SRE at the Wikimedia Foundation, tweets are mine not theirs (he/him)
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7 Mar 2023
today's my 36th birthday! it's the 36th one in a row where I'm cancer-free, but the first one where that didn't happen by itself
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17 Jan 2023
today, athletics scientists announced Antepenultimate Frisbee (4)
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4 Nov 2022
did you get me this?? it's perfect, thank you so much, and also, it came without a receipt, who are you???
ALT a gorgeous coffee table book called "Apollo Remastered: The Ultimate Photographic Record" by Andy Saunders
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5 Nov 2022
mystery solved, but also I'm really glad to have so many of the kind of person in my life who could have plausibly done this <3
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9 Aug 2022
I WROTE A THING about how I love the space shuttle and also about how I am old
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1972: the year space policy in this country changed from “we choose to go to the moon” to “this is all we can afford right now" slate.com/technology/2022/08… via @slate
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28 Mar 2022
[unfolding a sheet of paper and looking into your eyes]
In these wedding vows, the key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.
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10 Mar 2022
A "three nines" system is available at least 99.9% of the time.
A "three and a half nines" system is available at least...
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99.95% of the time
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go take a walk
58 votes • Final results
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4 Feb 2022
if we want the rewards of having done thing, we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of doing thing
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22 Jan 2022
saw this cool street sign earlier -- sorry it's so small, I couldn't get any closer
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12 Jan 2022
Hemingway was once challenged to write a compelling mystery story in six words, or up to a maximum of thirteen words if the additional words were in parentheses and printed slightly smaller
12 Jan 2022
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13 Oct 2021
Helpful reminder: "Is William Shatner too old to go to space??" was already one of the major themes of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, a movie that was filmed closer to Shatner's bar mitzvah than to the present day
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16 Sep 2021
Happy belated birthday to this incredible thing @sarahclazarus wrote, a story about a completely relatable reaction to a completely alien situation, and a piece so good that it feels like it raised the bar on everything I'll ever do.
crooked.com/articles/coronav…
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17 Aug 2021
uh oh, I tried running "sed -s statement" and the cat turned into cement
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13 Aug 2021
ALT a Google search result for "at least symbol" where the featured result actually shows the less-than-or-equal-to symbol
ALT a Google Opinion Rewards survey asking "How much do you trust that the search results for 'at least symbol' provided correct and reliable information?" Completely trust, mostly trust, moderately trust, somewhat trust, or do not trust at all
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Reuven Lazarus retweeted
27 Oct 2020
Did you know that you can listen to @Wikipedia? Did you know that you can listen to Wikipedia go into stealth mode as our awesome SRE team performs our annual data center switchover? Watch for 3:50 when we come back online... (courtesy of @cdanis) youtube.com/watch?v=ZVw6ccKX…
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27 Mar 2020
I keep having to check and reconfirm that today is an ACTUAL Friday, unlike the last three Fridays we had this week
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