engjneer | promethean
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argument between me (engineer) and my wife (designer) while painting the guest br:
> (her) of these two colors, which do you think?
> this looks good but maybe a little bold, this other one is safe but it doesn’t look like a real color
> what do you mean?
> I do this for work every day. nobody talks about color that way and what you’re saying has no meaning in the design world
> ok do what you want. you asked for my opinion and I’m telling you I look at that and think that’s not a real color
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there are certain accounts on this site that only make sense if the person has some kind of humiliation fetish
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need a jig to sharpen skew chisels. design isn't great yet but it is really so impressive that opus 5.5 can do this while hardly denting my $20/mo 5h cap
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when the nominative determinism is so strong you feel bad a person never had a chance at free will
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JC Maxwell retweeted
The master biographer reflects at 91. The Robert Caro interview.
0:00:00 – How Caro gets people to talk
0:05:03 – Does America need a little more Moses today?
0:12:42 – Moses the young idealist
0:17:57 – Watching Moses lose power
0:24:01 – Did Moses realize he was changing?
0:27:53 – Building during the Great Depression
0:32:51 – The threats and promises of Lyndon Johnson
0:36:08 – Could Kennedy have passed Johnson’s laws?
0:41:00 – Getting a book down to one sentence
0:46:21 – All the material that never made it into the books
0:52:59 – Loneliness
laundering your political instincts via economics papers is a long running game
it is wrong to imply elite & respected participants have broken the rules and played unfairly. but we can all just admit they’ve been playing a game
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Zucman Zucman them boys up to something
Errors in the research of Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman marginalrevolution.com/margi…
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embarrassing but this kind of gamification works so well on me. looking forward the first session on my daylight tablet tonight
The Strava of reading.
The core innovation is a whole new dimension of tracking your reading on the session level, automatically. You can think of this like tracking a run, a workout, or your sleep, and the benefits are similar: it subconsciously helps you both read more and read deeper without relying on willpower-based tactics.
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prediction markets are good, but have some well-known failure modes, like:
- a time you didn’t understand what probability meant
- a market that resolved in a surprising way (bc you didn’t understand probability)
- a friend of yours lost money (bc they’re bad at probabilities)
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