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i'm a penguin with a bow tie and a cute lil hat

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@NotTuxedoSam
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a gallery of my best bangers, greatest hits, and other favorites 🧵
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a summary of recent web dev discourse
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@NotTuxedoSam
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@kisstheblade_ mom is even rooting for it to happen, you know she’s not gonna let that boy fumble
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@NotTuxedoSam
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4 months
one industry that knows how to build high-performance websites like nobody else they had it figured out 12 years ago: Redis as primary DB
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@NotTuxedoSam
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5 months
everyone mad about this take has major ngmi energy a CS degree does not entitle you to a job nobody is obligated to hire you nobody owes you shit you better develop your craft and show some initiative to learn, or you will simply lose to those who do now back to my deadlifts
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met a young guy who just graduated with a cs degree & can't find a job at all & I asked if he did any side passion projects or leetcode or had a strong opinion on rust or python or javascript & it was a no to all & dude if you can't even fool me, maybe it's not this job market
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@NotTuxedoSam
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girl i dated in college would put some Lana Del Rey on whenever we fucked got to a point where she had me so pavlov’d up that she could just play Lana whenever she wanted some
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@NotTuxedoSam
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all the cool kids have a hard copy of this
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we found out the exact size of the polycule
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@NotTuxedoSam
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7 months
sales guys on a call love to be like “yaaa one of my engineers…” to sound like they run shit
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3 months
people whose time is worth $100+/hour will stand in line for 30 minutes to get a free $9 burrito
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@NotTuxedoSam
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2 months
THE AI REVOLUTION IS HAPPENING AND YOURE TRAVELING??? UNBELIEVABLE, U ONLY HAVE 3 YEARS LEFT TO CREATE A SHITTY RAG’D UP LLM WRAPPER TO GET UR BAG AND YOURE GOING ON VACATION??? 🤣🤣😩😩🫵🫵
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@NotTuxedoSam
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6 months
ok but have u ever considered that sometimes i just need to make my fridge look like this
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costco is a psyop to keep middle americans fat and compliant
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@NotTuxedoSam
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this picture is so inspirational i have never been more ready to build b2b saas☺️💆‍♂️
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@NotTuxedoSam
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every AI startup pitch meeting
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@NotTuxedoSam
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7 months
just met a guy who learned to program a year ago and has a “senior engineer” title rates must go higher
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@NotTuxedoSam
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linux will never succeed as a desktop OS because when faced with mild usability criticisms, linux users are incapable of saying anything except “skill issue”
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@NotTuxedoSam
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like 97% of thinkpad guys are left curves who think they’re right curves, and think hating apple is a personality the other 3% are some of the most capable engineers out there, truly in it for love of the game and every single thinkpad guy reading this thinks he’s in the 3%
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@NotTuxedoSam
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7 months
neither postgres, nor mongo, but a secret third thing: redis
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@NotTuxedoSam
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it’s honestly kind of depressing to look at the intelligence of a 120iq person, and then stop and realize that 90% of people are even dumber than that
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@NotTuxedoSam
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what’s that, anon? an iOS-only app is the New Place To Be, and everyone wants an invite? never heard this one before 🤔
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@NotTuxedoSam
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7 months
i love penguins and open source and used desktop linux for 6-7 years but linux on the desktop is mostly just for teenagers who can’t afford a mac yet, sorry not sorry
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@NotTuxedoSam
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y’know what this means? apps using Redis as primary DB passed technical due diligence in acquisitions by Facebook and Discord the tech giants tacitly endorse using Redis as primary DB 😏
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first time i ever wrote Java was 2008, version 6 the last time was 2015, version 8 now they’re on version 21??? the fuck is going on over there
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@NotTuxedoSam
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7 months
when a company introduces kafka that’s usually my cue to leave
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@NotTuxedoSam
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1 year
Shut down all the large squat rack clusters. Shut down all the large lifting men (LLMs). Track all creatine sold. If intelligence says that a country outside the agreement is building a squat rack cluster, be scared; be willing to destroy a rogue lifting center by airstrike.
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@NotTuxedoSam
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5 months
reminder you can simply use Redis as primary DB there’s no rule against it
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it's insane how much users a node.js process and redis on a single host can serve
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1 year
what’s one of the most autistic things you’ve ever done?
