@jtr Love these, please keep it up! I’ll emphasize this intro post you buried in a footnote. The part about things to avoid in particular — YouTube is full of screencasts that offer that kind of advice (there’s some great stuff there as well, but it all starts with “let’s make a minimalist config”)

@mcuban.bsky.social A few years ago we analyzed how much the price of cancer drugs correlated with how well they worked. Answer: not at all.

As this case perfectly shows, cancer drugs are priced by how much they can get away with.

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@JohnBrady Indeed:

> The population is a hopeless tangle and enigma; Syrian, Spanish, Italian, and negro elements impinging upon one another, and fragments of Scandinavian and American belts lying not far distant. It is a babel of sound and filth, and sends out strange cries to answer the lapping of oily waves at its grimy piers and the monstrous organ litanies of the harbour whistles.

He wasn’t a fan of the American melting pot.

@jtr Yeah, on my laptop I do use CapLock as compose since I moved the Ctr to be right next to the space bar. On the desktop there’s more keys to work with.

@jtr Do you use the compose key? Compose + three hyphens works great for me. It may be gnome only though.

@eastbrad These are all stunning. Where? How?

@jtr If it’s a half day of meetings where I only sit, listen, maybe provide a comment or two then sure, I may be able to do some extra work on top. But most meetings aren’t like that (otherwise why have them), so the rest of the day is mostly spent preparing for them and dealing with the aftermath.

Rule of thumb: each meeting chews up twice the time it’s scheduled for.

@todd That is the correct stance. Any USMNT achievement from this point forward will be tainted for no fault of their own.

@JohnBrady Indeed. This I think is why Anthropic called its model Mythos. Very Lovecraftian.

@Miraz Thank you, Miraz! I won’t fully unclench until the last box is unpacked at the destination.