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@jm_links

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Used to follow the links from https://t.co/WUhKJuv1ch ; now deactivated due to Twitter's new pricing model. Use https://t.co/ZKWrClVsty instead!

Dublin, Ireland
Joined March 2012
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@jm_links
jm_links
3 years
Well, folks -- Twitter's new API pricing model has finally caught up with this account. As a result, https://t.co/suh7zlPy2e is the new home for this automated gateway to https://t.co/kJOG1naSwx and https://t.co/Y6OjXqdsF1 . So long and thanks for all the fish!
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3 years
https://t.co/XxADKMZzPg - AI Hiring and Ghost Jobs Are Making the Job Search, Labor Market Weird : The AI enshittification continues: Job seekers may virtually interview with or be prescreened by an artificial-intelligence program such as HireVue, Harver, or Plum. After someon…
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businessinsider.com
The job search is especially brutal right now: AI is screening out qualified applicants, the labor market is weird, and ghost job listings are everywhere.
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3 years
https://t.co/m12csA1EKC - Dropbox testing HTTP3 : "dark testing", live in production, to a separate test domain. Great way to gather some real-world data. Latencies are appreciably better, particularly for low-quality connections
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dropbox.tech
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3 years
https://t.co/bVjlUg3dD1 - EU hits Meta with record €1.2B privacy fine : The EDPB finally had to step in and override the pet regulator, our DPC. Here's the big problem though: Meta also has until November 12 to delete or move back to the EU the personal data of European F…
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3 years
https://t.co/3xev8B7aNB - Paper recommending continuing COVID-19 vaccination for kids : tl;dr: vaccination of kids is worth it to protect against Long Covid and hospitalisation. "A Methodological Framework for Assessing the Benefit of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination following Previous …
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3 years
https://t.co/NfFhEe8lge - My students are using AI to cheat. Here’s why it’s a teachable moment : One of the reasons so many people suddenly care about artificial intelligence is that we love panicking about things we don’t understand. Misunderstanding allows us to project spe…
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theguardian.com
Ignoring ChatGPT and its cousins won’t get us anywhere. In fact, these systems reveal issues we too often miss
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3 years
https://t.co/fod41M1ReU - StanzaSystems/awesome-load-management : "A repo of links to articles, papers, conference talks, and tooling related to load management in software services: loadshedding, circuitbreaking, quota management and throttling. PRs welcome." (via Niall Murphy)
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3 years
https://t.co/nk150MLRQn - mattwebbio/orbital-sync : Synchronize multiple Pi-hole instances; it basically runs the standard backup API on the primary instance, then restores that config to the secondary, ensuring it constantly stays in sync
github.com
Synchronize multiple Pi-hole instances. Contribute to mattwebbio/orbital-sync development by creating an account on GitHub.
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3 years
https://t.co/xqNSKagDfw - MySQL Raft at Meta : Sounds like a massive improvement in operational management of MySQL fleets. Here's hoping AWS might steal a few ideas for RDS
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3 years
https://t.co/Fdpx3iVlT4 - Inside DataDog’s $5M Outage (Real-World Engineering Challenges #8) : Reading between the lines: Ubuntu unattended-upgrades were left enabled, and as a result a fix which required a full reboot was rolled out swiftly and globally, including a key fleet …
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newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com
The observability provider was down for more than a day in March. What went wrong, how did the engineering team respond, and what can businesses learn from the incident? Exclusive.
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3 years
https://t.co/iLiTJhKpsi - Never Give Artificial Intelligence the Nuclear Codes : Something new to worry about -- giving an AI the keys to the nukes: Any country that inserts AI into its [nuclear] command and control will motivate others to follow suit, if only to maintain a cr…
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theatlantic.com
The temptation to automate command and control will be great. The danger is greater.
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3 years
https://t.co/4h0TbF26xN - Kafka vs Redpanda Performance : I don't use either service, but this is actually an excellent writeup of some high-end performance optimization on modern Linux EC2-based systems with NVMe SSDs, and the benchmarking of same
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3 years
https://t.co/FfFvjhF27r - Solar Quote Analyser : handy web tool to figure out if a quote for a domestic solar PV install in Ireland is cheap, on the money, or too pricey
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3 years
https://t.co/Hg7kh5Be1K - In defence of swap : Common misconceptions about swap memory on Linux systems: Swap is a useful tool to allow equality of reclamation of memory pages, but its purpose is frequently misunderstood, leading to its negative perception across the industry.…
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chrisdown.name
tl;dr: Having swap is a reasonably important part of a well functioning system. Without it, sane memory management becomes harder to achieve.
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3 years
https://t.co/TWPbJZbwIQ - eSIMs for data roaming in the US : $42 for 20GB of 5G/4G LTE data, and can provide a mobile hotspot for other devices. Looks like a decent enough deal for EU travellers visiting the US, where low-cost data roaming isn't available (via ITC Slack)
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3 years
https://t.co/Z5Bid3IXv0 - vapes aren't 95% less harmful than cigarettes : Debunking this common misconception around e-cigarettes
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3 years
https://t.co/m7vQjpTj40 - ellie/atuin : "Magical shell history": Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database, and records additional context for your commands. Additionally, it provides optional and fully encrypted synchronisation of your history between …
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3 years
https://t.co/9bzilhcHrv - Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey? : Great stuff from Ted Chiang: A former McKinsey employee has described the company as “capital’s willing executioners”: if you want something done but don’t want to get your hands dirty, McKinsey will do it for you.…
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3 years
https://t.co/kqade20G3p - f3write, f3read - test real flash memory capacity : 'F3 (Fight Flash Fraud or Fight Fake Flash) tests the full capacity of a flash card (flash drive, flash disk, pendrive). It writes to the card and then checks if it can read it. It will assure you hav…
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