A short writeup on the process & design decisions that went into our “Paying the President” (https://t.co/piXerk6koX) piece with ProPublica https://t.co/tEZcElRxNo
There are 4 types of wealth:
1. Financial wealth (money)
2. Social wealth (status)
3. Time wealth (freedom)
4. Physical wealth (health)
Be wary of jobs that lure you in with 1 and 2, but rob you of 3 and 4.
Alien 3 adaptation of William Gibson's @GreatDismal screenplay being adapted by @j_xmas with my colors, and @blambot lettering and @NotTooChaby editing got announced!
https://t.co/tWNinXZ5MC
100,000,000 sharks are killed a year for seasoning for soup. The fins are cut off live sharks. The #sharks are then dumped back into the ocean to die. Soon there there will be no more sharks.
#SharkAwarenessDay#SharkWeek
We've published a roadmap for new integrations, features, and optimizations going into @OpenPolicyAgent over the next few months. Check it out (feedback welcome!) https://t.co/I2zXzcit74
Reminder: Human beings can’t multitask. You’re not an exception. If you are driving, don’t:
Shave
Do your makeup
Read
Text
Search your phone for *anything*
If you are lost, pull over and orient yourself.
The rest of us are trying to make it to our destinations. In one piece.
@rauschma 98.6% of .reduce() deserves a local output var for readability/debuggability/maintainability. So .reduce() doesn’t really add much over other loop types. It’s less overhead for author and *reader* to rely on side effects (and TBH accumulator is just another word for side effects)
So true… Then on the third rewrite you realize that the premise of that piece of code is totally wrong and should be removed entirely, since its calling function should be reworked instead. https://t.co/kNEZRUvgUL
If you find yourself losing patience with someone, remember that they are an ape adrift in an alien world, born into a struggle they did not choose, bullied by impulses they cannot control, searching for answers they will not find, and condemned to a fate they do not deserve.
Concrete is stronger if carrots are added to it. Mohamed Saafi at Lancaster University and his colleagues have been experimenting by adding ‘nanoplatelets’ extracted from the vegetable.
My career as an sf writer basically started from assuming this. “And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.” -Count Zero https://t.co/iYh77AlZy3