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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
Interesting. Yeah I quite like a walking meeting for the same side-by-side kind of thing. I imagine meetings over golf would have similar dynamics, but haven't ever tried that.
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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
Interesting question. I agree that video calls are a special hell. I think I am reasonably high functioning in in-person settings, but I suspect I don’t read body language very well. I find eye contact difficult to maintain for reasons I do
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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
You’re being paid to make your whole team as effective and capable as possible while satisfying your leadership and stakeholders. And to help your boss do that with his team by developing your peers. And… Detecting slackers efficiently is s
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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
In one of those cases I was the bad manager. The data was a wakeup call that made me understand the magnitude of the problem. In another case, I knew the manager well, having been on his team before. He was effective, empathetic, and inspir
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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
I’ve seen cases where folks completely checked out and were contributing nearly nothing, making no commits, writing no code, and faking it at standups. Simple metrics can help surface cases like this. I agree that it’s something a manager c
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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
Fair enough. As one potential mitigation, I’ve consistently had deep mentorship conversations over the phone. For me, I think voice-only is actually much better than in person.
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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
Caps lock? :)
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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
"just"?
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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
This sounds awesome! Thanks! It is very tiring to click through every single site.
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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
Welp, this is going to be a miserable slog. I had the misfortune of writing a SystemVerilog parser once upon a time. The grammar is a huge and ambiguous muddle. SVA is a beast with no clear precedence on some of the operators. The standard&
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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
Years ago I tried to point out some inconsistencies in an IEEE standard. I failed to reach anyone who cared and eventually gave up, disgusted at the absolute pay to play nature of the entire thing. I certainly won’t join or review for this
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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
Curious what year do you imagine that will be? (I don’t expect it to see it in my lifetime.)
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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
Does the sheer number of companies correlate with competition? I can imagine simple hypotheticals like: A. Two companies that compete with one another in each of markets 1, 2, and 3. B. Three companies, each with a monopoly on a single mark
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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
I’ve written academic papers. I’ve worked with amazing folks who aren’t native English speakers. I’ve come to prize simple writing.
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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
I wish folks would write more plainly. “Antifragility characterizes the benefit of a dynamical system derived from the variability in environmental perturbations.” Geish.
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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
> They monitor the world for things they don't like and police them. That’s absurd. That’s not their mandate. They aren’t kings. They’re supposed to serve us .
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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
Great advice. In my last homebrew campaign, the characters were insane and in a mental hospital. For box text, I purposely broke the bottom-line-up-front rule and had them, e.g., fixate on random irrelevant things as the danger built toward
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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
Interesting. I figured all their AI efforts were motivated by FOMO rather than actual returns. Why is AI stuff making so much money? Wouldn’t a new area like AI be a loss leader as they try to get market share?
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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
What current technologies do you believe are possible to secure? I am sympathetic to the overall sentiment here, but between any web browser + server stack you are looking at hundreds of millions of lines of code written in unsafe languages
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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
This seems neat in a couple of ways. It’s a lot like fuzzing or property-based testing, but those approaches usually target crashes or try to catch functional bugs. This feels like a way to do fuzzing for performance or other kinds of quali
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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
Gaza and economics, while important, have zero to do with this, and are at best a lame attempt at deflection. Describing me as someone who is angry and needs therapy is simply attacking the messenger instead of engaging with the argument. W
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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
I recently encountered this in a hardware context. To “fix” a bug, instead of understanding the root cause, the designer’s patch just hid the first symptom. In a domain where bugs are remarkably expensive, this approach was terrifying to se
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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
Nice term and mental model. I hadn’t seen this connection before, but I think I’ll be using this word from now on in a lot of discussions!
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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
Employees won’t tolerate that due to not being able to get mortgages? Our megacorp recently upped base salaries due to this.
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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
Definitely a good book. As someone who is very prone to ruinous empathy, the mantra, “it isn’t mean, it’s clear” has been very helpful for giving me the courage to raise issues earlier, when they are not a big deal.
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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
Aren’t “all” the servers and browsers speaking in gzipped html to one another anyway? Couldn’t we do a similar kind of invisible conversion if we had some format better enough to be worthwhile?
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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
I wonder to what degree people are actually experiencing this. I'm on a 5-year old intel Macbook, and I think in my daily experience, core software (browsers, emacs, keynote, music) are pretty snappy. I do routinely work with some extr
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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
I guess it’s good we already have the word enshittification. It’s sad to see where we are headed. :(
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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
I get where you are coming from. Books like Influence the art of persuasion and Thinking fast and slow wrestle a bit with the morality of studying this kind of stuff. It’s certainly possible to misuse the insights to manipulate others, but
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by AgentOrange1234 2y ago
Thanks. That was a delightful read.

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