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It's this time of the year again.
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Now every time the wifi goes down...it's the swarms
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"I don't believe in 50 friends. I believe in a smaller number. Nor do I care about society events. It's the most senseless use of time. When I do go out, from time to time, it's just to convince myself again that I'm…
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Humanity’s Flight 93 Moment
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First time @bot has told me no. And it’s… getting a podcast transcript?
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I wrote about the AI safety vibe shift. It's been a long time in coming:
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What a great conversation today. It's such an unbelievably exciting time. And Local AI only makes it more so!
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…by moment. Therefore any experience design is about what happens on a timeline. It's all about linking multiple steps together. Brand design is more spatial. It's all at once across…
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It’s orbin’ time.
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It's isn't just to people with ADHD that this happens. Some tasks inherently take a certain amount of time. An appointment that breaks the afternoon into two blocks of time could leave you with no block long enough to…
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There’s levels of building in public And this time it’s a trillion dollar company whose mission is to benefit all.
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It’s a question as old as time. Or at least as old as Terminator 2. Is AGI here?
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AI is a normal technology rather than an infinity machine, and it is time we started talking about it that way.
It’s a normal technology, and perhaps it’s time we start talking about it that way.
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Disneyland Paris, it’s been a wild time, a rollercoaster you could say! Thanks for the memories 🎢 🐭
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Cunningham’s law, baby. Works every time: “The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer.”
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We’re collectively realizing that experts, analog or digital, make strange decisions from time to time. Non-determinism, we learn, is both awesome and dreadful. It’s more powerful, but like people, these tools need…
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“I understand _why_ getting these tools ready for developers takes time. But I think it’s a misstep from Apple to leave developers mostly hamstrung this long for such a big product launch.” — @lexfri
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A network round trip is roughly a million times slower than a filesystem-cache read.
…network roundtrip is 10 milliseconds at minimum. It's at least a million times slower because of how reality…
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CROSSPOST: SPENCER ACKERMAN: Fanute The Houthi Coup
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Some tasks inherently need a continuous stretch of time, so an appointment that splits the afternoon can leave no block long enough to finish them, and this is not limited to people with ADHD.
It's isn't just to people with ADHD that this happens. Some tasks inherently take a certain amount of time. An appointment that breaks the afternoon into two blocks of time could leave you with no block long enough to…
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Doing things fast is important because you make contact with reality more often
It's important to do things fast You learn more per unit time because you make contact with reality more frequently Going fast makes you focus on what's important; there's no time for bullshit
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fyi: If i used to follow you and i’m not currently following you, it’s not that I unfollowed you in particular. I unfollowed everyone and am taking my time to slowly follow people again🌱
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As news breaks of another robbery from a museum in France, it's probably timely to reshare this article I wrote about museum security after the heist at the Louvre last year.
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As news breaks of another robbery from a museum in France, it's probably timely to reshare this article I wrote about museum security after the heist at the Louvre last year.
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A lot of people made fun of this at the time, but I actually don't think it's that bad. Mostly it amuses me to imagine feeding two birds one scone.
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How to Survive the AI Cyberpocalypse
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It's time to leave the man alone.
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The Myth of Owning Your Time
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I think it's the first time in the history of https://t.co/oYpGKlHipk that the daily traffic crossed 50,000 visits. It happened yesterday! 🚀
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I'm incredibly grateful to Mark Wooding @AfterSkool100 for taking the time, on his own initiative, to create this rather wonderful animated version of my 2017 @TEDTalks on consciousness & controlled hallucinations. It's…
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Getting intensely worked up over how someone else lives is a sign to re-evaluate yourself, not them.
It's time for a re-evaluation if you're getting real worked up over how someone else is living.
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Refusing to write code with AI can be a philosophical decision rather than a productivity one: the reason to program something is that you want to program it.
it's more about what do you want to do? Like what why are you spending this time, right? It's a philosophical question, not a productivity question.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@marioguzman/117005289701832778 Bring this image back in time a decade or two and try to convince people it’s real.
