For some reason, sometimes when I read books it's the same way a golden retriever experiences a car ride. People ask what happened in it and I'm like, "No idea. There were words. I had a great time. Five stars." The entire plot has been replaced by a vague feeling of contentment and a desire to buy another book.

SpaceX has over 10,000 satellites in orbit, which is vastly more than everyone else combined, so we are familiar with the subject

if anything you want your agents to do is deterministic, such as managing a queue, or sorting a list, create a script for the agent to use. Agent's don't do deterministic things well. It's our job to force determinism upon them.

This is a pretty good fake French accent.

I think people drowning kittens because they don't want to take care of them are horrible but I don't need to adopt 10 kittens to hold this position

Say what you mean: Unit tests. Mean what you say: Mutation tests.

me to 4yo: “if I ask you to close your eyes and picture an apple, do you see an apple?” 4yo: “no… I see a dinosaur and a squishy thing.”

My dumb idea of the day: We should establish something like birthstones, but for men. Instead of each month getting a gemstone, each month gets assigned a cut of meat. January: New York Strip February: Filet Mignon March: Porterhouse And so on. You’d ask a guy his birthday and instead of saying, “Oh, you’re an amethyst,” you’d say, “Ah, February. Filet Mignon. Sensitive, expensive, and a little smaller than expected.” I can hear the commercials already “Celebrate his birth month with the timeless elegance of brisket.”

Your kids will become like you, and so you must become more like God. This realization is what drives the sudden maturity of new fathers.

Daylight savings increased medical errors, causes excess deaths, makes kids do worse in school, and wastes billions of dollars in excess heating costs. We need permanent standard time not DST! I explain why here: onepagericu.com/blog/abolish…

I think you're going to see it's all going to converge back to screens and data and panels and buttons. People don't want to ask the same question over and over. They'll ask something, it'll be set up to show something, and that thing will be saved as something they can always look at. Stable pre-defined glances, not blank slates each time. Common questions will become buttons and panels again. Most people ask the same kinds of questions about what they work on most of the time. Having to start from scratch with the questions every time seems like a step backwards. Another way to put this: Questions are wonderful for a deeper dive, but not a daily drive. Not sure you're suggesting questions always, but the comparison screenshots looked that way.

Sleep scientist warns Congress is getting the science "exactly backwards" on permanent daylight saving time. Dr. Wendy Troxel tells Fox News Digital that permanent DST would force Americans to wake up "in the middle of their biological night" every single day, creating chronic misalignment between internal clocks and the external world. The U.S. tried this once before in the 1970s. It lasted less than a year before being repealed after morning car crashes spiked and parents revolted over kids commuting to school in total darkness.

Parents with children under 18 shouldn't pay property taxes

software engineers and developers right now:

It is notable how the Pope is the only religious authority in the world that wields intellectual authority even among secular people. No one secular cares what the Bishop of Canterbury or the Grand Ayatollah have to say.

Very happy to see how much Pope Leo speaks about the highly important principle of Subsidiarity in his new encyclical: "According to this principle, whatever can be carried out by individuals, families, intermediary organizations and local communities should not be carried out by higher-level authorities." (and elaborates 68-72) A cornerstone of Habsburg principles 😁

I haven’t read the paper, but I have noticed that attempting to constrain an agent with rule files is a fools errand. They will break any rule, and overturn any stated constraint. So I use physical constraints instead. Those constraints are things like acceptance tests, unit tests, mutation tests, crap analysis, dry analysis, property tests, etc. The agents cannot overturn those constraints. Therefore they become zealous — sometimes too zealous — in conforming to them.

Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together. In Jesus Christ, this humanity in its grandeur becomes the Way, the Truth and the Life, opening the path for each of us to grow toward fullness. #MagnificaHumanitas vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…

This is one of my private dinner theories. (I’ve got a good one on gendered preferences for steak done-ness, too). A corollary from this is that the best way to set your marriage foundation on a rock is to have children right after marriage. Implicitly, you both will get the biologically instinctive feeling that “yep, made the right choice either way this one!” The early meaningful shared struggle will also solidify the early bonding. Waiting is silly, and it’s also not ideal.

Jeff Bezos explains the idea of “paper cut” teams “There are big things that are really important to manage — and by the way, it’s astonishingly hard to focus on just the big things. Even though they’re obvious, they’re really hard to focus on. But in addition to that, there are all these tiny customer deficiencies. We call those ‘paper cuts,’ and we make long lists of them. Then we have dedicated teams that go fix paper cuts. That’s because the teams that are working on the big issues never get to the paper cuts. They never work their way down the list. They’re working on big things — as they should and as you want them to — so you need special teams who are charged with fixing paper cuts.” Source: @lexfridman (Dec 2023)