Joe

my app has just been published on the App Store! it’s my twist on habit tracking; it shouldn’t be about streaks, it should only be about how consistent you are, measured in %, over the last 100 days. (link in first reply)

5 months

@Bencera The only people who think AI is really good at things is people who aren't that good at things themselves.

My favorite liang wenfeng story is that when he was in college, a buddy offered him a cofounder position in his drone startup. He turned him down to focus on academics. The drone startup became DJI. You would assume making such a decision would be the defining career moment of someone’s career. That they would regret it forever. But not this guy 😅

It’s my daughter’s birthday and I just wanted to say that all of this is true. You should have kids. It’s a beautiful mess.

Wrote entire books about how people who believe fairies live in gardens are idiots only to fall in love with a calculator that calls him smart

الزبالين المصريين بيعيدوا تدوير 80% من الزبالة اللي بيلموها, أجدعها شركة أوروبية في مصر مش بيتعرف تعيد تدوير أكتر من 20-25% الزبالين مفيدين أكتر للبيئة ومستدامين بشكل أفضل بكتير

so you’re telling me fighters in the desert need to move in strange ways to avoid the ire of an inescapable predator?

مش متخيلين معلومة زي دي بتخليني مرعوب ازاي، مرة قرأت ان الجمل ميعرفش حاجة عن القرش قعدت شهر عندي اكتئاب

Compiler construction is one of the oldest, best understood CS fields. It's decades of work by the brightest minds, and it's grounded in logic, informed by experience and strictly deterministic. Comparing that with LLM-based coding agents is just wrong. x.com/IceSolst/statu…

The most cathartic thing has been living long enough to see how widely accepted it is that the Four Horsemen of New Atheism are all idiots.

وفاة الفنان هاني شاكر. -

That’s exactly how I do it nowadays

Whitepilling when you learn the Chinese built the biggest ships to ever exist then just scuttled them instead of trying to conquer the planet. Evil is not an inevitable byproduct of power.

تخيل بالعراق تعرضت أهوار العراق لجفاف شديد حتى تشققت الأرض ، والان بعد موجة الأمطار الغزيرة ومن شدة نقاوة الماء مازال يمكنك رؤية الشقوق التي سببها الجفاف وكأنها ندوب . للحظة تفكر القارب معلق في الهواء من شدة نقاوة الماء .

This cost them about $1 trillion. The truth is, you cannot build systems like this exclusively on the logic of profit. You cannot expect to break even in 20 or 30 years. Projects of this scale are built because the government decides they must exist to serve the people. And this is a problem with systems that are strictly, or overwhelmingly, capitalist. If you leave every problem in your society to the spontaneity of the market, some challenges are so large and so unprofitable that you will never have sufficient incentive to solve them.

اعظم ما قيل ف السلفيين

They put 17 people, married an average of 21 years, into a brain scanner and showed them a photo of their spouse. The same parts of the brain lit up that fire when a teenager has their first crush. Two decades together, and the chemistry was still going off like fireworks. The study ran at Stony Brook in 2011. What changes after 20 years is the anxiety. That panic of not knowing if they love you back, the wondering, the checking. All of that fades. The pull toward them stays. So that tells you what old love looks like in the brain. It doesn’t tell you how a couple gets there. A marriage researcher named John Gottman has spent 40 years on that question. He films couples arguing in his lab at the University of Washington and predicts whether they’ll divorce. He gets it right 93.6% of the time, from 15 minutes of footage. More than 3,000 couples now. He watches the two-second moments between sentences. The pauses. That’s where the prediction lives. The fights themselves matter less. His go-to example: your wife is staring out the window and says, look at that bird. You glance up and say, oh wow. Or you keep scrolling on your phone. That tiny choice, that little reach for your attention, is what he calls a bid. He watched newlyweds in his lab and followed them for six years. The couples who were still married had responded to each other’s bids 86 times out of 100. The couples who divorced had responded 33 out of 100. Same money fights. Same in-laws. Same dishes in the sink. The one thing that was different was the bird. This part stopped me. Gottman found that 69% of the things every couple fights about are problems that never get solved. The chores. The money. His mother. Whose family they spend Christmas with. The arguments repeat for 50 years. Happy couples and unhappy couples have roughly the same list of problems. The happy ones learned to argue about that list without contempt. The eye roll. The sigh. The little smile that says you are pathetic. Gottman calls contempt the sulfuric acid of relationships. He says it’s the single biggest sign that a marriage is over. When you see two old people asleep on each other on a plane, the forgiveness in that picture is real. They have absorbed thousands of small failures by now. There is something quieter underneath the forgiveness, though. Decades ago, one of them said look at that bird. The other one looked up.

‘Do you know how hard you have to abuse a mammal for them not to have children?’ (re humanbeings)