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Matthew Riley
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a screenshot from Half-Life 2 of three Combine Civil Protection officers threatening a civilian with stun batons
August 15, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Elsewhere, elsewhen
Matthew Riley @mdriley25519 • 8/20/21 It seems like MemoryDB is an acknowledgement of how many shops use Redis as a *database* and not a *cache* • AWS built a service with Redis APl and performance profile but with DB-class durability. And if you're selling durability you can't call it a "cache" Matthew Riley @mdriley25519 That said, easy to imagine AWS thought customers would see a starker difference here than they have. When you're AWS, the idea of putting data into something without strong durability is unthinkable. If you're a startup, it's called Tuesday. 6:50 PM • 8/20/21
August 2, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Big Tech leadership, 2025
Homer Simpson as a youth football coach: "Now, while I wasn't able to cut everyone I wanted to, I *have* cut a lot of you"
May 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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I have been mad at a word or two in my day
a panel of a Penny Arcade comic Gabe, sitting at a computer: "You're mad at some words?" Tycho, unperturbed: "Don't act surprised. It shames us both."
February 4, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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It gets worse! Here's how you authenticate to Fidelity if you have the misfortune to need to call them on the phone
February 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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"I think people are making a big deal out of nothing. Lots of Meta executives who are women have great things to say about Mark Zuckerberg."
It's the "survivorship bias" airplane
January 19, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Keith Wasserman tweets: "Real estate ballers don't pay any taxes!" 15 Oct 2021
January 8, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Probably(?) the most valuable slide from my entire CS education

"Debugging is resolving a clash between stories": what you *thought* would happen vs. what is *actually* happening
December 2, 2024 at 12:12 PM
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Gaze into the Lamb Vortex
Two racks of lamb, sliced, with the bones arranged in a spiral
November 29, 2024 at 3:51 AM
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bisects on the beach
a perpendicular bisector construction in sand using a curved stick as a compass
August 29, 2023 at 5:06 PM
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Potty training my toddler
A wall clock with 33 minutes marked in tape, from the Battlestar Galactica episode “33 minutes”
June 17, 2023 at 6:09 PM
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djb presents djbsort, a constant-time djbsolution to a djbproblem you probably don't have. To install, just unpack djbsort.djb and run the ./djb script. Make sure you have djbtools installed first
May 9, 2023 at 5:25 AM