Running distributed systems at scale exposes you to very strange race conditions that you'd otherwise dismiss as "glitches"
I helped my team figure out what was going wrong with a popular low level HTTP library in Rust and we wrote about it here
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In 2021 I was driving along Marian Road, Calabar and saw a really tall lanky kid and I parked the car and chased after him to talk to him. “Do you play Basketball?”… His response was he started playing a few weeks before but barely has time cos his mom is absent and his dad is a brick layer and he has to assist him on his projects, and also does personal laundry for 3 families on the side. He didn’t have a phone, I described where I live and said come on x day and knock on the gate and I’ll be there.
He came to my house, I showed him old videos of @Giannis_An34 😂 when he was a scruffy hustling kid, tried to motivate him and gave him a suitcase of clothes (which his dad eventually burnt out of jealousy). Long story short, I went abroad but before leaving enrolled him in a very small Basketball Academy in Calabar ran by a really amazing guy Frank John and since his dad kept being a pain in the ass he eventually moved in with my family. (God bless my parents for how understanding and kind they are). He made a lot of progress over the months and his Basketball coach, and my dad always called to keep me in the loop. Recently he forwarded a pdf of an invite from the NBA Africa Academy in Senegal for try outs, I thought it was fake 😂. Verified and it turned out to be real, he needed flight tickets to Senegal and my homeboy @KennedyEkezie was generous enough to buy them without even being asked. Last night David sent me these photos from Senegal and told me because of his performances he’s gotten a scholarship to an American high school and we only need to figure out the visa. I am thoroughly excited for him, and feel a deep sense of inner fulfillment. This is just the beginning. 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾
Naira keeps appreciating over #Dollar everyday but prices of goods and services seem to remain static or in forward motion. The same people that made dollar soaring an excuse to add up prices are the same people refusing to bring the prices down when the same dollar is crashing.
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N100million ransom demanded by kidnappers of 5 pupils and 4 staff members of Apostolic faith group of schools, in Ekiti state.
This isn’t even getting the deserved attention it is supposed to. Everywhere is quiet, and our former minister hasn’t contacted his friends to raise money for the ransom yet.
Should I tell you the Greatest Story ever told
Should I tell you the ‘deeper meanings’ behind the Story of the Jesus of Nazareth?
Open the thread, & WALK WITH ME…..
The Sanhedrin were rabbis appointed to sit as judges of the Supreme Council in every city in Ancient Isreal. Most Pharisees were members of the Sanhedrin, & they hated Jesus so much. They were jealous of Jesus.
Here you have a Nazarene, the son of a carpenter, teaching a different kind of Gospel, different from the one the Pharisees were teaching, a deviation from the Laws of Moses embodied in the Torah.
Here you have a man, not of royalty, feeding the poor & healing the sick. He gave the people of Isreal the message of comfort, of peace & of hope. And the crowd followed himself wherever he went.
The people in 1st century Judea needed Jesus’s type of message at a time the Romans ruled with iron fist, & dominated Isreal’s public life. People needed something fresh, something to invigorate their hopes, & Jesus provided the answer.
This struck fear in the Pharisees. They were angry that Jesus did not recognize their authority. They feared they could lose their grip on the people of Isreal (that moral authority to tell the people what to do). They began to took notes of Jesus’s Ministry, & kept their watchful eye on him.
However, a good number of them were beginning to love Jesus’s teachings. Joseph of Arimathea & Nicodemus were members of the Pharisee sect & of the Sanhedrin. They too wanted to enter the Kingdom of God. So they snuck around Jesus, they too wanted to hear the Good News.
In the council that presided over Jesus’s trial, Nicodemus & Jospeh of Arimathea vehemently opposed the plan to hand Jesus over to Pontius Pilate (the Romans). Joseph of Arimathea was the one who entombed Jesus, he was right there at the Crucifixion.
The Pharisees & the Sanhedrin were tasty for knowledge, but afraid of change. They are like your Nigerian political ‘rulers.’ They hated new ideas, they preferred the old ways. They saw Jesus as divisive, a man who had come to divide the people.
The leaders of the Pharisees whom Jesus called the ‘brood of vipers,’ could not get him to change his mind. By Jewish law, false prophets & blasphemy were forbidden throughout Judea & the Holy Land.
One could preach, but strictly according to the Laws of Moses written into the Torah. The Pharisees who were Rabbis, were teaching strictly by these laws, they believed that Israelites were chosen by God (the father of Abraham) himself. And so they must be pious at all times.
In truth, they were hypocrites, “they concerned themselves with looking good, rather than being good.” The battle line was drawn! It was Jesus put to death, or the people of Isreal may rise against them!
Jesus was no politician, & he was never pretentious about that. He was outspoken & direct. Diplomacy was not his strong suit. “How dare Jesus tell us the truth to our faces JUST LIKE THAT? Who does that?”
John the Baptist was allowed to preach his radical message, provided he never proclaimed himself as the Messiah. John could have been found guilty of blasphemy by the Sanhedrin, & handed to the Romans
Jesus never missed an opportunity to identify himself as the Messiah. So at the core of the debates & increasing spate of the hatred towards him, was the philosophical & liturgical questions “was Jesus truly the Son of God? Was he in fact, the one sitting at the right hand of God?”
The Pharisees & the Sanhedrin imagined that the Messiah would come to them in Glory, they imagined he would be revealed as a new Solomon, a new David, a King!
They couldn’t reconcile themselves with the fact that the Messiah may already have come, & he is already with them, in the person of Jesus, right there in the flesh.