John Blair

GenX nerd expat, 🇺🇲 in 🇳🇱. I lead the Netflix Partner Engineering Team in Amsterdam. Here for the memes, tech talk, politics. he/him.

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@AlabamaMike @Grady_Booch I didn't, I've been avoiding twitter :)

Cobalt Networks was my first job in industry! I don't have any of the hardware anymore.

That picture is a Qube3, which was x86 and ran pretty hot. The MIPS version was more elegant, but considerably less powerful than a Raspberry Pi.

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@NanoRaptor now do barrel ATX: +12, +5, +3.3, GND, -12

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@d_feldman That adds up

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@norootcause I declare Slack bankruptcy every Monday morning and press Shift-ESC, marking all unread messages as read.

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The Amazon series The Peripheral diverges in significant ways from the book by @GreatDismal. This implies the world of the TV series is a stub. Or the book is a stub.

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@norootcause Or a dare!

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@provisionalidea @kellan @beccanalia And Scott McNealy came from American Motors

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@provisionalidea @kellan @beccanalia https://t.co/uvOlsObn4g

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@provisionalidea @kellan @beccanalia Don't forget 6-Sigma, and Sun's version, Sun-Sigma.

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@IanColdwater Birds Nest, NE Ohio

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

The conspiratorial cluster:
1) Cryptohead, 2) ProPutin (while libertarian), 3) Trumpologist Jan6er Election deniers, 4) Anti- Vaxx, 5) Snowden is not a Russian Asset/Alex Jones is repressed,
is starting to crumble. I mean, really crumble.

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@jenzerb Is the invention "Learning to Love Hate Speech?"

[Picard Tips @PicardTips]

Picard perspective tip: There are no insurmountable problems, only extraordinary challenges.

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@bitshiftmask Unless there is something about this use case I don't understand, you will have to synchronize or you will have frame tearing. The reader can read the buffer mid-update and read part from one frame and part from the next frame.

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@BluJaguar @Foone There are footnotes

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@Foone I bet it's all f'd up in monochrome, too :)

[Graham Sutherland (Polynomial^DSS) ➡️ chaos.social @gsuberland]

@whitequark

[Signal @signalapp]

Tech loves a disguise