David Arcos
@DZPM
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Distributed systems, scalability, security. Director of Software at @Qilimanjaro, organizer at @PyBCN, teacher at ESADE, and trophy husband of @Sianna
Barcelona, Spain
Joined July 2009
El data breach más grande de la historia: "Two billion email addresses were exposed"
This has been an extraordinary set of data to process: 1.3B unique passwords, 2B unique email addresses (including mine 😭) and almost 3M of our @haveibeenpwned subscribers in there. It’s been weeks of processing to get this loaded, and finally, it’s done
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Celebrating 18 Years of Python Barcelona Meetup: https://t.co/YZULAnrVpA
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Dear members of the Python Barcelona Meetup! The Python Barcelona Meetup was founded in November 2007, and I was the organiser until 2012. It's been 18 years this month si
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Luchando contra el corporativismo de la IA- Estoy haciendo pruebas con LLMs para corregir trabajos de alumnos, y mi conclusión principal es que a los modelos les ENCANTAN los trabajos hechos con ChatGPT ‼️ La IA asigna puntuaciones artificialmente altas a trabajos hechos con
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TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. https://t.co/laZQCbHWJU 🧵 https://t.co/laZQCbHWJU
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In January 2025, the PSF submitted a proposal to the US government National Science Foundation under the Safety, Security, and Privacy of Op...
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Computer Science is not science, and it's not about computers. Got reminded about this gem from MIT the other day
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The frontend story in Django is shifting: ⚡ @htmx_org and @Alpine_JS are on the upswing ⬇️ React and jQuery are declining in usage The trend? A return to server-rendered templates and simpler interactivity. More trends: 🔗 https://t.co/RfotoStsdZ 🔗 What frontend setup have
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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt on why you should hire the divas: “Steve Jobs was a diva” “If you read any management textbook, it says ‘don’t hire the divas’ because they’re nothing but a pain in the ass. And by the way, they are. But the people who are the divas—who believe—are
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And China is dominating another technology class, one that was supposed to have inherent western advantages . Open link to source article https://t.co/lsbKOzzaLr
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New breakthrough quantum algorithm published in @Nature today: Our Willow chip has achieved the first-ever verifiable quantum advantage. Willow ran the algorithm - which we’ve named Quantum Echoes - 13,000x faster than the best classical algorithm on one of the world's fastest
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"Our goal with QiliSDK is to make the process of designing quantum algorithms streamlined across all paradigms: circuit-based, Hamiltonian-based, or hybrid. This toolkit empowers users to move effortlessly from simulation to real hardware with complete transparency and control"👇
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Gell-Mann amnesia effect
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told y’all Amazon would replace their employees with robots — and certain folks on the pod laughed & said I was being “hysterical” I wasn’t hysterical, I was right Amazon is gonna replace 600,00 folks according to NYTimes — and that’s a low ball estimate IMO It’s insane to
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Esto se repite constantemente pero es falso. El cribado contribuye escasamente, a pesar de lo bien que suena, a reducir la mortalidad. Seamos rigurosos científicamente.
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Al parecer los clientes corporativos no quieren que expertos les ayuden a pensar, sino ejecutores que entreguen resultados externalizados. No quieren pensar, quieren haber pensado. El problema es que eso les transforma en alocadores de presupuestos, en selectores de
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🚀 PyDay Barcelona 2025 is calling! Do you have a workshop idea that could inspire the community? We'd love to hear from you! Workshop proposal here: https://t.co/dn8XEnEMBX Lightning talks here: https://t.co/x9njN8nVeg Join us and share your passion! 🐍✨ #pydaybcn2025
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Arguably the most brilliant engineer in FFmpeg left because of this. He reverse engineered dozens of codecs by hand as a volunteer. Then security "researchers" and corporate employees came along repeatedly insisted "critical" security issues were fixed immediately waving their
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Los datacenters consumen poquita agua
On AI & water, looks like all US data center usage (not just AI) ranges from 628M gallons a day (counting evaporation from dam reservoirs used for hydro-power) to 200-275M with power but not dam evaporation, to 50M for cooling alone So not nothing, but also a lot less than golf.
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AI can’t even draw hands! [the tech dramatically improves] You call this an improvement? The AI clearly tried to weave Jungian archetypes into the narrative structure, but the film's metaphorical scaffolding collapses under the weight of its own superficial symbolism!
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