Jimmy Cerone
@jrcii
Software Dev who loves to write, read, and hang with doggos.
Jimmy Cerone
Both in the United States and in the European Union, buildings account for about 40 percent of total primary energy consumption
Vaclav Smil • Numbers Don't Lie
Freezers, as my Smeg taught me, provoke strong emotions. They are fundamentally for forgetting, the place where we put food we don’t want to think about right now, or want to save for some unspecified later date. They hold our memories, aspirations, and regrets, and in this strange way they tell us who we are.
Rebecca Flint Marx, Eater • On Having Your Cake and Freezing It Too
The need for belonging twists into a form of fearful pre-rejection with the person experiencing an anxious aversion to the presence of others.
Adam Smith • Slaying Your Fear: A guide for people who grapple with insecurity
Most of us fall into one of two camps regarding our money: We either ignore it and feel guilty, or we obsess over financial details by arguing interest rates and geopolitical risks without taking action.
Ramit Sethi • I Will Teach You to Be Rich, Second Edition: No Guilt. No Excuses. No BS. Just a 6-Week Program That Works
Anthropic has started building out team collaboration tools. One big question for the next couple of years might be whether the general LLMs become useful for specific, vertical tasks faster than the vertical tools get LLM features.
Benedict Evans • Benedict's Newsletter: No. 547
Multiplayer AI sounds genuinely exciting. Waveform (social startup) was doing this before shutting down recently.
Air conditioning is a good example of a fixable problem. One of the biggest issues with AC is that most countries don’t set minimum standards for energy efficiency; of course, people tend to buy cheaper models, which often have very poor efficiency. If policies were updated, the energy demand caused by AC units would drop by 45 percent by 2050.
Bill Gates • How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need (Random House Large Print)
Train yourself to love the feeling of constantly learning and pushing your boundaries. Feeling comfortable is the system blinking orange , and it should make you uneasy.
charity.wtf • The Hierarchy Is Bullshit (And Bad For Business)
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,
... See moreBits about Money • The Business of Check Cashing
Ahhh this makes sense now.