Eduardo Argollo

“Imagine you were about to be born but didn’t know as whom: rich or poor, urban or rural, sick or healthy. Before learning your status, you have to choose what kind of society you’d live in. What would you want?”
Where would you prefer to be born today? What type of society should we aim to build?

tokens are getting more expensive "language models will get cheaper by 10x" will not save ai subscriptions from the short squeeze

‘"language models will get cheaper by 10x" will not save ai subscriptions from the short squeeze’ - Great read: ethanding.substack.com/p/ai-subscri...

Not only are Palestinians starving to death, they are being killed as they try to access food.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." 

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Leetcode and “system design” interviews gave us a generation that can Big O and cache the hell out of anything but has no idea what coupling or cohesion mean.

any excuse to repost the greatest Tetris story ever, when a reporter went to cover early e-gaming championships and discovered that his wife was unknowingly *the world's greatest Tetris player* by a huge margin

archive.boston.com/news/globe/m...

The US is gripped by vibes over reason and confirmation bias over science.

Conspiracy theories are now influencing government policy at the federal and state level from vaccine denial to removing fluoride from the water.

Progress isn’t linear and it’s sad we got complacent enough to believe it was

"Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable"
Dwight Eisenhower

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.” Richard Feynman

Never forget Gall’s Law:
"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work."

YouTube video by Senator Chris Murphy Murphy: Six Weeks In, This White House Is On Its Way To Being The Most Corrupt In U.S. History

I'd like to bring this video to your attention.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyco...

It's doing pretty significant numbers for what it is, so while I understand sharing it won't make a difference for those knee-deep in the cult of personality, I'd say it has a better-than-average chance of resonating.

How Core Git Developers Configure Git What `git config` settings should be defaults by now? Here are some settings that even the core developers change.

Interesting opinionated configuration of Git for developers: blog.gitbutler.com/how-git-core...

Little Haiti #miami

“Never let a good crisis go to waste”

"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure".
- Goodhart's law

"There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors."

-- Leon Bambrick

I fear there is deep truth here.

How Shopify built their innovative 3D Live Globe in 2024.

Tech stack: React + R3F, some Rails, Go, Flink+Kafka

Details on how the team went from idea, through design, to shipping and oncall: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/shopify-bl...

When I hear people talk about deregulation, what I'm really hearing them say is: "any limitation on harming people is a limitation on profits".

The purpose of a system is what it does. The machine is never broken. anildash.com/2024/05/29/s...

“It’s impressive what a tiny team of experienced engineers can build”
Small highly motivated purpose driven teams are unbelievably powerful.

That journalist is @annodea.com and the interview got published in @siliconrepublic.bsky.social. Ann captured my thoughts perfectly. The success of this platform isn't solely on the Bluesky team, it's a shared responsibility, the community has a role to play. www.siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/k...

Do you know how dark Twitter has to be for *STEPHEN KING* to say it’s too dark

Never underestimate the power of Conway’s law!

A new era dawns. America’s tech bros now strut their stuff in the corridors of power | Carole Cadwalladr The era that began with the Great Disruptor’s first term is over. Beware the emerging elite

A must read: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A woman sat on a rocky beach leaned up against a backpack, using a laptop on her lap. An object is beside her, a large cone with a HP logo on it. The Cone.

The Cone by HP can be taken with you anywhere you go. The Cone is a highly portable device. The Cone is friendly. Do not get too close to The Cone.

Last year, in an attempt to escape from Twitter, I tried Mastodon, but the UX didn't click for me. Then a Bluesky invite showed up. It was the Twitter clone I was looking for. I started crossposting as a hedge, I even started sending invites of my own. I was all in.

Then I went back to Twitter.

youtu.be/wVyu7NB7W6Y

Full letter, see link for full text

List of initial signatories

Brazil’s fight against Twitter/X and Elon Musk is a “pivotal front” for those “seeking to build a democratic and people-centred digital landscape, focusing on social and economic development.”

I was happy to sign this letter backing Brazil and the fight for digital sovereignty: tinyurl.com/yar7ab6r