The White House official response is going to be "LOL ... He died like a week ago"
The White House official response is going to be "LOL ... He died like a week ago"
Looks like he might have a pretty solid case of "the computer doesn't know WTF to put there so it made it up" This is like that time he drew on a weather amp with a sharpie.
That's right folk, the most incredible photograph you've seen today was taken by a user who calls themselves "Flesh Banana" Oh Internet, never change 😂
Does anyone know if Netflix still has "the keeper test" in its core compensation philosophy or did that go out when levels were introduced?
Eventually you fill your dungeon with increasingly complex death traps, automated loot collection systems, bio-disposal, undead minion, kidnapped villagers, etc... Basically becoming a dark lord of evil in the name of expanding your cozy small business, supplying adventurers on the road to peril...
By digging it out and releasing a few giant rats, you discover adventurers will shop in your store if the dungeon is sufficiently perilous. You get to upgrade your shop. You also discover that adventurers who don't make it, drop loot in your dungeon...
I want a new video game. It should be a cozy mix of Stardew Valley, Shopkeeper sim, Factorio, and, Dungeon Keeper. Start as an NPC running a small, broken down shop in a village where adventures pass through on their way to the dungeon of doom. Eventually, you discover an abandoned mine shaft...
... By Quan Mills
My favorite time of year!
I thought it was a recreation of this recent take on a classic...
I've recently really enjoyed Chip Hyuen's AI Engineering. ANY recommendations for industry leading software engineering or business books that have transformed your outlook or professional practice very much appreciated...
What are some of the most transformative books you know about the business and practice of software engineering? What have you read that has changed the way you think about building software? My number one is probably Accelerate, followed by Software engineering at Google, then Clean Architecture.
Maybe if I grab a bunch of books from O'Reilly online 🤔🫠 ... Perhaps a bit of professional development will help.
I think the number one problem is that I've got "external" anxiety that is preventing me from engaging in the escapism of enjoying reading. The whole time I'm reading fiction or nonfiction right now I have a nagging feeling that I should be studying or productive...
Y'all it's been like 2 weeks since I've been able to finish a book 😭 and I've had some proper BANGERS on my phone. Books that I've legit been looking forward to for months and in some cases over a year. Haven't finished one.
Such an iconic picture that you know what happened, even if you don't know what happened.
One of my follow ups talks about some ways to beef up your prompts by introducing more structure. I've learned that there are some inaccuracies around the mechanism, but the changes in behavior you'd want to adopt are solid. "Good enough for beginners" 😅 alexchesser.medium.com/attention-is...
OK - this went way longer than expected because I got genuinely excited at the opportunity to talk about this with someone. Thank you thank you thank you for sharing your thoughts and providing gentle & friendly pressure testing of my ideas. I've got a lot to think about and follow up on.
There's absolutely virtually unanimous consensus that structured prompting improves results. So if people take that away and gives them a way of making that point "sticky" then at least it has done some good in the world. EVEN if I need to go back and do a better job on the "prove it" side 😀
My goal was to try to improve the daily practice of the "15 minute-blogread-with-morning coffee" developer. The sort of mid-market enterprise workhorses who see the hype and want to catch up ... and also need to drive their kids to soccer practice after work then make dinner and put them to bed.
I also made some choices which I knew were "off" in favour of being easier to conceptualize. "Embeddings as a thesaurus" for example. It's quick to say and easy to hold in your head ... I knew what I was doing there at least.
I'm glad I wrote and published AND pretty sure I need to go back to the drawing board and do better. I do think it lays out a worthwhile, (if inaccurate according to some), mental model to help guide some towards improved productivity and performance with LLM usage.
I do find myself wondering about putting together a sort of experimental design where we try to see how "far behind a frontier model" we can get by upping our prompt game. Could we get Claude comparable outputs with Qwen3-4B? (or a gamut of single-card open-weight models)
Broadly speaking, the references section does cover the backed claims individually, which are also mirrored in the five principles of prompting which comes from www.oreilly.com/library/view... (also summarized here: generalassemb.ly/blog/timeles... if you don't have an account with them)
I accept your criticism! You're right. There were even some super interesting counter arguments in the hackernews thread. For example someone pointed me to the fact that "HYENA" is a replacement for Attention from 2023 arxiv.org/abs/2302.10866 I've yet to read it ... what if it changes everything?!
Learning that Nate Silver thinks this way has done nothing to alter my existing opinion of him.
Hahahahaha OMG is that real? I mean yes, of course it is, because of course TEMU Elon Musk is going to say this shit. Maybe we do build a Dyson sphere of data centers in a geosynchronous orbit around the sun Sam. The guy has given himself ChatGPT psychosis. 🤣
"hey, we're on PR4 right now and trying to fix X, why is it broken? don't try 'thing you got caught in a doom loop over because that doesn't work'" works really well in a new chat. You hand over all that context you wrote earlier and you're off to the races again!
