Director of Engineering at BlockFi. Previously: Postmates, Helium, Basho. Been called the Humphrey Bogart of distributed systems

Bayonne, NJ
Joined April 2009
wow, my corsair x99 watercooler has failed. machine still boots, but crash-stops once CPU temp exceeds 90C--which takes less than 5m. what are the chances the processor is still good?
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No, the internet had to point it out, and now you're trying to save face.
We found significant errors of judgment and procedure in a recent employee separation. We have reversed the separation, and our head of HR has taken personal accountability and resigned from GitHub. We apologize sincerely to the employee. github.blog/2021-01-17-updat…
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this is some good shit
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Ne2 blunder ftw
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You come at the King, you bess not miss.
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The biggest social problem presented by Bitcoin, for which the entire ecosystem has no interest in discussing, is that it replicates and further exacerbates wealth inequality--only this time, a handful outsiders were lucky enough to get in early, and now consider themselves elite
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These self-acclaimed elites are among the loudest voices encouraging everyone to do what they did, stack sats, but this fundamentally flawed advice give supply constraints and price appreciation.
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btw I'd greatly appreciate it if @samkottler @rbranson and the rest of the @planetscaledata crew would stop snapping up all the SRE talent, kthxbai
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I volunteer as tribute
Is “drunk history” but with tech concepts a thing? Like, somebody getting plastered and then explaining Kerberos, is that a thing?
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