Chris Sandvick
@ChrisSandvick
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@davidharsanyi I've long maintained that the entirety of postliberalism is an aesthetic grievance by extremely eccentric people who find the modern world distasteful.
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Mamdani’s Victory: How Bad Is It for America? Mamdani’s victory in New York is another step towards more tribalism and authoritarianism in the United States. @Nikos_17 and Onkar Ghate discuss.
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I think my “otters on a plane using WiFi” may be a saturated benchmark now that nano banana pro can do this.
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1/3 On this date in innvoation history: Garrett Morgan receives a patent in 1923 for his invention of the 3-way traffic signal system. His invention is eventually adopted as the universal 3-color traffic light system (red/yellow/green).
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On this date in innovation history: James Haven and Charles Hettrick receive a patent in 1866 for their invention of the famous yo-yo toy - they call it a “whirligig” in their patent. Almost 160 years later, the yo-yo is still a ubiquitous toy the world over. @uspto @DuncanToys
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That about wraps it up for this little 12x9 rocketscape. I may do another with a slightly different take on the mountains. What would you call it? I'm thinking something along the lines of 'Homestead' or 'River Valley Overlook'. I kind of like having the title just completely
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I was completely wrong about why ice is slippery. My whole life I thought it was about friction melting the ice into a thin layer of water. Turns out the real physics is way stranger and cooler than that. The "frictional melting" idea makes perfect sense on the surface, right?
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If you want to read a good history on the Founders and the ideas that lead to the Declaration of Independence.
amazon.com
is the first major reinterpretation of the American Revolution since the publication of Bernard Bailyn's and Gordon S. Wood's . The purpose of this book is twofold: first, to elucidate the logic,...
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Really proud of the DeepLearningAI team. When Cloudflare went down, our engineers used AI coding to quickly implement a clone of basic Cloudflare capabilities to run our site on. So we came back up long before even major websites!
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This is an important, rare take. Fight tyranny and socialism with freedom and capitalism—not more socialism. In the 1960s, the West copied central planning and did Concorde and Apollo, and now we can’t fly supersonic or go to the moon. Fight socialism with capitalism!
Marc Andreessen says that America's strategic advantage lies not in mimicking China's centralized system but in doubling down on what we're good at: “What if we become more like us? And what if we lean even harder into innovation, and even harder into creativity, and even harder
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I wrote a whole book on housing regulation, yet keep discovering more terrible regs. "We talk endlessly about the 'missing middle.' But the real catastrophe was the 'banished bottom'—the deliberate destruction of the cheapest rung of the housing ladder." https://t.co/L3bp4hqP2R
ryanpuzycki.com
How America Destroyed Its Cheapest Homes
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It's an exciting time to be alive where you can go to @PortCanaveral and see not one, not two, but three orbital rocket boosters that have landed themselves at sea. 📸 - @LaunchHeavenX
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When you know in advance where your painting is going to hang, you can design it such that the horizon lines up with the actual horizon (as long as the viewer is of average height). I knew it would work...but it was still pretty cool to see it actually work.
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Cloudflare went down because a ClickHouse change made a metadata query return duplicate columns. That blew up the size of a config file, it spread across the network and one module couldn’t handle the larger file and crashed. Everything after that was basically fallout from this
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Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected.
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Another morning coffee break (‘Day Shift’ 16x30 inches, oil on panel).
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This is huge news, #sysmon going native in Windows 11 next year. https://t.co/Bmb7bTyPX3 More cool stuff on custom logging coming this week. Watch this space 😎
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Learn how to eliminate manual deployment and reduce operational risk with Sysmon functionality in Windows.
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