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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

5 months

What is the worst Ruby on Rails monolith you have ever seen? I'll start... 3,117 routes

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

30 days

@Heritage But like... sources, yo. Where are your sources? Not in the testimony. Not on your website. "1100 scientist and 100 studies, but... we won't share the list." 🤡

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

2 years

Two graphs for #Millennials to politely shut down #Boomers who say "We had it bad too." #Housing costs have outpaced incomes by 10x since 1970. #College costs have outpaced the minimum wage by 8x since 1990. #HousingCrisis #DebtTrap

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

1 year

So... how broken IS #congress ? The average citizens preferences have almost no bearing on whether a bill is passed. But for the wealthy, it's almost guaranteed. @RBReich , dug this one up for you.

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

5 months

@SenSanders Why not change “realized gains” to include any shares used as collateral for a loan? That’s how they skirt the taxes now. Why isn’t loan income taxed in this way???

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

2 years

@AOC Can we please just tax unrealized gains used as securities-based loan collateral? They seem pretty “real” to the markets and companies they upend.

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@punished_cait

2 years

how come musks money isn't real money when he's supposed to pay taxes but it's real money when he wants to use it to buy twitter

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

1 year

When did society die? I’ll give you a hint…

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

4 years

Hey friends, Check out Landslide2020! Voting is a civic duty! 🇺🇸🏛🎉📬

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

1 year

@profgalloway My wife and I are in the top 10% of household income for millennials. We waited until our late 30s to afford a kid. We have one newborn. We live below our means and diligently save. It used to be pick two: own a home, a second kid, save 4 retirement. Now it's pick one.

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

2 months

@MaverickAlbert5 Building a crappy working version of a new tool or stack component will teach you more than building a perfect version of a component/tool you already know.

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

1 year

My wife pronounces Ibuprofen as "eye-BEE-profen." Long story short, does anyone know a good divorce lawyer?

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

1 year

@housecor @avindrafernando Conway’s law is a psychological tendency reflected in code not a goal to be aimed for. Confused by this take.

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

25 days

@AGoldmund "I know I'm actively being hunted, but I think spending multiple hours to achieve professional level SFX and prosthetics with the twigs and blush kit I grabbed at the cornucopia is the right move."

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

2 years

I killed a big fly in my house. Turns out it was a honeybee. I am devastated. 😭🐝 To atone, I have decided to hand pollinate 5000 flowers a day for the late Mr. Bee and his family. For now, please forward my mail to the bushes behind my house... my wife won't let me back in.

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

28 days

@embersunn No exclamation point at the end. Clearly not a senior dev.

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

1 year

“You are unbothered by eye contact and enjoy staring into people’s eyeballs.” 😂😂 Love this. #AutismAcceptance #aspie

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

2 years

@ericweise I lost so much weight with this cool new diet! I just cut off one leg. People told me it was a bad idea, but I’m still alive, so what do they know?

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

1 year

Starting season 3of All Creatures Great & Small with my mum, wife, and baby! Irrationally excited. Thanks @AllCreaturesTV @masterpiecepbs @RachelShenton @exitthelemming and all the rest of cast and crew!

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

2 years

If a program I delete & uninstall keeps reinstalling itself and booting daemons in the background, it should be labeled a virus. Looking at you #Adobe .

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

1 year

I'm just dumbfounded. What level of false victimhood do you need to reach before every vote that goes against your beliefs is "unfair" or "rigged"? It's like they can't imagine a world where people disagree with them on anything.

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

1 month

@msuster Ya know… you don’t have to ascribe to a religion to believe that children in that religion deserve to live.

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

10 months

Support our Librarians!

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James Villarrubia

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

1 year

This got me good. #ChatGPT

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

2 years

Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt on why in-office work is better: 'I don't know how you build great management' virtually. I believe him. He doesn't know. #remoteworking #remotejobs #futureofwork

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

1 year

In San Antonio for a Work conference and my room has a view of the Alamo. So cool!

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

3 months

"In the 90s the presidents were our parents age. And ever since then the presidents are still our parents age."

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

7 months

In his deranged Veterans Day speech Trump apparently called anyone that didn’t support him “radical left thugs that live like vermin.” I guess this is what vermin looks like. #ThugLife #RascallyRabbit

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

1 month

@TolgaBilge_ If we teach biology in college, some people might work on bioweapons. Ban bio degrees. If create new alloys, they might be used for weapons. Ban all alloy production that isn’t done by US Steel. The boogeyman of AI does not improve the logic here.

