Bob Plankers
@plankers
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Security, resilience, common sense. Builds things. Grows things. Writes things. Gives talks about all that. “Funny.” (looking, I assume, they didn’t elaborate)
Wisconsin, USA
Joined December 2008
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BREAKING: The $610 Billion AI Ponzi Scheme Just Collapsed Last night at 4pm EST, something unprecedented happened. Nvidia stock rallied 5% on earnings, then crashed into negative territory within 18 hours. Wall Street algorithms detected what humans couldn’t: the numbers don’t
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Just a friendly PSA about how aircraft engines are numbered…I see people getting it wrong, and that’s OK! Nobody told you! Engines are numbered left to right, from the pilot’s perspective. Or you could think of looking at the throttles from behind or the top…left to right. #1
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I’ve seen a lot of trees growing under power lines. Besides, how much water do trees use? A lot, I bet.
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This guy is asking this in bad faith, so I loathe replying, but it’s just that memory safety is but one peril among many, and the old guard’s assertion that there’s actually more to it is simply being proved out. Rust is moving from the peak of mount stupid to the trough of
I really want to know where all the irrational hate towards Rust or Rust developers on Twitter is coming from.
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TAKE ALL THOSE BANNERS OFF YOUR SITES
With Europe finally eliminating the cookies law which has plagued the internet with pop-ups since 2011, we can finally take stock of it's impact. How many total people were prosecuted for this crime?
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You heard wrong. Get that crap off my PC because we know you’re only using it to spy on people for telemetry.
We heard you wanted @Copilot Mode at work 👀
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You see shebang at the top of Linux scripts all the time. It's not a shell comment. It's a kernel instruction. When you run a file like that, the kernel peeks at the first 2 bytes. It reads the path following those bytes, launches that program, and feeds your file into it.
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This is a nightmare
Today Microsoft unveiled the new features coming to Windows 11 and what an "agentic OS" is. Introducing: Copilot Actions With Copilot actions, Microsoft Copilot AI can have access to your file system. Copilot Actions will carry out tasks for you. https://t.co/3XJVJnvm55
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So they’ll be idle if they’re on Zoom calls? Well… that’s about right.
🚨 An employee will be marked "idle" if there is no keyboard or mouse activity for more than 300 seconds (5 minutes) in Cognizant's new monitoring system. If an employee's PC or laptop remains idle for 15 minutes, the employee will be marked as engaged in "activities away from
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Gemini 3 Pro sucks. Hallucinations all over the place, gets stuck in loops, won’t follow instructions, repeats itself. Not a fan, especially given that I had stuff it was helping me with, and I cannot seem to get 2.5 Pro back again.
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The answer is to walk away from idiotic questions posed to you in this manner. Even if the question was legit, the person asking is a moron, and nothing good will come of it.
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When Dan Geer writes, you read it and ultrathink about it: "Indeterminism" https://t.co/wvE5Gccrqa
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“I liked your talk. Would you care for some feedback?” is something I’ve said a fair amount in the last couple years. Giving feedback is an art, and requires practice. I also absolutely do not recommend the “radical candor” crap for feedback.
I hear from many young IT guys that they find it difficult to get their juniors to listen to them. In other words, the Slack culture has destroyed the ability to spontaneously pull someone aside. As such, I thought I would share a few words that I used in my youth to get
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YO WHAT THE F You can opt out for $7 via the FTC.. https://t.co/9pTxCQ2zEG
The USPS could probably double their revenue overnight if they had a $10 a month service to stop delivering junk mail to an address. It’s totally insane that we tolerate this as a country. It’s an incredible waste of natural and human resources, labor, time, etc of everyone
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There is only one person who has known the power of 6-7 since the beginning.... Ah ah ah! ⚡️🔢💜
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you can instantly tell if someone is smart based on their eye movements basically but everyone is too scared to admit this
What are some good ways to tell if someone is “actually smart”? - Harvard, Stanford, MIT degree - MAG7 internships - Got into YC as a teenager - IOI, IMO medalist - Advanced leetcode - GitHub contributions graphs These are obvious, but what are some others?
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Free PM interview question for fintechs: why is the most obvious solution to this letter harder to implement than candidates we won’t hire think.
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