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Michael Timbs

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Software Developer, Degenerate Gambler, Anarchist, 積読, Que sais-je? &

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@JoePompliano Waiting for the $0.05 charge to lock/unlock your doors
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@betteroffwoem Same energy
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@tommybayertime How they gonna pull you over if you can’t find your exit? Don’t wanna block the roundabout do we
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@ComradeDoyIe Me: School shootings are never justified TikTok: You sure?
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@Cobratate I waterboard my kids everyday so that they understand that things can always get worse 🙏
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@ChiseHatoriFan @HarmlessYardDog This whole movie could’ve been a single scene in Bruce Almighty…….
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@howie_hua My strategy would be to do the math 🤷‍♂️
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@trunarla Every time you click on a movie an engineer gets a jira ticket to get the movie from the database and play it for you. Then they have to rewind the tape when it’s finished
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@Komaniecki_R Did not realise people actually liked brutalism. Thought it was just one of those things we put up with because we didn’t have money or time to make them look good
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@voiceofgeraldo This song fucks
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@Cobratate Another one I buried alive with only a straw to breathe through. Taught them to stay calm when life gets hard
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@worsematt I would be disappointed if a 12yo couldn’t confidently answer this
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@okimstillhungry Would never in a million years pass up an opportunity to fight a ghost - especially the ghost of a baby. Could not ask for a better warm up fight for the spirit realm
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@EnemyCoastAhead @LBRUT @metpoliceuk @roadcc @KingstonCycling Crazy how many cyclists would rather be “right” than alive.
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@DeadInformation Some kids are just 40 these days
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@nikkineups This actually happened to me once
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@dotnetschizo See $500k sounds nice in theory but I don't know if I want to work that much
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@rafalwilinski Every time they have an outage share price goes up because people remember how much of the internet relies on them
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@FastestPitStop Give Ricciardo the second half of the season and if he doesn’t stay close to Max give Yuki the seat for start of next year
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@TheLincoln Sometimes when I’m bored I go make fake clouds in the sky to give these people something to get excited ahout.
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@bcmerchant The “I’m not that smart, just smarter than you” energy is unironically our most valuable resource.
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@ArmandDoma > America shoots down missiles The blockade is bloodless! > Nobody has died thanks to missiles being shot down It is a non-violent effort because nobody died!
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@lporiginalg This is just reddit tier atheism erotica
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@thatsinsane__ When you want that authentic WWI trench warfare experience 👌
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@growing_daniel Tweet long enough into the abyss and the abyss starts tweeting back
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@madeofmistak3 That was nice of them to offer though. I rang our insurance provider saying I had an identical quote $1000 a year cheaper and they told me I should move lmao
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@TurnbullMalcolm Precisely why nuclear is being opposed. We wouldn’t need renewables with it because it could solve all our requirements in a cheap and environmentally friendly way. We backed the wrong horse and refuse to admit it because there’s too much money tied up and fortunes made on the
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@pope_head Reading Dostoevsky: boy there sure were a lot of prostitutes around in old timey Russia… Seeing all these TikTok videos and hearing all the OFs numbers has made me realise that basically nothing has changed.
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@gbrl_dick I’m pretty sure this is fake. There is no highlighter at all on her handwritten notes or sketches. I’ve met this girl 100 times and they never have a page of notes without highlighter on it
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@eSafetyOffice The @eSafetyOffice is incredibly distressing. Can you please look at having their account removed.
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@shakoistsLog It’s why they win so much
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@telmudic I think what makes this even more brilliant is that every single work of it rings true about Sam Harris as well.
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@TikTokInvestors TA is just astrology for dudes
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@Larryjamieson_ You start by blocking that demon lmao
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@StoopMensch Your child will be able to blame you for every little thing that goes wrong with their life because you had full agency in choosing which genetic path to select.
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@nikocosmonaut @Rainmaker1973 It’s a great white, not a pit bull
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@MildCuthbert On my second 400,000 euros, yes. It’s like why even work after the first 400. May as well take 8 months a year off at that point
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@gbrl_dick Trump is his legacy
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@Boringstein I mean what’ve you got to lose at that point. Never seeing friends or family again and what are they gonna do if they catch you? Put you in double prison?
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@ShakesyGG Correct. I’ve lost 4 posties and an Amazon delivery guy this week due to my over cautious, fire first, check later, approach. Better safe than sorry though
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@Noahpinion Will Durant makes this point in Fallen Leaves and I think it rings true
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@Pyrrrhos With this level of dominance submarines seem almost unnecessary
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@GoodReddit Al Gore from an inconvenient truth.
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Rumours circulating that it was Alex Turnbull who was the punter who dropped $1M on labor to win. Fuck that makes me so happy
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@whyvert It’s crazy that we have to go through all this effort to prove something that everyone intuits anyway
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@ouranometrian2 Just make up a number between 115 and 140. It's really that easy
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@T3MaxxiAlt She’s got maybe 4 more of those in her before she unalives herself cutting apples like that
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@ElijahSchaffer Our entire economy is a house of cards that is only held up by “housing always goes up”. Taxes tied to the value of property mean governments are incentivised to make the number go high
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@dannolan He probably had property to inspect
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@ferrarihive Cant murder the same man twice they said but here we are
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@LandsharkRides The whole point of life insurance is so your wife spends so much time fighting the insurance companies to get the payout that she forgets to be sad
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@terminaldotshop @ThePrimeagen At least he went out on top - as a PHP Team Leader
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@t3dotgg Hint: everything is faster than python.