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It's unclear to me at the moment whether the view counter on my TED talk is broken or if my aunts and uncles have been frantically refreshing the page thousands of times each
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What is the value of one hour of a startup founder's time?
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Awe is a uniquely human emotion, resting on the metacognitive ability to detach conscious experience from the here and now.
…to detach our conscious experience from the here and now and do like mental time…
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How to Stop Arguing About Household Chores: 13 Strategies for Couples
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Suing Stephen Miller
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However exactly you think you know what a project needs, allow extra time — nothing takes an hour.
…think you know exactly what you want to do, but it's still allow extra…
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Money Talks: The Price of Status
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…impressive project given that it's built by one person in their spare…
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Proprietary AI services will become more restrictive over time, making open-weight alternatives valuable as a backup.
proprietary services may become more restrictive over time, and it's maybe a good idea to be comfortable with open-weight alternatives as a backup.
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When a decision is called too complex to make, the real explanation is almost always weak leadership.
what I definitely learned is like most of the time you hear it's really complex. It isn't. Leadership's just weak.
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It’s the Best Time Ever to Become a Millionaire by Working Alone
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Arguing about whether superintelligence arrives in two years or five is close to a waste of time, because very powerful models are inevitable either way.
so much of that debate is like I think um in some ways uh a little bit of a waste of time because, you know, I think it's inevitable that we're going to have very powerful models
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This is the greatest time in sixty years to start a company, because the computer itself has been completely reset.
Obviously, this is the greatest time in the last 60 years to start a company. The whole industry has changed. It's a complete reset from a technology perspective. The single most important technology in human history,…
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Humanity's advantage is accumulated shared knowledge rather than higher intelligence — and AI models, which vanish with their context window, have none of it.
…that humans are able to do a lot more today than they were back in caveman times because there have been billions of humans thinking for a long time and building off of each other's accumulated…
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Conway's back... and this time it's personal.
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It's not the time it's the attention
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A benchmark result should be reported under a stated budget, or as a curve against test-time compute — never as a single number.
…have some kind of budget for the benchmark whether it's tokens or cost or time or whatever or you plot the performance as a function of the amount of test time compute that's going into the…
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Engineering has no correct answers the way mathematics and science do; it is the best solution available at the time, and everything is a trade-off.
Everything is a trade-off. It's not really In engineering, there's no correct answer like there is in math or science. Engineering is about the best solution at the time.
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A model can make an existing algorithm a hundred times faster and still cannot invent a better one, however long you give it.
…something novel and it it's not able to do it. And I can give it a lot of time and it's it's still not able to do…
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By the time a technology is hot it is already too late to start in it.
there's too many people who chase their tail and chase whatever the hottest thing is. When it's already hot, it's already too late to be in it.
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It’s time.
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JetKVM
The KVM I use the most around the Studio is the JetKVM. It's tiny, bus-powered, and simple. And most of the time, that's all I need.
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LOL, the kid has no idea it's the other way around! I was the one starstruck to meet Nicole for the first time.
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Reforming like it's 1995
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By the time an opportunity is widely known and talked about, it's too late to capitalize on it.
Don't follow what other people are doing. By the time they're crowing about it, it's already too late.
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It’s Home Alone time. Keep the change, ya filthy animal!
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It’s Home Alone time. Keep the change, ya filthy animal!
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Human life is paradoxically both very long and very short, and there is more time available than people make use of.
The paradox of human life is that it's so long and so short; we have so much time and we could use so much more of it.
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…I can exhaust a week's quota on the $200/mo codex plan in ~10 minutes of my time. If I'm in the loop, I get ~10x(?) the productivity per token, but it's time inefficient…
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It's hard to believe that it's just been one year! So many really fantastic articles in such a short time.
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Formalising a proof in Lean currently takes about ten times the effort of writing it out: doable, but annoying.
So right now I estimate that the time and effort taken to formalize it, proof is about 10 times the amount taken to write it out. So it's doable, but it's annoying.
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Moving from WordPress to Substack
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Whether time really exists does not matter; what matters is that time is a useful model for describing reality.
I think time is a useful model, whether it exists or not. Right. Does quantum physics exist? Well, it doesn’t matter. It’s about whether it’s a useful model to describe reality.
