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In important London news: 5 (five!) of the 43 surviving Imperial Fabergé Eggs are on display at two separate temporary exhibitions right now! You should totally go and see them.
The Science Museum's exhibition "The Last Tsar: Blood and Revolution" runs until 24th March 2019 and includes the Imperial Steel Easter Egg (one of my favourite eggs) and the Imperial Red Cross Fabergé Easter Egg
And across town at the Queen's Gallery the Royal Collection exhibition "Russia, Royalty & the Romanovs" has all three of the Queen's Fabergé eggs on public display! royalcollection.org.uk/collection/the…
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This is one of the main benefits I see of a "service" abstraction - be it a networked microservice or just a class that encapsulates some core business logic. A lightweight layer for reading and writing the DB.
A big reason this is useful is that in any large system those updates are likely to be denormalized in some way - a write to the DB may also need to also invalidate a cache or refresh a separate search index. So all updates should share a codepath.
And for reads in a large system speed is crucial. It's much easier to avoid pathological query performance if reads are all made through some kind of getPostsByIDs method that knows how to efficiently batch queries and uses optimizations like Django's select_ and prefetch_related
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Bit of a rant coming I'm afraid.

One of my least favourite anti-patterns are "enterprise" marketing websites that fail completely to answer the question "what does this thing do?"

Today's case in point: @KnativeProject

cloud.google.com/knative/
"Kubernetes-based platform to build, deploy, and manage modern serverless workloads."

OK, we are off to a reasonable start. So what does it actually do?
... OK, so what does it do?
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Taekook AU where Taehyung and his friends decide to play with a Ouija Board on Halloween. When they start freaking out over all the crazy things that are happening, Taehyung is trying to hold back his giggles because he knows his boyfriend Jeongguk is the ghost behind the chaos.
It was Halloween night and the howling wind swept into the tiny apartment through an open window. Hundreds of candles littered the floor, the flickering flames creating ominous shadows that painted the pale walls. Four friends sat in the living room huddled around a Ouija board.
“Listen, I don’t think this is going to end well. I have a bad feeling about this...” Hoseok was pouting as he reluctantly placed his fingers next to Taehyung’s and Jimin’s on the planchette, his voice rising in pitch with how terrified he was.
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2018: My Year of Reading. A thread that follows my reading journey from January to December. Every book I've read with a 280 character review. Tagged a few folks who influence the shape of my literary life 📚 #THEBOOKCHAT #DisruptTexts #TeachLivingPoets 📚
1. Never Let Me Go; Kazuo Ishiguro: A supremely crafted narrative begins unassumingly, but quickly reveals a different notion of childhood innocence and coming of age. The conversational tone fooled me into thinking I was walking into a world I understood. Nobel worthy.
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I can't with this guy...but interestingly, he's also revealing a lot with each one of these interviews.

Why not just go speak to the Grand Jury? Clearly, it's not about avoiding spending more time talking about the investigation and your experience...

He can't help himself..
#NOW: SAM NUNBERG says he was told he wasn't a target or a subject of the investigation and he was OFFERED IMMUNITY by the Special Counsel's team.

He also said THEY WANT HIM TO TESTIFY...TO CATCH ROGER STONE ON PERJURY...

ADMITTING THAT ROGER MAY HAVE LIED TO PROSECUTORS.
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SAM NUNBERG: "I'M NOT GOING TO JAIL, COME ON."
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(THREAD) BREAKING: In an extraordinary move, Sen. Feinstein (D-CA) has *unilaterally* released the transcript of Fusion GPS's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

What follows is a live-read of the transcript by a former criminal defense attorney. Hope you'll share.
1/ First, here's a link to the transcript, which is on Senator Feinstein's government website:
2/ This testimony is from August 22, 2017.

It's not the only testimony Glenn Simpson (Fusion GPS) has given before Congress. The Republicans did not want Americans to see this testimony; after publicly saying he'd vote to release it, Sen. Grassley (R-IA) reneged on his promise.
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Again, from my investigation, I have concluded w/ high confidence that #Goldstone was working for a foreign intelligence agency — most likely Britain’s #MI6 — & was operating as an off-the-books liaison asset to @FBIWFO NS/CI (which is essentially @CIA’s domestic arm).
… I‘ve been warning about #Goldstone long before these revelations, which indicate a purposeful attempt to lay a false trail for a #TrumpRussia “collusion” narrative. This is what @FBI counterintelligence does (sometimes): they entrap & frame people.
… it‘s 100% transparent what #Goldstone was trying to do. Whoever was running him & telling him what to say (#MI6? @FBIWFO NS/CI? @CIA?) was engaged in extremely illegal activity: a plot to overthrow the elected United States government.
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