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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

I mean if we’ve got a true “blue wave” and the Texas Repubs spread themselves too thin in their gerrymandering attempts, it’s possible *Texas* will go blue.

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Of course, it *should* be indexed to start with! However, sometimes developers miss things, or the data ends up being used in ways the developer didn't foresee. Then, things run in production fine until the data size crosses a critical threshold, at which point it rather suddenly becomes too slow.

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

This happens much more quickly if your phonebook is for Manhattan, KS than it is if your phonebook is for Manhattan, NY. Thus, an unindexed database may be fine on a small amount of data as full table scans are still quick in computer terms. But once it gets big enough, you need to index it.

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

If anyone is interested, the analogy is that a phonebook is indexed by last name. If you know their last name, you can quickly find it. But if you want to search by *first* name, or address, you need to do a "full table scan" in database terms -- look at every page in the book.

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

I remember c. 2011 explaining how relational databases can work OK with no indexes when they're small, but when they get big, you have to index them. The analogy began "You remember uh...phonebooks?" Which always got a laugh. Might well get a blank stare, now.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Everything so stupid but I have faith it can get stupider

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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

We've only known that other galaxies exist as entities unto themselves for a century — we used to think they were small and inside our Milky Way! But the obsolete terminology stuck around a long time after we figured that out. www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-h... 🧪🔭

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We Had a Name for ‘Galaxies’ before We Knew They Existed

Centuries before other galaxies were known to exist, astronomers called them “spiral nebulas.” Today the defunct term still sparks confusion

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

i like this article just for the image asset

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Having the Republicans remove the filibuster from budget votes and then vote to reopen the government themselves with no Democratic support seemed pretty doable and would’ve been a win in my book. Trump was calling for it, so seemed doable. Then Republicans would fully own the ACA mess they made.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

idk which possibility is more damning for Schumer either A) he helped orchestrate the fold OR B) he genuinely opposed the fold but was so incompetent that he was unable to stop the splinter group from folding

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Vote to replace leadership, or you are either complicit or feckless in your fight.

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Well, things other than “the most important thing is that I be in office.”

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

As a long-time startup founder, I can't say I never gamble, obviously. But I do say that I don't knowingly bet when I know the odds are against me.

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I have tried and failed to teach it for decades. Perhaps an early training would help but it really seems like a knack to me.

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DuendeonFuego @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

People need to understand that every fifty to a hundred years evil dipshits will build an ideology that valorizes being an evil dipshit and this will need to be beaten back every time. No country is safe from this. In fact, exceptionalism can make it worse.

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

I have to admit I paused reading your sentence and spent several seconds wondering what the new “wireless bra” tech did. Presumably using Bluetooth?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/07/2025

The fact we have secret police whisking people off the streets doesn’t get enough attention. It ain’t normal and we’re further down the road to authoritarianism than you think.

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Man these things were *expensive*. The football game is $32, which is roughly $132 today. However, the replica version (of Football I to be fair) is *$17* today, which was $4.38 in 1980. Computer miniaturization often makes these sorts of inflation-neutral calculations meaningless.

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Was commenting to my adult daughter the other day about how the last obviously great pol they had was Obama, who went from community activist to Senator to President basically overnight. That’s evidence they don’t have a system to develop talent.

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

I remember my father’s mother telling me that I would’ve had a great aunt, except that when my grandmother was something like 9, she brought home smallpox, her little sister caught it, and she died. I can’t imagine how guilty young grandmother must’ve felt for something that wasn’t really her fault.

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

So pleased to see this, and so proud of the brave folks in Budapest! I’ve been shocked and dismayed how quickly gay rights have gone from being solidly established to suddenly under open attack. Glad to see resistance and we need to do the same when the pull this shit in the US.

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Overheard an older woman telling her friend that one of her children said “politics is killing my parents” but she had a big old smile on her face and agreed with me when I pointed out that hey she was getting her exercise!

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Went to the Antioch, CA #NoKings protest today! Marched a mile and a half. Lots of nice people with creative props, had a wonderful time. Organizer said she counted as the march passed her and estimated 500 people, which is a lot more than I was expecting. Lots of support from passing drivers, too!

Two protesters at a No Kings Day march. On the left is a woman in shorts and a T-shirt holding a sign that reads “A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. —The Declaration of Independence.” On the right is a man in a Hawaiian Shirt with blue ocean waves on it, cargo pants, and a floppy sun hat holding an American flag.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Elon Musk, the genius visionary who could not predict that the guy who has betrayed every person he has ever met would betray him

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Their phishing is regionally targeted too -- everyone I know here in the Bay Area gets Fastrak notices from them

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

I was like “ooh! A Dark Enlightenment! Let me in!” And then it was just “racism and monarchy.” Was floored six months ago when I read he’s the “philosophical heart” of MAGA. I’d dismissed him as so obviously stupid that it would never matter.

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Well, sure, but he would’ve done that if he were sober so…

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

I bet he realized that if he didn’t do that he could train Grok on them

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Given that I ruefully share a birthday with The Dear Leader, I strongly approve of the branding of “NO KINGS DAY.” I mean Flag Day was fine before but obviously things have changed a bit since I was a kid.

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U.S. Federal Department of Propaganda @usfdop.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Love this analysis from Michael Podhorzer: Swing voters didn’t vote for Trump because they wanted a corrupt autocracy; they voted against Democrats for having no vision or plan and didn’t listen to Trump or believe him. That’s why his polls collapsed when people realized what he was up to.

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Not to put too fine a point on it, but between the TAKE IT DOWN ACT and the most recent budget extension I’d be pretty happy if they’d at least stop *helping* the Republicans.

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Not Federally, no. Some local judges are but it varies from state-to-state and perhaps within individual states (some judges may be appointed and others elected).

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

I mean on top of “principled Republicans” it also has “competent Democrats” so clearly a fantasy.

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

And oh yeah I’m sure he’s at the top of everyone’s list of “people I’d trust a handshake deal with.”

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Bryan Dawson @bryandawsonusa.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

When asked if the United States should have a military parade to show off its might, President Eisenhower responded: “Absolutely not. We are the pre-eminent power on Earth. For us to try and imitate what the Soviets are doing in Red Square would make us look weak.”

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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I left twitter even though I had over 250,000 followers who cared about the NHS, because it was no longer an effective place to speak to people. If there’s anyone out there who cares about the NHS-give me a follow. If the local election results have told us anything, we need to get organised!💥

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Just as I was frustrated by anyone this time last year who said “Someone should replace Biden.” Really? WHO? If you have an idea who, let me hear it. Similarly frustrated by anyone saying “he can’t do that” without explaining exactly WHAT mechanism will prevent him.

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Doomed To Repeat It - With Brett Thomas @doomedwithbrett.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

It’s remarkable to me how all these poll-chasing Democrats apparently…can’t read polls?

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