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huffmsa··on Fast Crimes at Lambda School
Okay, so what's an income based repayment plan for a loan?
huffmsa··on U-M finds students with alphabetically lower-ranked names receive lower grades
I had a theory in school that this was the case for presentations too so I always forced myself to go first. No one else to compare me against, and no sitting around getting jittery.
huffmsa··on More Agents Is All You Need: LLMs performance scales with the number of agents
I personally visualize them at a table from time to time.
huffmsa··on Journalists should be skeptical of all sources including scientists
For some. My mother had a pretty solid biology and medical background before covering medical news.
huffmsa··on Delts Don’t Lie
I, for one, appreciate how jacked everybody in Renaissance art is.
huffmsa··on Dell goes back on WFH pledge, forces employees to come back to the office
Managers shouldn't have to push testing and bug repro. That should come from your senior engineering staff
huffmsa··on Stop Telling Everyone What You Do for a Living
If anyone's ever asked:

- what do you do?

- where do you live?

- are you married?

- have any kids?

They're asking about your money and your sex life.

huffmsa··on Why are movies so dark these days?
"Where is the light coming from?"

"The same place as the music"

https://twitter.com/siracusa/status/1122834984228806656?t=_H...

huffmsa··on German monks create first powdered beer
If I'm drinking calories in the form of fermented grass juice -- or anything that isn't plain water -- it'd better be delivering some sort of effect having substance, be it caffeine or alcohol.
huffmsa··on Silicon Valley Bank unmasks the hypocrisy of libertarian tech bros
Gotta keep those 2020-2022 vintages on a slow decline so they can raise the next fund.
huffmsa··on Instagram’s co-founders are back with Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text
Yes, though most westerners don't know anything but TikTok out of byte dance
huffmsa··on Boris Yeltsin's visit to a suburban Houston supermarket in 1989 (2016)
It's one thing to know something, it's another to actually see it first hand.
huffmsa··on I measured the pollution from my gas stove
> digital interface

Like a touchscreen?

huffmsa··on The science of having ideas in the shower
You don't just write in the water droplets?
huffmsa··on ‘Breakthrough’ obesity drugs that have stunned researchers
A potato is far more energy dense than popcorn. 2 cups of popcorn looks like a good amount of food, but it's only ~150cal. A good way to trick your brain into thinking it's doing a lot of eating.

Source: worked for me. And is a basically daily staple

huffmsa··on Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce
Satoru Iwata took a large pay cut when Nintendo was in a downturn in 2014ish
huffmsa··on Science, technology and innovation isn’t addressing world’s most urgent problems
More money doesn't make the wind blow more often. And there's only.so much capital that can be spent on material science before you hit a limit on the rate of improvement per unit time
huffmsa··on An odd discovery on Spotify
What that really means is that they either:

1) aren't doing the sensor fusion we all think they are, out of inability to access the data.

2) the models (and therefore modelers) aren't good enough to use the data they have correctly.

huffmsa··on Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds
The little arrow by the E is supposed to point to the fuel cap side.

E> means right <E means left

huffmsa··on Backyard hens’ eggs contain 40 times more lead on average than shop eggs
Plants don't typically pull lead out of the soil through their roots. Your main concern should be surface contamination from soil getting splashed onto the plant when it's watered / rains
huffmsa··on Against Discipline
Leonardo didn't do the Sistine chapel, he didn't even have the focus to finish the Mona Lisa and deliver it to his patron.

And yes, Leonardo was probably the occasional doodler, as he was the occasional inventor, scientist and horseshoe bender.

huffmsa··on Logistics, How Did They Do It, Part I: The Problem
Think about how much work goes I to supplying a basketball or baseball stadium for a single game for a comparative headcount (less the animals).
huffmsa··on Tesla remotely converts battery pack, cutting 1/3 of range
It's a top of the class M2 model with cartoonishly big wing, but has been badged as the bare bones entry level 218i model as a joke.
huffmsa··on Kubernetes is a red flag signalling premature optimisation
Just like how you don't really expect later devs to learn the intricacies of your hand rolled deployment setup.

The difference is, kubernetes is pretty standardized and therefore learnable in a repeatable way, unlike the Frankenstein of tooling you might otherwise cobble together.

huffmsa··on Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds
If it's just reviewing people at a higher standard, I don't see how that'll turn high performers away.
huffmsa··on Construction is life
They can and should. That's the sign of a happening place. When reconstruction and replacement stops, it's a sign of decline
huffmsa··on Construction is life
Your lump of flesh is constantly replacing and repairing it's components
huffmsa··on DOE announces breakthrough in residential cold climate heat pump technology
Not at all. You use a compressor or some other means to increase the pressure. That's what the electricity is for.
huffmsa··on A wild turkey is attacking people in D.C.
Franklin's revenge
huffmsa··on A wild turkey is attacking people in D.C.
Swans are deceptively large and aggressive, though it's a myth that they've broken people's arms.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17736292

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