Nikhil Thomas

Engineer @meta on @hacklang, powerlifter, pop tart connoisseur. @recursecenter F1 ‘20

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Google search is officially slop

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@DoHef19 @whstancil Agreed!

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@eatonphil Dan Luu has a famous one, maybe https://t.co/FmOa4z1qt3

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@thorstenball @adamwathan @awesomekling I’ve always found the standard 5/3/1 templates to probably be easier (read: better laid out) if you upped the frequency a bit - doing a deadlift variation after the main squat work and a squat variation after the main deadlift work would likely help keep things moving

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The cool thing about having centrist democrats in charge is that they manage to win nobody over

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@_saagarjha Happy birthday(?)!

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@mekkaokerekebye Managers cancelling 1:1s after seeing Jensen’s opinion has the same energy as all the bozos tweeting after The Last Dance came out.

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@JeromeHardaway Magneto’s last lines got me in the heart

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I just published my first paper review of 2024 - "Blueprint: A Toolchain for Highly-Reconfigurable Microservice Applications": https://t.co/vAKlaU8YXC

The paper from SOSP proposes a framework intended to simplify iterating on different technical designs for a system.

This framework, called Blueprint, splits up application business logic, framework-level components (e.g. RPC functionality, distributed tracing libraries, storage backends), and instantiating the application with configuration.

The paper discusses several examples of iterating on a system design after onboarding to Blueprint, including evaluating the performance impact of deploying with microservices vs monolith and choosing a distributed tracing library.

Authors of the paper are
@vaastav05, Deepak Garg,@AntoineKau, and
@mpi_jcmace

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@rev_avocado Lotta blue checkmarks in sunglasses in those replies

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@jeanqasaur @AkitaSoftware @getpostman Congrats!

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@Neurisko @davidfowl Do you think this is a social problem? Writing OCaml and working on Hack, I regularly see requests for NEW language features. The idea a language adds new, more expressive constructs feels positive.

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@davidfowl My daily driver languages are OCaml and Rust but what I love about Rust is expressive by default, performance by choice. C# seems to evolve with the same ethos. Having worked in companies with other server languages, I don’t think that flexibility is captured as effectively.

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@kwuchu My last cleaning lady put me onto the Shark upright models - I think they’re under 300 bucks and they’re great for pet fur and whatever crap collects on my kitchen floor

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@charliermarsh @hd_nvim You could always create a new enum of three elements to represent Success<T>, NotFound, and Failure(String) or whatever your model needs.

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@_im_special Distractingly handsome. This answers both questions.

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@eatonphil This is nowhere near 30 hours but Barbarians At The Gate is a really excellent read.