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

1 year

I see nothing wrong with this.

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

1 year

Just enough. Just enough gun restrictions that we don’t need GPS features to let people know their ride home is inconvenienced by the violent death of several children. That’s apparently too much to ask.

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

10 months

I got some terrible news today. We never know how much time we have. So… call your parents. Hug your kids. Kiss your partner and tell them all that you love them. Say it enough that they never forget what those hugs and kisses felt like.

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

3 months

“New study links hospital privatisation to worse patient care” | University of Oxford Who would’ve thought asymmetric information and bargaining power would yield a wildly inefficient market?? I’m shocked, I tell you. Shocked.

New study links hospital privatisation to worse patient care |

A new review has concluded that hospitals that are privatised typically deliver worse quality care after converting from public ownership. The study, led by University of Oxford researchers, has been

www.ox.ac.uk

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

8 months

Billionaire-backed network of AI advisers took over Washington. This is why we’re talking about killer robots in 30yrs and not massive misinformation campaigns in 2024. Capitalism gonna capitalize.

How a billionaire-backed network of AI advisers took over Washington

A sprawling network spread across Congress, federal agencies and think tanks is pushing policymakers to put AI apocalypse at the top of the agenda — potentially boxing out other worries and benefit...

www.politico.com

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

2 years

Justice Thomas conspicuously wants to overturn #Griswold , #Lawrence , #Obergefell (birth control and #LGBT rights)(p118-119) …but strangely not #Loving (interracial marriage). So he DOES understand the 14th amendment, but only rules in ways that benefit him. #RoeVsWade #Dobbs

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

1 year

Don’t worry. Everything is fine in American Healthcare.

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

1 year

The patriarchy, now with slide guitar.

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

9 months

If you love something you should set it free…

Collin Rugg

@CollinRugg

9 months

BREAKING: The missing F-35 fighter jet has allegedly been found in a field in Williamsburg County, South Carolina. The news was reported by local news station NBC 2 who say officials from Joint Base Charleston confirmed the news. "Officials with Joint Base Charleston confirmed

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

7 months

It’s Thanksgiving 2023 and I just learned my wife doesn’t know what Rick-Rolling is. Where did I go wrong?

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

3 months

All my wife and I want to do tonight is fill out a @Scholastic Book Fair order form. 💯Peak childhood dreams

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

5 months

Rainy day. Kids are sleeping. Massive LEGO set to start. What could be better?

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James Villarrubia

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

1 year

Why does every movie depict Congressional hearings in some dimly lit, windows-on-all-sides, somber, 1950s Alabama courthouse instead of the fluorescent, windowless, circus-tent where we watch grand-standing ignorance hasten the demise of our species? Just asking.

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

6 months

Don’t forget kids, Capitalism != Free Market. Merry Christmas!

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

1 year

I feel personally attacked. Also… Did you know Viggo Mortensen was an Amish youth in Witness with Harrison Ford? Or that Dave Matthews is a gay salesman in “I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry”?

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James Villarrubia

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

2 years

Anyone out there ever write a chunk of necessary code so ugly that even you don’t want to maintain it?

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

11 months

Does “wokeism” mean “democracy”?

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

2 months

@_masterofwolves 1% will succeed. 4% will modestly exit. 5% will exit at a modest loss. And... 90% will go bankrupt, yes. But the 1-2 that succeed will make a LOT of money.

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

11 months

"I have become... the destroyer of wallets" #Oppenheimer #adobelife

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

2 years

Tour of the West Wing! Been a while, but never gets old.

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

1 year

@LouisianaGov Gov Edwards bringing the only spice to this dish.

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

11 months

Absolutely delicious drink, the Peach Smash, at Methuselah in Pittsfield, MA. Try it out! 🍸🍑🔨

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

8 months

How I know my wife is cleaning her side of the bedroom… 😂

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

3 months

@ThePrimeagen In sum: `<div/>` doesn't fit the convention, so abandon it?

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

11 months

Are super detailed packing lists for vacay a poverty thing? B/c my wealthy friends just say “I can buy anything I forget” But my dad has spent 30yrs refining his packing list for the same annual trip and I think he’s leaving it to me in his will.

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

2 years

"The older generation of executives... aren’t accustomed to managing workforces remotely. 'Leaders find it really hard to lead virtually'" TLDR; older Executive comfort > productivity and employee satisfaction. Smh. #remotework is the future.

