"Dogecoin ( $doge ) is the people's crypto" - Elon Musk

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"Good morning X-Men & X-Women!... and in case I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and good night."

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I'm starting to see some more projects and research around self-improving agents, so thought I'd reshare this design pattern I introduced last year.

The "FOXY method" tracks output, generates a reflection, and feeds the most relevant ones when running future objectives, to help guide better tasklists.

Probably could be done well with graphs. Anyways, more on this in the quoted thread.

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Okay Europeans hating on America, please explain why pedestrians should use cross walks instead of getting hit by my car?

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If you have no plan to be better than existing competition, then you have no plan. And that’s okay! You’re just playing around and learning :)

Please don’t incorporate or raise money around your learning process.

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“Product X is missing features I need” - good reason to start a new project

“I don’t like the company making Product X” - bad reason to start a new project

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I could care less if you say could care less vs couldn’t care less

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So, I often get called by the people doing the work (not upper management) who say that they want me to come in and help the organization, but they don't really have any leverage. Given that they aren't signing the checks, I'm usually at a loss as to what to do. Do you have any suggestions that I can pass on to them to get the ball rolling?

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In software, there are no such things as "best practices." There are only practices that work in a specific context. You cannot move a set of practices from one org (or one team) to another and experience the same success. GM documenting the NUMMI "best practices" and then trying to move them to Detroit is a classic example, but Scrum is another great example. I'm positive that Scrum worked spectacularly well for Ken's original team. For the rest of us? Not so much.

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Probably the best argument against "best practices" is that many of the best practices of even a decade ago have turned out not to be best at all--we've completely abandoned them. We learn as we work, and our practices have to evolve with our knowledge or they become dead practices.

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CSS Tip!

Have you ever wanted the benefits of a block element but the sizing of an inline element?

width: max-content; comes in super handy here

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Kids these days can’t even write a SQL injection without AI

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What you can achieve when you code in PHP

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If a programmer is wearing noise cancelling headphones.

There is an 89% chance that they’re not listening to anything.

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The collapsing iron core of a massive star that has exhausted its fuel will quickly reach densities at which electrons and protons can no longer remain separate. They combine to form neutrons in an extremely violent reaction that tears the rest of the star apart and blasts it's contents all over the sky as a type 2 Supernova.

At the time of the explosion the structure of the star looks like an onion. There is an outer shell of Hydrogen gas, then a shell of Hydrogen fusing into Helium. Below that is a shell of Helium fusing into Carbon and Oxygen. Deeper still is a shell fusing Carbon into Neon, Magnesium, Sodium, and Aluminum. Deeper still is a shell fusing Neon into Oxygen and Magnesium. Still deeper the Oxygen fuses into Silicon, Argon, Sulfur, and Calcium. And finally a shell that fuses Silicon into an isotope of Nickel that decays into Iron.

All this material is blown to smithereens when the barrage of outrushing neutrinos produced by the core's transmutation into neutrons collides with those shells. The over-pressures cerated in that collision stimulate even more fusion. The environment of the explosion is rich with free high energy neutrons, and alpha-particles (Helium nuclei). These particles are absorbed by the elements within the explosion, transmuting them further into the vast majority of the elements on the periodic table up to element 36.

All these nuclei are scattered amidst the rapidly expanding cloud of debris and eventually mix with the interstellar medium, polluting the existing clouds of neutral hydrogen and, if close enough, stimulating them to collapse into planetary systems.

The Oxygen and Nitrogen in our atmosphere. The Carbon and Calcium in our bodies and bones. The Sodium in our seas, and the Iron and Aluminum in our buildings, originated from this process. Those elements all came from stars that blew their guts up all over the sky, and seeded future stars with the elements of life and civilization.

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As another favorite thinker of mine might put it - it's about applying technology to help the user kick ass.

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to @mipsytipsy's view that the work of a software developer is >> writing code.

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So, Google News has decided that I'm in Australia. I've got nothing against Australia , but does anybody know how to change that default? Manually changing it all the time is a nuisance. I've tried resetting cookies, but that doesn't seem to have an impact, so I'm guessing its some server-side thing.

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Mangroves: trees in the sea

LightGBM: trees in C

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