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Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

Wow, if this works, this will be a case study for the entertainment industry. Never seen Wheel of Time, not really my cup of tea, but this level of support has me considering it.

Panel 1 Gwen was sitting in her bed with her phone when her brothers come in. This doesn't bother her. Junior: Mom and Dad are fighting. Can we stay in here? Gwen: Sure. Panel 2 Gwen's youngest brother speak up. He wants to watch a cartoon they used to watch when they were younger. Gwen doesn't dislike it, but she's surprised he'd want to watch something so cute and wholesome. Tanner: Can we watch the dog cartoon? Gwen: Really? It's so cutesy. Panel 3 The sound of arguing comes through the door. The siblings all jump slightly. This isn't new but it's still not pleasant. Dad: YOU'RE BEING A- Mom: STOP YELLING YOU FAT- Dad: I'M NOT YELLING! Panel 4 Gwen brings her brothers onto her bed. She thinks all three of them could probably use a good cutesy cartoon. Gwen: Which episode? Tanner: The space one.

Escape - Gator Days

I did an event in DC & there was a party for donors etc after. Was talking to 2 ppl & I said "Things are so bad." They said "No this is how it is. Things swing one way, then another. It's normal."

That's when I realized why Dems are toothless. They have no idea what this is. Frogs boiling in water.

Send an investor update every month, even if it’s to an informal board of advisors

It forces you to organize your thoughts.

What’s the most important thing right now? What are you doing about it?

Was 𝘪𝘴 going well, that you should lean more into?

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AI Engineering in the real world What does AI engineering look like in practice? Hands-on examples and learnings from software engineers turned “AI engineers” at seven companies

“AI Engineer” is much closer to what a software engineer does (it’s using a few additional tools to build on top of LLMs/use these) vs what ML engineers typically do.

So the transition is suspringly easy. Seven examples from devs who did it: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/ai-enginee...

The ROI as a software engineer wanting to work at a startup (or YC startup) for picking up AI Engineeing by @chipro plus building a few side projects using LLMs is massive right now.

Consider the kind of software engineers these startups raising funding will hire… AI engineers:

First trailer for the new ‘DEADPOOL’ VR game.

Starring Neil Patrick Harris as Deadpool.

Releasing later this year.

Kitten inside a candy vending machine.

Oh good, there's still one KitKat left.

this is a day for those of us who have spent the last six months terminally online. this is for us and honestly, we deserve it.

If we start seeing "here's how Dems should woo back Elon" articles, I'm going to start breaking shit.

Man on death bed

This man received his cloud bill after using Kubernetes for the first time.
#picasso

can't wait to taste these bad boys

Books are a Ponzi scheme. Every one I finish reading one, I wanna read several more.

Lift with your legs

Play your favorite GIFs on a Mini Screen #3DPrinting #Adafruit learn.adafruit.com/mini-gif-pla... youtu.be/G8YGo2eVU8M

Five years ago, coding was the easy part, and knowing what to code and promoting it (talking to customers, positioning, sales, etc.) was the hard part.

Right now, coding is still the easy part, and knowing what to code and promoting it is the hard part.

I'm experimenting with a way to show how DOS games render themselves.

Basically I'm recording a lossless video of the game running on a very slow (virtual) CPU, then removing all the frames where nothing happens, and I'm playing it back sped up a lot.

Phang: We don’t need the Ten Commandments hanging in Texas schools. What we need is common-sense gun legislation—so the kids can live.

If my kid goes to a public school in Texas and they can’t come home alive, I don’t give a shit about the Ten Commandments being posted on the wall.

awesome! also definitely sounds like a talk that was organically born out of conversation as you mentioned earlier 🤣

Just like our parents and grandparents commoditized luxuries, we’re commoditizing spectacle.
Unfortunately that means both the basics and luxury are now suffering.

Can't help but feel we're living through an increasingly existential war between spectacle and substance with spectacle winning battle after battle after battle.

A photograph of foam letters floating in a toilet. The letters are “P” “O” “O”.

One of the kids left a poo in the toilet without flushing. Furious.

This is so sweet

Genie: I can make "The Year of the Linux Desktop" finally happen. It will be glorious. Everyone will switch. 
Linux Desktop User: Will they still ask me to fix their printer issues, or will that part be automated too? And which distro becomes the default? Because if it's Ubuntu with Snaps pre installed... 
Genie: You know what? Maybe some things are best left as dreams. 😞

I remember where I was when I read the news he had been traded, and the uproar that followed.
No matter what could/should have happened, the Red Sox look incredibly smart in hindsight.

Antivaxx and libertarianism are the same--they can exist only when the majority of the population buys in to what it takes to live in a society, allowing the minority to think they are outsiders thriving on their own exceptionalism.

This totally looks like the cover art for a tech book though 🤣

Photo of soup with vegetables. Caption: you started water-based cooking and now your skin is clear and your stomach healed

They're talking about "water based" cooking now. Cooking things in water instead of oils. It's soup. They're making soup.