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My work environment has been improved by AI tools so far. I do hope it never gets to the point where the expectation is that devs are just full time code reviewers. Feel like it would get boring at that point.

Just chuck a check in front of it

Seeing https://github.com/arc53/docsgpt/blob/main/application/combi... is just fascinating to me. It's absolutely where this all is headed, but to see it as source code evokes something in me.

I really think a lot of these problems can be traced back to the introduction of the iPhone.

Physical reality has taken a backseat to the digital world, so physical reality has been neglected. Living in a world of physical neglect has hurt our health, and affects our ability to build the digital one.

Large Language Model

TI-Basic was effectively my first programming language. Instead of paying attention in Calculus, I was making the world's buggiest sudoku solver. Will always have a special place in my heart as well.

I think I'm most puzzled why the Navy is making so many edits on Boys II Men founding member Marc Nelson. The read I'm getting is they are by Marc Nelson himself since a lot of them seem to reflect his personal regrets about leaving right before they blew up.

Incredibly odd.

I'm just saying that it's been 7 years since the fraud went public

As someone who fits this description exactly, it's you have to really manage the anxiety to hit your productive groove.

With my current job, I explicitly went from a full stack dev to a front end dev to shed responsibility in certain areas, because if I'm allowed to see the whole picture, I'm going to try and fix the full picture.

The corporate structure surrounding FTX is so complex, and given that Elizabeth Holmes is still walking free, I would guess it will be a long long time before anyone involved here sees a jail cell.

The episode is much more fair to the publishers.

They specifically call out the Libby app as the turning point. Once it became super accessible for people to get ebooks through libraries, it started really putting the squeeze on publishers and authors.

In the episode they talk about how publishers started seeing the curve go parabolic and were basically forced into panic action to stay solvent. The money disappears on that side of the equation and full time authors are downgraded to working authors, and working authors are pushed out entirely.

On the other side though, what they've created is a system of winners and losers. Libraries have limited budgets and have to be choosy about what ebooks they're getting now. So fewer authors get a larger slice of pie. I do think that generally lines up with the demand for books now...but it means that it will be harder for new authors to break through.

It's really fascinating to me that, like they point out in the episode, everyone involved (authors, publishers, librarians) are passionate about books and getting people to read. They just need the economics to all work out, and that's where it gets super contrived.

Very complex issue and highly recommend the Planet Money episode.

The good times made crazy people look smart and the bad times are making crazy people look like idiots.

I would love love love to see a study on the correlation between lines of code (not net, total changes + and -) and co-worker assessment of aptitude for people in the non-inclusive band from Junior to Architect (aka, people who are really expected to write a bulk of the software).

Discord is honestly great for work, especially if you're organizing contractors using their roles system.

The problem is that it's also the chat system a lot of my friends and hobbies use, so it really messes with my work/life balance. If I do ever use Discord for work again, I'm going to have to make a separate account.

> And in Florida, military veterans without a bachelor’s degree can teach for up to five years using temporary certificates.

That seems so weird. Why would they have to stop after five years of teaching? Shouldn't they be better at it by that point?

https://www.fldoe.org/veterans/

They're trying to strongly push them to finish their bachelors (which they must have started), but what an odd program.

Wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Facebook_outage

Their report: https://www.facebook.com/business/news/update-about-the-octo...

The Facebook outage last year being a great example of this. They lost basically all internal communications.

Be really interesting to know how many times they actually do this.

Knowing PayPal, they might actually think about enforcing it. Could that even possibly hold up in court?

I was thinking to myself as I read this: "this man has never worked somewhere long enough to be the guy who has to fix things when it breaks", and lo-and-behold, he's had 7 jobs in 8 years.

Was on a team called "Quetzalcoatl" and I guess I'll have to inform them they should actually be doing data science, the heretics.

I'm just imagining the founders as every stoned business school student at the time like "Bro, wouldn't it be cool if there was an app where you just press a button and it tells you what song is playing" and they actually managed to find the guy capable of building it.

To this day, Shazam still has that aesthetic of "press big button, do magic".

Not German, but the Greens (ruling party) in Germany basically built their platform on being anti-nuclear. They'd rather burn wet coal than walk that back.

Selling books by the pound sounds sacrilegious to me.

I guess I'm not such a voracious reader that I'm buying in bulk like that.

I see this blog and my mind immediately goes to:

What was the $ cost in salary to put this out vs

How much should they expect to get back by somehow impressing upon potential customers that they have a sane-ish tech stack (and maybe how much will that help to recruit?)

I suspect they were looking for you to do some risk/reward analysis.

Personally, I would play one time, bet an amount of money I wouldn't be unhappy to lose and continue flipping until I were into 5 digits. On a $10 bet, that would be 10 flips, and I'd have a 1/1024 chance of pulling it off.

If someone says the original, I'd assume they're impolite but good at their job,

If someone says the "corrected" version, I'd assume they're impolite, but bad at their job.

If you click buy now, you get a "this resource can't be read" error.

With 16% of Americans saying they have invested in cryptocurrency in some form, coupled with the classic adoption graph (https://www.ou.edu/deptcomm/dodjcc/groups/99A2/curve.JPG), crypto is begging for ways to burst into the mainstream early majority, and the way to do that is with the familiar. They want Coinbase, and OpenSea, and low friction experiences.

Last Friday I went in and got a good education on some of our physical hardware. This knowledge is only held by people that have been with the company since Spring 2020 or work in that department.

I can only imagine the amount of institutional knowledge that is being lost right now. Workers that are low to the ground and sociable who form informal bonds between departments are hurt by being limited to only online interactions, and as a result, the organization suffers too.

My mom loves Scrabble and Boggle and it's been really great sharing Wordle results with her everyday.

Felt like we hadn't had a real societal phenomenon since Tiger King. It might just be a flash in the pan and gone in a couple months, but it's been the most wholesome one since Pokemon Go.