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major tom
@tailwiinder
In the binary tempest, I am the stormbringer.
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    major tom
    @tailwiinder
    Jul 15, 2025
    Linus used to speak to engineers in 2012 the way I speak to LLMs now.
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    major tom
    @tailwiinder
    Aug 29, 2024
    Friendly reminder about this post by the creator of Ruby on Rails.
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    major tom
    @tailwiinder
    Mar 15, 2025
    Of course let's remove the file that's causing issues, Claude. What a lovely idea.
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    major tom
    @tailwiinder
    Jun 23, 2024
    This mf I know had 6+ backlogs in college at any given moment, never wrote a single line of code for 4 years, went off the grid for 1-1.5 years after college, came back on the internet with an announcement saying he's now an SDE at a FAANG org. Internal monologue power is real.
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    major tom
    @tailwiinder
    Feb 10, 2024
    Absolute megachad Prof. Abdul Bari. - Never made a single "how to crack 50cr package in 3 months" video. - Never made a single "day in the life of a FAANG engineer" type nonsensical video. - Never even thought of making "Dev vs DSA, who earns more? (Updated for 2024)" type of
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    major tom
    @tailwiinder
    Oct 15, 2025
    Of course there’s a herbivore dinosaur called JAINosaurus
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    major tom
    @tailwiinder
    Apr 11, 2025
    Man I kinda wanna move to America and sell mango lassi flavoured bhaang in the states where recreational marijuana is legal Mfs will lose their minds
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    Vivek Raju
    @vivekraju93
    Apr 11, 2025
    How did mango lassi become famous in white people world? It is not that famous in India 😂
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    major tom
    @tailwiinder
    Feb 13, 2025
    Varanasi experience - Drank “thandai” (👀), went to a ghat, asked a random dude if I could get samosa nearby, he looked at my face for 5s, laughed, told me to follow him, took me to a small shop In a small alleyway 500m away, made me eat the best samosa I’ve ever had (and like 4
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    major tom
    @tailwiinder
    Sep 29, 2024
    Wait so if it does get cancelled and they initiate a refund, the people who resold get MORE money back? We live in a society
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    major tom
    @tailwiinder
    May 16, 2024
    Yes you're the only one
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    Saurabh ✧
    @saurabhyadavz
    May 16, 2024
    Am I the only one who never understood what this dude explained?
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    major tom
    @tailwiinder
    Jul 8, 2025
    Replying to @groby5000000
    You know what they say, “water never flows out of a closed tap”
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    major tom
    @tailwiinder
    Jun 12, 2024
    Just met a guy who's in his early career grind phase and he said to me "the pain of consistently working hard isn't going to go away, whether I like it or not, so I might as well do my part instead of complaining about every minor inconvenience" Honestly... sums everything up
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    major tom
    @tailwiinder
    Mar 9, 2025
    “Sorry I don’t watch reels” is the new “sorry I don’t smoke/drink”
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    major tom
    @tailwiinder
    Aug 31, 2024
    One very life-changing observation of mine was noticing that people who are okay with being disliked don't really lose out on anything significant in life, either.
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