I was reminded recently of a question that had been in the back of my mind when I was working at Twitter. With the exception of very old content, IDs of tweets and other entities like users are so-called “snowflake IDs” – unique timestamped integer IDs, constructed specifically to try and avoid ID collisions in …
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I participated in elections in Finland and the Philippines, as an overseas voter using mail ballots. Here’s a summary of my experiences.
Late last year, I replaced my main desktop PC, after using it for just about 7 years – a pretty good run. I decided to just buy an off-the-shelf system from Dell, rather than build my own (which I have done many times in the past), since my current computing needs are not super unusual, …
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