Jimmy Cerone
@jrcii
Software Dev who loves to write, read, and hang with doggos.
Jimmy Cerone
If you think about a car or a PC – they’re not trying to get you to use the car or the PC as much as possible. The purchase is the purpose. But the predominant business model of the digital age — advertising — incentivizes consuming more, faster.
Sublime • Notes on Scale + Quality
Don’t debate, if the data is available (get the data first, then discuss)
Shaan Puri • 5 Tweet Tuesday - July 9, 2024
I forgot this constantly. Switch and Decisive by the Heaths mean I should know better by now.
In this instance, it’ll involve a mix of ingenuity around supply chains (like using blockchain to improve traceability) and materials science (like using alternatives such as niobium from Canada or Brazil).
International Intrigue • 🌍 Tantalising
Supply chain is going to be everything when it comes to renewables. How do we make it sustainable and ethical to make energy sustainable?
“What I’ve always felt,” Ezra said, “is we don’t try to top a previous album. Instead, we try to continue to reveal the whole. It’s like if you're showing someone around the United States, and you started out in Los Angeles—if the person has never seen the rest of America, they might say, ‘Ok, I get it, America is filled with palm trees, sunshine,
... See moreBilly Oppenheimer • SIX at 6: Aren’t You Afraid?, Vampire Weekend, Who Cares?, Like a Rolling Stone, House Money, and Hemingway
And let’s see what happens over the next decade as Instagram builds out its commerce operation. Perhaps we’ll all be stores someday. (Whatever that means.)
Dan Frommer • The end of Need Supply
If it had occurred to anyone to edit the binary to increment the version number, they could have pushed out a good update in a minute instead of an hour, which would have kept the issue from spreading to more than 0.06% of their users, instead of sending 2% of their users a broken update1
danluu.com • Editing Binaries
Getting to the bottom of things
Wild to imagine doing this now. I would love to reach that skill level.
We would all do well to live a little more in tune with our surroundings. That or change our surroundings.
Another model is embedding the check cashing into a larger suite of services. Cash App is a notable standout here (and, IMHO, probably the most interesting financial product the tech industry has created for the un-/underbanked.) On the backend, Cash App has simply convinced a bank to have a wider risk envelope as part of the price for working with
... See moreBits about Money • The Business of Check Cashing
Huh. Interesting. I need to think more on this company.
Google used AI to add 110 new languages to Google translate. Age of Wonders. LINK
Benedict Evans • Benedict's Newsletter: No. 547
Translation continues to be an AI bright spot. Truly exciting, though a bit troubling for someone who loves learning languages. Will it be worth it in 5 years?