Thomas LaRock @SQLRockstar

Microsoft CSA, Data Professional, and #bacon lover (not in that order). #data #analytics #python #infosec https://t.co/l3sg3yqiSg thomaslarock.com/contact-me Massachusetts Joined August 2008

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Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian

a day ago

You were born in 2006.

Brilyn Hollyhand @BrilynHollyhand

a day ago

We loathed Obama like you loathed Trump. Except we loathed Obama because he loathed America. You loathe Trump because you loathe America.

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SteveBikes (bona fide) @stevebikes

a month ago

"Like, are we kinda being pricks?"

Jonathan Berk @berkie1

a month ago

On its third attempt tonight, Marblehead Town Meeting approved an “MBTA Communities–compliant” district largely centered on the 125-year-old Tedesco Country Club, meeting 3A requirements on paper while all but assuring no new housing would be built. This comment says it all.

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Keith Townsend @CTOAdvisor

2 months ago

Don't be fooled by @GoogleCloud remixing existing services at Next. That's the whole point. Knowledge Catalog is Dataplex reframed. ADK is Vertex AI agent tooling consolidated. Agent Runtime is Cloud Run with agent-specific optimizations. The cross-cloud lakehouse is built on Iceberg and Cross-Cloud Interconnect that already existed. The industry looked at 250 announcements and said "nothing new." They're right. And they're missing what matters. When a vendor announces a brand-new product, you're looking at a roadmap. When a vendor remixes existing capabilities into a new control point, you're looking at something closer to production-ready. The pieces have been running already. Google didn't spend three days in Vegas talking about models or benchmarks. The keynote wasn't about the labs. It was about the gap between demo and production. That's the gap where every enterprise is stuck right now. And here's what the neocloud price war is missing. The $4/hour GB200 is a Layer 0 fight. Compute. Hardware. Infrastructure. Real value, real price advantage. But Google isn't competing at Layer 0. They're competing at Layer 1C and Layer 2C — the judgment layers. The catalog that models what your data means. The agent governance that determines what your agents are allowed to do. The identity framework that controls which agent accesses which context. We've seen this before. How much do you pay for CPU in your Lambda functions? You don't know. You don't care. AWS won by making the infrastructure invisible and the abstraction indispensable. Google is running the same play. The GPU is not the moat. The borrowed judgment above it is. I wrote the full analysis. Link below.

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Covie @covie_93

2 months ago

If the 14th amendment was only meant to protect the “babies of slaves” then the 2nd Amendment is only meant to protect the right to own a musket.

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Bryan Bischof fka Dr. Donut @BEBischof

2 months ago

too real

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Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps

3 months ago

Believe it or not, Germany’s 5 largest cities lie perfectly on a 4th-degree polynomial

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Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer

3 months ago

Trump and Robert Mueller were born two years apart, both into wealthy families and both with private school upbringings. Trump received five draft deferments during Vietnam and became a parasitic real estate baron. Mueller volunteered for service, graduated from Officer Candidate School and Ranger School, was wounded in combat, and received a Bronze Star w/ Valor for rescuing one of his wounded soldiers under intense enemy fire. And that pretty much crystallizes both the difference between the two and Trump's toxic jealousy toward Mueller.

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Thomas LaRock @SQLRockstar

4 months ago

@drewlevinn Why?

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Chad Dotson @dotsonc

4 months ago

The kids these days with their fortnites and minecrafts will never know the sublime pleasure of a perfectly-executed one-timer in NHL 95 on Sega Genesis.

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Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson

4 months ago

This is one of the most revealing things ever said by a billionaire. “Guys, the centuries of feudalism were totally worth it. Look at the castles!”

Elon Musk @elonmusk

4 months ago

They really hated Louis XIV for building Versailles, but now it’s a national treasure of France 🇫🇷

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Thomas LaRock @SQLRockstar

4 months ago

@elonmusk Cool story bro, whatever happened to Louis?

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Keith Townsend @CTOAdvisor

4 months ago

As my sons started their professional careers (logistics and CS), I warned them the average co-worker isn’t that productive. I warned them not to measure their output by the standards of their coworkers. They were still surprised. Most people view work as something they do to pay bills. That’s perfectly fine. What companies are looking for are people passionate about infrastructure. You want a list of those people? Take a look at who has attended multiple @TechFieldDay events as a delegate.

martin_casado @martin_casado

4 months ago

Nearly every board meeting : "Hiring strong infra folks is incredibly hard right now"

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Thomas LaRock @SQLRockstar

4 months ago

@QuinnyPig Son of Anton strikes again.

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Steven Rogers @StevenR14415997

4 months ago

@elonmusk A bigger bill should be your trophy

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Thomas LaRock @SQLRockstar

4 months ago

Still no word from @3YearLetterman regarding the USA surrendering to England yesterday.

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Keith Townsend @CTOAdvisor

4 months ago

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Enguerrand VII de Coucy @ingelramdecoucy

4 months ago

Thing of absolute beauty. Give whoever made this video a big fat raise, Wyze

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Anneliese Bruner @AnnelieseMaria

4 months ago

@jimstewartson @ray_osa From Nov. 2024, for your reading pleasure. anneliese-bruner.medium.com/musks-mars-or-…

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Knicks Memes @KnicksMemes

5 months ago

January 7, 2024: The Jets beat the Patriots for the first time since 2015 in a Week 18 game that means nothing to either side. Jets Fans celebrate. This enables the Patriots to draft Drake Maye, who leads the Patriots to the Super Bowl 2 years later.