Camille Fournier

@skamille.themanagerswrath.com

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she/her. Author, manager, distributed systems engineer, etc etc, my latest book Platform Engineering is available now! https://amzn.to/4eUz5zB

highlighted text from the review: For Crabapple, a New Yorker through and through, the best possible outcome anyone can ever achieve is to move to New York City.
VAR? Seriously what the fuck are you people talking about because I know it's not value at risk
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Two of the eliezer yudkowsky harry potter rationalist fanfic books
My chart on the AI compass. Text reads: You are... The B2B SaaS Consultant patron saint: Matt Yglesias AI will quietly boost total factor productivity by some single-digit percentage and you think that's actually a huge deal, wonkily speaking. You're bullish in a spreadsheet way, not a singularity way. You've explained the Jevons paradox to someone who didn't ask. Impact: +2.3 • Valence: +0.6
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Property -> taxes (still from YouTube video about how agriculture is bad, actually)
In her former career as an estate agent, Vanessa Martin says her team of eight female colleagues experimented with assigning tasks according to their cycles. Sales and outreach were given to those in the first half of their cycle, when peaking oestrogen and testosterone can mean “higher energy” and better “communication skills”. Administrative and deep work were allocated in the latter half, when “the calming hormone” progesterone brings lower energy and, for some, a greater propensity for focused, solitary work.
Screenshot from an article in the ft with the text: It's very normal to see people who seem to be ageing really well and then you find they actually have lots of tweakments done really subtly," she adds.
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A fiery explosion with the words SpaceX begins IPO roadshow below it
Drucker suggests that Procedures can work only where judgment is no longer required, that is, in the repetitive situation for whose handling the judgment has been already supplied and tested. Our civilization suffers from a superstitious belief in the magical effect of printed forms. And the superstition is most dangerous when it leads us into trying to handle the exceptional, non-routine situation by procedure. Modern AI too is surrounded by superstitious beliefs about magical effects, and tends to fail when it encounters exceptional situations. When street-level algorithms encounter a novel or marginal case, they execute their pre-trained classification boundary, potentially with erroneously high confidence.
washington post editorial board opinion: RFK Jr.’s crusade against hospital Jell-O is a warning The only thing worse than hospital food is hospital food picked by D.C. bureaucrats.
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A very stupid message that tells me to try syncing on my computer because Google won't let you set up calendar syncing on a phone
“We were thinking it could be nice to make that kind of a restaurant-style thing, so people can also go sit up there and eat and watch the concert,” she continued. I asked her if that would distract from the music. “It depends on the food, I think,” she answered. “If it’s like a big steak that you have to focus on and dig into, maybe not. But if it’s light tapas, finger food, little bites, I think then it is easier. Little grilled cheese bites could work so nicely, or chicken nuggets.”
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Those were desperate years. The storm center then was in Russia, where the German army was hurling attack after overwhelming attack at the Soviet lines. To this day, most Russians think World War II was something that happened primarily in their country and the battles everywhere else in the world were a sideshow. In August 1943, for instance, in the hilly countryside around the city of Kursk (about 200 miles south of Moscow), the German and Soviet armies collided in an uncontrolled slaughter: more than four million men and thousands of tanks desperately maneuvered through miles of densely packed minefields and horizon-filling networks of artillery fire. It may have been the single largest battle fought in human history, and it ended -- like all the battles on the eastern front -- in a draw.
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A post where the last sentence is "Learn that tech is a means to improve the world for all of"
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This school year, K–8 students are scheduled for complete five-day school weeks just over half of all weeks; for high-school students, 22 of 44 school weeks will be incomplete.
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Playbill for Data the play
Karp thinks he is destroying bureaucracy. He is encoding it. The contempt for meetings and weekly reports and presentations to senior leaders; he treats these as the bureaucratic process itself. They were not. They were where people interpreted the procedure, the place where someone could notice that the categories no longer fit the case. The targeting doctrine is still there. The rules of engagement are still there. They are the columns on the Kanban board. What Karp eliminated was the discretion the institution could never admit it depended on, and what he got was a bureaucracy that runs exactly as written. Encoded bureaucracy does not bend. It shatters.
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Damn bitch you live like this meme image of goofy and some hot lady dog in a nasty looking room
Image of Matt Damon with the text: Netflix wants plots repeated, says Damon Matt Damon says Netflix suggests repeating plots in movie dialogue multiple times. He told Joe Rogan this is because viewers are often on their phones. Damon feels this could impact storytelling. Ben Affleck noted some shows don't follow this and are still great. Generated with Al, which can make mistakes
“That was an example profile,” Mr. Zervas said. “Don’t base your entire Weltanschauung” — German for “worldview” — “on my slides.”
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Brice, a 24-year-old white Baptist man. He attended some college and previously worked in security. He is now self-employed as a writer, working primarily on a Star Wars YouTube channel. He is an Independent who voted for Trump in 2024.
Of course, we already knew that Bill de Blasio isn't the kind of man to let his wife keep him from his girlfriend—because as far as we know, he's still married—or let his former girlfriend's husband keep him from strolling around the city hand-in-hand with her. (In the immortal words of said husband: "I don't know anything about my wife holding hands with Bill de Blasio.")
What these pundits are nudging us to do, ever so politely, is accept that women, in the main, are accustomed to being a little degraded, a little underpaid and ignored and dampened in their ambitions, in ways that men are not and never will be. The “female-coded” person, to borrow Krugman’s terminology, may feel overwhelmed by child-care costs, ashamed that she can’t acquire a mortgage, or hollowed out by long hours as an I.C.U. nurse, but such feelings do not disturb the order of the universe. This person’s duties to protect, provide, and procreate are real, but they do not take the capital “P.” This person’s opinions matter, but not decisively. The Times pundit Ezra Klein has lately suggested that Democrats consider running anti-abortion candidates in red states, even though more than three-quarters of Gen Z women support abortion rights. Rights, like jobs, can be gender-coded, and these rights are valued accordingly.
A photo from Epstein's Island according to the bbc . It has what appear to be masks of men's faces and a medical type chair, true horror stuff
Orange cat. He was purring
However, even participants who learned a creative skill managed to reap some antiaging benefits. The researchers trained 24 people to play “StarCraft II,” a video game that requires strategic thinking and imagination. A control group was trained in “Hearthstone,” a rule-based video game with limited improvisation and creative play. After 30 hours of training, spread over three to four weeks, the “StarCraft II” group showed slower brain aging compared to the “Hearthstone” group.
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Camille, For Real
Camille for real
Johnny Hampton, another sunglasses company that touted its “Hamptons style,” was founded by a Texan with a background in finance.
The Times (British): girlguiding faces legal action from parent over trans policy
The country’s leader, Giorgia Meloni, has injected Italy with a shot of optimism and national pride. Most of the locals appear to approve of her – I’ve only heard hysterical American expats wail about her being a “fascist”.
Photo of a family with the headline I moved to Italy for a better life. Six months on, here's why I'm giving up
He gives me a smile that makes me sad that I’m not his dentist and a handshake that makes me glad I’m not his guitar. He gently twists his wrist until he has the upper hand literally. For the rest of the interview, he may have it figuratively too.
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