"The drive to excellence is often a pathological drive towards degeneracy and legibility via a leaning-out of fatness and fullness. And false determinacy. Converting maybes into yeses and noes by fiat, and not waiting to see. It is high modernism — an aesthetic pretending to be an ethic."
@lzg I had good experiences with both thoughtbot.com/ and cratebind.com/
We storm the stage, we play our part
Everybody loves a thespian
We jump a grade, we make our mark
Everybody loves a champion
"Careers (and lives) are non-linear. Occasionally their trajectories don’t make sense. They may even outright disappoint, in the moment. The silver lining is, they give us unique skills and experience that someone in the world wants if only we can find them."
Careers are non-linear
therealadam.com/2024/02/13/careers-are-non-linear/
Wow OpenAI is having a hard couple of days. I had their status page open since yesterday, yes, I'm building a thing that uses their API. Yesterday I just worked on other parts of the thing using cached results I'd already built into the workflow. Returned to their status page tab today and hit refresh fully expecting everything to be ok again and it appears to be worse.
"...the Waymo came to a halt in the middle of the lane, turned on its hazards, and then… nothing...What happened next was reassuring. Tom called customer service..."
Reassuring...?
"...the situation we’ve found ourselves in trying to handle the technology of cars – and the enormous sociocultural influence that this very particular tool has – has a lot to teach us about how AI is going to impact us."
kesterbrewin.com/2024/02/13/ai-vs-car-culture-fasten-your-seatbelts/