Matt Ranney

Engineering. Always trying to be better. Find me at @mranney at bsky dot social

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I don’t use this site anymore. I am now @mranney at bsky dot social.

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Friends, I’ve been on Twitter for 14 years and generally I have enjoyed it. The situation with the new owner and the new random rules has drained all of the goodness away for me. I’m stepping away from Twitter for while. Perhaps I’ll be back at some point.

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@elonmusk It’s public information. This is not “doxxing”. Fly commercial if it’s not working for you.

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@Aviation_Intel Another option to consider is that rich people could just fly commercial like everybody else.

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@bolhuijo That is a really good idea. Another alternative to consider is buying the FAA and rewriting the rules.

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I’m no aviation expert, but one technique for avoiding being tracked by ADS-B is to fly on commercial airlines. Sounds crazy I know, but it might work.

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@postwait @ElonJet They are now claiming that it’s doxing if the data is made available realtime.

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@Torwegia Not anymore than Toyota, but it sure is interesting that DJI makes what are largely regarded as toys.

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@robsonink @AkilahObviously Not sure if this is helpful, but I’m generally on the other side of this as someone hiring contractors on behalf of big cos. Most shops are set up to pay large vendors a lot of money, not 1 person. Easier for everybody if you are with multiple people and charge a lot.

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@justkelly_ok Not only that, but also very proud about how many children he has, as a metric only, not as any kind of parent.

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@copyconstruct I doubt there were many truly “clueless” eng org leaders. There was (kinda still is) a very real war for talent. Perks and comp are a big part of the draw for highly sought after employees, without which the same companies might have failed.

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@MalcontentmentT I appreciate your ongoing reporting and analysis here. I hope you’ll keep it up.

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@__apf__ I think this is great, and I wish it worked on my vegetable-hating boys.

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@Doctor_Astro I had to cheat: https://t.co/Pb7oHA1WyC

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@moonpolysoft I don’t fuck with gas plumbing either. Too sketchy.

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@michaelhilton @hyrumwright Yeah that’s better. After some thought, I rather like “system health” or possibly something else that reflects “how safe are changes in this system”.

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Lots of people in software talk about “technical debt”, but I don’t think we have a shared definition of this term. Also I think the metaphor is bad. Rarely do we explicitly “borrow” some bad, faster to write code.

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@realMarkHolden @elonmusk @ianmiles @jimmy_wales Certainly could be. Or it could be you that is imagining it the other way.

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@doriaKeung @banksean Sure your definition makes more cohesive sense. But that’s not what most people mean when they use the term. I think people mean roughly, “stuff that sucks to work on”.

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@elonmusk @ianmiles @jimmy_wales I think you’ll find that truth tends to have a left-wing bias.