If your kids can't compete two generations later... That's on you.

Are you that pessimistic about your ability to compete? That's really sad.

The West Wing was actually about a father finding the son he never had

Wow.

System's people (dbs, compilers, dist sys) tend to be highly specialized. This explains why databases have bad type systems and compilers have terrible storage management.

Justice Jackson is there so the rest of us don't have to be.

When you're a waitress at K.K.K. Fridays

Marjorie Taylor Green is like George Wallace fucked Cersei Lannister and let Yosemite Sam raise the baby

Buy Eric’s stuff!

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Trying to remind myself i can cook.

Skate wing (stingray)
@AnsonMills polenta cake
Citrus butter

Actually, we was dumb as hell in 1999. We thought Blair Witch was real and we thought Microsoft Windows was gonna end the world on New Year’s. Niggas didn’t have internet once the AOL CD ran out, so we was just making shit up.

Buckwheat handpies with @AnsonMills sea island red peas and greens from the Lost Creek farm. Pea purée with plum mustard. Thyme and i forget the flower from the garden. 📸 @kristianthacker @costellowv i might make these again for new years 🌾👀🌾

Really hammering the point home: you can't trust clocks for ordering in a distributed system, even if events happened hours or days apart, because, for example, network disruption might mean the events were not aware of each other.

Puerto Rican power by @ericriveracooks, pork by pig, cooking by me.

@ericriveracooks @ExcuseMyFly and @ericriveracooks in the same post. Two of my faves. That’s it. Quitting my job. I’m ready for my stage at Alinea. 😂

RIP @ericriveracooks

The dinner I made tonight wasn’t great. Luckily it only took 2 hours to make, cost $83 in ingredients, and needed multiple pots and pans.

C-suite and VP-level managers should kill the whole motivational speech thing at all-hands meetings. People see the bullshit. It’s a waste of time. It’s a job, not a high school football game. No one says “Shit, dude! I’m pumped! I’m gonna write even more emails now! Let’s go!!”

this is....interesting...given how African rice and its subsequent strains like carolina gold have been grown in saltwater marshes....