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Too many people take small samples and draw unwarranted conclusions from them that confirm their existing beliefs. Tom should be given the space to learn because the only way we have a shot at beating mid table with our budget is if the team overachieves, and that has to start with the head coach.
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Aaron Rodgers will for sure have a role in this administration
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It's Hive Live, so it's never bigger than my laptop screen. But if this helps get the boys fired up, I'll do my part
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I hope I don't like it too much because fruit is something I spurge for lol
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No. They're always so expensive, but I'll try it out. I like the crunchy flesh of pomelo and some good Valencias, but I'm always out to try new fruit!
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My very cool friend Stacey @marlonbookcase.bsky.social will be there for one of the shows as well. If y'all want to meet a fellow Canadian who's a big enough fan to fly in as well, you should hit each other up!
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Oh? As a big citrus fan, I'm intrigued....
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Are you going to any of the shows?
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Tom Cleverley FC sounds like a great time.
And I'll be able to see it in person if I can get a ticket to the match on March 29th against Plymouth!
Do you and @michaelhartt.bsky.social know some fun ppl I can sit with? 😁😁😁
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Didn't get up in time for the start but it seemed as easy as could be lol
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Going into a draft with Les Savy Fav energy might lead you to YOLO more than is wise lol
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Yup. He loves the club and wants it to succeed more than anything. He isn't there to make money.
This is why I worry about the likes of Bournemouth, whose owner knows what he's doing, but is ultimately in it for the money. Those owners have wreaked havoc in America. Football fans shouldn't forget.
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The great thing about him is that he isn't just propping the club up by eating eye watering losses from high wages and transfer fees. The effects of that kind of benefactor are short lived.
When he leaves, the club will have the infrastructure to sustain itself at a high level. That's huge.
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Tony Bloom and Matthew Benham over at Brentford have done a great job at not only funding, but building foundations for sustained Premier League success. I'm very jealous.
For me, I'm happy with sustainability at the Championship level. Our owner is not in the same class financially or otherwise.
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It was a reference to his start in England at my club, Watford. But the Brazilian thing is part of it too lol.
Enjoy him. He may turn out to be the best we've ever had, up with the likes of John Barnes, Luther Blissett, Ashley Young, Richarlison, and Lloyd Doyley.
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Abstractions bring cognitive and runtime overhead, and they better be worth the price of admission.
But I'm a big fan of higher level constructs that actually add value, change mental models, and make instrumentation easier beyond syntactic sugar. Those are necessary as part of a healthy ecosystem.
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Do you consider the instrumentation APIs as abstractions over OTel APIs?
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The spec is pretty open when it comes how span links can be defined. That the current tooling doesn't allow it doesn't alternative tooling in the future won't. opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/o...
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Flexible specs, somewhat rigid APIs, opinionated SDK and instrumentation. That's the world I want to live in.
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I love how most of those are just short novellas. Not everything has to be 600 page tomes!
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Not to mention the two Francis Bacons!
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=9faV...
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Oh I agree! I don't even fault the tooling for assuming this: backend distributed tracing is overwhelmingly the primary use case for OTel.
My issue is that in some circles, the initial assumption got calcified into dogma despite the spec allows for more flexibility. I just want alternatives.
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Yeah the tooling at the Collector side needs to keep up, but I think they are a good building block to start moving away from the tree orthodoxy. Sampling can be tricky unless you can do user-based, so this will certainly be easier for some use cases more than others
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The tooling reinforcing this by using ThreadLocal to propagate parentage is also not great
But at least the problem is not intractable! If someone were to write their own SDK based on a less restrictive API, leveraging typed spank links to hook them up, then you'd be cooking with gas 😈
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Spans are fine as a primitive. The problem to me is the default assumption many have of modelling traces as trees, like concurrent execution isn't a thing. Maybe that's just my mobile bias bleeding through lol.
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I'm going to get up at 4AM to watch us lose 0-1 lol
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Her and Kevin Lasagna - both real ppl apparently
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Open-face sandwich caregiver is when you take care of two generations above you at the same time. It sucks just as bad as the regular variety.
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Not to mention loops holes that only rich ppl can take advantage of to lower their tax burden, marriage being a gigantic one
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Drama sells?