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by Retric 8mo ago
It’s a valuable attitude, but not a particularly valuable skill. Expertise gains value when it can’t be subdivided. A doctor needs to know a who lot of related skills to be a heart surgeon, it doesn’t work to split it into two less demandi
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by Retric 8mo ago
Generalist means something very different for big orgs. At FANG size companies have people to setup 401k and health insurance, tiny startups need 1 of 3 people to figure that out even if it just means finding a company to outsource such thi
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by Retric 8mo ago
Uninvolved companies wouldn’t bother, but outlaw such fees and lenders would still build this kind of infrastructure so they could make money charging people interest.
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by Retric 8mo ago
There’s always an argument for more equipment, but you need to start building them long before they enter service and need to set budgets long before any specific crisis. Funding for Nimitz was authorized in 1967 they started construction t
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by Retric 8mo ago
When you swap between 9 hats, you don’t get meaningful experience at any of those roles. Instead you become a generalist which is only really needed at tiny organizations.
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by Retric 8mo ago
We have surplus carriers specifically to allow them to average a large percentage of their time at home unlike container ships who spend the vast majority of their time in service. Many systems that are both bespoke and complex means lots
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by Retric 8mo ago
That means far less than you might think. As long as officer testimony is given a privileged status the courtroom there’s minimal risk to civilians that body cameras are making things worse for them. 100% percent of prosecutors’ offices
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by Retric 8mo ago
Cop body cam footage is more likely to help you vs a cop than get you into trouble because a cop is already there watching what you’re doing. IE: Thank god the cop’s camera was off when I was buying crack, I might have gotten in trouble o
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by Retric 8mo ago
I agree it’s likely to be more labor intensive per lb of feedstock, but only 21% of calories in milk are protein and overall milk has ~10% of the initial energy. So you’re looking at ~2% of the energy from these crops ending up as milk prot
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by Retric 8mo ago
Credentials are largely unrelated to being an intellectual. Academics may be the word you’re thinking of. A mechanic who’s been publishing poetry would easily qualify. Further labs also need people who maintain equipment, it’s a viable an
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by Retric 8mo ago
It’s likely to be vastly better. Feed efficiency is critical when doing these calculations as cows inherently need energy to survive not just produce milk. As such even if you use the same crop two different sources of protein can have wil
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by Retric 8mo ago
HR can very quickly sort people by levels of education. Most companies don’t give a fuck what someone learned in their history degree, but know on average they’re more reliable than someone that dropped out of college. Some college still
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by Retric 8mo ago
It’s not the intellectuals who are pushing standards down. High standards inherently reject people, that’s inherent to the concept. The push for ever higher percentage of the population to get degrees means the average student keeps gettin
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by Retric 8mo ago
I’m not saying everyone on the team is doing the same kind of work, rather the kind of work that LLM’s make people better at become less relevant when a bunch of people have access to them. Automation always runs into diminishing returns fo
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by Retric 8mo ago
You just replaced one task that an AI is useless for with a different task that an AI is useless for. The point obviously still stands, and no I am not suggesting using Jr devs for physical labor alone is worth adding them to the team. Rat
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by Retric 8mo ago
That cuts out in 2015, but 5 year survival rates keep increasing with the USA just crossing 70%. Though across longer timeframes some of that is from early detection; even limited to late stage diagnosis the statistics still show significa
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by Retric 8mo ago
How exactly do some people leverage AI to rearrange the furniture in the conference room for an office party? Physical labor may be a tiny fraction of what a team of developers do, but I’ve seen what amounts to several thousand dollars spen
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by Retric 8mo ago
Working on problems that are a poor fit for a mid level developer with AI assistance of which there are still plenty. I find AI tools make everyone better at exactly the same kind of problems, which means a larger percentage of what’s left
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by Retric 8mo ago
Major breakthroughs of the kind you’re talking about are extremely uncommon. Instead it’s lots of little gains that keep adding up because cancer isn’t adapting overall people still get the same mutations they got 10,000 years ago. So avera
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by Retric 8mo ago
That’s not really an either or situation, you can have 7 team members with Claud Code and 1 Jr without. I’ve seen many people stick around for a surprising amount of time while severely under compensated. I suspect that’s why HR does it.
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by Retric 8mo ago
You don’t want 3 Jr devs at the same time because of diminishing returns. Most projects have grunt work where attention to detail is important but experience doesn’t really help much. AI can quickly come up with alt text for images, but en
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by Retric 8mo ago
I’ve gotten plenty of use out of junior devs. The critical bit is what makes anyone a useful worker. I’ve found anyone that’s both dedicated and meticulous is worth the investment. Sure there’s a wide range of skills and you can’t just han
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by Retric 8mo ago
Capitalizing everything is the new direction, but I doubt it’s going to stick around. There’s a long legacy of DoD vs DOW, for a current military example that wasn’t updated: https://dodtap.mil/dodtap/app/about&#
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by Retric 8mo ago
DoW or more accurately DoD like WoW is less ambiguous than fully capitalized.
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by Retric 8mo ago
Harder here doesn’t mean slower. Reading and understanding your own code is way faster than writing and testing it, but it’s not easy. AI tools don’t prevent people from understanding the code they are producing as it wouldn’t actually tak
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by Retric 8mo ago
> We are spending a fraction of what is necessary to keep infrastructure from failing. I can’t help but chuckle at the idea you actually believe that. Stop reading headlines and do some actual research into what’s actually going on. If t
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by Retric 8mo ago
I think you misunderstood what I was saying. Technology can be quite useful directly and have significant second order effect, hype is about the second order effects being overblown. Second order effects are difficult to predict when some
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by Retric 8mo ago
> It absolutely is. It was published as Fiction. The vast majority of people didn’t think it was anymore realistic than Interstellar etc. There’s plenty of stories where we cure cancer, but the 50% improvement in cancer treatments ov
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by Retric 8mo ago
There was a great deal of hype around the atom changing everything, but electricity was just too slow to see such breathless anticipation takeoff. 200 years ago the was some hype around how electricity caused mussel contractions in dead fle
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by Retric 8mo ago
Closely space axels work fine for road surfaces they don’t help on bridges but that’s a separate concern. You can see a plethora of heavy military vehicles etc which use extra axles to avoid getting stuck in the mud due to plastic deformat

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