Scientists have also successfully built logic gates by using swarms of soldier crabs. It takes about 80 🦀 to operate a logic gate, and there are 8 logic gates in a byte, so 640,000 crabs can be used to store a single tweet. Which seems kind of horrifying. 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

When you ask "Why did Company build 7 of the same products that all failed?", it always starts with the current solution struggling. This is an opportunity. Not to fix - which doesn't get you promoted - but to start anew. An all too real story about Promotion Driven Development:

StackOverflow handles 6,000 reqs/s for all the StackExchange sites. 99.999% of web apps will not handle even a fraction of that. Stop thinking you need to handle millions of reqs/s. You're not Amazon, Google, Facebook, or Twitter.

This, especially at a young age. People's "starter pack" views are usually the views of their family and their education system. Some of those will be shitty. Breaking through the inherited bs is the important part!

Today, with Washington State Department of Health, we launched another program poised to expand access to antiviral treatment for COVID-19. If you reside in Washington state, learn more about this new, no-cost option for consultation & treatment. It only takes a few minutes. —> doh.wa.gov/emergencies/co…

Comcast’s equipment must be situated near a black hole because 2h of downtime on their end can be anything between 2h and 16 years from my POV.

Waking up every morning at 5am and shooting my handgun 9 times out the window to keep rent prices down

5 pm sunsets are less than 72 hours away.

After the fifth month of no sun at all, look to the east for daylight savings

Slack has the best bug fixes

I'm losing out on some of the efficiency gains from Copilot because every time it suggests something freakishly good, I spend 5 minutes losing my mind over how good it is

Given that it's a slow news day, check out some great insights from Kiril Kafadarov and Munir Al-Dajani Color about our process for evaluating LLMs in Cancer Care. The irony isn't lost on me that most of the toolchain is from Google except the actual LLM. color.com/blog/evaluatin…

Common SWE advice in practice: Don't make tooling decisions until you actually need to. We deferred our vector search/RAG details enough that we eventually landed on an alternative architecture that gives us more control and (in our case) higher accuracy. Details in the paper 👇