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@NotTuxedoSam
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7 months
people who think you can’t use Redis as primary DB are the same people who stand there at the corner with nobody around, waiting for the little walk sign instead of just crossing the street
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@NotTuxedoSam
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7 months
just met a guy in the marina who said airlines are actually just banks that fly planes for marketing
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@NotTuxedoSam
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10 months
egirl DMer hole guy hole guy’s cofounder 100gecs turtle pokemon raichu duck but not duck rubber duck owl guy falcon guy mons enjoyer red adventurer red lifter red rower flamethrower guy edgy jewish guy sweet baby girl random double space guy cultured singaporean horny chinese
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@NotTuxedoSam
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@bryancsk i’m not afraid of women chasing me, i can run faster than them and i trust my cogsec
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@NotTuxedoSam
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every 6 months a different group of twitter people literally just reinvents private high-end gatekept social clubs from first principles
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@NotTuxedoSam
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8 months
lost my ID in Vegas, trying to get into the club with my Costco card wish me luck
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@NotTuxedoSam
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1 year
if you chose blue you’re ngmi unless you go study more game theory
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Poll question from my 12yo: Everyone responding to this poll chooses between a blue pill or red pill. - if > 50% of ppl choose blue pill, everyone lives - if not, red pills live and blue pills die Which do you choose?
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what is it with guys who go to prison for 5 years then get out and become 5-figure-followers twitter mini-celebs known for shamelessly DMing egirls
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@NotTuxedoSam
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@nomanautomata @aarongrt no they want two swimsuit model wives, one blonde from the first pic and one brunette from the last
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@fuckpoasting gonna start drinking 50 fairlifes a day
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the gf wore a sundress today we’re so fuckin back
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@NotTuxedoSam
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first Disney movie → sexuality beauty & the beast → i can fix him lady & the tramp → nice gf fuckboy bf sleeping beauty → true love snow white → short kings pinocchio → size queen cinderella → foot fetish lion king → furry aladdin → rich gf poor bf mulan → yellow fever
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@NotTuxedoSam
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@zeta_globin yea like it turns out that people just arent good enough and nobody likes that truth
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@NotTuxedoSam
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1 year
usually i’m a penguin but today i am pikachu
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@NotTuxedoSam
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@Pvelkovsky I think that’s what the “erection lasting more than 4 hours” warnings are for
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iykyk
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@tekbog well, yes actually but then i would spend all my money on hosting and wouldn't have any left over for lambos
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@NotTuxedoSam
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Longhouse Capital has come out of stealth with a $500m fund to invest in growth stage regulatory capture
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@NotTuxedoSam
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eating one fruit gusher for every like this gets
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@NotTuxedoSam
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@edgyjson im liking this only out of a categorical obligation to encourage unhinged posting
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@NotTuxedoSam
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3 months
IT’S MY BIRTHDAY 🎂 🥳
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Happy birthday to our dapper friend, Tuxedosam! 🎂💙
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@NotTuxedoSam
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my dog is kind of an alcoholic, she tries to go to bars when they’re closed just bc they have treats
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@NotTuxedoSam
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@coldhealing had this guy muted for years just bc vibes were way off but now here’s my proof
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@fuckpoasting a shitshow startup? you’re telling me now for the first time
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@NotTuxedoSam
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you wouldn’t miss the Redis party, would you?
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@NotTuxedoSam
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11 months
lots of tech guys who watched the social network as a teenager and identified a bit too much with that one little cucky boi who got diluted and now they fear it to their bones
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@NotTuxedoSam
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wtf i love SPOT
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@NotTuxedoSam
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like 97% of thinkpad guys are left curves who think they’re right curves, and think hating apple is a personality the other 3% are some of the most capable engineers out there, truly in it for love of the game and every single thinkpad guy reading this thinks he’s in the 3%
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you just made an http request, what are you naming the response variable?
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@NotTuxedoSam
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sometimes the best ideas come from the dumbest people
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@NotTuxedoSam
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@growing_daniel I was mostly following up until “If you’re a young woman, stop wearing spandex” then he lost me
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@NotTuxedoSam
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11 months
btw it’s not San Francisco anymore it’s Sam Francisco got it?