Google’s Ex-HR Chief Says Hybrid Work Won't Last

Too many bosses want employees back in the office, according to Laszlo Bock.

www.bloomberg.com

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

3 months

New Wonka film portrays the police as a corrupt enforcer of monopoly market control. Didn’t know it was a documentary.

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

11 months

Karl Marx and Milton Friedman actually agreed on a few things. Primarily that no institution or policy should ever be allowed to grow beyond the checks against its power. We need unions because we have big businesses. We need democracy because we have selfish leaders.

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

6 months

@darrenmarble And this is why VC-backed founders are 89% white and only 1.87% of funding goes to founder who aren't white and male. Being wealthy enough to forego salary for months for an early-stage company is PRIVILEGE.

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

7 months

mfw I realize today was a federal holiday and I spent the whole day working

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James Villarrubia

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

7 months

When I was little I used to play Transformers with my brother - he always got to be Optimus Prime. Well my birthday LEGO set just arrived... it's Optimus Prime. And my first thought was "I have to show Malcolm!" My brother passed away 17yrs ago. They're never really gone.

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

5 months

@ThePrimeagen THIS. I think I've looked at 50+ ChatGPT interfaces that demand you spin up a whole backends just so they can tightly coupled between specific models and APIs. It's an array of messages, people.

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

1 year

I would wager my life savings that the same IT team getting thrown under the bus has been BEGGING for support to rebuild their systems correctly and have REPEATEDLY warned execs about this risk for years. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Southwest blames IT breakdown for stranding travelers

Have they tried turning it off and back on again?

www.theregister.com

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

1 year

This isn't "good news"... this is dystopian. Like high-school robotics teams building wheelchairs for classmates. WHAT'S THE POINT OF BEING THE RICHEST COUNTRY ON EARTH IF WE CAN'T PROVIDE BASIC HEALTHCARE TO OUR CITIZENS?!?

Good News Dog

@goodnewsdog

1 year

The Los Angeles Dodgers have re-signed outfielder Andrew Toles, who has schizophrenia and hasn't played since 2018, to give him access to the team's health insurance and mental health services. Toles is not expected to play this season, but signing with the team will allow him to

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

4 months

Better way is to encourage ALL students to use AI and still grade them on the curve. Do the bare minimum? So did everyone else; here’s your C. Used critical thinking to improve and customize the prompts and results? Here’s an A.

Olivia Moore

@omooretweets

4 months

Every “AI writing detector” has been proven ineffective (test them, you’ll be shocked!) 🤦🏻‍♀️ Beyond that, schools are doing students a real disservice by not teaching them to work with the tools they’ll have access to in the “real world”

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

4 months

@anothercohen By cutting worker pay and raising exec comp.

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

1 year

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'” ― Isaac Asimov

philip lewis

@Phil_Lewis_

1 year

The British Library deleted a thread about a species of fish that can change its sex after hundreds of transphobic responses

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

1 year

Has Kevin McCarthy tried talking more about how much he loves beer? Like really loves it? I hear that works.

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

3 months

I propose a new rule for AI testing: “Is Hitler a bad guy?” -> Yes. Any other answer should prevent release.

Nate Silver

@NateSilver538

3 months

I was able to replicate this! They need to shut Gemini down. It is several months away from being ready for prime time. It is astounding that Google released it in this state.

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

1 year

Here's my prediction: 1) Mark goes full robot and trains 24x7. 2) Elon hypes his image, but bails because his ego can't take the inevitable loss. 3) Elon promises a massive donation to some nonprofit as cover. 4) Mark pays his part. Elon never does.

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg agree to hold cage fight

Earlier this month, Meta showed staff plans for a text-based social network designed to compete with Twitter.

www.bbc.com

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

6 months

This is the weird AI I didn’t know about but is going to change gaming dev for sure

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6 months

After that, you'll be given an option to generate a 3D model. If you're using the free plan, it takes 1-2 hours to render. Here are the results. Definitely got lots of room for improvement, but it's a good start. You can then export the model if you like.

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

9 months

My mom is British. I grew up unknowingly using lots of Britishisms. So now I practice all my professional presentations with my wife so she can help me Americanize my words. Life is weird. 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇮🇪

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

4 months

There is a particular cruelty to emailing medical results that say "You likely have cancer" on a Saturday of a long weekend. But to not have a doctor call you back on Tuesday or Wednesday to answer questions is atrocious. Thanks for-profit-healthcare system.