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@reddit_lies The kids are gonna be ok
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@tszzl Imagine admitting to being the lead on the - universally agreed - worst ads platform ever created. I just assumed Twitter had nobody working on ads and some intern spun up a proof of concept project a decade ago and they ran with it
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@GrantSlatton Does anyone have a link to that video with the chinese guys complaining that the Africans just refuse to maintain anything or understand how it works. Will probably answer any questions you have about the subject
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@ImLunaHey Not the end of the world and it makes the entire dev experience 100x easier. If a JWT in local storage is the biggest risk in your security profile you’re already more secure than 99.5% of the web
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@_MedGold Impossible to say physiognomy is not real when you see people like this.
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@ryxcommar I created an ETF of companies that outperform the SP500 by 10% or more and you won’t believe how it’s doing
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@Cobratate Lmao. Maybe your dad shoulda taught you how to have a sense of humour instead
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@dqmonn Sure because it’s an unenforceable condition. Write whatever you want, anything that’s not enforceable is just a waste of ink
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@growing_daniel Worked with a late 40s HR lady who deleted a bottle of wine every night who probably felt the same way tbh
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After 4 years in fully serverless environments I was convinced Serverless was a genuine business advantage. Now that I've been back in k8s land I am more certain than ever that serverless is at minimum a 10x advantage for a SaaS company.
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🌶️ Docker for local dev sucks. Unless you just need a throwaway environment its almost always worse than just setting up a proper environment on your machine for daily driver languages
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@tekbog Wrong. I’m making a <div> with an onClick handler
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@SHamiltonian public sector jobs should be excluded from job numbers as it is just welfare with extra steps
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@wanyeburkett Equation seems pretty simple to me. Rich schools have better outcomes because the students come from rich families. Wealth is correlated with intelligence and intelligence is heritable.
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@monofrogue Man gave himself meaning by sending himself on a meaningless time loop quest.
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@Austen Under capitalism if you don’t like your boss you can quit your job. Under communism if you don’t like your boss you can quit your life.
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@AdrianFry23 @Komaniecki_R I could see it being a deliberate architectural choice in a communist city. Almost an explicit denial of beauty and embrace of ugliness.
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@clapifyoulikeme This guy is a genuine hero. But also $50k just isn’t that much unless he’s worried about it being stolen. Just pay for everything in cash for a year and it will be gone
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@formularacers_ Imagine spending all that money bringing in Newey only to keep Stroll as a driver.
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@nntaleb The market has boom and bust cycles. Companies that build cash reserves lose in booms but capitalise in crashes when they can buy up competitors cheap. We need to keep that incentive structure and not bailout reckless governance
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@QualityPoptarts @ReviewsPossum When I worked in service industry I’d clear 10-20 tables an hour during peak times though. So $5 per table per hour is still good money
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@tszzl How to pay my taxes, follow the law and be a good citizen
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@drmistercody Vivek and Elon have been Burnham-pilled
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@dan_abramov Always use reduce. Need to filter an array? Np, use reduce. Need to transform it? You guessed it - reduce. Need a simple function that takes an input and returns a value? const fn = x => [x].reduce()
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@eigenrobot Wait until they hear that kids used to be able to go into the cockpit and talk to the pilot and see the controls during the flight
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@gbrl_dick The actual greatest potential source of scientific advancement here is if the peer review process somehow escapes institutional capture and progress is once more in the hands of the worthy and out of the grasp of the never want to leave school virgin
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@InternetH0F Using “top X%” coupled with a sample of 1000 would definitely confuse a lot of people lmao. All they had to do was say in a room of 100 you’d be smarter than 9 and it would be a lot clearer
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@pikuma This is just the “they should teach you how to do your taxes in school” debate but for nerds
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@piastrify I like Yuki. I think if you had to make an argument you’d say he’s a bit too much of a hothead and could upset the dynamic. Personally I’d still have him driving over Perez though
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@dvassallo It’s even worse. To get that $100 you need to earn between $150 and $200 before taxes. So you earn $200 to pay the plumber $100 who gets to keep like $40 of it. Yet somehow the government is always broke
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@Babygravy9 She can fix me
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@schlaf A tax on CO2 emissions fixes this
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@LongFormMath I invented mathematics. It’s a stupid question but the answer is 1. Hope this helps
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@themsaid Types are just documentation that can’t be wrong or out of date
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My whole life I’ve had one goal…. Be a millionaire by 30. With a month to go I likely won’t make it. What I do have is a beautiful wife, 2 amazing children, and 2 more on the way and there’s no way I’d trade any of it for a few million dollars.
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@simonharley Genuine disgrace that out of all the streaming services out there none have this movie available (at least in Australia)
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@Very__Regular That tweet reminds me of a line from The Storm of Steel
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@techsavvytravvy Lots of very competent devs don’t contribute to open source or have public projects.
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@garybernhardt It’s almost as if software engineering isn’t the clerical process of writing the code. I personally subscribe to Peter Naur’s “Theory Building” view of software design and don’t understand how it isn’t more widely embraced.
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@levie If he actually did that he’d be able to step down as president the next day and already be the greatest president of the last 30 years
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@mootoday Wrong take but that’s ok. Git hooks should never be mandatory (I despise them with a passion) and CI is there to protect the integrity of your master branch. You don’t delegate that to systems that can be bypassed
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@ASpittel P H P Perfectly balanced like all things should be. Optional Types ✅ Static Analysis ✅ Strong Ecosystem ✅ Good Tooling ✅ Easy to deploy ✅ Performant and Scalable ✅ Easy to learn ✅ Lots of work available ✅ Pays well ✅
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@mathaiaus This makes sense on every level. Also they’ll never be short on concreters for new building works
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@AdamBandt Fake law passed by not serious people.
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@billyhumblebrag Her parents thought they were incentivising her to save. Instead they told her they’d underwrite 50% of her portfolio and allowed her to adjust the risk reward ratio of her investment strategy.
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