Adrian Sampson

@samps
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Centrally isolated.
pronounshe/him
affiliationCornell & Google
homehttps://www.cs.cornell.edu/~asampson
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Look at this incredible cat
In loving memory of both Takeoff and the concept of parody, may I recommend a rewatch of “Friendos”? https://youtu.be/7oPe80mdcZg
Oops, pretty sure @jangray beat Daniel by a bit! Welcome, Jan!!
Anyway, a hearty welcome to:
- @djimenez, the first other computer architect I’ve run into #onhere
- @notypes, I think the first other Cornellian???
- @arjun, who is famous for being the above’s undergrad advisor

Twitter used to be lots of fun *and* professionally useful for me, but I’ve been feeling extremely burnt out on it for the last ~year. Mastodon let me indulge my social media addiction in a safe environment of isolation; I could just post endless bread pix without the risk of anyone actually seeing them.

I’m glad it’s gotten so bustling around here!! But I’m going to try maintaining the feeling of freedom to do low-quality toots. Go right ahead and ignore me over here.

This #song is 28 years old and still fucking slaps. https://youtu.be/H95jGsZmzmQ
The Magnetic Fields - Born on a Train

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Not food.
Missing these guys currently
The best author list in computer science is for the Michael–Scott lock-free queue (second author: Michael Scott). https://www.cs.rochester.edu/~scott/papers/1996_PODC_queues.pdf
Our bright future of free speech absolutism is going just great so far https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/03/elon-musk-twitter-layoffs-silence-blind/
Musk’s Trump-style management rattles Twitter workers awaiting layoffs

Silence from new leaders has bewildered workers, who are turning to private chats, anonymous apps and Elon Musk’s tweets for basic information.

The Washington Post