Alec Spurlock

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[Alec Spurlock @AlecSpurlock]

@GerardAlba @elonmusk Because the earth rotates at roughly 1,000 mph on its axis and roughly 70,000 mph around the sun

[Alec Spurlock @AlecSpurlock]

@PR0GRAMMERHUM0R If int number/2 == True,
Else false what is so hard lolol

[thetechwiz @thetech_wiz]

For those of you who are interested ‼️

✅ Pixel 8 Pro ( Tensor G3 ) is exporting a 20 second 4K video to 1080p.

✅ iPhone 15 Pro Max ( A17 Pro ) is exporting 1 minute 51 seconds of multiple 4K videos to 1080p.

[tom ッ @tom_antok]

Only Linux users can relate

[ESPN @espn]

This Toy Story version is something else 😮

#ATLvsJAX | Toy Story Funday on @ESPNPlus: https://t.co/dTahXfHr11

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

I mean 🤷‍♂️

[Tesla Optimus @Tesla_Optimus]

Optimus can now sort objects autonomously 🤖

Its neural network is trained fully end-to-end: video in, controls out.

Come join to help develop Optimus (& improve its yoga routine 🧘)

→ https://t.co/dBhQqg1qya

[Santiago @svpino]

Scrum is a cancer.

I've been writing software for 25 years, and nothing renders a software team useless like Scrum does.

Some anecdotes:

1. They tried to convince me that Poker is a planning tool, not a game.

2. If you want to be more efficient, you must add process, not remove it. They had us attending the "ceremonies," a fancy name for a buttload of meetings: stand-ups, groomings, planning, retrospectives, and Scrum of Scrums. We spent more time talking than doing.

3. We prohibited laptops in meetings. We had to stand. We passed a ball around to keep everyone paying attention.

4. We spent more time estimating story points than writing software. Story points measure complexity, not time, but we had to decide how many story points fit in a sprint.

5. I had to use t-shirt sizes to estimate software.

6. We measured how much it cost to deliver one story point and then wrote contracts where clients paid for a package of "500 story points."

7. Management lost it when they found that 500 story points in one project weren't the same as 500 story points on another project. We had many meetings to fix this.

8. Imagine having a manager, a scrum master, a product owner, and a tech lead. You had to answer to all of them and none simultaneously.

9. We paid people who told us whether we were "burning down points" fast enough. Weren't story points about complexity instead of time? Never mind.

I believe in Agile, but this ain't agile.

We brought professional Scrum trainers. We paid people from our team to get certified. We tried Scrum this way and that other way. We spent years doing it.

The result was always the same: It didn't work.

Scrum is a cancer that will eat your development team. Scrum is not for developers; it's another tool for managers to feel they are in control.

But the best about Scrum are those who look you in the eye and tell you: "If it doesn't work for you, you are doing it wrong. Scrum is anything that works for your team."

Sure it is.

[TESLA saves lives @Teslasaveslives]

Watch this kid life saved by Tesla AEB safety system !

The driver of this Tesla said she never saw the kid, and the car braked on its own.

[NUCLR GOLF @NUCLRGOLF]

🚨#BREAKING: Tiger Woods has joined the PGA TOUR policy board as a player director. “I am honored to represent the players of the PGA TOUR. This is a critical point for the TOUR, and the players will do their best to make certain that any changes that are made in TOUR operations are in the best interest of all TOUR stakeholders, including fans, sponsors and players. The players thank Commissioner Monahan for agreeing to address our concerns, and we look forward to being at the table with him to make the right decisions for the future of the game that we all love. He has my confidence moving forward….” —TW

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Turn audio on for max satisfaction

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

It's actually impressive how bad Siri still is

[Erica Wenger @Erica_Wenger]

I keep thinking about this illustration

[Alec Spurlock @AlecSpurlock]

@iammemeloper Definitely not good code practice but a funny meme

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

:P

[tom ッ @tom_antok]

Docker explained

[Denard Robinson @DenardX]

The Ol Ball coach!!! 🚀

[Neil Dunn @NeilRDunn]

@TaylorOgan @GerberKawasaki @RealDanODowd This is clear that Ross was nervous had his foot on the accelerator to avoid fsd ghost breaking and forced it through the stop sign until he let off at the last second and applied brakes.