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3 years

Why isn't anyone talking about the fact that @RoamResearch just raised over $6 million on Wefunder? A venture-backed company raising 2/3 of its seed round just from its users feels like a step-function change in the legitimacy of crowdfunding.

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@sheslostheplot I get it's funny, but the intention is to slow why designing for the small fraction of people with permanent disabilities results in features that help many users in other situations e.g., dark mode, voice typing, screen readers, subtitles

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@nominalthoughts "do you have a lot of money already?" a) no b) yes

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@d_feldman demand is down due to interest rates, but supply is down even more because no one with a low interest rate mortgage is selling

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@hodgesmr that's... ridiculously bad?

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@groundedSAGE pretty standard practice there... you should expect it to keep happening one of my friends got pulled over and "escorted" to an ATM because he wasn't carrying any cash the (relative) lack of corruption in the US is truly a cornerstone of prosperity, often taken for granted

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@chesscom ope! 'scuse me just gonna sneak right past ya

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@Duderichy obviously because 22 baby euro miles is less than 1 chad american mile

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@cauchyfriend "just work on the most important thing"

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@DrJimFan you may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like

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9 months

you can find @RockstarGames jobs on here, too

Linda Yaccarino

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Hello @RockstarGames 👋! The @X community asked — and you certainly delivered!!!

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@andersonbcdefg They patented a clever way of replicating relational DBs that dramatically reduces the required amount of compute/storage infrastructure (the license pays for itself in savings)

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@Austen Brave has a feature that gets rid of ~95% of them

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@the_wilderless Four Thousand Weeks I cut out so many fake productivity tasks from my life after reading it.

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3 years

This is the most profound observation I've heard in 2021. Original tweet wasn't doing it justice. If you tell yourself that you can get everything done, your life will be less meaningful -- even if you're exceptionally productive.

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@ESYudkowsky @mealreplacer this is such a sick burn and you wasted it on a joke

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4 months

@eigenrobot major UX changes are usually still tested carefully, especially for timeline/trends/explore I'm not working on this change myself, but employees are still dogfooding it. it should be gradually rolled out to users in the next few weeks and the UX may change by then

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@mkobach The best explanation I can think of is that the "socially liberal, fiscally conservative" camp is showing up in the center. Note how there's no "wall" of data points on the right like there is on the left.

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A math-heavy education will convince you that every problem has an elegant solution. In "real" life there often isn't an elegant solution, but obsessing over finding one will make imperfect solutions better. Knowing when to say "good enough" and take action is the tricky part.

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@nikitabier these replies have taught me that people think very highly of their ability to execute vs people that built multi-billion dollar businesses

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@netcapgirl it sucks that cliches are cliches because they're true/helpful and yet it's impossible to learn from them. can only learn them.

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9 months

@PrinceVogel why attribute malice to something that can be explained by a mistake? something is broken and we're working on a fix

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1 year

@Austen been sitting on this draft for a while. I think people underestimate the potential of culinary technology innovation

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@chesscom en passant is forced

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4 months

@deepfates describes many things perfectly. supportslop when you have to listen to a 5 min monologue form customer service before describing your issue. UXslop when there's a million animations and popups that hack engagement metrics.

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@RandomSprint I would simply diffuse the situation with "what an odd thing to say out loud"

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@sebkrier the proposed note makes this even funnier. I can't believe this is real

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@___frye it just occurred to me that people used to be very very cold when they slept

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4 months

@pli_cachete it's not too late to delete this

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@futuristflower it's actually wild how many people don't think it's real. constant misleading marketing has made people jaded. only the curious and people in this bubble bother to try it

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@0xgaut I'm on the left

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"I'm on the left"

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@andersonbcdefg oh I think you still pay the AWS bill. I'm saying that the bill (in theory) will be significantly lower with Snowflake than just brute-force scaling RDS. And the reason AWS doesn't do it is because it's patented (and they still make a lot of money by offering Snowflake on AWS)

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9 months

@Austen I think they're paying for influence, not impact

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8 months

@Noahpinion came here to stan Philly but we already up in this jawn

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7 months

how it's going now

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how it started how it’s going

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@cremieuxrecueil the funniest part of this is the"ackchyually..." community notes that completely missed the joke

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4 months

@MasterTimBlais think about the extreme case: if you dump the entire glass of red into the white, then pour half back into the red glass, it's obvious you will have a 50/50 mixture in both

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@ctjlewis arguably any rehearsed, thoughtful presentation will evoke steve job-ness because he was the platonic ideal kinda like how people say "curry" hitting a 28ft 3-pointer and "kobe" hitting a fadeaway

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8 months

@thekitze probably underestimated the complexity of timezones and spent their entire budget implementing the basics

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join X. we test in prod. (this is a test)

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3 years

This is the most profound observation I've heard in 2021. Original tweet wasn't doing it justice. If you tell yourself that you can get everything done, your life will be less meaningful -- even if you're exceptionally productive.

