Jimmy Cerone
@jrcii
Software Dev who loves to write, read, and hang with doggos.
Jimmy Cerone
means that Meta is only allowed to show ads that are entirely un-targeted, or perhaps only targeted by country. Such ads, as most readers will understand, would be almost entirely worthless. For reference, the EU is about 10% of Meta’s ad revenue (‘Europe’ is larger, but is broader than the EU.
Benedict Evans • Benedict's Newsletter: No. 537
The advice to avoid here is to “give it your all” as a rule. Only give your all to what really matters
The presence of many nice-enough choices without any meaningful way to distinguish among them is a fundamental dysphoria of modern consumerism. Anybody can track in intimate detail how the wealthy and stylish spend their money via social media, and just when you’ve learned exactly what you can’t have, the internet swoops in to offer a look-for-less... See more
Amanda Mull • It’s All So … Premiocre
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.
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.
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.
Along with many of the same fear-based questions Gilbert talked about, Hasan said people would always ask if he thought he was actually going to make it as a hugely successful comedian. “I don’t like that question,” he said. “I fundamentally don’t like that question.” Because that question implies that he was doing comedy as a means to some end
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Though the Chemical Warfare Service ran tests on animals—goats were a favorite—it insisted that all gases and equipment be ultimately tested on humans. Those humans were soldiers, recruited with modest inducements such as extra leave time or appeals to patriotism. They participated in three types of tests. In the drop test, liquid was applied to
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