ErrantX

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by ErrantX 4y ago
Yeh so this and other examples for me demonstrate that ChatGPT has no logic per se. These examples demonstrate that it is not analysing your question and calculating the answer, instead it is approximating and answer based on a corpus of qu
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by ErrantX 4y ago
Side note; There is something particularly pleasing/calming about watching a binary counter.
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by ErrantX 4y ago
They also had a strong ideological element too.
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by ErrantX 4y ago
More important is what you want done with it all, or at least what it all means. My wife knows my password already (this is sensible redundancy). But she doesn't know what I use or do, or who I might like her to tell etc. So by all mea
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by ErrantX 4y ago
I think that it's not true that govt are not a big influence on energy pricing. For example; UK energy costs are currently higher than EU because the govt decommissioned most of our long term gas storage meaning our usage is tied to th
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by ErrantX 4y ago
I'm interested in your take on Director. It definitely has a legal definition taken on its own. But Director as a level is also really common too; sometimes it gets switched with Head of etc. (Fwiw we regularly hire IT Directors from S
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by ErrantX 4y ago
So I'd agree if he were in the US, but in the UK you couldn't fire someone for that (well you could but you'd lose the tribunal). I've been in his shoes at a small company; they are taking his requests and ignoring them
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by ErrantX 4y ago
A) Sit your employer down and say "I am applying for Jobs in the 80-100K range because <list of reasons>. When I get an offer I will take it, you are welcome to make me an offer to stick around now" B) Get on LinkedIn and sc
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by ErrantX 4y ago
I don't, however I am generally able to flex my days a lot due to working mostly from home and also being able to complete my work fairly quickly. A lot of people at my employer do work different schedules though. Either 4 day weeks or
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by ErrantX 4y ago
Absolutely; Pratchett always described it as a direct "pisstake" of Ringworld (and Niven was a fan)
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by ErrantX 4y ago
Yes I agree that is how it is being claimed. Interestingly; the first HP book was published in 1997 but the print run was only 500. The book wasn't published in the US till late 1998 and by that point hadn't even sold half a milli
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by ErrantX 4y ago
I mean clearly HP craze has smashed Discworld in the end. But the first three HP books were released in the late 90s, whereas Pratchett wrote 16 novels through the decade (and something like 5-6 in the 80s). So he had volume on his side.
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by ErrantX 4y ago
Vimes is my favourite character arc; I don't always rate Guards Guards but it is essential entry to Night Watch (IMO one of the best books). Also a shout out for underrated options; Soul Music (great tag line, lovely observational come
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by ErrantX 4y ago
If you are a discworld fan it's worth reading Strata, one of his earliest works. This is set in a disc shaped world as well and you can see the early shape of the discworld concept (the world but also the style of the books). It's
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by ErrantX 4y ago
I'd say the author is being generous to the agency and Isaac. There is easily a version of this where the agency has landed on an excellent strategy for milking 7K for 6x their spend. At best (generously assuming the agency's retr
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by ErrantX 4y ago
Well in this exact case; the agency quite successfully structured things so that the billable hours were grown significantly beyond what was originally contracted...
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by ErrantX 4y ago
Human nature; if you have a problem there is a linear scale of effort: 1. Do I just know the answer 2. Can I trivially find the answer in under 10s 3. Who will know the answer? 4. What research will it take to learn the answer
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by ErrantX 4y ago
This is an important distinction I think. I generally coach people who email regularly to explain the why behind a question or the value to them of me answering. If your consistently failing an audit because I am ignoring you then you you c
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by ErrantX 4y ago
The most important productivity tool I have is ignoring people. 90% of messages/requests I don't need to explicitly action (probably 80% of slack messages are followed an hour later by "oh I figured out the answer"). The
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by ErrantX 4y ago
Ultimately, I don't feel this is really about reproductive rights. It's part of a long term disenfranchisement of groups of individuals in a way which secures GOP electoral college votes. As you say, the power of rural Republican
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by ErrantX 4y ago
Interesting point; but I think the US laws have similar effect in different ways. For example; the overtime laws just create incentive to work more than 40 hours a week. On average US workers work much more than other OECD countries.
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by ErrantX 4y ago
> Your argument that they do is based on the assumption that they are not applied to that group I'd qualify it more as; I don't believe these ideas are easy to implement for that group vs. non-service roles. Now, I am based in
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by ErrantX 4y ago
Yes and it is interesting that the response to my comment is "oh we meant them too". Which I know is said in good faith but it fundamentally shows a disconnect from how a huge portion of our society lives. How many of us would for
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by ErrantX 4y ago
Indeed. I have a top 1% salary but my pleasant life is provided largely by those earning under 30K GBP. This is probably true of the majority here... It wears heavily on me daily.
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by ErrantX 4y ago
I fundamentally disagree; the smartest and wealthiest of our society should also be working hard to make the lives of the poorest better. You are sort of making my point; proposals like this assume that those who contribute "less"
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by ErrantX 4y ago
I still don't buy that. In an office job you can find cost neutral ways to cut hours: a lot of people in this thread have said they would work harder in less time to achieve the same outcome, as a really simple example. That's pat
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by ErrantX 4y ago
So I am seeing more and more of ideas like this; but I feel the need to challenge them a bit. Not the ideal; work less, have more fulfilling lives - I am all in. But all of these initiatives are focused on the wealthier office workers and s
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by ErrantX 4y ago
I've worked with several ex-amazon managers & I agree. They are carefully trained to over promise, treat the business/product arm as an adversary not a colleague and burn out engineers to hit deadlines. 0 empathy. (Often these
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by ErrantX 4y ago
Depends on the context I think. Step one is for everyone to agree the outcome was poor (or for the client to say so, or the market, or senior leadership, etc.). Otherwise writing that report is very literally "I told you so", writ
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by ErrantX 4y ago
It makes me so sad that people get fired in team meetings of any size... Not your fault, I am sure - and I much prefer your version of the meeting! But it should always be a personal conversation with HR support.

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