In no way is she a good dog, but I still love her visits.

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Happy pride to anyone else who before they came out was like, “Oh I’m just a really good ally. I really care about those gays and their rights. It just makes me so mad how they aren’t treated equally. I’m just really viscerally empathetic”

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used to have its office in San Francisco on Sansome St., near the Montgomery Street BART station. It evaporated during Covid like so many good things.

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1. A transgender man was detained in South Carolina for using the restroom that Republicans want him to use. Officers allegedly hurled slurs at him for doing so. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-man-...

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Elon Musk wants a Texas compound filled with women he will breed with to preserve his superior genes.

Imagine watching Fury Road and thinking Immortan Joe is the hero.

2024. This photo was from the Pocket Team Week last year. It was the first and only gathering of the Pocket Tiger Team, and the last time an entire Pocket team would gather.

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2022. I took this photo at the end of Mozilla All-Hands. I’d never been the Hawaii before, and the long walks on the beach with coworkers and friends felt practically surreal.

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2016. I took this photo at my first team week. As a daily user, joining Pocket was a dream for me. I’d always wanted to work on something I actually used, and the product sat at that intersection of web client and news utility that I was already extremely invested in.

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Big tech demand for software engineers has past its peak. You can see it in declining hiring & compensation and increased layoffs.

A question is how much AI is playing a role?

As a replacement to coders, I think not much. As the driver of cost cutting to buy GPUs and build data centers? A lot.

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Basic models of flocking behavior are controlled by three simple rules: 1) separation: avoid crowding neighbours (short range repulsion); 2) alignment: steer towards average heading of neighbors; 3) cohesion: steer towards average position of neighbors (long range attraction). With these three simple rules, the flock moves in an extremely realistic way.