chris coke

Common sense is that which tells us the earth is flat.

[chris coke @crccoke]

@JDVance Bring back IRS Direct File

[chris coke @crccoke]

@nabeelqu I imagine there is also a publisher story here where something < 100 pages "will never sell" for $35 but that same idea repeated through 350p does

[chris coke @crccoke]

@WillManidis "It's one great American myth," Kissinger added, speaking slowly, "that you can always try something new."

[chris coke @crccoke]

@lessin Also relevant for leavers. With AI tools an engineer can rewrite large parts of their old code base at a new company, from memory.

[chris coke @crccoke]

I highly recommend the MIT Essential Knowledge series. I'm reading "Memory" now - infinitely better than a pop-sci book that has a gimmicky <NOUN>:<DRAMATIC ACTION> title and is 300 pages too long. https://t.co/U11OviaCB3

[chris coke @crccoke]

@Nexuist @Austen Fixer (but not the negative connotation)

[Patrick McKenzie @patio11]

Co-signed. It’s one of the best technologies for justice ever invented.

Also I would told you this in 2004 but subsequent to that I experienced twenty years of mostly-doesn’t-score Japan and as someone on socioeconomic margins had lots of the “fun” that scoring solves.

[sam lessin 🏴‍☠️ @lessin]

How Harvard ‘Broke’ When Society Asked the Academic Institution to Take on Too Much ‘Scope’ as other social institutions failed

[chris coke @crccoke]

Leonardo, make 1 representative image of Jesus of Nazareth and his middle-eastern friends

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

OK I assumed people were exaggerating with this stuff but here's the first image request I tried with Gemini.

[chris coke @crccoke]

Evidence that the US is a low-trust society: my neighbors do not want a local, pothole-ridden road repaved because they assume it will increase driving speeds

[chris coke @crccoke]

If I feel that at 6 months, then that calls into question the original quality. And if I only feel it at 24 months, I'm stagnant

[chris coke @crccoke]

I find that if I look back on my work from 12 months ago and feel a slight cringe at the quality, that means I'm generally learning at a good pace

[chris coke @crccoke]

It wasn't "socialism" it was protectionism, cronyism, and populism that doomed Argentina in the 1940s-50s. That sure sounds a lot more like one US 2024 candidate than the other

[david friedberg @friedberg]

milei’s speech should be the media event of the year. every high school class in the US should break and watch it, then spend a week understanding the historical context behind his devastating truths. if you haven’t watched, please do. and share widely.

[chris coke @crccoke]

For the record this ended up being an odd time to post this, only 6 days before SVB collapsed and "consumers being less sticky" turned out to be the m.o.. It's fascinating that the largest banks can still pay mere basis points to savers.

[chris coke @crccoke]

Consumers should be less sticky to these banks so they have to compete on price. Should be ~4%

[chris coke @crccoke]

@levie Why is it exactly 85k 9 of 10 years through 2013? Did they only report up to the cap in that period? What changed?

[chris coke @crccoke]

@David_Kasten Yes but without a basis in probability theory how can you understand the midwit meme and thus human nature

[Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma]

Kinda surprised nobody has polled people on *why* they feel the economy is bad.

Is it their personal financial situation? They heard their friends talk about how tough it is? Something they read on the news? Social media?

[chris coke @crccoke]

@seanjtaylor Spotlight or Google sheet

[chris coke @crccoke]

@laurenbalik Wow, pony henge, that's my neighborhood.

[chris coke @crccoke]

The most heroic description of a SQL query I've ever read