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@RobiriSahiro @batemanesque The problem is I'm not trying to be difficult here. I'm really not

@outrighted @e703717461 @Penniwinkle @BellaBaddie__ Humans evolved from tree dwelling apes. But we aren't that now

@e703717461 @Penniwinkle @BellaBaddie__ 123 is evolved from Gwalior script.

can I ask a dumb question… what’s the K for “thousand” stand for

@Penniwinkle @Binician07 @BellaBaddie__ Perhaps a bit of looking it up first would have been beneficial in this instance

@Binician07 @BellaBaddie__ Yeah, I thought about it after I posted it.

@betapig0 @sygqa @FuadMahyoub @BellaBaddie__ Who "Well Actually"'s the "Well Actually"ers

@sygqa @FuadMahyoub @BellaBaddie__ Incorrect, 1 kibibyte is 1024, a kilobyte is 1000. Look it up if you don't believe me

@TomFrankly Random Notion q: Is there any way to track time to the second? It never occurred to me that now() & timestamp() only track mins, till I tried to track workouts, where rounding to the nearest min is actually not quite accurate enough. Maybe an API call is my best bet?

@LTLLADY5180 @mattvanswol Utmost

@mattvanswol There is a saying, “normal is not coming back Jesus is”. As much as I desire everything Matt is talking about to come back to our country, I’m not sure that will happen. Jesus is coming, a personal relationship with him is of upmost importance!

I keep getting asked why I'm so angry about repeat-offender crime. This photo is why. I grew up in a country where childhood felt free. Not perfect, free. We hopped on our bikes after breakfast and didn’t come home until the streetlights flicked on. No phones. No “Find My iPhone.” Just a bunch of kids pedaling through the neighborhood, cutting through yards, racing down hills, stopping at a friend’s house because you saw their bike thrown in the grass out front and knew they were home. We went to public pools with a diving board and a high dive. We played soccer in the front yard with whoever happened to be outside. Kids you knew from school, kids you only knew because you saw them every summer riding past your house. Parents talked on the porch, or they didn’t... ...because it was normal to assume your kids would ALWAYS come home in one piece That’s the America I knew. My kids are not growing up in that America. I don’t get to just be “the parent yelling, ‘Be home by dinner!’ I have to be the parent running risk calculations in my head because ALL OF US PARENTS know all the public spaces are no longer safe. There’s no headline for “Another neighborhood kept their kids indoors today.” But that loss is real. It’s a slow, quiet theft of my kids childhood. A childhood I once had, that was beautiful... that they will never know or experience. So when I talk about repeat offenders... when I post the screenshots of their 50+ arrests EVERY DAY... It’s because I want my kids, and your kids, to have what we had. I want the BIGGEST concern at a park to be a skinned knee, not a stabbing. Streets where the sound of bicycles and laughter is louder than sirens or the screams of a drug addict. This is why I won’t shut up about it. I’m not asking for a perfect world. I'm just asking for the radical idea that childhood should be safe enough to look like this picture again.

@SnazzyLabs Much easier and safer to convert A to C than vice versa

All the new Steam hardware looks awesome. But Valve... can we be done with USB-A? Come on, man...

@staysaasy @dieworkwear What's stopping you

@dieworkwear You can’t really rock that suit to an email job though.