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Finding no selection in African-Americans over 300 years is not evidence against selection: five generations is simply too short a time to compound.
…still only see maybe a 10% compounded effect and there's just not enough time to detect it. But the Bronze Age is not 300 years, it's 3,000 years. It's the power of compound interest and you have enough time to…
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I always have a great time chatting with John @Gruber, but it's even better when y'all get to listen, too.
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7-Zip
7-Zip - It's over and 7zip won. Time to get on board.
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Educated — Tara Westover
Educated is an amazing story, and I get why it’s spent so much time on the top of the New York Times bestseller list.
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On Redistricting, It's Time for Republicans to Stop Whining and Start Negotiating
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Passion for your work is not something you identify in advance and follow; it is cultivated over time.
But it’s not something that you “follow” (which implies you can identify it in advance). It’s instead something you have to purposefully cultivate over time.
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Damaging experiences from meditation usually happen because practitioners chase results instead of following the method.
Almost any time I hear that someone has had a damaging experience with meditation, I find that it's because they're violating this rule.
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Clocks are right most of the time, and that is precisely why a distributed system may never rely on them.
it's very easy to assume that your clocks are correct and most of the times the clocks are pretty correct but we just can't rely on it because actually they're just not precise enough uh on the whole.
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Lost Connections — Johann Hari
Useful and interesting read. Touching at times. But as an academic work, it’s flawed.
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Rails
If it's on the web, I'm usually using Rails to build it, with the exception of some smaller apps where I'll still drop down to Sinatra from time to time.
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I’ve gotten really good at advocating for myself and will not hesitate to fire a doctor if I feel dismissed. It’s time-consuming, exhausting, and infuriating, but can also be life-saving.
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Give a banker twenty per cent of the profits on a thirty-times-levered book and he will take it to forty times, because the extra leverage is worth a quarter of his bonus.
So you if you look at the leverage in some of these securitization books and mortgage books if you have 30 times leverage and you're getting 20% of the profits you'll go to 40 times leverage. It's just going to it's…
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Some of my other games
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Five medical breakthroughs in 2024
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Broad deployment of AI that can learn on the job will very likely produce rapid economic growth for some period of time.
But I think the idea of very rapid economic growth for some time, I think it's very possible from broad deployment.
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We're in Triage Mode for AI Policy
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When a child is born with a golden tooth, that's just God saying it's time to go kick some ass
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Being and Time — Martin Heidegger
Then, once you've read an overview and feel equipped and ready for it, it's really worth plunging into either Being and Time itself, Heidegger's greatest and richest work, or to a compilation.
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Spaced recall works by stripping a memory of the time and place it happened, which is why the memories you revisit most feel like facts you read rather than things you lived.
So if you remember this information in different times in different places, it’s more accessible at different times in different places because it’s not overfitted in an AI way of thinking about things. It’s not…
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Limited time and resources are what force a work to be tight and to feel like it has a purpose.
It’s our limited resources and time that forces us to make tight games that feel like they have a purpose.
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Many Heads, Not Many Hats: The Founder’s Identity Crisis
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Figma — Figma
Figma is like Sketch but a million times more performant and cross-platform. It's the most impressive web app I've ever used.
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Organ matching happens at literally the last minute, so nobody has the time to find the best match.
…what patient is available to get this organ and you don't have that much time to make the optimal match,…
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Jacob Will Work For You
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Every decision reached by consensus is an instance of the absence of leadership.
leadership and consensus are two sides of the same spectrum. Like they don't intersect at all. It's like every time consensus makes a decision, it's the absence of leadership.
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Manually configured filtering rules mostly fail because a person's preferences change over time and the rules require ongoing upkeep.
Explicit filtering rules (e.g. rules features in many email clients): mostly a failure. It's too much work to set up and then manage these, especially since a given person's preferences will change over time.
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Kafka on the Shore — Haruki Murakami
Years later, Kafka on the Shore remains one of my favorite all-time audiobooks. It's an extraordinary story, beautifully told.
