers have much greater legal requirements and obligations for what they do.

But I think I see our industry try to use it to add a sense of depth to the role of development. Maybe more of a focus on system design…?

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Utes! 🏈

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@quoll Boo. Compulsory drinking events are never OK.

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Some pretty strange (auto) closed captioning on the NASA Crew-5 launch just now. 🐧🎃💎

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This is such a failure of transit infrastructure.

[Ishrion Aviation @IshrionA]

American Airlines will introduce a 15th daily flight on its Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) to Austin (AUS) route starting January 10.

It really seems like they're going for that "American Shuttle" style of timings.

I believe this is American's highest frequency route.

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@perigrin Yeah, that’s fair. FWIW, I fall somewhere in the grey area of rules (I think!), but there was nothing approaching hassle (or even questions) when I got the new one at a Walgreens.