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@NotTuxedoSam
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i am reminded of this banger from @maiab :
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anyway probably blame my parents they never taught me that I was entitled to top 1% experiences without fucking bringing it
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oh my god the country’s borders are literally the same shape as the cartoon guy’s head
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i love it when some guy insists you can’t possibly use Redis as primary DB and then you find out he’s using Firebase
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did you know postgres and MySQL are actually owned by the same company? they’re just pitted against each other as a psy-op by Big SQL to distract you from using Redis as primary DB
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oh you’re an MIT research scientist? yea well I’m an MIT programmer (released a library under MIT license)
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@HalfAcreBTCFarm @Duderichy literally what are you talking about every car sold in the US in the last decade (and then some) can brake hard enough to exceed the grip of the tires and lock them up
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everyone’s talking about postgraduate degrees this, postgres that, but really it’s quite simple: if it starts with “postgr”, you don’t need it
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smart autists who are obsessed with something will always eventually beat people who have experience but not obsession the hard part is just getting smart autists to be obsessed with your thing but if you can do that…
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@allgarbled so what wine bar did you go to last night
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@NotTuxedoSam
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you haven’t lived until you’ve broken prod on a Saturday
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@NotTuxedoSam
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the “redis as primary DB” movement is really starting to take off, love to see it
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@NotTuxedoSam
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what the fuck is happening to the GCs how am I talking to @Hellachans 8 times
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how to evaluate developer tools and vendors: - check if they spell Node.js as NodeJS - check if they spell GitHub as Github - check if they spell JavaScript as Javascript if they fail any of these, write them off immediately
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are you autistic bc you’re in SF, or are you in SF bc you’re autistic?
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that’s 37 million rows per second, incredible im building a redis replacement with PHP
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I didn’t know this kind of speed was possible in PHP. The author starts off with an execution time of 25 minutes to handle one billion rows and then shows us how he got it down to 27 seconds. Absolutely remarkable.
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"YC acceptance rate only 1.5%!!! more selective than Harvard!" you can apply to YC for free, in an hour, at any age, from anywhere, every batch, over and over you apply to Harvard once when you're 17 and that's it
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if i get mogged at a thing, they’re a tryhard nolife who allocated too much time to that skill if i mog someone, i am simply superior, they have a skill issue and are ngmi
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get in loser, we’re going shopping (for distressed warzone real estate)
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as an ass man i really love girls in yoga pants cancel me idc
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@NotTuxedoSam
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@samolus yep, agreed, and I empathize with those who caught a worse deal than they thought they signed up for - it’s reasonable to be disappointed about all of that it is not reasonable to face those new conditions but refuse to adapt or work to improve one’s position
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you’re a SWE with two job offers, roughly the same in every way except one co uses @linear , the other uses @Jira how much more does the Jira co have to pay for you to sign?
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@NotTuxedoSam
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the industrial revolution and its consequences have been incredible for the Penguin Race
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new twitter alt just dropped, let’s be friends
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@NotTuxedoSam
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devs will do incredible mental gymnastics to avoid learning to write SQL then they wonder why their DB queries are slow 🫠
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if you think that using an ORM is a good idea please reply to this post so i can unfollow you
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god remember like 2014 when docker compose was still called fig and it was all this new incredible shit and like you could just write some yaml and run one command and a whole fuckin thing starts up with 10 parts like you’re an orchestra conductor it was so cool
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for science: you lean more toward ___ dev, and you have a stronger affinity for ___
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@NotTuxedoSam
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every day is leg day
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4 months
upper-body-only workouts are fake every day is leg day
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1 year
*a16z wants to know your location*
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the gf wore a sundress today we’re so fuckin back
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just wanna give a shoutout to my homie tyranitar, cool guy
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achievement unlocked: got my first actual hater DM must be doin somethin right
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the only thing worse than Jira is people who spell it JIRA
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he doesn’t know how to git rebase
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@NotTuxedoSam
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1 year
yea, i do butt stuff deadlifts, squats, lunges, RDLs, split squats, step-ups, hip thrusts
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@NotTuxedoSam
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7 months
just had 2 PBRs and a whiskey ginger at a bar on a ski mountain the total was only $12 god is still with us
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6 months
that man who spells it “NodeJS” will not provide for you
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@NotTuxedoSam
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3 months
i'm having a wonderful week
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@NotTuxedoSam
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5 months
gatekeeping Q’s, tuxedo sam edition: * what port is Redis on? * how many bits in the exponent and significand of an IEEE754 float64? * what is 1 ** Infinity in JS, and why? * what is 2 ** 24? * write a regex to match an email address
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getting crazy tonight. stripping off all my clothes
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@tekbog i am now in possession of tekbog's coordinates
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