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On Friday Deploys: Sometimes that Puppy Needs Murdering
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…something else completely different, is usually what lets me solve it. Sometimes you need “crunch time” but often it’s more productive to take some off time instead. Have you noticed anything…
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AI sales agents do not work out of the box; the training is the product.
I think it's important that it takes time to train these agents. They don't work out of the box.
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Being woken up two or three times a year on call is reasonable, and more than that is a management failure rather than an engineering one.
It’s reasonable to be woken up two to three times a year when on call. But more than that is not okay.
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I really thought after 18 years it would be a simple muscle memory to do text entry / autocorrect / cursor placement / text selection / copy & paste on iOS, and yet somehow it's a surprise every time.
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Thirteen years of Rust and the birth of Rue
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Missed this the first time through, but it's fun to see Oppenheimer thanked in the first paragraph of the acknowledgments to Lawrence Stone's *The Crisis of the Aristocracy*.
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In game development speed is quality, because the faster you can work the more times you can iterate.
It’s my strong belief that in games dev, speed is quality.
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AI will have ten times the impact of the Industrial Revolution and arrive ten times faster, which is what will make it hard for society to absorb.
And the thing that's going to be harder to deal with this time around is that I think what we're going to see is something like probably 10 times the impact the Industrial Revolution had, but 10 times faster as well. So…
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Software should unbloat over time: the longer it is around, the more elegant it should become.
I love software that does this: Software that unbloats over time. This should be the goal of all software. The longer it’s around, the more elegant it should become. Smooth over like a river stone.
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The Ascent of Money — Niall Ferguson
Traces the history of money, the role it’s served over time, and the development of some of the major aspects of our modern financial system.
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The shareholder value movement is incoherent, because it never says which shareholder or which time frame it is optimising for.
the shareholder value movement is totally incoherent because over what time frame which shareholder is what are you optimizing for? It's a completely incoherent nonsense which is very very friendly to stock market…
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Investment Advice Which Stands the Test of Time
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Relying on AI to replace performance engineers reduces an organization's overall technical expertise over time.
If a company spends less on performance engineers as it's considered AI'd, it will reduce the company's effective "performance IQ."
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Someone who can't name what they'd do differently is unlikely to be good at improving over time.
if the person responds to "what would you do differently" with "nothing," or with non-actionable vague platitudes, it's a sign they may not be great at figuring out how to get better at things over time.
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VibeTunnel's first AI-anniversary
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Our desperation to codify and commodify beauty has led us down a path of sensual decrepitude, of obsession and anxiety. And it's supplied us with some of the least interesting role models of all time.
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When the Lion Feeds — Wilbur Smith
It's definitely a book of its time (it was first published in the 1960s), but it introduces plot and style conventions that echoed throughout many adventure titles that followed.
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Bill Cunningham New York — Richard Press
This film is not about fashion; it's about someone who has successfully invented their own occupation, and their life. It is uplifting. I smiled the whole time watching it.
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This is the golden age of humanity and the end of its beginning; in a thousand years these decades will be studied the way we study the end of the Roman Republic.
…and so I think we will um I think people in 1,000 years will um study these times uh the way we are studying um Cicero's times of the end of the Roman…
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How to Make Language Learning a Habit
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Zoom — Zoom Video Communications
Zoom is something I use multiple times a day for video and audio communication. It's been the best video calling service I've used to date and works well for a remote working.
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Sublime Text 3 — Sublime HQ
Still the most productive text editing environment I've ever used. Any time I try something else, within minutes I run into dozens of things it's missing or that Sublime does better.
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You and Your Research — Richard Hamming
Richard Hamming gave this talk in March of 1986. [1] It's one of the best talks I've ever read and has long impacted how I think about spending my time.
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Comparing code coverage between passing and failing test runs is a cheap, effective way to localize a bug quickly.
Differential coverage is cheap to compute and display, and when it's right, it can save a lot of time.
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Finite and Infinite Games — James P. Carse
It’s an oddly written, extremely concise, very thought-provoking book. It definitely needs to be re-read 2-3 times. Make sure you’re thinking on the plane of infinite play.
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Preparing to Have a Difficult Conversation