Today is actually July 20th’s newsletter. I got the date wrong yesterday!
![Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz A teaching lesson that stays with me to this day: At college, we had a course where teams built an app over several weeks. Controlling a logistics chain. On evaluation, the prof went around and input invalid inputs to every user input field. He broke half the apps immediately. Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz A teaching lesson that stays with me to this day: At college, we had a course where teams built an app over several weeks. Controlling a logistics chain. On evaluation, the prof went around and input invalid inputs to every user input field. He broke half the apps immediately.](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fef1161fe-cd63-442d-bce1-f17687ecdd9d_1170x484.png)
I remember a story about someone who, when being given a demo of software from engineering, would mash the keyboard randomly while watching the engineer. As a way of judging how production-ready it is. One reply describes a professor who changes the "customer's" requirements one week before the project due date.
![This advertisement from Orange, the French telecom company, about the French national football team is one of the best commercials I've seen recently. Telling you about it would ruin it, so you'll have to just watch. This advertisement from Orange, the French telecom company, about the French national football team is one of the best commercials I've seen recently. Telling you about it would ruin it, so you'll have to just watch.](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcf25dabb-6e4b-4485-a0fa-53573c9ed997_1190x298.png)
I’m not particularly into soccer, but it's a neat idea for a commercial, here's the link for it on youtube.
![@DanHugger Only one day away from the anniversary of the most star-crossed editorial to ever grace *The Onion* @DanHugger Only one day away from the anniversary of the most star-crossed editorial to ever grace *The Onion*](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8945f6c6-7987-4c14-ac81-51025bf0c0c0_1154x826.png)
Pretty wild that despite losing the last election, Trump is currently in an even stronger position to win the nomination again.
![Daring Fireball @daringfireball@mastodon.social Facebook Releases Llama 2 Under an ‘Open for Everyone Other Than Really Large Rivals’ License https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023 Daring Fireball @daringfireball@mastodon.social Facebook Releases Llama 2 Under an ‘Open for Everyone Other Than Really Large Rivals’ License https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8ed23b69-2f23-423b-9165-b44871e0af83_1192x248.png)
They set a cap on the number of users a company can have and still use these models, 700 million. Just low enough to block Snap from using them. But, as Gruber jokes, Twitter's user count is so low that they're free to use Facebooks AI for free.
![See new Tweets Conversation Posters Remedy🚰 @UrbanLandRent We should not let local governments turn California into a retirement community and the state should pass further interventions that roll back their powers over land use and housing development approvals. Young families need housing and we should be sure they get it. See new Tweets Conversation Posters Remedy🚰 @UrbanLandRent We should not let local governments turn California into a retirement community and the state should pass further interventions that roll back their powers over land use and housing development approvals. Young families need housing and we should be sure they get it.](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa130a9f3-24c7-4eaa-b930-e854a2be5485_1146x1562.png)
Here in Mountain View, NIMBYs oppose housing saying "where will all the new students go". I wish that was a problem we had!