Jimmy Cerone
@jrcii
Software Dev who loves to write, read, and hang with doggos.
Jimmy Cerone
Government checks don't have credit risk directly , they have operational risk which becomes a credit risk. In the case where either the person cashing them isn't the person named on the check, or where the government later comes to the conclusion that it didn't really want to pay them, that money could (at some risk) be clawed back from the bank,
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Ahhh this makes sense now.
If you're struggling with negative thoughts, achieving flow is probably the best medicine. Contrary to popular wisdom, forced positive thinking often makes things worse.
LessWrong • How to Be Happy - LessWrong
"If you could just change one thing in your child’s life, it would be to give them autonomy. Humans spent 200,000 years as hunter-gatherers. That’s where our brains evolved. That’s where we evolved in this context. If you look on lots of different continents, children have enormous amounts of autonomy in these communities, which implies that that’s
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Thinking more about this idea since it came up in the Bear Season 2 as well. I’ll struggle with this.
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.
Austin Kleon • Land of Enchantment
I feel the same way about the desert. I need to go at least once a year.
Mormons, Cowboys, the Wild West of Women's Rights
matriarchyreport.substack.commatriarchyreport.substack.comThe EC, to my eyes, is saying that it’s illegal for a successful platform to adapt and evolve. Or at the very least they’re saying they might deem it illegal.
John Gruber • European Commission Launches Investigation Against Microsoft for Integrating Teams With Office
I think the bone I have to pick here is the choice of areas to legislate. What about Ad Tech? Search? These are much more concerning monopolies.
From a software maintenance perspective there is little consensus on how to organize ML projects. It feels like websites before Rails came out: a bunch of random PHP scripts with an unholy mixture of business logic and markup sprinkled throughout.
tinyclouds.org • Google Brain Residency
.pocket Wow. Still the same today. Big opportunity. Though folks like Hugging Face are starting to change this.
Having a good person express how wonderful you are hundreds of times changes everything.
Scott Galloway • Tethered
Want brash, garish advertising plastered all over the web? Reject ads personalization. Want relevant, informed advertising? Embrace ads personalization.
John Gruber • ★ Apple Strikes Deal With Taboola to Sell Ads for Apple News
funny to imagine life without ad tech could be worse than life with it in some ways