I've lived in Malviya Nagar my entire life. The building that caught fire today was barely 5 minutes from my home.
It's surreal how a place you've passed a hundred times can become the site of a tragedy overnight. Heartbreaking.
@github Just to be clear:
Microsoft’s GitHub was compromised when a Microsoft developer using Microsoft VSCode installed a rogue extension from Microsoft’s VSCode extension library, which is moderated and hosted by Microsoft.
I guess I’ll be reevaluating my life choices.
@jr_sachdeva Don’t. Delayed my visa by 3 months, had to spend an additional ~15k for travels, all this after the situation was escalated to the CEO, and it was treated as a “top-priority” escalation.
story behind "why netflix built https://t.co/YDCurkt2BM" is brilliant.
so, netflix had a massive fight with ISPs around 2014-2016. ISPs were slowing down netflix on purpose. they wanted more money from netflix
customers got bad streaming. but ISPs just blamed netflix.
netflix had to pay comcast, verizon, at&t and time warner for direct connections to their networks.
but in 2016, they launched fast dot com, clever part - It's not testing your general internet speed. It's testing your speed to netflix's servers specifically. so when someone complained about buffering, netflix could say "run fast dot com." If it's slow, the ISP is the bottleneck.
suddenly millions of people had a tool to prove their ISP was the problem
ISPs couldn't hide anymore.
netflix positioned themselves as the transparent good guys fighting for customers while ISPs looked like greedy monopolies
they solved a pr problem and a customer service problem with one simple website
I guess, that's how you win a corporate war
@viditchess@viditchess seeing you code now reminded me of the chess game I built 4 years ago and DM’d you. You didn’t reply then but might appreciate it now lol. It’s open sourced at https://t.co/py4rtnecMK btw
I’m not sharing this as the CEO of Eternal, but as a fellow human, curious enough to follow a strange thread. A thread I can’t keep with myself any longer.
It’s open-source, backed by science, and shared with you as part of our common quest for scientific progress on human longevity.
Newton gave us a word for it. Einstein said it bends spacetime. I am saying gravity shortens lifespan.
Read on, and tell me what you think.