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Hottest of hot takes: Musk just bought Twitter with the sole aim of returning a Republican administration in 2024. Trump will be reinstated within weeks. – at Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Barry McGee retweeted
You can’t outwork the whole world. There’s always going to be someone somewhere willing to work as hard as you. Someone just as hungry. Or hungrier.
Assuming you can work harder and longer than someone else is giving yourself too much credit for your effort and not enough for theirs. Putting in 1,001 hours to someone else’s 1,000 isn’t going to tip the scale in your favor.
What’s worse is when management holds up certain people as having a great “work ethic” because they’re always around, always available, always working. That’s a terrible example of a work ethic and a great example of someone who’s overworked.
A great work ethic isn’t about working whenever you’re called upon. It’s about doing what you say you’re going to do, putting in a fair day’s work, respecting the work, respecting the customer, respecting coworkers, not wasting time, not creating unnecessary work for other people, and not being a bottleneck. Work ethic is about being a fundamentally good person that others can count on and enjoy working with.
So how do people get ahead if it’s not about outworking everyone else?
People make it because they’re talented, they’re lucky, they’re in the right place at the right time, they know how to work with other people, they know how to sell an idea, they know what moves people, they can tell a story, they know which details matter and which don’t, they can see the big and small pictures in every situation, and they know how to do something with an opportunity. And for so many other reasons.
So get the outwork myth out of your head. Stop equating work ethic with excessive work hours. Neither is going to get you ahead or help you find calm.
[The Outwork Myth — It Doesn't Have To Be Crazy At Work, 2018]
Barry McGee retweeted
Since we open-sourced pi-autoresearch, @Shopify teams have been running it on everything.
Results so far:
Unit tests: 300x faster
React component mounting: 20% faster
CI build time: 65% reduction
Made pnpm run faster
Autoresearch never stops trying things you'd never have time to try.
Repo: github.com/davebcn87/pi-auto…
Barry McGee retweeted
There is no one more confident in their worldview than someone who has never left their hometown.
Barry McGee retweeted
For the record, the president of the United States is now simultaneously claiming that he has won the war, is currently winning the war, needs help to win the war, and needs no help to win the war. All to destroy the nuclear program he claims to have already destroyed last year.
Barry McGee retweeted
Today at @Shopify we're making sign-in WAY BETTER
Introducing the ACCOUNT COMPONENT for Shopify stores 🤩🥹
Rolling out TODAY across all stores with Horizon, AND coming very soon to many more 3P themes !!
Detailed walkthru in NEXT TWEEET👇
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Barry McGee retweeted
There is a massive advantage to hiring young people, and @Shopify was the first company to figure it out, says Pragmatic Engineer's @GergelyOrosz.
"Shopify's Head of Engineering @fnthawar told me that he saw something interesting years back. Shopify was so early to AI. They got Copilot licenses for everyone, with no cost limit. But they didn't see many teams using it."
"But there was this one team that was using it a lot more. There was an intern on the team. They onboarded the intern and gave the intern his two-week task and the intern was done in a day. And they're like, 'How did you do that?' He's like, 'Oh well I just used AI? What's next?'"
"And suddenly the people on the team felt stupid, right? So they started to learn from the intern and use AI."
"The next thing Farhan did was hire an intern for every single Shopify team. This is why Shopify had a thousand interns."
Barry McGee retweeted
This is absolutely mind-bending. By locking the camera to a fixed point in the sky rather than the ground, this stunning timelapse perfectly visualizes Earth's rotation.🌍🌌
It really puts our movement through space into perspective.
Barry McGee retweeted
“yeah it was good thanks. quiet one. feels good to get back to some normality if im honest haha”
Barry McGee retweeted
this is actually incredible
I’m old enough to remember when the “uncanny valley” applied to AI generated people. Now AI can create indistinguishable people and the uncanny valley applies to real people attempting to create artificial versions of themselves.
It's true, my last 5-10 Ubers (particularly in London) all stunk.
Ride hailing must be the first industry where the robot experience is now not just equal but highly superior to the human experience
Ubers have become smelly, dirty and low quality, esp in Europe but not just
I have friends who don't let their teen kids take Ubers, makes sense
My Uber in SF was reeking of urine, my Uber in Amsterdam tried to fight me and my Uber in Portugal bragged he didn't sleep for 32 hours, and I have 100s more Uber stories like this
Pre-Uber around 2010, I remember filing a complaint because the taxi driver in Amsterdam forced me to tip and when I didn't, he became violent and then actively reversed into me
I'm so happy there's now a viable replacement that lets you transport yourself around a city in a comfortable, clean and most of all safe way
Amazing work @Waymo
Twelve years until my oldest child is eligible to drive - I reckon there's now a high chance he won't need to learn at all.
I have a guest essay in @nytimes today about autonomous vehicle safety. I wrote it because I’m tired of seeing children die. Done right, we can eliminate car crashes as a leading cause of death in the United States
@Waymo recently released data covering nearly 100 million driverless miles. I spent weeks analyzing it because the results seemed too good to be true. 91% fewer serious-injury crashes. 92% less pedestrians hit. 96% fewer injury crashes at intersections. The list goes on.
39,000 Americans died in crashes last year. More than homicide, plane crashes, and natural disasters combined. The #2 killer of children and young adults. The #1 cause of spinal cord injury. We’ve accepted this as the price of mobility.
We don’t have to.
In medicine, when a treatment shows this level of benefit, we stop the trial early. Continuing to give patients the placebo becomes unethical. When an intervention works this clearly, you change what you do.
In driving, we’re all the control group.
Cities like DC and Boston are blocking deployment. And cities are not the only forces mobilizing to slow this progress.
It’s time we stop treating this like a tech moonshot and start treating it like a public health intervention that will save lives.
Link to article below.
👀 this video of Waymo cars evading crashes with people and vehicles. I especially note the ones that require it having a 360° view.
My sincere thanks to Alex Ellerbeck and @acsifferlin for their wisdom and sure hand in editing this piece.
Barry McGee retweeted
The Live Globe is back on @SphereVegas
100% live data, rendered in real-time, built with threejs, React, and a lot of shaders
3…2…1…
Barry McGee retweeted
The new legacy legislation was debated in the House of Commons last night and I took the opportunity to set the record straight about what happened on Bloody Sunday for those who have chosen to ignore the truth for decades.
Barry McGee retweeted
Apparently schools shouldn't be telling kids to be nice to LGBT people because that's indoctrination but god forbid the highest court in the land points out that shoving religion down people's throats amounts to actual indoctrination.
“Did my own research” headbangers trying to repudiate this by tagging Grok to back them up but then getting shredded by Grok at every turn is highly entertaining. 🍿
Covid-19 vaccines, credited with saving millions of lives during the pandemic, set off a powerful alarm that rallies the human immune system against cancer and nearly doubles the median survival length of patients, according to a new retrospective study. wapo.st/4qmTVhl
