If you are soo utterly disgusted by speculation, you should just quit crypto altogether.. There is no escape

Speculation is fine, but folks need to consistently trade value for time and vice versa if we want to make this crypto thing work out.

swords

What it feels like to interact with fun new frames

This is what it feels like to debug Rust code.

politics

Debt ceiling is one of the dumbest things we’ve ever had to endure in American politics. Only surpassed by the great fiscal cliff crisis back in 2013.

Inspirational talk on how to build a messaging exchange at the lowest levels. Just open a TCP port and multicast.

Inspirational talk on how to build a messaging exchange at the lowest levels. Just open a TCP port and multicast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1e4t2k2KJY

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My Follow Friday FIDs. Folks I've discovered this week to be super thoughtful and share great visual content.

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co-founder @survey x /ponder // benadamsky.com

✳︎ design engineer → @ponder 
✳︎ explorer of humanism • petrolhead/gearhead
✳︎ React/SwiftUI
✳︎ bento.me/matthew

Curating human insight | Follow @survey for polls | Visit weponder.io for more | By @ba and @cojo.eth

geography guy | extracting data @ponder @survey

The @ponder team has been working diligently to track the new frames meta and add products with market fitness.

It’s impressive to see the “just works” output of their team.

Great job @cojo.eth @ba  @matthewmorek @etash and anyone else contributing!

👏 💭

Sticks And Stones May Break My Bones But You'll Never Rug Me

i get asked this a bunch, re: why GCP for the company?

i believe Google has the best data engineering and data science cloud infrastructure teams, and they are likely to win the AI cloud wars because of that. 

put plainly: they simply have way more data to deal with than anyone else.

long term view, who knows!

Introducing Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, an experimental model that explicitly shows its thoughts.

Built on 2.0 Flash’s speed and performance, this model is trained to use thoughts to strengthen its reasoning.

And we see promising results when we increase inference time…

Jeff Dean

Shot. Chaser.

https://x.com/JeffDean/status/1869789813232341267

Hello Blackbird friends, a tip for the wise. Holding FLY is fiiine, but spending FLY is the way.

Consumer crypto is here, it's just not evenly distributed lol.

Zero-copy gRPC Hub event processing sounds about right.

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christopher

Rugged via Web 2.0 rails.

https://tedium.co/2024/12/17/bluesky-impersonation-risks/

👨‍💻 /uno and /outside, @unofficial