Andrew Collmus

Fully automate your global XFN meetings with just 4 lines of #Python

@AlexReibman I guess they'll stop blowing up my LinkedIn any day now

Tough news for FAANG engineers: Startups don’t want you anymore Every founder I’ve spoken to is tired of them. Instead, they’re hiring ex-founders— engineers who value ownership and grinding to win

@NoContextBrits Has science gone too far?

Scientists at Asda have created mashed potato out of plants.

@_Jason_Dean_ Daytrading will get you there pretty quickly

What’s a good starter vice for someone who wants to get into ruining their life?

@spargles Texas is more The West than The South, depending where you are

Is this basically correct for Americans?

@matsonj You should be able to specify codec via encoding argument and read the csv in chunks. ISO-8559-1 works often

is a there python package anywhere that can strip non-UTF-8 characters from CSV files? I cannot find one. the key bit here is ability to handle larger than memory CSVs which pandas cannot do.

@KatherineSliter Existentialism is a humanism -Sarte

I'm closing in on the end of my current ebook. What's something you've read that has inspired you, motivated you, or really given you a different perspective? I'm open on topics. Just looking for a jolt!

@eerac @mattyglesias It's not so expensive to buy a cooktop with a flush mount kit

@mattyglesias Integrating induction in to a countertop seems pretty sweet (I assume it's currently quite expensive but haven't looked in to it) Independent of gas vs. induction, I just like the idea of having extra counter space that's also easy to clean. victoriaelizabethbarnes.com/induction-cook…

The main thing I like about my gas stove is that it looks cool and every induction model I've looked at looks worse.

@mattyglesias mieleusa.com/e/induction-co… I just bought this one and it's pretty sharp!

@baileymeyers Penache (pen-atch-aye)

hey kids who learned their vocab from reading, what word that you mispronounced still haunts you

@anothercohen Large remote meetings suck though. In a conference room you get small side interactions with the folks around you. I'd argue that big meetings are more lonely for remote workers

100% remote work combined with a no meeting culture is going to create a large group of lonely, isolated workers

Any of you #psych #iopsych twitter folks have info on using timeouts as a punishment for toddlers? I've seen arguments for and against but not sure where the evidence is stronger

@Austen 30M

Without looking it up, reply to this tweet with your best guess of how many full-time employees the US Federal Government has. (Include full-time grant employees, full-time contractors, active duty military, postal service).

@acagamic New job characteristics theory just dropped!

If you want players to keep coming back to your game: 1) Make sure they feel the thrill of discovery. 2) Introduce them to exciting new challenges frequently. 3) Make sure they recognize their own progress. Now they'll stick around.

@bvandewa @Carnage4Life Yeah that's why the dozen other search engines from that era have done so well

@GaryMarcus Normal Person: ChatGPT is better than Google's search engine in some regards, and is therefore a meaningful step forward in how we use the internet

Enthusiast: ChatGPT is gonna replace search engines like Google! Skeptic: Yeah, but it doesn’t really work. sometimes it is amazing, but it often gives you garbage. Enthusiast: Sure but you can make it work! All you have to do is … hook it up to … a …search engine! 🙄

@Philip_Goff Lsd and some snacks

I've been awarded £178,087 to work out if the universe is conscious. Any idea what I should spend it on?

@johnhcook Bananas

I need help on a presentation: When you think of Seattle, what words come to mind?

@tcarpenter216 But you've got to think (well, I do) that 10-20 years from now the tech will be there. In that case it will just be an easier way to use computers that takes up less space, is more portable, and more integrated. What advantage would a laptop offer?

@tcarpenter216 The latest Oculus has full passthrough. You put it on and you see the world around you, then overlay things on that. Or can fully immerse. Clearly headed toward lighter weight wearables + mixed reality. But yeah, same ideas as google glass and tech still isnt quite there

The metaverse won’t be a thing because people don’t want vr

@tcarpenter216 Why does it have to be a headset? If it's something like glasses w overlay image, this eliminates the need for a bunch of monitors. The use case could be as broad as all business and personal computing

@AndrewCollmus The success of different technologies has nothing to do with this one. Putting on a headset and spending 8 hours a day in a virtual world … I don’t see that solving a business problem or providing a good experience for users