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"There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;

And frogs in the pools singing at night, And wild plum trees in tremulous white,

Robins will wear their feathery fire Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;

And not one will know of the war, not one Will care at last when it is done.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly;

And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone."

- Sara Teasdale, 1918

Didn't see the inspiration for Bradbury mentioned here. I love this poem. There's also a great song-rendition of it by The Three D's, a folk group popular in the 50's.

> also what – chief design officer and futurist for DOMO??

Utah has a bit of a thing for "received knowledge", as the predominate culture tends to prime egos for prophetic wisdom. Add elitist competition with your local peers to the mix and you won't have to look far to find some...creative titles.

Kind of fun to think that the crystalline structure of minerals is an "echo" of their arrangement of atoms. A repeating pattern on a scale we can actually observe.

I'm fairly certain that Nest cameras do not allow streaming over your local network.

You can still use the cameras even without a subscription, i.e. watch the live stream or get notifications. This means that yes, they are absolutely uploading data to the cloud and storing it for some undetermined window. Paying for a subscription seems to just give you access to that history.

The late potter and educator John Neely would often say to his students and others:

> “I don’t put too much stock in creativity. Creativity itself won’t get you very far, you can’t always rely on it. But you can rely on hard work”

Knowing John and the chaotic world of clay perhaps deepens the profundity here, but even on its own it’s advice I freely share with anyone.

I hate to be the one to say it, but...this is why we can't have nice things.

At a certain scale, social media tilts humanity in one direction. We can't seem to escape the trajectory of our very nature; it will outcompete any complex system we devise to outwit it.

I’ve been wanting to implement a more “overzealous” approach to cleanup orphaned pods from analytical workflows (Prefect) that hang on to expensive compute resources, sometimes it feels frustratingly out of control. It’s really difficult to get good signal from the noise on if it’s actually orphaned (due to the things you’ve mentioned); killing a workload that isn’t actually orphaned can be very costly due to re-runs. Commenting out of solidarity here, but also curious to see others chime in their approach.

I’ve recently developed a serious allergy to this phrasing:

> “This was not just X; it’s really Y”

Here are some real examples taken from various sources:

> "Regenerative businesses don't just minimise harm; they actively create positive change for the environment and people."

> "This milestone isn’t just about our growth. It’s about deepening our commitment to you…"

> "This wasn’t just a market rally. It was a real-time lesson in how quickly sentiment can fracture and recover when fundamentals remain intact."

Hard to say for certain that this is AI slop, but just like em dashes, I see it routinely pop up in LLM prose. And I feel like it’s infected nearly everything I’ve read that was written within the last year.

I have only given negative feedback once when leaving a job, and it resulted in pretty sweeping changes in leadership across the department. I've since found out that the whole ordeal garnered me "legendary" status amongst the remaining employees.

On the flip side, the author is right -- it's a small world out there. While I don't regret doing the "right thing" and speaking up about serious issues, I am nervous that I burned some bridges with the two leaders who were let go after my departure. So far it hasn't come back to bite me (~8 years and 3 jobs later), but as they say time will tell.

Not to mention how difficult it can be to transition to sleeping with a bed partner, let alone one who is an insomniac.

Not just economic (although it definitely ties into it) -- finding an eligible patient population also another complicating dimension.

The teary-eyed CEO, of course.

> Many/most people hired by US government agencies in the last two years seem to be being let-go.

Could read into this a few ways. People joined who were eager to be part of tackling how the US prepares for and manages the next pandemic (which was uh, how do you say...an unpopular event with this administration), or people who may have been hired while DEI initiatives were having their moment. Both cases feel like vengeful targeting.

Regardless of which camp you're in, you can't ignore the collateral damage from this. What a very troubling time for the US.

I have been trying to imagine something similar, but without all the middleware/distribution layer. You need to do a thing? The LLM just does it and presents the user with the desired experience. Kind of upending the notion that we need "apps" in the first place. It's all materialized, just-in-time style.