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Do you know how many current Twitter engineers are on H1B? Is this based on some data, or just speculation?
Around 300. https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7z5px/twitter-employees-on-...
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#22Keep in mind that Twitter engineers are under extreme pressure, knowing that their H1B visas are at stake, to implement Elon’s whims as quickly as possible on systems they’re unfamiliar with. I doubt many of us would perform better in their situation.
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Is this projection?
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My personal feeling is that a lot of the social troubles of the past decade stem from information overload. I subscribed to News Minimalist and have been feeling much happier lately.
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#28And the interface is not trying to assault me. It loads quick.
...Seems like a better product than Twitter for a public feed.
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#29This is interesting. Judging from the screenshot, a huge amount of GET /TweetDetail is generated which triggers some rate limiting, as shown by the 429. If this is indeed due to the recent decision to enforce authentication for all API calls, it means the curlprit may actually be the API gateway or something similar downstream. Also, this behavior seem to never stop, which isn't what one would expect from an exponent…
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