BehindBlueEyes

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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
Looks like Bench is being acquired after all? Content of the linked page was updated thing morning. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42547803 also on tech crunch: https://techcrunch.com/2024/12&#x2F
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
I think it depends a lot on what llm and tooling you have access to. I had great results prototyping agents at work for specific tasks and answering in a specific style including asking appropriate clarification questions. But at home with
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
For sure staff was surprised, leadership not so much (I'd hope) but bear in mind the CEO was replaced just ~a month ago. I bet they were hoping for a christmas miracle.
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
Not sure if sarcasm, but in case it is not: in theory accountants could see this coming but most benchmates were junior book keepers, with no visibility into their employer's financials.
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
Their software is designed to enable hundreds of bookkeepers to do the accounting with some interesting automations, self hosting makes little sense. As an individual, if you want to do things yourself, you're better off using gnucash.
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
They had that cert for the last ~3 years and were audited yearly and had a standard package to share with clients so doubt there's much to this rumor
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
And yet, it's as simple as money ran out. They never turned a profit, investors ran out, the last round of funding was a loan with strings attached that led to a bunch of cost cutting and other poor decisions that explain the poor serv
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
The obvious answer being that corporations want to maximize profit from cheaper labor by extracting the same value at the lowest possible cost? Just because location has historically been the determining factor doesn't mean it has to c
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
Is it even 5% of revenue? Curious where you got that number because it seems unbelievably high
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
I'm sure they consented to taking the job but is it informed consent? Can you really know what you will be exposed to? And unless unemployment insurance is given to quitters, autonomy to leave a job at any point is overestimated... Sur
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
Which is ironic because trusting AI is fundamentally trusting the humans that made the AI over those that the AI replaces...
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
You can be aware without having to see the most gruesome parts of it to a point where it is traumatizing and damaging. I've seen the crumpled metal of a car, I don't need to see the people inside to know it is not good.
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
I'm a 100% sure none of my colleagues would eat the steak if they could see the live cow get killed and skinned first. They wouldn't go to that restaurant to begin with and they'd lose their appetite entirely if they somehow
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
Yeah, I tracked a lost dog and found the place it was caught by wolves and eventually eaten. Terrible way to go. I get now why the owner was so desperate to find it, even without any hope of the dog surviving - I'd want to end it quick
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
I keep track of everything i do in excel privately too. I have a log like that since my first job, dating back a dozen years. I use some basic conditional formatting to highlight today's tasks. I write down everything I do. Small assis
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
Neither minecraft or factorio are AAA. AAA requires not just using but creating the latest visual and audio innovations, creating a huge surface area prone to bugs which all need to be polished out and creating tools to manage your version
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
> show me those candidates Not speaking for where you work but they might not even pass the automated resume filters anymore unfortunately.
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
Could you get your experience approved as equivalent to a degree, if there is such a thing - like the VAE in france. My brother had to get a degree with evening classes for the same reason but since he was already doing the work, it was fai
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
Doesn't matter who sets deadlines if they are actually well thought out, rather than set on a whim, arbitrarily impossible to meet. The first help me not get bogged down in details and prevent endless polishing, the second are demotiva
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
Interested to hear why you shut it down when you had over 6 million users?
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
If we're counting all successful indie games, we could extend that to successful modern artists? I'm not familiar but I'm sure there are some that sell a painting or sculpture for millions, though that's just one buyer.
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
Work that is its own reward is a hobby. Work that is rewarded by a paycheck is a job. There are other types of works too: chores, responsibilities, being a good neighbour... All of these can be hard work, All of these can be taxing, all o
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
Yes, and there's different buffers with different capacity for different types of perception according to these theories. Look up Baddeley & Hitch for details. I would guess there are similar buffers for other senses that didn&#x27
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
Depends on expertise. Consider a toddler learning to walk, while eating a snack, carrying a toy and avoiding the cat. Driving stick is a good example, as shifting gears requires conscious thought at first and becomes mostly automated with e
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
Worst offenders of liking quant approches to feel like real scientists may be when psychologists use formulas to describe their theory like they're a mathematician. All it does is making their theories obtuse, while no math actually ha
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
Tangential question: does anyone here know if/when apple is going to fix their missed call list usability? I probably get extra spam calls because my iphone keeps thinking that when i scroll through the missed call lists, the first or
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
This would be a very important feature to me! Very interesting to understand the dynamics of it, before and after changes, how long areas were contested for etc.
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
I was so excited to see this project as I was dreaming of such a thing, followed by immediate disappointment that west coast indigenous territories aren't included. Curious how what appears on the map or not is decided, is it just repa
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
It can become an either / or proposition with age. At 80+, with 1-2h left to use outside self care, chores and naps independently, you go where you get social connections (if you can even sit in front of a computer without experiencing
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
yup, anyone who knows me knows to email if they want a reply, and that I only take calls by appointment. Leave a message and I might call back, otherwise my phone's not on me, doesn't ring if the caller isn't in my contacts a

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