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Reading A Psalm For The Wild-Built by Becky Chambers.
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Stephen Hackett commenting on a report in The York Times about Apple not allocating much of a budget to AI servers:
For a company that says it doesn’t like looking back at its own history, very often, Apple makes decisions like it’s the late 1990s and the company is on the verge of failure. That drives it to make incredible products, but it also means Apple can be incredibly stingy. To play in the AI race, you’ve got to be willing to spend piles and piles of cash.
Old train bridge next to new light rail bridge in Tempe.
Dave Winer has written up two improvements Bluesky can make to RSS feeds: including images and including embedded posts instead of the “contains quote post” message. The images are especially important and make the feeds really impractical to use right now because the data is just missing.
When young people come out of university in a technical subject, they think they know more than people already doing the jobs. They quickly learn that in school they were doing "student projects" which are not the real thing. Ooops, maybe we didn't know as much as we thought.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
I put a little care into something and sent it out into the world.
Finished reading: Dragonsteel Prime by Brandon Sanderson. I read the last several chapters on my flight. Fascinating to see such an early take on a few pieces that would later turn up in Way of Kings, and other draft ideas for the Cosmere. 📚
The difference between a junior developer and a senior developer isn’t actually about writing better code. It’s that for people with more experience, their gut feeling about how best to solve something is just correct more often. That’s it.
It wasn’t the Amtrak route I had planned for today, but guess this airport train will have to do. Hi Phoenix. 👋
Chris Aldrich
• Chris Aldrich
Thursday session
The new park around the old Mueller tower. Walked by here today and hadn’t seen it since the area was under construction.
