Nicholas Griffin @ngriffin_uk Twitter profile

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2 years

@TalktoHenryJ @leahculver No one who has any clue about development would ever do or suggest this. This is a huge boomer, red flag moment 😂.

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@wongmjane Turns out their site is justa clone of the Drupal repo with some pictures of cars on top 😂

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@NoContextBrits I don’t have a clue why people go to these places without learning or reading the rules and then are surprised when this happens. They are soldiers, not actors.

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@sachee RPC is also generally local communication, so that shouldn’t really affect anything in other countries (latency back and forth would). I would assume that Elon just sees stats and immediately thinks it’s hard the problem because he appears to think software is that simple.

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@wongmjane 😂 they deffo deploy over FTP.

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@AashViswanathan @leahculver 😂 Real tech CEOs would be smart enough to use source control rather than creating paper documentation of your companies private source code.

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@watkinson137 @TheFigen Literally just silicon and glass…. No comment on the road itself though? Or maybe all the cars driving on it?

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@Katthryn_Egan @JolyonMaugham What have you done to our objectively beautiful website with that font? 😂

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@verge So you just need to add a hexagon crop and boom you have the same thing? 😂

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@williamlegate “We’re working on it” The age old Elon quote for early promises that never come to fruition.

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@justindross Bit strange to do these numbers by users and not by requests / bandwidth / feature set / customer support. It’s really telling of the motive behind the tweet.

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@Swizec Honestly, if I’m having a particularly bad/ croggy day, I forget stuff like this too. It’s part of being human. Best thing to do is to help the candidate identify where they went wrong for the future and move on. Not a fan of calling people out, we all have bad days.

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@F__Peladeau @verge Yeah they have 😂

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@AdamRackis I mean it’s literally just a caching service, the website isn’t hosting the devil 😂. Vercel has the right to choose who they want on their platform and all but you really don’t have to have to put across like the guy is building the anti christ. It’s just web archive.

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@AdamRackis I deffo think there’s another side. As soon as I read “casino site”, I went oh that makes sense. Regulations here are tricky.

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@nixcraft To be fair, for a lot of people, the better answer is probably just cloudflare. Let’s encrypt is probably going to open a world of pain for a lot of people, and that’s if they get past working out that it’s a service not a saying 😂

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@trashh_dev “ProtectionUsed field is optional”…. You know google is tracking you to the depths when they have apis like this 😆

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@americanwombat 0 as a number becomes a timestamp so you get start of epoch. As a string, you’re passing a formatted date, 0 is taken as the year and js infers that you don’t want to go back to the 19th, so you get the first month of the 20th. Pretty simple stuff, learn your language kids!

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@mr_james_c Air con is at fault for nearly 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Nearly half of that is co2 leakage from units and manufacturing of units according to research. It’s about the full cost. .

News Release: Scientists Show Large Impact of Controlling Humidity on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Greenhouse gas emissions from air conditioners are expected to climb as economic growth drives efforts to control both temperature and humidity, according to an analysis by scientists from the...

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@Android Sorry what? 😂. Is the premise that apple somehow bullies people into using iMessage because of the colour of a bubble? Not sure I understand lol. SMS’ are green because that’s the colour they were originally, not some marketing technique…

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@SimonCHulse @verge Then stop following? 😂

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@Pega63567904 @kyliebytes @elonmusk Or maybe they don’t want to work by ridiculous rules and 3 months to find another role is pretty decent. I’d take that offer without a second thought in this situation.

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@r_marked It’s too expensive for the content available IMO. Higher price than Netflix. Bring it down to 5-6 then we can talk.

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@verge You can’t build a company around reverse engineering someone’s ip, they’re lucky they just got disconnected and not sued…

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@Carnage4Life 😂 I think you need your own advice.

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@UndeniablyAlex Sustainability on show imo.

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@0xabad1dea @Microsoft Actually most likely breaking GDPR too. You can’t lock off your service on decline. This is why the US needs GDPR IMO.

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@scottygb Loved the amount of BBC logos personally, gotta be a world record.

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@EurovisionNewZ 👏, that’s really well done. Glad that we could do it for Ukraine. Hopefully they’ll be able to host it themselves soon.

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@nicholasadeleon When in reality, those products are improving theirs, for free…

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@TkDodo I honestly don’t understand what people think they’re gonna get out of this. If you can’t be bothered to fill in the info correctly, I can’t be bothered to look at your issue at all.

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@fantasai @github I wish Firefox fixed issues that stopped websites from working on Firefox.

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@rebane2001 This is the reason we have reset.css. If only the browsers just had a way to turn all their stuff off naturally though (without loading a bunch of css), that’d be nice.

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@9to5mac No mouse with the charger on the bottom? Also iPod socks were awesome.

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@capajj @prisma Knex is awesome, check out for a typesafe inspiration.