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3 years

"The harder you struggle to fit everything in, the more of your time you'll find yourself spending on the least meaningful things." - @oliverburkeman , 4000 Weeks

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2 years

@KevinAFischer Don't think it's public info yet, but a well-known EdTech startup already has one in closed beta that is *crushing* human private tutors

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5 months

@powerbottomdad1 fixed the bug yesterday where medium fries were being omitted from multi-meal orders. fix is live, but still remediating past orders. should be done by EOD

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2 years

@d_feldman the word "literal" has lost all meaning

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2 years

very disappointed by how nice SF is. this app had me expecting a city-wide dilapidated hellscape

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1 year

@north0fnorth do the Lithuanians also think they invented putting french fries on sandwiches and insist their city is the best despite it being objectively depressing?

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2 years

@wannabegroncho why is this man only 4.5 ft tall?

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9 months

@end_tribalism1 @nominalthoughts I get your point, but there are many ways to argue (a) is more logical. Simple EV is just one tool for analysis, not ground truth. 30M is not ~30x better than 950k b/c of diminishing returns. You'd have to argue it's >13.5x better. I'd argue it'd only make you ~1.2x happier

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@michaelcurzi not unfair, but substack was heavily publicized while it was happening and has since be reverted the reports a few months ago that NYT and other links were throttled were false. we actually had a cache shard go down. 5 sec timeout before reading through to the underlying db

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1 year

finally, something I can show my parents so they understand what I do

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We’re hiring for many engineering roles @X . The team is very impressive and it’s an exciting time to join. Apply below.

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2 years

@devahaz everyone is reading Zero to One rn

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1 year

load test is going well

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Early stages of the X recruiting platform

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@groundedSAGE black pill is I can't see how a society can exorcise deeply engrained corruption without an interim period of totalitarianism

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3 years

@HarveyMultani Bad take. Totally liquid equity would be counterproductive for getting a group of people do something difficult over a long period of time. Look no further than all the cashgrab NFT projects that were abandoned as soon as the developers were flushed with cash.

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using X's streaming features for the first time, I'm recording the talk I gave at vibecamp ~2 yrs ago in ~30 minutes. it's been top of mind for me after reading Rovelli's "The Order of Time" and Wolfram's latest blog post on biology.

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I grew up on these streets

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I grew up on these streets

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10 months

has anyone checked threads lately? maybe the OAI board has been posting there this whole time

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4 months

@iamaheron_ the social engineering + fake window is crazy I got pwnd by a pretty sophisticated scam a few months ago. they only got my credit card though

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2 years

*5 min later* "Why not just leave it on the porch?" "That's stupid. Can you even make credit card transactions that small?" "Did I just get phished?" I reopen the link and... IT REDIRECTS TO THE REAL At some point, you have to admire the craftsmanship

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@Richard_Vixen No one actually thinks cities are good, right? We all just jokingly hate on suburbs to prevent urbanites from moving to the suburbs and turning them into cities, correct?

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3 years

@OdedRechavi In case anyone is wondering, this is phenolphthalein being poured into an acid. I remember <1% of what I learned in school, but something about this video uncovered that memory (still had to google the spelling though).

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the people with a low enough EQ to tweet their high-IQ test results tells you everything you need to know about the utility of IQ in isolation

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@ChrisJBakke Great share

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10 months

@chrisprucha it is serious by default. people are posting screenshots from "fun mode" because that's what's new and different all comedy is cringe in writing:

Tom Segura: Sledgehammer (2023) | Transcript - Scraps from the loft

From his dad's unusual deathbed confession to watching his mom get high, Tom Segura tells blisteringly candid stories about marriage, mortality and more.

scrapsfromtheloft.com

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5 months

@CSMFHT I can never spot this meme without checking the comments

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3 years

@sama fwiw, this is called Moravec's Paradox

Moravec's paradox - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

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@ccccjjjjeeee better than the fake humility version

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"I'm on the left"

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@frantzfries please tell me you can opt out

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2 years

there's no way printers actually need to make that much noise

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1 year

food really just tastes like whatever sauce it's in. we don't think about sauce enough. you gotta be planning your meals around sauces, with multiple sauces at every meal. you gotta have a walk-in fridge dedicated to sauce like a wine cellar. you need to be sauce maxxing.