You will still find that when your context window fills up, or your AI gets a bit stupid (like when it fails a first attempt at something) you're going to get back exactly to where you were in a new chat a lot faster.
thanks! yeah - 100% - as a solo / hobby developer you can do everything except review with a team. You can still interrogate the architecture or request architectural guidance. You can still tell it to break your PR into multiple tiny discrete units (trunk based development).
If you find value in it, I would really love to hear your thoughts, but no obligation either way. If it helps, I'm genuinely happy to share. Besides, I imagine you've got a whole lot of celebrating to do 🍾🥂🥳 Congratulations again ✨🎉
@angiejones.tech I saw the new job title! Congratulations 🥳🎉 I wrote an article the other day that I think you might find interesting. I've been getting solid feedback from both leaders and hands on engineers. It's a practical, approach for LLM use in teams alexchesser.medium.com/vibe-enginee...
I wrote something! In trying to figure out how to make "vibe coding" work within the enterprise, I've come up with an AI-enhanced workflow that should slot into your existing scrum or agile process. I genuinely hope you find value in it. alexchesser.medium.com/vibe-enginee...
This is beautiful 🤩 thanks so much for sharing it.
rich people after moving to Austin:
TFW - You're on your final pre-publication read through and you give yourself chills 😭 I hope you all like this thing as much as I do. I think it might be actually good. TIL that I can care about "airport business book" writing as much as I care about space ships and dragons.
That makes sense. Sounds like a variation on the single responsibility principle from SOLID? If you've got various business logic for different edit events all sitting under one PATCH endpoint it can get really messy in the controller.
What does this mean? Where can I find an ELI5 primer on what a task based UI is?
not me thinking: is it cruel to put a tiny Boba Fett helmet on a pigeon?
I hope she remembered to click the "don't use my data for training" button 🤣
ChatGPT killing it with the analysis. "Dear chat, now do it again but in the style of Sebastian the NYC underground nightclub reviewer from SNL weekend update"
Accurate. Get in losers we're shipping AI
Also... more Wongers & Madisynn
It was pretty challenging for me that suddenly *everything* was canon and we're expected to come into every new show with full context. Secret war (for ex) jumped right into a whole bunch of things that required I'd seen like 1 or 2 movies before? Things stand up better on their own.
OK this is the first time I've heard of "Abundance" used in this way and there's something that just isn't adding up. Is this a rebranding of trickle-down? Some awkward neo-feudalist movement? It's giving "effective altruism/sex cult" are unions demanding decent wages and safe working conditions?😱
Not _CURRENTLY_
Do they have pockets?! They don't look like they have pockets.
Imagine the madness of having two different names for the exact same thing? Or slightly different words used to communicate nuance. Thank God that doesn't happen. What a ridiculous and confusing world we'd live in if there was more than one word.
They're a modern stone age familyyy.....
What an interesting and insightful skeet!
My 6 year old son was asking for an update on when the nexxt episode of Digital Circus is coming out. Is there somewhere I can look see a proposed calendar or is it just "when its ready" ?
was that a followers only poll? what proportion of that 156 people were current followers?
I'll take "top ten categories on the hub" for $500 ...
yikes, did she ask to speak to the manager?! spooky 😂
the US presidency really is famous for being the kind of clock in clock out 9 to 5 that offers a fair bit of leeway around personal time and the potential to pick up a side-hustle. The real question here is why is the Tenessee Holler against hustle culture? Do they hate big tech? Frankly, offensive
as I've told you before Garrett ... the president has a side hustle and you of all people should know that we in america celebrate hustle culture.
Hey @cursor.com.web.brid.gy, can you start making an effort to post your media updates on bluesky? I really don't like that I had to use "the twitter" to view this thing people at work were talking about: x.com/cursor_ai/st...
wait ... is MAUI already dead?!
Do you think it would help if you mentioned the state and towns or district you're running for in the text of your post? I suspect it is more likely to find the people you need if you target your voters better. "The algorithm" and all that...
If there was a practical book of short film projects. It might help guide us around what to film.
Has anyone ever heard of any sort of #filmmaking activity course for kids? My six year old son sometimes talks about wanting to be "a movie maker". I thought it would be cool to head out to locations around town and set up to film scenes then edit them together. Post processing & special effects.
This is pretty similar to how the US government dismantled IWW (Union) and other socialist movements. The espionage act has traditionally been deployed to harry left aligned organization. Zinn writes about that in the People's History of the United States. (IIRC)
Me? Just quietly tearing up thinking about that final scene in #Andor... which I saw two nights ago. Visually reminiscent of Ridley Scott's Gladiator except a different sort of happy/sad/tragic. If I keep lingering here, I'll be sobbing.
LOL ... Zuck's paying $50 for feet pics ... it's totally for business guys 🤣
A friend shared this screenshot of a bug in the display on Disney+ ... kinda perfect. No notes 😂 #Andor
... a dad who gets 30 minutes of gaming at 11PM after their toddler has spent 3 hours screaming about how they're not tired while obviously exhausted? If someone just wants to watch the demons of hell explode in a rain of viscera and blood but doesn't want to work for it that's OK by me 🤷
It drags a little through book 8 & 9. If you push through it's worth it. Jordan died before he finished and his wife, who had all his notes, hired Sanderson to finish posthumously. He did a fantastic job of capturing Jordan's voice (IMO) seamlessly. I think you're in for a real treat
oh my actual gosh... if you haven't read this one I'll not spoil a thing except to say this is one of the few long-running series that in my opinion has a super satisfying ending. I read this as it was published, then again a couple years back and it holds up pretty well overall.
