Finished reading Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico.
I finished reading Ballerina by Patrick Modiano and translated by Mark Polizzotti. This one passage stuck with me:
Most of the time, during our walks throughout Paris or on bus rides, we didn’t speak. The silence between us was a much stronger bond than words. We were like those people who walk side by side, never saying a thing but always taking the long way around.
I spent the last 30 minutes trying to figure out why my tests weren’t failing. It turned out it was because I forgot to prepend test_ to the function 🙃.
This is some dystopian stuff.
Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticism of Warehouses:
Amazon is not the only company that relies on what publicists call “employee advocates.” Lizz Kannenberg, the director of brand strategy at Sprout Social, which advises companies on social media use, said that employee advocacy had developed over the last three to five years.
Bromwich, J. E. (2019, August 15)
Template errors in Laravel are the hardest bugs to figure out.
This is 100% the fault of June and not the user:
June CEO Matt Van Horn says that owners, not the oven, are at fault. “We’ve seen a few cases where customers have accidentally activated their oven preheat via a device, figure your cell phone,” he tells The Verge. “So imagine if I were to be in the June app clicking recipes and I accidentally tapped something that preheated my oven, we’ve seen a few cases of that.”
Carman, A. (2019, August 14). Smart ovens have been turning on overnight and preheating to 400 degrees.
Listening to Tooth and Tail’s soundtrack by Austin Wintory gives my chores pomp and circumstance.
Thinknum, a dataset service for revealing strategic movements within companies, made their pitch deck a comic book.
The study concludes that dockless scooters generally produce more greenhouse-gas emissions per passenger mile than a standard diesel bus with high ridership, an electric moped, an electric bicycle, a bicycle—or, of course, a walk.
The paper found that scooters do produce about half the emissions of a standard automobile, at around 200 grams of carbon dioxide per mile compared with nearly 415. But, crucially, the researchers found in a survey of e-scooter riders in Raleigh, North Carolina, that only 34% would have otherwise used a personal car or ride-sharing service. Nearly half would have biked or walked, 11% would have taken the bus, and 7% would have simply skipped the trip.
Temple, J. (2019, August 2). Sorry, scooters aren’t so climate-friendly after all. Retrieved August 8, 2019, from technologyreview.com
🎥 Hobbs & Shaw was really good.
🎵 Chance the Rapper new album The Big Day is awesome.
