Scarblac

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by Scarblac 2y ago
> How would a business like this get started? The one I know, it just started out with some people who were all equal co-owners. When a new employee joins, they get the same share as everyone else. When someone leaves, they lose their sh
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by Scarblac 2y ago
There is a class of rich people in the US who really like that people believe this. It allows them to spread a lot of fear about higher tax rates for high incomes.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
IIRC, the deep/shallow thing is anout how much functionality there is, and he used wide/narrow for the size of the API? So that the goal is to have deep, narrow modules: modules that have a lot of functionality hidden behibd a sma
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by Scarblac 2y ago
I feel that's in bad taste as Ukraine is defending against a foreign invasion. You can tell Russia to stop the war, they can just go home. Ukraine does not have that luxury.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
I started programming at 10 and now I'm 50, and right now it feels like I've reached this point -- it's boring, I have trouble keeping up, I feel the things work lets me work on are not important. Interesting work goes to you
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by Scarblac 2y ago
The Kolmogorov Complexity book is obviously brilliant but I've never made it more than two pages before falling asleep.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
You won't have any guarantee that they will be able to make good on their promise and won't just go bankrupt.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
Accept that that is how it works for you. Like, maybe you do different types of work and subconsciously find it useful only for some of them. That's OK. Consider it a tool you sometimes use, and think of using journaling as an option w
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by Scarblac 2y ago
> but how does "not something shared by everything" logically follow? If someone else drinks alcohol, my consciousness doesn't change.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
Using alcohol has an effect on how I consciously experience things. I've heard from others that other drugs influence conscience even more. To me that's very strong evidence it is something physical, tied to functions of our bodie
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by Scarblac 2y ago
Get a group of competent developers, say about five in a team. Trust them. Let them work with the stakeholders to figure out what needs building, and let them build it.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
There are several ways in which it's bad. Forcing all the work to fit into sprints, for instance. What if the natural way to divide the work results in some chunks that probably don't fit? Normally you'd just do them and it&#
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by Scarblac 2y ago
What's the difference?
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by Scarblac 2y ago
Many people applying for a job already have one, and will expect to make a similar amount of money at a new job. It's a perfectly normal question. If the candidate is currently jobless, then I agree the question is bad, verging on the
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by Scarblac 2y ago
More dishwashers, obviously.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
Presumably that skips the code that sends the event to the backend?
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by Scarblac 2y ago
It's a bacterium in this case, not a fungus. It can metabolize hydrogen and use CO2 to build the proteins. They electrolyze water using solar power to create the hydrogen, so it sort of does happen on thin air, but of course some miner
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by Scarblac 2y ago
> Singapore is a follower. Whatever they're in to happened elsewhere 2 years before. > [...] > It's about producing any kind of protein whatsoever Personally I follow fermentation based (bacteria based) proteins with inte
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by Scarblac 2y ago
The other meaning is a small or trivial bit of (true) information.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
It's only four moves, Nf3-d2-b1-c3-d5. (I don't know if that was the actual route taken in the game)
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by Scarblac 2y ago
Bughouse is the 4 player, 2 boards variant. You capture your opponent's pieces and give them to your team mate who can then drop them on their board. That way there is no problem with the piece being the wrong color to drop. Shogi solv
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by Scarblac 2y ago
It's happened twice now during my career that important colleagues were literally hit by buses. And both were back to work in about a week. I need a different standard example disaster.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
If its not useful, it's not going to be launched and accelerated that long.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
I don't understand how you can get any information from that line about the reasons why he wasn't close to them.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
A problem is that a substantial amount of people make more than enough money, and therefore they are looking at ways to have more free time. While at the same time there are not enough people to do all the work (in part due to retiring baby
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by Scarblac 2y ago
No, workers in Germany already have the right to work less hours in return for less pay. The idea is to lower the default weekly working hours while keeping the same salary. If productivity slowly goes up over time, it should be possible.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
Yes, and the more manual labor it needs, the more time intensive it is, the harder it is for someone to make a living.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
The argument doesn't quite work imo because farmers are actively working against the normal ecosystem - we don't want the normal plants to grow there, we want our desired crops. With enough production for us to feed the world and
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by Scarblac 2y ago
Same for anyone who cites "99.99%" in this discussion. Because for one the problem isn't well defined enough for such percentages to be possible (two human experts judging pictures will disagree on far more than 0.01%) and tw
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by Scarblac 2y ago
Authoritarian politics is way more popular than, say, around the turn of the century.

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