Alex Elliott
@alexpotato
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Dad | DevOps / SRE | FinTech | Management | Paintball | @rutgersu grad | I write lots of threads.
Joined June 2009
A tweet thread of my tweet threads (we must go deeper!) đ.
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Been working in tech for almost 20 years and seen critical path charts used maybe 3 times and one of those times is b/c I made it.
@infosec_fox That and a basic critical path. If you break out what can be done in parallel vs what depends on other tasks, clears up a lot of confusion.
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This is so wild.
The Apple Watch Series 10 has more than 10x more compute power than the Sun server farm that rendered the original Toy Story
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I always thought my American grandmother was of Scottish/English descent. Then the work cafeteria âinternational buffetâ had German Day and it was all food my grandmother would make. Checked with my dad and he said âyeah, your great grandmother was Germanâ.
thought about asking people to share german lore about themselves but iâm scared what people might say
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Favorite âmaking of storyâ:. âThe dailies were so dark, I thought I was wearing my sunglasses and when I went to take them off I realized I wasnât wearing any!â. Francis Ford Coppola.
2. In the opening scene of "The Godfather" (1972), Marlon Brando's character, Don Vito Corleone, is seen stroking a cat. This was not scripted but happened when a stray cat wandered onto the set
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1000% correct.
Thereâs no such thing as a normal week of management. If your average person has four major events happen in their life per year, with 6 direct reports, thats already 24 major events. Add yourself, your closest peers, your boss - very quickly you get to a place where your.
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From this convo btw:.
@RStopmer @samthelamb2003 @dgant and I chatted about AI in general and StarCraft bots in particular. (Apparently you can do really well with rules based bots).
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I should make a thread of all of the genius observations my mom has made over the years.
"Of course! If you are a man and you have a gun, you don't think you need anyone else's help. Take away that gun and now you suddenly need people!" #smartlady
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Was going to do a Kaggle but thought: âI donât know all the advanced stats packagesâ. Then comment talking to @dgant and him saying âI won multiple automated StarCraft competitions with basically a bunch if/then statementsâ. Aka sometimes the simple ways are the best.
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RT @AlecStapp: When an unstoppable force (environmental review) meets an immovable object (also environmental review): .
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No better explanation than the below tweet:.
Nothing beats UK censorship laws better than downloading and installing Iranian VPN clients. Every thing you ban will lead to workarounds you like even less. Censorship does not work, get fucked senile lawmakers.
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Such a great tweet.
the vibe every time I tell someone in my all-male PhD cohort that I have an actual human child. âmom of what?â
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This trivia about Bill and Tedâs Excellent adventure and its German release is fascinating:
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Things only people who have worked at a giant bank will understand:.
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A lot of kids who cause problems are really just looking for attention, validation and affirmation. Source: I coached a LOT of college kids who needed this (I mean everyone does, really).
Teacher here: Had a kid I couldn't standârude, sulky, contempt in human form. Asked AI to write them an encouraging letter, copied it out by hand. Kid did a 180, now chats with me after class. Thanks, robot overlords.
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RT @Colin_d_m: We still do :). Both of these beautiful NYC stations were built in the last 10 years.
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RT @BrettRedacted: THE NAKED GUN: Comedy is legal again. Canât believe the strategy of âcast whoeverâs name is closest to Leslie Nielsenâ pâŠ.
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