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

1 year

Remember, profits ALSO drive inflation…

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

7 months

Pres Biden issued an Exec Order fast tracking the hiring of AI experts across gov. If you're an industry expert always complaining about how govt could be improved with AI, now's your chance to prove it! Join the Presidential Innovation Fellows!

Become a Fellow | Presidential Innovation Fellows

Want to use your tech, design or entrepreneurial skills for good? Join PIF!

presidentialinnovationfellows.gov

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

1 year

Do dinosaur safety scissors even cut through gauze?

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

25 days

@domi_kissi @nevercodealone Right, too. "Contact us" on the left is so small as to make tapping without hitting the "book now" button risky. That's not just a physical limit but a visual cue. Of what? Well... "Book now" is a "commitment action" meaning the user likely will feel anxious about selecting

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

1 year

It’s in my wedding vows. I do taxes. She does talking.

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

4 months

Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications - US senator O_o

Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications - US senator

Unidentified governments are surveilling smartphone users via their apps' push notifications, a U.S. senator warned on Wednesday.

www.reuters.com

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

5 months

CEOs: Nobody wants to work anymore. Also CEOs:

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

1 year

Congratulations to all the engineers and project managers and the whole team at @SpaceX for an incredible test flight. Excited for the next one!

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

5 months

CEO of the Dunning-Kruger Corp.

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

1 year

This is the meta humor I’m here for.

TrivWorks

@TrivWorks

1 year

“As CEO of Jerry's Pizza, I recognized our box in Andrew Tate’s video right away and called the authorities”

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

3 months

Today someone tried to claim something was "a textbook ethics violation." So I said I'll concede if they show me the textbook citation. Any textbook. Then I said any credible source. Eventually I dropped the ask down to "a blog post by a ethicist." Aaannd they blocked me.

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

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@PeterDiamandis IQ on a 30 questions linguistic test is not indicative of anything, except that exact test. IQ tests in humans are poor proxies for “g, general intelligence.” That poor proxy certainly does not hold for AI and is thus meaningless.

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

1 year

Here's what record-breaking profits through deregulation and union-busting gets us.

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

1 year

unhinged. Clearlink CEO wants employees to sell off pets if it enables them to work in the office.

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

10 months

I don’t understand these yankees in heat waves saying “just open a window!” It’s 90 without a breeze, what do you think is gonna happen Debby?

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

2 years

@bindureddy This has been my career. Hired for ML/AI… end up teaching up a team on “What is a container?” and “How do we ‘go to the cloud’?” and then a lot of “no, sorry, your meeting chaos is not ‘being Agile.’”

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

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@crampell Wendy's is making an assumption that time is equivalently valuable to it's entire customer base. Anyone whose worked an hourly job with strict lunch breaks knows that isn't true. For those without time flexibility... it feels like price gouging.

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

3 months

Since when did Fortune Cookies become Advice Cookies?

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

2 years

Digging into @harperdbio this week and finding it really cool. Can't wait to put it to use at scale. #CloudComputing #Database #NodeJS

HarperDB | Enterprise Application Platform

HarperDB's global application platform simplifies development with one package that includes a lightning-fast database, embedded API server, and real-time global data replication. Deploy from cloud...

www.harperdb.io

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

1 year

@housecor @avindrafernando Interesting. I always interpreted it as a warning: "If you don't design your architecture, your org structure will design it for you." I've just broken up more terrible monoliths than I've recombined microservices, but I think we're saying the same thing.

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

1 year

Ah, the efficiency of unbridled capitalism. Don't forget that 39M Americans do not have enough to eat.

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

27 days

So when Israel is cheating at Eurovision by using ads, does that come of out the IDF’s PR budget or the Knesset’s? Just asking. No particular reason.

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

2 years

I fully believe @elonmusk is a developer… i mean who else would user-test the $8 checkmarks in prod?

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James Villarrubia

@james_mtc

1 year

Between LSD in the Christmas punch and MKUltra, I thought I'd never be surprised by the CIA... But I guess fake Vampires proves me wrong.

How the CIA Used 'Vampires' to Fight Communism in the Philippines

Back in the Cold War craziness of the 1950s, a CIA operative in the Philippines used the local folklore myth of the blood-sucking aswang to try and scare off communist rebels. Did it work?

history.howstuffworks.com

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