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@AbigailLynnBru4 @adrianweckler @smcs 😂 you can fire employees, you just have to do it the right way. This has been the case for a very long time and we’re just fine and don’t really care about the other sides opinion. Protect employees over corporations.

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@CanMind @JoePompliano These days? When I was a kid the games were so, so much worse, ever heard of Manhunt? Unless my generation is any more violent then the last (spoilers, we’re not), this simply isn’t true. Nightmares, maybe though, I’d give you that.

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@PR0GRAMMERHUM0R That will have a rate limit, and a heavy one at that.

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@verge And it’s still a slightly pricey cable but reasonable for what it is. And no it’s not a scam 😂. A 2m thunderbolt 4 cable from intel is £59, or around half the price.

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@IanColdwater I know a couple of people who call it X, super cringe. One of the worst rebrands of the 20th, if not the worst for sure.

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@raymondedwards @NoerholtDK @BARNINGVP @MSMElephant @justindross It’s amazing what you can do when you join an org with 85k employees… 😂

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@F__Peladeau @verge You see this “replying to” on this tweet (taken from twitters site)? If not then they have…

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@verge 😂 the people in the comments are funny. It’s true, Spotify has shitty sound quality.

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@Kotaku Omfg they are during Elon is the greatest guy evr, he cod nvr do aythink wrng! U r wrng n jelly! Dodge coin 2 t mn. ⬆️ every nerd in this tweets replies and every Elon tweet….

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@euboid You’re not real, we’re sorry to break it to you.

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@_saagarjha I think it’s actually a bit simplistic than that, their build tool publishes new files with hashed versions in the name to allow for cache busting. A lot of services do this and it just happens whenever YouTube is deployed, which is often.

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@aweary Your code is bad with or without typescript.

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@AdamWhitcroft This is one of the most insane things on the web, esp when security experts are generally advocating for password managers to promote using different passwords between services. Ideally, you should have no idea what your password is.

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@adamdotdev If we’re talking security and package manager, I completely agree. Nodejs as a whole? Definitely not, it’s certainly one of the main reasons the web is successful today.

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@mr_james_c I mean that’s not what we’re talking about here, simply replying to the convo, not starting another. But depends what tech you’re using really.

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@IroncladDev Fun fact: they actually have millions of registered users, millions more self hosting.

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@Pega63567904 @kyliebytes @elonmusk Or people who know they’re worth 😂 You do realise that Elon is not special and twitter is by no means the only company that you can work for right? Shit bosses are always gonna lose to good ones in tech, we know our value and that’s a brilliant thing.

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@verge Like what’s the actual point in this?

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@_JohnHammond Still don’t understand this personally, it’s not inherently less secure than any domain, if the problem is that it has a file extension, so do files…

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@RaNgErS_REP_ @joshmanders @ste_bau @TimSweeneyEpic @tomadlam @9to5mac @benlovejoy They collected data from children without parental consent, knowingly, which is against the law. They did not age gate. They used on by default communication. They locked the accounts of users who disputed charges and ultimately prayed on children.

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@PedriVision @elonmusk Erm what 😂. You know how many people are on the planet right? You also know how economies work right? The more money people have, the less money is worth, the more things cost. And then you’ve got supply and demand, more demand requires more supply. Honestly 😂.

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@jamesgls1985 @eoinalexxander Alcohol free can actually have alcohol in it, it’s a strange ruling where you can still call it alcohol free even if it has a certain percentage.

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@Lordflashh3art @fleurmeston Jobs. It’s also a pretty fun place to live until you get old.

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@ThePrimeagen Have you tried: .binaryType = "arraybuffer"; Then you shouldn’t need the await. All without any testing.

WebSocket: binaryType property - Web APIs | MDN

The WebSocket.binaryType property controls the type of binary data being received over the WebSocket connection.

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@HashiCorp Meh. This only helps you as a corp not the open source community unless that license is also sharing ownership with your contributors, which it isn’t.

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@michkeenah Hotter than 20 and I’m dead.

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@Carnage4Life It’s the short timeframe that most disagree with. This generation of ai is not as capable as people hype it up to be. It’s a cool conversational assistant, that’s about all we’ve got so far.

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@htmx_org Still gotta get those analytics in, and by proxy, a cookie message… 😂

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@ctjlewis @AdamRackis It’s just requesting websites as a search engine and then caching and serving the response. It’s the same thing things like web archive does. Yes for a different purpose, but essentially the same thing if it was rebranded.

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@0xMuse @buildsghost This is why “web3” services keep getting hacked 😂

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@DukeofAbuja1 @ianzelbo Untrue, apple has the ability to completely block the iPhone via the serial number. Whenever it is turned on, it’ll sound a very loud alarm and ask to be taken back to the nearest store.

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@KlausLovgreen @stevesi Or regulating itself into a safe space for citizens to interact with ai and for Europeans to compete on a fair playing field. The thinking that Europeans have to accept every bad product and practice is wrong and it’s ultimately better not to in the long run.