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Many companies focus exclusively on making their interview process thorough & fair. Big mistake. First and foremost, your hiring process needs to be competitive (low friction) to get candidates in the door. Only then can you focus on how you evaluate talent.

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the most evolutionarily-fit among us are those who successfully imprint their intellectual progeny upon the NN weights of our fledgling AI overlords. having your art consumed by DALL-E will be your magnum opus.

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@LeonHeartProf @PrinceVogel someone on the team found the overzealous spam filter and fixed ~30 min ago the affected posts are being updated in batch, so your post should be visible in a couple hours

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@heyalexfriedman We're doing this! We match top talent with startups for gig, part-time, and full-time work. We've been heads-down building for a few months. Much more coming soon...

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@br___ian diet & exercise

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@Noahpinion words twice a week is semi-weekly

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@michaelcurzi

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@PrinceVogel why attribute malice to something that can be explained by a mistake? something is broken and we're working on a fix

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what is going on here

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2 years

@algekalipso unfortunately, it appears that 20% of people are just indiscriminately contrarian

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3 years

@Geographhy give the creator credit: @cstats1

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@space_colonist and 8 million households are multi-millionaires! America is still crazy rich and life is Good

Never Mind the 1%. Mini-Millionaires Are Where Wealth Is Growing Fastest.

Many people in the upper middle class are now millionaires thanks to college, savings, bull markets and timing.

www.wsj.com

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people with affluent parents who never worked a blue-collar job are out of touch, but not because they underestimate the hardship of the median American on the contrary, they overestimate the difference between their judgment/work ethic and that of their compatriots

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@tszzl If they just drop the "or it’s all over" part, those beliefs are not in conflict I'd say I believe: - most people hate working and find it boring as hell - people are happier when they find their work meaningful Which defines a clear mechanism for making the world better

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I subscribed to @GergelyOrosz 's newsletter and thought it was informative. Then he posted the laziest, uniformed take about Twitter acquiring Laskie, which I happen to know a lot about. I realize now he's just another talking head and am skeptical of any "news" he breaks.

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1. Loom security incident happens. 2. @GergelyOrosz drags us publicly because that's his brand. 3. I send out a tweet thread that goes viral and follow up with customers directly. 4. He asks for more info. I ask him his ETA. 5. 2 Months of radio silence. 6. Comes back and says

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@michaelcurzi I got that dawg in me (please share cardiologist recs)

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@NathanpmYoung source:

No One Can Explain Why Planes Stay in the Air

Do recent explanations solve the mysteries of aerodynamic lift?

www.scientificamerican.com

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@skooookum I use turbotax. working with a professional doesn't save you from the hardest part: collecting all the paperwork I don't see why a professional would be necessary if you don't have anything complicated like investment properties

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@nosilverv nice guys finish last assholes are ahead of them goofy guys lapped both of them

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2 years

@tomfgoodwin The cookie notifications are stupid, but the data subject access requests are legitimately important for increasing market competition and individual autonomy.

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@ArtisanGrowth @Austen yeah, definitely underappreciated. the privacy stuff is nice, but the ad/cookie/banner blocking features are amazing for performance and eliminating distractions. I can't stand the slowness/noise of regular chrome anymore

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@SahilBloom My lukewarm take on this is that Urgent x Interesting is a more helpful framework. Urgent and important are related concepts. It's much easier (and equally helpful) to differentiate between urgent and interesting.

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@rjs Agree in theory, but in practice the Product Engineer role is inherently unstable imo... They command exceptionally high comp as ICs, or become VPEs/founders. PMs outnumbering SWEs/designers was a ZIRP, but great PMs (rare) are still critical for large teams w/ broad scope

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@whrobbins I'm addicted to monster, but hate the branding. I would love for a non-cringe brand to make a drink that's comparable on taste/price

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@PrinceVogel @X thanks for posting! probably wouldn't have spotted it for a while otherwise

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fixed it for you

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damp drizzly november in my soul type of night

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@skooookum jinx you owe me a soda

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the people with a low enough EQ to tweet their high-IQ test results tells you everything you need to know about the utility of IQ in isolation

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I was today years old when I realized that the name @Cisco is just the ending of "San Francisco"

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@GrantSlatton there actually weren't embeddings for posts until just a few months ago. that is what powering the new version of trends and similar posts. muting a concept would be surprisingly tricky though. most posts are very short, so the embeddings have low signal:noise

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X is the mecca of malicious actors. any feature that can be abused will be abused

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@Lauracsc_ just one more pls I need it

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"The harder you struggle to fit everything in, the more of your time you'll find yourself spending on the least meaningful things." - @oliverburkeman , 4000 Weeks

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@michael_nielsen The Molecular Biology of the Cell (I like pretty pictures)

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