Jimmy Cerone
@jrcii
Software Dev who loves to write, read, and hang with doggos.
Jimmy Cerone
@jrcii
Software Dev who loves to write, read, and hang with doggos.
I am a big believer that travel doesn’t relieve your problems, it throws them into relief. You see your life in a new light and new shadows. The desert light can be good for this.
I feel the same way about the desert. I need to go at least once a year.
Two challenges: first, yes, this does make life harder for Slack etc, but, if we took this logic at face value then your word processor would not be allowed to include a spell checker and your spreadsheet could not do charts (in the 1980s both of these were separate purchases). What’s the coherent theory for how we choose the trade-off between
... See moreThe EU is doing things, but not the right things, about anti-trust. What’s a better way of framing this? More specific and less subjective?
The first month we spent in the house, my grandfather would walk straight in every day without knocking. After a month, he settled for the cellar. We sat in the kitchen and heard him go around down there, moving tools about. Later still, we saw him lurk on the path down the hill, watching the house from afar. He stopped a little further up the hill
... See moreI think this is my favorite paragraph. i wish we could all say goodbye to places and people like this. slowly and with care.
Knolling is a really specific system that involves laying all your stuff out at specific angles, but I take the broader idea as: don’t make cleaning and organizing into A Thing, just always be doing it. I’ve been trying to adopt this recently, and it is awesome. When I’m on a phone call, I tidy up my desk. When I’m waiting for something to export,
... See moreQuery Operators Mean Something’s Broken More advanced users use modifiers like site: filetype: intitle: because adding “reddit” isn’t strict enough, as spammy websites often manipulate content to win SEO.
.2022-10-15 This is our problem! I really great way of looking at it
Google used AI to add 110 new languages to Google translate. Age of Wonders. LINK
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?
It does mean being actively forthcoming about important questions and matters which are happening or on the horizon…often before you are fully comfortable with it. Honestly, if you never feel any discomfort about your level of transparency, you probably aren’t transparent enough .