Was devastated to learn that the series finale of #Andor will not be available until Tuesday. Immediately loaded my my local library app and checked out enough audiobooks to tide me over for the next five days #StarWars #SupportYourLocalLibrary #BookSky
I'd mentioned that to a friend and they responded: "The scene hit me like you described, though I wouldn't have had the words until now!" So I suspect it may not have been an uncommon reaction for people of a certain age. In an interview, Genvieve mentioned trying to convey the heat of Ibiza.
if you're generally interested in gathering people's reactions, this was one of mine to the previous batch. A mix of nostalgia and dread from the dancing. I was transported to 1995 in the memories of being 20 years old, then reminded of my age and, the passage of time. bsky.app/profile/ache...
OMG! I get to watch episode 8 TONIGHT!!!! 😱 (no ep9 until Saturday 🫠)
"except as a punishment for crime" has ALWAYS been about white supremacy. Slavery never ended in the United States. They added an exception and found ways to criminalize being Black without saying "Black". Tear. Down. The. Prisons.
A coworker says their steamtime is 115 hours, obviously that's skewed by leaving it running while walking away for dinner and stuff. But there's a guideline.
TL;DR: If you want to make money, read Marx
Concretely, understanding the concepts and formulae around sources of value, socially necessary labor value, machines and (Drucker's) concepts of information economy make it easier to have confidence when planning and prioritizing strategic business investments and work.
One of the most counter-intuitive things I'm realizing after having started studying post-Marxist literature is how much better it makes your decision-making in a business context.
#wokeuplikethis
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I really needed to know more: turns out the team wanted to create that feeling of being in Ibiza. So well done there :) bsky.app/profile/star...
In no small way, I suppose that's what art is supposed to do right? Make you feel something? The way the context of the story really fed into that complex gamut of emotion I had was incredible. I was legit sobbing through that scene. Andor has this way of making me cry a lot. It's just that good.
I felt the desperation on her face reflected in me. It made me think about the nature of youth, health, aging, the inevitability of death, how we need to prepare for the day we're gone. A nostalgia mixed with dread
Mon Mothma's dance scene in Andor, hit me on a visceral level. It reminded me of the days of my raver-youth when I would dance for hours on end. With a desperation like my life literally depended on getting the movement out of my body. youtu.be/y6wLcx7AkRM?...
... and sell them to the El Salvadoran prison system when they show up to collect.
Wouldn't the supreme court's "presumed immunity" ruling make all of this a moo point? The level of corruption is pretty staggering.
I had to Google for it. Wizard magazine had a feature where they'd imagine a group of people who would make the cast for the live action version of a comic book. Looks like it was from over 20 years ago. old.reddit.com/r/comicbooks...
I'm no geopolitical expert ... But mentioning the unilaterally imposed tariffs multiple times it really sounds like they're saying "we will begin to consider starting talks after the US unilaterally drops the tariffs they unilaterally imposed" Or "first, cut the shit, second, we talk" power move.
You mean the toilets at Mar-a-lardo aren't SCIF level secure?!
Right?! I can just imagine the CIA pitch meeting: Hey guys, how do you say 'I wish I had the freedom to experience medical bankruptcy, homelessness, crushing student loan debt, rampant gun violence and, precarious access to fresh foods' in Chinese?
It appears that even our icebergs are excited about Carney's win...
Battle River-Crowfoot has an opportunity to do the funniest thing right now 🤣
FACTS! IIRC he once said in an interview that he was really looking forward to all the 2B porn that was going to be made. Though in hindsight, maybe that was sarcasm? Print doesn't really capture tone that well.
😂🤣💀 Perfect thesis, flawless introduction. No notes. ... except that Nier was a beautiful and haunting story that rips your soul open and leaves it lying weeping on the floor. The message about personal sacrifice on behalf of future generations will leave you staring at the wall in contemplation.
There's so much to learn the first time you get old it can be kinda tough to get a handle all the changes. That said, I'm getting some good practice in right now and think that the next time I get old I'm going to be fucking awesome at it.
Parenti's framing is a refreshing change from what I'm used to. Specifically, it spends more time on the wealth inequality that led to the Assassination & the details of the Populares' demands for wealth redistribution. It was oligarchic overreach that began the fall of the Roman empire.
awwww ... they'll do great with the place after the Americans murder-suicide us all 😍🥰
Super cute AND giving me an irrational anxiety about system cooling after getting cat hair in the fans 🤣 10/10
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Hmmm... Are you stuck? Are you able to get up? Should I help you or should I take out my phone first and callously document your struggle for humorous intent on social media? dangerous activities, bad decisions, no rules* (hey, stop that, be nice to your brother, be careful) ... It's #Dadurday!!!!!
