my winter climate malaise this article, “The feeling of losing snow”, in the the atlantic hit a little close to home for me. this has been an unseasonably warm winter for us. to be fair, we’d been expecting a little warmer weather this winter. el nino had us expecting that it would be a bit warmer than usual. but road biking on christmas day in Minnesota was not on my bingo card....
links, etc Opinion | Patagonia’s Yvon Chouinard On the High Stakes of Low Quality - The New York Times less, but better. this is really where we need to land on things overall. i’ll admit to buying into the patagonia hype a bit. on the other hand, few things have lasted as long as the stuff i’ve purchased from them over the years. it’s a bit of a well earned premium and if it’s in serviceable shape they’ll buy their stuff back....
links, etc 10 Things Software Developers Should Learn about Learning there so much good stuff in here. i’ve only poked at formal learning processes but these are solid glimpses into we need to remember when learning. not quite what i was expecting, but fun. #learning
links, etc Michael Cohen gave his lawyer fake citations invented by Google Bard AI tool | Ars Technica and so it begins. for the handful of things where i’ve used “AI”, it’s saved me a little bit time, but you still need to crawl up the ass of the output and make sure that you’re solid. AI done right still requires that we have some form of work/validation ethic to ensure that the outputs are actually useful....