wasabi brain

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Seems about right
The offshoring ROI math used to be if it was worth it to have 30% worse code in order to save 80% on development costs.
Now the math for AI is if it’s worth it to increase your total costs by 50% even including cutting head count (and losing institutional memory) in order to make 30% worse code
Mathematically correct. #geeklife #meme

"On 13 October 2023, six days after the #Hamas attack on Israeli settlements and bases around Gaza, Israel ordered the evacuation of #Gaza City, sending Palestinians in northern Gaza towards the southern border with Egypt. A document prepared by the Israeli Ministry of Intelligence and leaked to the online journal +972 explained the reason for this: it recommended the full-scale expulsion of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip into the Egyptian Sinai, arguing that this would ‘yield positive, long-term strategic outcomes for #Israel’. The destruction of conditions of life was intended to hasten the Gazans’ departure. The biggest campaign in the history of aerial bombardment rolled like a carpet of fire from north to south."

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n07/eyal-weizman/all-they-will-find-is-sand

Eyal Weizman · All they will find is sand: Gaza’s Yellow Line

Most of the Gaza Strip – cities, refugee camps, schools, universities, mosques, the health infrastructure, agriculture...

London Review of Books

This is why smart contracts are such a stupid idea

https://x.com/aaronjmars/status/2047017251270734309?s=46

@aaronjmars (@aaronjmars) on X

holy fuck, a hair dryer at a Paris airport broke Polymarket weather markets & made someone $34,000 richer - polymarket was settling Paris temperature bets on a single Météo France sensor sitting near the Charles de Gaulle runway perimeter - basically unguarded - the guy bought

X (formerly Twitter)
Can someone tell me the difference between AI assistants and AI agents and why the latter will succeed when the former fizzled because it wasn’t reliable enough to be trusted? lol

Yup.

https://qz.com/1872176/half-of-us-network-tv-dramas-are-about-cops

The biggest factors in the delta between what cops actually do, and white white folk incorrectly think they do:

1) Copaganda TV shows

2) Framing by newspapers and TV news

Without this sustained disinformation campaign against Black people, white folk would not accept this level of racism.🤷🏿‍♂️

Half of US broadcast network dramas are about cops

Perhaps one reason why America’s national reckoning on police brutality took so long to arrive is because TV is conditioning its citizens to view cops as reliable heroes.

Quartz
Could the impending energy shock lead to return to remote work? At least less mandatory days in the office? I sure hope so
Business media being honest about state of affairs in the war because they need to put actual money behind it so can’t afford to buy propaganda https://youtu.be/ddf5ov9_ASo?si=1moSXFuZO_NOoR0L
Trump is now being cornered; Russia is the biggest winner from the war: Edward Fishman

YouTube

If your company actually became vastly more productive, because of "AI" or whatever, you wouldn't lay off people: you would take on new efforts, make higher profits, have more things going on.

Layoffs are always - always - a sign of bad decisions, misallocation of priorities. Gross mismanagement. Always.