Michael Pilat

Principal Engineer & Architect @ Earnd. Formerly @Braintree/@PayPal, @WolframAlpha, @WolframResearch. Father, husband, maker, geek.

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@arkmashton One vote for now, and one to take home for later.

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OH: “a murder of crows, a pod of dolphins, a cohort of managers”

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@arkmashton Spare tire on the back doubles as giant magnet for towing

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If you’re not playing What The Golf on Apple Arcade, I highly recommend it. It’s the Stanley Parable of mobile games.

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“Manually fixing a bug in Production” #DevOps

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@tprstly Seabiscuit

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@tprstly Marley and Me

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@katelynjperry Would that be 750 bytes or 768 bites?

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@arkmashton I frequently get ads telling me Chipotle is hiring in the suburbs. Nailed it.

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@katelynjperry Damn, did we not send the model that is rated for bird strikes?

[David Lee Azeroth @caylenb]

it's my birthday, but more importantly today marks the 10 year anniversary of that time when I was working at a data center & discovered a new client that had racked about 3 tons of servers (like $300k+ of hardware) on top of $24 worth of soda cans from our vending machines

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@arkmashton @OnTheMetra Uber Rail ™️

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OH: “Why would I want to buy an ISP? Have you ever seen the movie ‘We Bought a Zoo’?!”

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I guess I expected more explosions or something...

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@phinze Microsoft getting out the vote?

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@pcorliss @katelynjperry If space cheese is anything like astronaut ice cream, hard pass.

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I’ve decided that Chicago’s song “25 Or 6 to 4” is actually a speculative song about IPv6 adoption in 2025, and whether we’ll still be using 6-to-4 bridges.

[Chaz Hutton @chazhutton]

So here's my favourite little quirky thing in New York, which to me is a perfect embodiment of New York's attitude, and a direct result of New York's street grid, arguably two of the city's most famous aspects…

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The “Spot Instance” - The drink is cheap because someone took a sip or two, and decided they didn’t like it. But they might take the glass back out of your hand at any moment and chug it. #awsdrinks

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