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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 tremulou…

> 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. …

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 no…

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…

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 trajector…

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 …

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 businesse…

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 ord…

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 tackli…

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 desi…

Seen another way, perhaps Sam would be much worse in this regard without his meditation practice (but Vipassana can definitely make you more anxious). I'm in agreement though, his …

Not all third party Kubernetes controllers are created equal, unfortunately. And it is also the reality that not every infra team gets final say on what operators we have to deploy…

The unfortunate trend I’ve witnessed in newer schools in my neck of the US (west) is to essentially make them fortresses, a place where entrances and exits are tightly controlled a…

So life as a system benefits from the randomness — but inevitableness — of death, is how I interpret that. Benefits as in, key to its continual perpetuation.

“I'm really not that fussy — I think it's more important to make the best use of what you have. I don't like to walk into a studio, lay down the law, and say, 'I must have this, ot…

I am in the camp that sees themselves getting rid of a smart phone in the future. Right now I've been on the "defanged iPhone" warpath, whittling down my apps to just the necessiti…

As a hobby ceramicist, I must acknowledge a certain amount of grumpiness borne from what the talc allegations have done to our niche community. Talc is used extensively in low-mid …

This is essentially true. Pharma is incredibly expensive (for lots of different reasons), with R&D taking up a huge portion of those costs. So yes, it's safe to assume that part of…

> Under this theory, moms took the brunt of the blame, supposedly for being "cold and distant and detached from their child." Before the heredity nature of autism was accepted, thi…