Eric Conner

Agree. Always think “is it possible that your experience is not representative?”

I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out. I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. All those arguments are rearing their ugly heads again but now its... the whole software development industry (maybe the whole world, really). It's frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute "MTTR is all you need" mentality: "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can't yeet resilient systems entirely. The main issue is I don't even know how to bring this up to people I know personally, because bringing this topic up leads to immediately dismissals like "no no, it has full test coverage" or "bug reports are going down" or something, which just don't paint the whole picture. We already learned this lesson once in infrastructure: you can automate yourself into a very resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happens so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying. I worry.

Another awesome photo

@staysaasy There is a whole progression to certifying tricks on snow starting in aerated pools and foam pits.

What is the pipeline to become an Olympic freestyle / slopestyle skier. I ski a lot and have never seen a human who looked like they were even 5% of the way down the journey to sending a 1620. Do they lose like 30% of people on the way to terrible injuries? How is this possible

@wbmtnops any update on the alpine?

A horse meeting a dolphin in crystal clear waters

@ChShersh “There are languages people complain about and languages no one uses.” Ease to startup matters for usability. See also PHP. Useful things have been done in both languages.

Python is a great first programming language. Its main problem, it’s a toy language. Too bad many people didn’t realise that, and started using it in production seriously. And now we all suffer.

@DanielleMorrill @MisterMorrill @Levels what I do / would do: - Lift weights. - Eat enough protein. (Most people think they get way more protein than they do— track it for some days to actually see) - No alcohol. - Focus on performance first, weight loss second (I.e. running a half marathon in a certain time, etc)

@MisterMorrill @Levels x.com/daniellemorril…

3 years ago I had a BMI of 35.5 (220 lbs on my 5’6” frame) and 44% body fat. Our startup was 6 months in, and I didn’t know how I was going to find the energy for… anything. I read “The Obesity Code” and decided I would learn to fast but change nothing else about my diet

@Duderichy I think the closest you might get would be Nick Bare. Sub 2:40 marathon while close to those lifts.

I just want to see what someone with a - 405lb Bench Press Max - 675lb Squat Max - Sub 2:20 marathon would look like there is literally no one on the planet with that squat and that marathon time

@Austen I muted this emoji also:👇

Proposal for X: Simply penalize any tweet that has 🧵 in it

@officialhambly Pajar Boots.

This is leaving my audience so please drop ur boot recs bc I live in an area that averages 300 inches of snow a year and I regularly walk through 2ft drifts to get to store fronts, sidewalks and the front gate of the house

Need to see a list of ‘best snow boots’ but it’s written by someone who lives in 20 inches of snow and walks through it everyday and not by someone whose visiting a ski community for vacation

@chamath I guess you’d probably still eat less doing that given the inconvenience of it.

@chamath Wouldn’t the correct test be to import all of your food from Italy for 8 weeks while you’re in the US? Do an experiment, maybe?

I am fortunate to be able to spend 6-8weeks in Italy every summer. I work in Milan for 4-6 weeks and then take my summer vacation for 2-3 weeks. More importantly, I get to eat non American food sources for an extended period every year. And I always lose weight! Usually maintaining muscle mass, losing fat. This summer, as usual, I ate pasta, bread, drank wine, ate gelato and got moderate exercise by walking around most days. I lost 5lbs and came back from Europe 164lb. After 2.5 months back in the US, I’ve gained back 2.5lbs. I work out more. Drink less. Eat the same or better…but I can’t seem to outrun the American food supply no matter what I do. If I can’t outrun an American food supply with the resources I have access to, how are most other Americans expected to do so? Is it any wonder, then, that 1/3 of all kids are obese/near obese? Make America Healthy Again

@stclairashley Why is the explanation not covid. 2020 was an outlier year and many ways.

I have yet to see any reasonable explanation for where 20 million Democrat voters went

competitive daydreamers gathered in Tokyo today for the “2024 Space-out Competition” Heart rates were checked and anyone who laughs, talks or dozes off was eliminated during the 90 min competition.

I heart internet usability.

@DrBPHealth Americans 100% do not eat the same thing. lol.

Asian countries eat a lot of rice & noodles, but don’t gain weight. Americans & Europeans eat the same thing and tend to get fat. Why is this? I’ll explain. THREAD

@bentossell Why do you need to download the docs to do this? They are probably already in chatgpt or you can just add them to the context.

how do you download app documentation easily? (if you can?) like stripe, notion, posthog, etc I wanna download, then use ai (duh) on them. use case is often giving two lots of docs and saying how do i make these work together

@Robert_A_Berger @perplexity_ai I have used GPT for Sheets to do this via gptforwork.com

Anybody know of an interface we can use to query multiple #LLMs at the same time and see the results? #chatgpt4 @perplexity_ai

Organizational chaos monkey. Random 2 employees get the day off each day.

@Todds1964 @CReppWx They only post updates to Facebook apparently...

Guess my video got cut by X but here’s my update from Berthoud Pass #9wx