Paul Updike

Senior Director of Technical Marketing Engineering at Nutanix, reader, sometimes writer, caffeine junkie. Tweets are my neighbor’s dog speaking through me.

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@KySportsRadio Isn’t that the same order as the size of urban areas? :) more people, more options at better food

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@weaverbeats That is kind of a cheap shot, the YouTube short this is from is thoughtful and useful https://t.co/2coolo9UKM

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@jeffvandermeer I’m tiring of stories where a lot of events occur and there’s a central conflict that gets resolved. I want something that explores the looming horror of, say, an average Thursday.

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@KBSpangler I stopped having issues when they did something called a plasma ablation. I quote, “Plasma-mediated ablation makes use of high energy laser pulses to ionize molecules within the first few femtoseconds of the pulse.” So, drill bits are crude but not necessarily far from the mark.

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@kelseyhightower I’d go with Python. Conceptually straightforward and nice guardrails. My path was Pascal, Fortran, C++, go do something else. I came back to python when I needed code to handle gobs of data.

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@danisaacs Did you buy it at a hardware store?

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Ok, when did “cool man” take the place of “goodbye” in tech? I say it and I don’t know how long I’ve been doing it.

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@marghie @alexhhart @RudyCerda We have a winner.

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@danisaacs I can recommend Tar Heel generator. Lots of peace of mind when you have a generator.

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@aarondelp I had a very similar day and just had the yearly generator maintenance performed on Monday, lucky timing.

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@Truman481 @UrsulaV @Kialesse Doesn’t he start one of the Peripheral books with a “liminal” sentence? I think it’s Agency. Also, @UrsulaV ‘hi!’ from a neighbor.

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@BrianRPhillips Enterprise storage architectures.

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@MCWronski I do the same, only separated, this is my quarters jar. About $150 at this point.

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@AlpenglowInd Or half of one?

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@AlpenglowInd Is that an Atari Punk?

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@leecaswell @nutanix I’d move my wallet to my front pocket around that bunch.

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@aarondelp The coffee is horrible, never had a decent cup inside a resort/conf center/casino.

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@wesdottoday @krisnova You know you’re older than 50 when you know the exact reason, have the full diagnosis, and a “what are you gonna do?” shrug from your doctor.

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@danisaacs @julian_cates “A neutral oil”