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@christoferguson Raisins instead chocolate chips?

I’ve learned to be wary of Christmas cookies from certain friends

@dexhorthy @ianlivingstone We need this to be a rap battle

the only insecure agent when this things all over is gonna be @ianlivingstone's PR agent 😂

Am I the only one who has noticed ChatGPT saying "Nice —" a lot?

@tchevezmathews This one nasa.gov/centers-and-fa… ?

I can’t find it but NASA published an article during Covid on how a wobble in the moon will cause beach fronts to be overtaken by the ocean before it begins to recede after 2030. The next day they made a correction that it was global warming not the moon wobble that will cause this

seems like its been awhile since I've received such a nanny response from AI

@marccampbell Seems like dagger would be good for this

git commit -> git push -> ci failed this pattern is unsustainable. are there any CI products that are built around the idea that the entire pipeline is super easy for a developer to run locally?

@liran_tal Gopher space was peak internet

Don't stop there, BBS dialup all the way back

hey @sama it seems over the last day or two you've started defaulting plus users to 4o instead of their last used model. Can you revert that or let users choose their default model?

@dexhorthy Does Claude Code Max report this somewhere or are you paying per token?

team record and still 15 days left in july 🙂

AI be like: finished the refresh token flow, boss, anything else?

@minordissent @RuiCarrilho5 But the effects on policy of the more ambitious constructions have not been very fortunate and I confess that I prefer true but imperfect knowledge, even if it leaves much indetermined and unpredictable, to a pretence of exact knowledge that is likely to be false -- F.A. Hayek

Given this blowing up I do just want to say: no shade on @RuiCarrilho5 for his post and question. these are important concepts and the first time you learn about them is very mind blowing. System dynamics is overall a highly valuable field and more people thinking in systems would probably be a good thing. My issue is only with the level of hubris that SD tends to incite in people who learn about it. Meadows may be the most egregious example but she is not alone. Opening your mind to SD for the first time will make you feel like you’ve “unlocked the matrix”. In reality, systems are orders of magnitude more complex than our puny human minds could ever comprehend, and complex (to us) concepts like stocks, flows, feedback loops, etc are still woefully insufficient to actually provide us the tools to effectively model let alone modify complex systems without horrendous downstream negative consequences. If system dynamics causes you to feel overwhelmed by the true complexity of reality, and incites a deep intellectual humility, then it is good and useful. But if it makes you go from thinking “i can’t control reality” to “actually i can i just need to consider these concepts” it is extremely dangerous and societally destructive. It seems to me that the latter happens far more frequently than the former, and my guess is that the tone of the “beginners guide to SD” (this book) plays a big factor in that fact. Hence my contempt for it.

This is actually one of the worst books in existence. It teaches you just enough about system dynamics to have a vague high level understanding about how they work, basically putting you right at the peak of Dunning Kruger Mount Stupid. And then spends the last like third of the book telling you how smart you are now and to go be an activist and fuck with complex systems. Probably like 90% of all the retarded policy and cultural changes that midwit academics implement that end up destroying society stem from system dynamics theory retards like Meadows.

@GrantM The password ends up being pretty easy because it's just baked straight into the meeting url

When did Zoom get so desperate? We renewed for like $20k per yer but they don't let us disable the waiting rooms and their user experience is DOG SHIT. What's the best alternative? Google Meet (which we already pay for)?

@dexhorthy Do you have an example?

whats a word that means "extra smart" when talking about models but "not smart" when talking about people

One of the most frustrating things about this awful tariff strategy, is we are literally punishing people for investing in the United States. A trade deficit implies financial account surplus. x.com/i/grok/share/B…

@liran_tal What's the source of this chart?

quite astounding gulp is 2nd on this list

Seeing all of these posts about drones really makes me want to go fly my quad around at night and see if I can see anyone post it on X

Whenever ChatGPT uses emoji's it scares me like overly attached bing's sydney alter ego is still there

`brew update/upgrade` every single time

It's kind of weak sauce that enterprise @github app rate limits don't scale %100 with number of repos -- especially since they are pushing enterprises towards mono-orgs

at what time today can we be marked safe from the alleged alien invasion?