$4B would vaccinate approximately 700M people in India against COVID. reuters.com/article/health…
Self-driving cars are wildly unlikely. They blew $4b on them and built a car that couldn't go 1/4mi without a fatal crash. They had to pay another company $400m to take ...
We could have vaccinated pretty much everyone in the world and had money left over to buy breakfast and lunch for every child in the USA with $50B reuters.com/article/health… ask.usda.gov/s/article/How-…
Uber is predicated on offering low fares and extracting high commissions (high enough to make the shareholders whole, which requires recouping $50B in cash burned on regu...
TFW you try to beat the crowd for your #todaysoffice coffee shop and the entire table next to you are hungarians 🥲 (@ Reykjavík Roasters - @rvkroasters in Reykjavík) swarmapp.com/c/eIFMnzHQc30
I hope more people read this book to understand why Sirhan should be freed. Here is my short book review: herestomwiththeweather.com/2019/01/05/a-l…
My book is back in the top 50,000 books on Amazon. That's heartening - shows people are interested enough to look deeper into the case. Fantastic.
Last #byobonb of the summer
MIT/BSD for libraries/frameworks, definitely. But I advocate for GPL/AGPL for apps. No way am I building a SaaS product and then letting someone else build a proprietary service off of it and fracturing the community.
This may be an unpopular opinion, but I strongly prefer MIT/BSD licenses because they focus on the freedom of the individuals creating and using the software. In contra...
Frozen gyoza and XLB dumplings are the best “oh damn I forgot dinner” solution in existence.
I’ve decided to start calling Ivermectin “Horsey Sauce."
“How To Create a Blazing Fast Modern Blog With…” (Wrong answers only!)
Today's interview with @lisapease prior to Sirhan's parole hearing: fox40.com/news/californi…
This is unexpected good news.
The hearing is still wrapping up - they're giving their reasons, but granted!!!! Parole for Sirhan granted!!! (In Step 1. A couple more hurdles to jump, now. More on that...
Another #cmmc podcast gem from a CT CMMC Coalition founding member Dana Mantilia In this episode she interviews the one and only @Amira_Armond President of Kieri Solution, and a brain trust for the #cmmc world Come learn about Documentation: lnkd.in/ed3Bybt7
Another great show from Dana Mantilia In this episode she interviews Ryan Heidorn about the truth of your MSP falling in scope. lnkd.in/eVEiVyvJ
Been there, done that, got coffee cup
Brooks Otterlake https://twitter.com/i_zzzzzz
It's easy to laugh at this. But deep down you know you want the cube.
For real, if you need info about Disney or Popeye lore, @choochoobear is a national treasure.
right at the start of "I've Got a Crush On You", Ira Gershwin says, it's not that you're attractive smdh why you gotta be an ass
If @dhh really wanted to promote good CSS hygiene in Rails apps… …he’d port this tool to Ruby. native-elements.dev/#/docs/funky/i… It gives you a responsive “class-less” utility CSS toolkit. Paired with tokens via CSS Variables from a design system (check out Shoelace!) and PRESTO! 💥
Ouch. Take out sass as a default, sure…but Tailwind is highly problematic + extremely opinionated and absolutely should not be de facto endorsed by Rails. twitter.com/d...
A lovely obit for a well-lived life. Carolyn S. Shoemaker (1929–2021) nature.com/articles/d4158…
Bike Fun historians! I am trying to figure out the years that @bonbpdx has happened on each bridge. Here’s what I can remember: Steel: 2002 - 2020 Hawthorne: 2003 - 2020 Broadway: 2003  - 2007 (?) Morrison: 2010 - 2011 (?) Burnside: 2013 - 2015 (?) Tilikum: 2015 - 2020
Your classic good news/bad news story Giant clams have a growth spurt — thanks to pollution : Research Highlights “Although encouraging, the molluscs’ growth spurt might not reflect an improvement in their overall health, the authors say.” nature.com/articles/d4158…