This tweet has 122k likes. I encourage everyone who liked it to ask themselves: What are you drawn to here? What is the point being made? If the point is that men used to dress more traditionally "masculine," then it's worth considering the nuances of that era. Many things worn during that period hinted that the man was not "traditionally masculine," but rather gay. Of course, they had to — coming out as a gay man could have resulted in social exclusion, violence, or a loss of job opportunities. So many men wore things that hinted at their sexuality while passing as straight to the uninitiated. In Oscar Wilde's time, it was a green carnation in their lapel's buttonhole. Then it was light blue socks, green cravats, or pointy suede shoes. In his 1994 book Gay New York, George Chauncey writes about another gay signifier: the solid red tie. Gay artists such as Paul Cadmus and J.C. Leyendecker picked up on these themes in their art. In the 1934 painting "Fleets's In!," Cadmus presents a man not just with a red tie, but also plucked eyebrows, powdered face, and rouge lips as he accepts a cigarette from a sailor. In Leyendecker's work, you can also often spot men sneaking peeks at each other as they undress in a locker room. Of course, solid red ties, light blue socks, and pointy suede shoes connote nothing of the sort today because meaning can change, just like language. When Trump appeared a Manhattan courthouse to face 34 felony charges last year, his supporters appeared behind him in solid red ties — not as a sign of homosexuality, but their allegiance to the head of the Republican party. People often misread tailoring, projecting modern biases onto images of dress histories long forgotten. Paul Skallas (Lindyman) recently said that men used to wear suits as a sign of respect. Certainly, the suit today is a symbol of respectability. But at the end of the 20th century, proper "gentlemen" (in the socio-economic sense) wore the frock coat. The fustian lounge suit — a progenitor of the modern business suit — was for lowly clerks and administrators. There are many first hand accounts of people bemoaning the suit's rise, as they didn't think of it as a respectable garment. There's another possibility: perhaps people who liked that tweet are bemoaning the loss of quality tailoring. And to that, I agree. The average person's wardrobe in the mid-20th century was smaller, but it included clothes that were more complicated to make. In that original tweet, Cary Grant looks quite sharp. This is partly because his suit *and* his overcoat are both made from multiple layers of material — haircloth, padding, and canvas, which confer structure. These layers are sewn together using complicated techniques, such as darts and pad stitching. As such, when you look at Cary Grant, the outline of his outfit is not the same as his body. (He's also carrying a hat, which would confer yet another distinctive shape if he were to put it on his head). By contrast, the other man is wearing just a t-shirt, denim shorts, and flip flops. A t-shirt is just five panels — front, back, two sleeves, and a collar, which are sewn together in a relatively straightforward fashion. You can create distinctive silhouettes with t-shirts, although the more you do this, the more modern "alpha males" will call you "gay." Structurally, @GlockfordFiles's outfit is much closer to the second image than the first. Lots of reasons for this: Western dismissal of fashion as a legitimate part of culture has led to a cheapening of clothes. Fashion is supposedly for women (and thus associated with vanity and frivolity); "masculine" interests such as sports are culturally legitimate, so it's ok to spend thousands of dollars on memorabilia and front row seats. Historically, the people who created quality clothing in the US were immigrants — first German, then Jewish emigres from Eastern Europe, then Italian and Polish, and in more recent years, Asian, Caribbean, and Latin American. And we all know how that's going. Thirdly, narrow conceptions of masculinity, such as those propped up by this very tweet, make it difficult for men to dress in anything other than t-shirt and jeans (as evidenced by @GlockfordFiles himself, who pines for the past while wearing a limp t-shirt with a stretched out collar). Many men harbor a great fear of dressing differently than other men, as they don't want to be perceived as gay or effiminate. It's the same fear Tom Wolfe wrote about in his 1960s essay "The Secret Vice," which is about men obsessed with tailoring but are afraid to be too open about it. There's nothing stopping anyone (man, woman, or otherwise) from wearing a suit today. Or things created with that kind of structure, such as overcoats. The less people judge others' deeper, more important qualities based on clothes, the easier it will be to do this. It is, ironically, the creation of freer, more liberal societies that will allow the return of this type of clothing for people who like it.

@Kotaku Selling for pennies? It was $48. Ffs have some self respect

I’m not surprised this has 10k likes, but I think it’s pretty bad advice. And often actively destructive to both company culture and performance. In fact, it’s a pretty employee-hostile chart and an abdication of leadership responsibility. Let me explain… The critical assumption underpinning this entire chart is that a single individual contributor, or manager, can resolve the problem That is very often not the case. And what happens when you create a “bring me solutions not problems” culture is that people stop bringing you problems! That is very bad!!! There’s a great Colin Powell quote about this. I hate war analogies in business, but I think it’s relevant here: “The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership” Do you know what is a good way to get blindsided by big fucking issues? Telling people to solve everything themselves, or that they need to have proposed solutions It is just as likely that they are feeling a *symptom* of a really big problem. Maybe they can solve the symptom. But it doesn’t solve the problem. There is a deep Root Cause Analysis exercise that should be happening. Something structural is broken. Incentives are wrong. Whole departments are misaligned on strategy. The business is missing a critical piece of infrastructure and everyone is doing a dumb workaround Encouraging individual heroics often exacerbates these issues, and kicks the can down the road on the real problem. It is not this person’s problem to solve. It’s your problem. You’re the leader. You need to go investigate. Most importantly though, I think this chart is an abdication of leadership responsibility. Your job is to clear blockers and drive alignment. Yes, your job is to teach people to march up this chart of self-sufficiency for problems within their scope. But they can’t do that without a culture that allows, and even encourages just as much “Level One: There is a problem” identification as Level 5 celebration of autonomy The way that I think about this is that everyone in my department - from the Directors down to the Individual Contributors - is on a constant journey to improve their Problem Identification ability. Is this a problem that can be solved by me, or do I need to escalate this? That’s the right filter. The number of problems that can actually be solved by an IC using this pyramid is quite small. Managers, a bit bigger. Directors, bigger still. Lot of time wasted, and problems unsolved, because cultures are built demonizing problem identification

