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ricky b
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ricky b
@rbranson
tech unc. databases&indexes&vectors @openai
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    ricky b
    @rbranson
    Mar 7, 2025
    Just saved a customer $500,000 a year by moving them from GCP to this 4U server in my garage lol
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    ricky b
    @rbranson
    Dec 4, 2024
    Replying to @hello__caitlin
    99% of people heard the song once and cancelled their spotify subscription
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    ricky b
    @rbranson
    Sep 28, 2023
    Replying to @growing_daniel
    the worst part of steve jobs' legacy is tech CEOs thinking they should do product keynotes
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    ricky b
    @rbranson
    Sep 10, 2022
    when u were living the good life as a staff+ engineer and u get “promoted” into management
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    ricky b
    @rbranson
    Nov 29, 2023
    For every 10 likes this gets, I'll ask ChatGPT to make this Kubernetes Administrator a bit more weary.
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    ricky b
    @rbranson
    Nov 5, 2021
    one of the funniest things i’ve ever heard is that bartenders in sf call techbros “backpacks”
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    ricky b
    @rbranson
    Jan 2, 2024
    when someone says my API is too hard to understand
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    ricky b
    @rbranson
    Mar 8, 2025
    Replying to @PavelSnajdr
    not worried. i've got top men.
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    ricky b
    @rbranson
    May 6, 2022
    the new cohort will never know the glory of the 2010s
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    ricky b
    @rbranson
    Oct 12, 2020
    There are two buried leads in the Segment/Twilio news: 1) This is the biggest YC acquisition by a large margin. Cruise was next at $1B. 2) The company was setup so that everyone on the team shared in this win, including alumni. Let's expand on this... [1/11]
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    ricky b
    @rbranson
    Feb 10, 2018
    Never forget.
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    ricky b
    @rbranson
    Aug 22, 2024
    Replying to @growing_daniel
    this is what i cited when i killed my wife’s children fathered by other males
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    ricky b
    @rbranson
    May 26, 2021
    Chia has grown almost 1 exabyte (974PiB) in the last 24 hours. The scale of this is hard to comprehend. Creating plots at this rate burns up the equivalent of one 1TB Samsung Evo SSD every 3 seconds. An exabyte is 125,000 8TB drives or $25,000,000 in Seagate USB drives.
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    ricky b
    @rbranson
    May 9, 2024
    Replying to @growing_daniel
    same steve?
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