It’s the most wonderful time of the year
https://x.com/JeremiahDJohns/status/1869014872996114530
(twitter users can vote, the bracket/threads are linked in the replies to that tweet)
I do not have Twitter so am not even trying to view, but I hope the Scottie Pippen “Musk on the Bulls” Tweet got seeded well.
I read it, and a lot of the posts are fake, tongue in cheek, or other varieties of invalid
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It’s like business that way
with all the stupid drone reports (jupiter, really) surprised someone hasn’t claimed the moon is a drone yet.
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Quite the opposite actually. I mean, most fields are meritocratic in the sense that people who achieve extraordinary success in them over a long period of time are probably good at at least some of the critical skills in that field. Only a fool could deny that! What I meant about coding is that just being good at writing code is an unusually large part of what it takes to succeed, whereas “coming up with a good idea for a business” has almost nothing to do with starting a successful business.
Thank you.
https://x.com/hohoho58825298/status/1869174721889341554?t=O5V4L8JJ1Lt7IOy0FPrpRg&s=19
Merry Christmas
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That’s terrifying.
End times are nigh. Today it’s voles, tomorrow, house cats. How long until humans are on the menu?
My dog has been issuing urgent warnings for years about these sqiurrels. And no one heeded her warmings.
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Stupid humans just don’t listen!
My dog is also feeling pretty vindicated here.
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There was a squirrel standing up looking at me when I pulled into my driveway today.
He ran away when I rolled down the window, though. Vegan.
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lol’d pretty good at this. my dog’s been at war with squirrels his whole life.
i dont program for a living but i write a lot of code (80% of the time), usually not touching business, and there is almost no correlation between someones programming ability and how well they do, even though every company insists they want the best programmers for what i do (and everyone’s kind of crappy at it, so the bar is incredibly low). The people that tend to do the best are very good at manipulating the politicial environment to get the most out of their projects. I think for most non-senior or trivial tasks, programming as a core profession will start to give way to automation, I am very glad I never focused on my programming ability as much as i did systems and networks