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@a7medev I get why you might be annoyed by this, but to be fair, you’ve used the MIT licence on your repo, so there’s actually nothing wrong with this as long as they retained the licence.

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@rememberme_14 @leahculver Tell me you don’t work in engineering without telling me you don’t work in engineering… Big problems and good changes take a lot of time. Keeping a service alive 24/7 requires you to be around 24/7.

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@cperciva Yup. It’s crazy that they’re making it look like it’s something new and people just eat that up. They should be refunding any charge ever made maliciously in general. Of course they won’t, they’re only sending this for the viral clout.

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@jamaluddinsanto @wongmjane Calm down 😂 It's a one line change, takes a minute or two.

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@cabel @Monochrome_Fox_ You sure Elon knows that? 😂

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@hamill23 @darrylmorris @elonmusk Well… they’ve got localised satellite connection that requires an expensive receiver the majority of which will be going to the army. Radio is a proven technology that is cheap for people to access and can be broadcasted over distance.

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@sachdh @PradyuPrasad ^ Americans, money, money, money. If GDP makes the majority of people’s lives better then we should consider it, if not, then it doesn’t mean anything. I don’t get why y’all are so obsessed with comparative graphs.

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@BriannaWu @elonmusk Yup this is expected. Fire half of your team, expect around 25% on top to quit. And it’ll be the most senior and secure to quit first. The leftover 25% are either heavily invested, enjoy the company or just waiting for a new position. Expect massive yearly turnover.

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@haxzie_ The only thing I would probably immediately change here would be to create a context difference between the two buttons. Aside from that, it does the job and simple sign up pages are known to convert better.

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@AdamRackis Calling on American companies to stay in America if they don’t like being regulated outside of America. Outside of that, keep your opinions at home, we don’t want them nor do we care about them 😂.

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@thekitze Well…. You have to put it into a particular web application for it to work, so we can’t….

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@verge Then Tesla is no longer acceptable to work for :).

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@wudouzheng @verge Yup… 😂

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@Sbhowmick23 @sheonhan Why do it in secret where you are spied on? Make it public so at least a few people can see what happened.

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@sriramk @elonmusk There’s literally no reason why you couldn’t do this during working hours. Respect your own time, achieve greater work life balance, it’s important.

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@verge That’s Microsoft. They don’t build anything from their own ideas. I have no clue why they need so many staff.

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@tomwarren Incoming comment: Microsoft should just stop selling in the US 😆

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@Akira_Insider @guardiantech Why are you attributing web usage to value? Also, if you read the article, it’s from a disclosure from one of the stakeholders. So absolutely correct, their state has lost 70% of its value.

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@jaclynlenee @SamAllenX That’s literally impossible. The power grid includes renewables you know? And buying credits is not being eco friendly. Also does that include all of the machines across the network, all the “web3” sites you use and of course users machines?

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@yashar Last one was filmed in colour btw, just many people didn’t have devices to view it on.

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@tomlienard @vercel

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@_BRCooper @TalktoHenryJ @leahculver And he doesn’t know how to use source control… 😂

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@paulbyrail You know what would be great? If they added a section above each platform that showed which trains were about to leave from there… Something like a departures board maybe? And then you could easily see when and where your train was without standing awkwardly with 100 ppl.

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@Alize_187 @verge How much you betting, I’m all in because monkeypox has existed since 1958, 1970 in humans 😂

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@devongovett I think this is a bad take personally. I would ask anyone who thinks this way: why did you launch your project and what was the purpose? If that was to help others then you can’t exactly bail when people start using it, there’s an old saying: “Shit or get off the pot”

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@InstagramComms Does not sharing with others include the rest of Meta, Facebook and probably most importantly, Facebook Ads? Ultimately if is being shared with Facebook ads, that's also being shared with others.

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@JoeMaristela @verge The artists are clearly stating that they’re not paid enough and the eu can do many things at the same time, as they do. It’s not like they’re restricted to thinking about one thing at a time 😂

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@HighbrowHaze @Ike_Saul @RNCResearch Blind doesn’t mean 100% blind. Often people have percentages of vision still available to them.

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@josephfcox And so it begins… NFTs are now a security risk that’s Chrome and other browsers need to resolve.

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@juliafmorgado You’re not pushing the code though :). You are pulling into the branch that you are merging into. It’s a technical term for a technical process :).

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@onetrainops @NoContextBrits This will happen anywhere if you stand in front of a soldier’s path while on duty. They are doing a job, if you can’t pay attention, don’t go there.

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@Rambi831 @VFinnishProbs Again, dude, no need, keep your pessimism to yourself, todays for fun.

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@ggwhiting Well built machines with well maintained software that the majority of applications that we use support. That’s basically it. What you want in engineering is repeatability, if you have ten different laptops in your team, everything becomes hard to reproduce.

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