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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
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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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…
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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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
dropbox.tech
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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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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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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…
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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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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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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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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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 …
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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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…
theatlantic.com
The temptation to automate command and control will be great. The danger is greater.
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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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https://t.co/D4lv6WNjvX - Coinbase spent $65M on Datadog : in one year -- Sixty. Five. Million. Dollars.
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com
The internet has been speculating the past few days on which crypto company spent $65M on Datadog in 2022. I confirmed it was Coinbase, and here are the details of what happened.
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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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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.…
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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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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https://t.co/Z5Bid3IXv0 - vapes aren't 95% less harmful than cigarettes : Debunking this common misconception around e-cigarettes
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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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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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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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