I used to let slightly wrong Slack answers go without correction and assume a human reading the thread will be able to parse it out as a simple mistake. But now I make explicit corrections because it’s likely a bot will strip that response out of context as an authoritative answer for someone else.
Alan B Smith
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👨💻 Principal Design System Engineer 🥃 Carb & cocktail fan account 🏔️ Boulder, CO 🅰️ Arsenal FC ⚽️ Il calcio é della gente
Fully support UEFA boycotting FIFA. It would drastically improve USA’s chances of making it to the quarterfinals in 2030.Maybe we’d even make the semis. 😂
RichText implies PoorText, which is probably what happens when I'm forced to type without autocorrect.
Anthropic should take a note from 1990 cell phone providers and start offering off-peak token rates: 100,000 anytime tokens, with free nights* and weekends. *nightly token rates begin at 9:00pm EST
I was thinking about watching the Rapids game, but all your posts are making me nervous. 😬
England, please don’t blow a 4-0 lead. You’ll never live it down. 🙏
This is, hands down, the best World Cup I’ve ever seen. The matchups have been excellent at every level.
As a design system leader, you have to continuously prove the value you provide. But you also need the support of leaders who truly believe in your autonomy and intrinsic value of your system.
I was joking with a Canadian friend tonight about how Americans are conditioned to believe we are always underdogs and will always win. We both tried to think of sports movies where the Americans don’t win, and there are exceedingly few. That probably explains a few things.
This is why you don’t get rid of the department of defense.
You can tell France is not accustomed to dealing with the dark arts that are common practice in CONCACAF.
My (maybe spicy?) round of 16 bets: 🌶️ Norway beats Brazil 🌶️🌶️ Mexico beats England 🌶️🌶️🌶️ Colombia beats Argentina
Good tourney, Canada. Thanks for cohosting. This team has become heroes for the next generation of Canadian soccer players.
Wild to think that AOL used to ship *physical CDs* in the mail, and people would just run it on their desktop. You could never get people to do that now.
This is spot on. Modes and themes often get entangled, but we have to be specific in how we talk about each.
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A theme from the last World Cup was “The rest of the world is catching up.” So far the theme of this World Cup is “The rest of the world is going to eat your lunch.”
This is the best way to describe how I feel about AI and software development: I love a good puzzle. One day someone says "Hey! Use this AutoPuzzler™. It will sort all the pieces for you, and you'll finish the puzzle in seconds! It's great! You'll save so much time! You can puzzle so much more!"