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17 Oct 2024
I've definitely stopped materially posting here, but 🟦 is where I can be found.
ALT Profile page for Robert on Blue Sky where he can be found by his handle lostluck.dev
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Robert Burke retweeted
22 Feb 2025
Ian Fleming's original James Bond novels haven't aged well. For example, Moonraker - published almost exactly 70 years ago in April 1955 - features a villain who's a super-rich industrialist and rocket-maker seeking to cause chaos because he's a secret Nazi. Such a silly idea!
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Robert Burke retweeted
17 Oct 2024
I've definitely stopped materially posting here, but 🟦 is where I can be found.
ALT Profile page for Robert on Blue Sky where he can be found by his handle lostluck.dev
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welcome, new bluesky users 🫡
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16 Oct 2024
Soon we’ll be launching a change to how the block function works.
If your posts are set to public, accounts you have blocked will be able to view them, but they will not be able to engage (like, reply, repost, etc.).
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Robert Burke retweeted
13 Oct 2024
my mom (who's a university professor) did something interesting last year: she assigned her students to give chatgpt an essay question, have it write a paper, and then proofread/fact check it. nearly every single student in that class came out of that assignment anti-chatgpt.
12 Oct 2024
how it feels to be a university student who's anti-chatgpt
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Robert Burke retweeted
10 Oct 2024
Possible G4 magnetic storm arriving Thursday. Chance for Western Washington to see the aurora Thursday evening/early Friday morning. Looks like the weather will cooperate with mostly clear skies. #wawx
ALT K p forecast for the next three days showing possible G 4 magnetic storm beginning late Thursday morning lasting into early Friday morning. K p index peaking at 8 or higher from 2 pm Thursday to 11 pm Thursday and remaining near 7 early Friday morning.
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Robert Burke retweeted
1 Oct 2024
#GopherConSG will be postponed to 22-24 January 2025, so we can have more time to plan and put together a great conference for everyone.
Because of this, we're extending our #CFP for a few more days, in case you might have some #golang ideas to share! 💥
papercall.io/gopherconsg-202…
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Robert Burke retweeted
25 Sep 2024
We have the worst traffic on the 401 and no one just thought, “how about we put a rail line here?”
25 Sep 2024
NEW: Ontario is launching a “technical evaluation” to explore feasibility of constructing a new tunnel expressway for cars and transit under Highway 401. #onpoli
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26 Sep 2024
My life got a bit better WRT video games when I started simply adding games to my Steam wishlist instead of buying them for the backlog.
Now, if only I had time to play more...
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Robert Burke retweeted
17 Sep 2024
Thanks everyone for sending along photos so far! There is also a full moon tonight, so the best potential to see the northern lights will be away from city lights, and through camera & phone photos. Also dependent on how long geomagnetic storm conditions continue.
17 Sep 2024
Potential to see the northern lights over portions of Western Washington exists tonight. We do have some high clouds overhead this evening, with low clouds increasing along the coast & moving into Puget Sound early Tues. However, there will be clear skies at times! #WAwx
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“Share your feedback about developing with Go” by Alice Merrick — go.dev/blog/survey2024-h2
#golang
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Robert Burke retweeted
6 Sep 2024
This was so fascinating. I had a teflon knitting needle on @ISS and charged it by rubbing with my Russian fur boots. Then I directed water droplets from a syringe towards the charged knitting needle and this is the resulting dynamics. The droplets, due to charge forces, go into a crazy orbit around the knitting needle. If planets were cylindrical this would be the orbit of its moons due to gravity. Canon G1 video camera, Expedition 30, 2012.
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Robert Burke retweeted
5 Sep 2024
Thanks to everyone who joined us at the Beam Summit 2024! 🌟 Your energy, insights, and engagement made it unforgettable.
👋 Until next time, keep building amazing things with Apache Beam!
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Robert Burke retweeted
4 Sep 2024
@lostluck is presenting "A New Local Runner Appears: Deep dive on Prism" which is not monolithic and uses portable runner and it is written in go but runs all other languages Thank you @ApacheBeam #BeamSummit #BeamSummit2024
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Robert Burke retweeted
I think people really don't appreciate just how incomplete Linux kernel API docs are, and how Rust solves the problem.
I wrote a pile of Rust abstractions for various subsystems. For practically every single one, I had to read the C source code to understand how to use its API.
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Robert Burke retweeted
31 Aug 2024
💡 Robert Burke will compare the current Go SDK with an experimental implementation that takes better advantage of the current strengths of Go as well as its approach to generic type parameters. Register now: beamsummit.org/
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Robert Burke retweeted
30 Aug 2024
WHAT’S UP REBOOT FANS!!
We’ve added a NEW CITY!
MONTREAL, LET’S GO!
This theatre is smaller than the others so buy your tickets ASAP! All ticket links are available in this thread
(Anyone attending our screenings will get a sneak peak of the D1 footage ON THE BIG SCREEN 😍🤩)
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