China first, then the US.

🇮🇷 Iranians have sworn allegiance to a cardboard cutout of the new ayatollah.

Iran's Foreign Ministry said he had already been wounded but was "feeling fine."

Game theoretical models assume (bounded) rationality — so that’s irrelevant
Realist models assume a coherent view of national interests — so that’s also out

Instead, scholarship on the logic of gangsters & thugs is probably the most immediately pertinent literature for understanding what’s going on

Economists are the second worst offenders, because they should know that they are a context-bound social science but they want desperately to believe that they are STEM because they do equations with integrals.

Traffic engineers are among the worst offenders, because they believe they are a hard STEM science but in reality half of what they study (if not more), like people behaviour and traffic setups, is better understood as social science, planning history or even political science.

US-based researcher: does a study, use some obscure US place as a study case, generalizes the finding as universally relevant.

Reviewers: ✅️

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Non US researcher: does a study, use non US place as a study case, present findings as context-bound.

Reviewers: HoW iS tHis RelEVaNT for tHE DeBATe?

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

On every code base I've ever worked on professionally a significant part of the context is stories at lunch

r/analytics • IOh We just found out our AI has been making up analytics data for 3 months and I'm gonna throw up. Support So we've been using an Al agent since November to answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations, everyone loved it. I just found out it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time. Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on data that didn't exist. Our CFO showed the board a deck with fake insights. The Al was just inventing plausible sounding percentages. I only caught it by accident when someone asked me to double check something. I started digging, and holy shit, it's bad.

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Error: entity released

...horrifying message without context, thank you

A post from r/boston showing a Cybertruck stuck in the snow

Death, taxes, Cybertrucks getting stuck in adverse weather

single stair plan w/ 3 and 4 bedroom home on one level

floor w/ 3- and 4-bedroom homes

this is how you get family-sized homes in urban environments

This is one of those stories where the headline is perfect, any more detail would probably ruin it for me.

i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests

- nazgul bodycams
- morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring
- shelob will be the new point of contact

Red Alfa Romeo hood with the stylized white snake-eating-a-dude logo.

1. Yesterday I was fortunate enough to visit the Alfa Romeo museum in Milan. What a gorgeous museum of design.

Over the next few days I'll be posting a thread of pictures from my visit.

Here's a teaser.

I'm starting my next book which is set to be released in 2030.

"How to write and deploy software without prompts"

There may be valid use cases for having a mindless plagiarism machine shitting out dubious code, but even this has been known for generations.

Go to a forum and say "damn __ sucks at doing __" and you'll get a ton of helpfully smug explanations of exactly how to do it.

Debugging existing code is harder than writing new code, precisely because you need to have a mental model of what that code is doing and what you want it to do.

This is even more difficult if you don't already know the language you're using.

As the only user of my Notion account, I can’t tell you how inspiring it is to get emails from Notion about enterprise users finding success with Notion. 😉😆 I’ll just store that thought in my brain until I hire 500 more people to work with me.

Due to current events:

I suppose it's time to read the classics...

"we taught a horse how to code" is an unexpectedly good way to describe the current moment in software development

Is there a book on the management practices of Bell Labs in its heyday, from the 50's to the 70's ? Things like project management, career ladders, promotions, etc...
cc @apenwarr.ca

Do not give up your brain It's tempting to just let tools think for you, but you still need to be able to think for yourself and stay sharp.

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

― Frank Herbert, Dune

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Integration tests are best tests Itegration tests are the most important kind of tests. You should strive for excellent integration test coverage and invest relatively little time in unit tests. I've believed this since I worked on c...

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North America's Elevator Problem YouTube video by About Here

This video about why elevators are so much more expensive to install and maintain in North America than the rest of the developed world is fantastic. (Hint: it's a solvable policy problem!)
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This sounds like a problem of labeling and filtering, or working around Reddit's lack thereof.

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