Frost1x

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by Frost1x 4y ago
I'd like to see a lot more humility on certainty of approach than the absolutism we often see. There's often a handful or more ways to do anything, why is there so much certainty in all contexts of the correct way. The correct w
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by Frost1x 4y ago
You can still have competition and create competitive forces that drive and motivate people, they don't have to be tightly coupled to fundamental energy and material resources needed for survival, or, they can follow classic models tha
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by Frost1x 4y ago
While I agree with the premise of finite energy and resources here, I don't agree that current systems are an inherent consequence of it. It's the way we as societies have allowed things to be structured. They don't have to
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by Frost1x 4y ago
>First of all, we should separate the value of the house from the value of the land, which is determined by its location. I'd say this is fairly true in the US. When you compare houses and the amount of similar quality property of s
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by Frost1x 4y ago
I'd love to see more cooperative structures and policies but were obsessed with competition for some reason.
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I'd argue that negative aspects of the world are inevitable in competitive environments given survival instincs humans have. The fact is, a lot of things really are zero-sum, like land (e.g. Russia and Ukraine)--there's only so mu
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by Frost1x 4y ago
Believe it or not, scientists need to eat, want to own homes, have vacation, and buy things like everyone else. There's a selection bias in "scientists don't do it for money"--the scientists that don't do it for the
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by Frost1x 4y ago
It's pretty easy to be deceptive without needing to be false. A lot of advertising these days just use a mix of clever selective language, vague subjective terms, and omission of important information to avoid directly lying. It's
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by Frost1x 4y ago
Disney knows once they lose the first battle the rest falls linearly over time. If copyright hadn't extended beyond 14 years, it would all be public now. As of 1976 copyright law, a fairly modern depiction of Mickey IMO would have been
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by Frost1x 4y ago
I always found it interesting how git was adopted by industry where a large part of its complexity and feature set is built around suopporting fully distributed developer, developers who could lack internet access for months at a time but n
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by Frost1x 4y ago
In corporate structures I think this is very true until you get to high C-level roles where the stress may be a reasonable tradeoff for the comp. There's a tremendous increase in expectations, effort, and risk with what I dub an inapp
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by Frost1x 4y ago
>Why aren't you always keeping your resume tidy and staying ready to interview? Keeping your resume tidy is more of an expression (making sure you have marketable skills), it doesn't take much effort to update experience and ne
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by Frost1x 4y ago
Outside of explicit contract law you may be tangled up in, the US doesn't have explicit law and most employees are classified as "at-will" (basically, dependent upon where the business views this freedom as beneficial or non-
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by Frost1x 4y ago
It's a matter of perspective. We have a culture that largely puts business interests above independent peoples interests. If you agree with this then it makes complete sense that it's better for the company because that employee m
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by Frost1x 4y ago
My opinion is that the issue arises because of expectations and formalities that occur in remote environments over in person. When I'm remote, every email I type, message I send, Jira update, commit comment, etc. are etched in stone fo
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by Frost1x 4y ago
As with most things in life, I think finding a balance between the two is most enjoyable. If you only focus on the long term and plan, unless you have a continuous set of long term plans set to culminate and actually do, you'll have ga
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by Frost1x 4y ago
>"Refusing to deploy" might not be a sensible option if your enemy is willing to deploy. In the AI ethics arena, this is really one of the best arguments I've heard for the military to pursue and have automated systems in
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by Frost1x 4y ago
>> exerting over the system when the system has been fine-tuned to make it easier for the human to do less, and for the operator to accept the machine’s judgment. >Is just incredibly bad faith nonsense. Or extremely ignorant. It&#x
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by Frost1x 4y ago
I view Jira as the embodiment of the misguided software engineering practice of trying to generalize and abstract too high level of a task of something like "project management" and distill it down into one tool. While the Golden
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by Frost1x 4y ago
>If an office is moved to a less densely populated area, the average commute time of all employees collectively ends up increasing. Not necessarily. I've lived in rural areas and the number of miles you could travel per minute is si
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by Frost1x 4y ago
Some techniques for downsampling point clouds use voxelgrid representations but in general you're mapping pixel data from varied images to each other in space and producing points from that to try and capture surface geometry.
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If you consider such behavior 'AWOL' then you've bought into modern development micromanagement and may be part of the issue. That perspective doesn't believe any degree of autonomy and desires drone teams who just crank
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by Frost1x 4y ago
And what if the same major thing breaks but you were asked to do it? Your necks on the line and you did something wrong that you were asked to do correctly. The problem is that part of current micromanagement environments isn't just ab
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by Frost1x 4y ago
Pretty much. I often wonder where people find positions claimed on the internet where they're working 2-3 hours a day. I've increasingly throughout my career saw more and more slack evaporate to a point it's almost nonexisten
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by Frost1x 4y ago
I'm the complete opposite. Hand me a new JS framework that does the same thing I've done a million times but have to learn it's opinionated abstraction set that's somehow better and I just turn off. I simply do not care
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I've always been a fan of the under promise and over deliver paradigm in tech. Overestimating gives you nice fat error margins should something unplanned come up, you're not slaving evenings and weekends away trying to meet a roug
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by Frost1x 4y ago
I wonder how many people are on a mapping service like, "oh wow, Aldi, why didn't I think of that" and go to Aldi. Or perhaps they're searching for gas and don't want to optimize on route or cost and go "aha, a
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by Frost1x 4y ago
A 500+ page book is beyond most peoples tree time to explore from a comments faith alone so here's a summary I found (the quality of which is unknown) since I'm always interested to some degree in new perspectives ( https:/&#
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It's not that they're dumb, they're often simply unaware and misinformed. I had several international friends in college who studied in the US and almost all of them returned home. Many came to the US not just for education b
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I'd say that and and the global propoganda machine is strong. There's many from outside the country who have a picture of what it's like to live here that doesn't align with reality. I think much of it is due to entertai

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