@kylecnorton @buccocapital @businessbarista If 5 is generally better than it's not a pyramid. The top of a pyramid isn't generally higher than the bottom.

I think you're both right actually and these ideas are not mutually exclusive. The most impactful people know which of these approaches (1 to 5) to pursue depending on the situation as you've highlighted but can also solve problems more with autonomy. It's not completely linear that 5 is always better than 2 but more 5 is generally better.

@TechSavageX @briandstone There are signs in that crowd that say no kings on them. Maybe you should think about how easy it was for you to believe this obvious and easily disprovable lie youtu.be/JAw4qEXNcr0?si…

These people must have nothing better to do with their time

@MyTeslaMoonship @briandstone Lots of people speak languages you don't speak, but what they are saying still has meaning What I'm trying to say is just because you don't understand it, doesn't make it meaningless

@briandstone Isn't that sad? I feel like a couple of decades ago, protests actually meant something. Now, it seems like it is just a way for people to stir a pot.

@alexhorner2002 @MKBHD Ads can be helpful and timely. Doesn't mean they are not ads

@MKBHD Disagree because this genuinely helped me when I forgot to renew it and it reminded me

This counts as ads on my phone

@thefixisin718 @bearlyai @grok You are in the market for a car. There are two options. One costs $50,000 and gets 100 mpg, one costs $0 and gets 1 mpg Which one are you going for?

@bearlyai @grok explain to me what he’s saying in lay terms.

Jensen Huang says that Nvidia’s full AI infrastructure package (chip, networking, data centre) is so efficient that competitors can price their chips at $0 and Nvidia would still be the better option.

@edtadros @bearlyai Order a sandwich at the deli and hope they throw in a bag of lays

@bearlyai I’ll take some $0 chips.

@VraserX >AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and MuZero He has only one move left: MuGo

Julian Schrittwieser doesn’t tweet much. He doesn’t need to. His track record speaks for itself: co-first author on AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and MuZero. The systems that showed the world what real leaps in AI look like. Now he’s warning that public discourse is once again failing to grasp exponential growth. The same mistake people made in the early weeks of Covid, when the signs were obvious but the mainstream insisted it was still a “remote possibility.” When someone who has spent over a decade at the core of frontier AI progress says the debate is missing the point, it’s worth paying attention. Exponential trends don’t move like the slow, predictable curves we’re used to. They look unimpressive, then overwhelming, then unstoppable. Julian isn’t hyping a bubble. He’s pointing out that most commentators are underestimating how fast things are moving. History shows us this blindness to exponential growth can be catastrophic. The question is whether we’ll listen this time.

@ShksprnDngrMnky @billyhumblebrag Where does the air that goes into the inlet come from

it has to be a two hose air conditioner, never a single hose one. the single hose puts hot air out, but has to re-balance the pressure by pulling hot wet air in via cracks/etc. a **>PROPER<** portable air con unit uses TWO lines, an air inlet and a hot air outlet. Never buy a single hose single outlet air con. NEVER.

Americucks coping and seething as i seamlessly install 12 000 BTU of cooling into my European apartment

@dieworkwear Hard to hide the pair of christmas hams he's packin in there

many people assume that a classically cut pair of trousers will hide a man's buttocks and this is simply not true

@somebodytweetz @CPM_Mutuse literally

@somebodytweetz @CPM_Mutuse thank god somebody said it

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