engineer for recommendations at @Netflix. Former employee of @stripe, @twitter. Former academic. Programmer. Maui resident. Just some guy. @posco@fosstodon.org

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A key question IMO, WRT to chatgpt is: how does the world change as the marginal cost of bullshit goes to zero?
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man, I've taken some time away from Twitter, and I pop back, and like all the recommendations are outrage porn. It's exhausting. It might be an addicting product, but it sure does not seem like a healthy one.
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I'm super excited to be working with Eugene!
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I think a small fraction of EV buyers are motivated by climate change. I think most buyers are motivated by getting a faster car, a quieter car, not going to the gas station, and less maintenance. Some affordable EVs also have lower TCO.
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No, Google. I typed it correctly.
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it's very frustrating that a year and a half after release many of scala 3's new features just don't compose. Some toy examples of them work, but if you try to use them together you easily hit issues. e.g. github.com/lampepfl/dotty/is…

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P. Oscar Boykin retweeted
Prophesy: Leo Szilard—the physicist who first conceived of the nuclear chain reaction and who urged the US to undertake the Manhattan Project—explaining how science would stagnate, in 1948. rootsofprogress.org/szilard-…
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I ran 2598.9 miles in 2022. My highest mileage year ever. I want to do even more this year.
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Playing around with mastodon totally reminds me of when the internet was small and Twitter was fun.
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If you haven’t given it a try, I recommend it. I used this tool to find people I’m already following: fedifinder.glitch.me and I have plenty (too much?) of interesting content.

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Some people might call this an “off ramp”
18 Dec 2022
Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.
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I made a mastodon account years ago. I was never very interested in using it though. But today has me downloading iOS mastodon clients, and starting a few new accounts. Maybe we can recapture the feeling of the internet of a decade or more ago.
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Wonderful story. I hope there is a book in the works.
1/🧵 It's been a week. The woman in my profile pic, FrancesHesselbein, passed away yesterday — at 107. (Was still working at leadership institute she founded in NYC.) That's me w/her 👇. She's 103.5 in that pic (taken by @mkonnikova). Not. Bad. I want to share a bit about her...
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Strongly endorse this tweet
10 Dec 2022
Instead of making me learn a new DSL, why can't you just provide a simple library/API that lets me describe what I want in a well-known language that already has great dev tools?
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I asked AI to render Wes Anderson's The Shining
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Note the right wing fan base likes to talk about SpaceX because they don’t actually like electric cars or the mission to address climate change.
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A well known running coach’s thread on what we’ve seen from Elon.
This is a common tactic/belief. The problem? It backfires more often than succeeds. I researched it & covered it in my book. More often: It's not the tough ones that stick around; it's the ones who have no other options. Let's look at some history and research:
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Man this article reminds me that as an ex-physicist when time comes up in systems I’m building I have to make some effort not to totally spin out and look like this guy nature.com/articles/d41586-0…

ALT Always Sunny Reaction GIF

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