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by alchemism 1y ago
You are conflating macro- and micro- economics a bit in that statement. Entities accumulating wealth incrementing towards infinity contributes to inflation, e.g. My family can spend 1 trillion to out-bid my competitor for ownership of a vil
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by alchemism 1y ago
It might make you Andy Warhol, though.
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by alchemism 1y ago
Right now we are seeing junior hiring fall off a cliff, whether or not LLMs are responsible is hard to say. But if it does turn out that everyone performs to the level of the LLM, then a vast amount of business dollars can be saved by hirin
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by alchemism 1y ago
Pair a senior with an agent LLM, pair a junior with an agent LLM, measure the output over some cycles. You will find your answer in the data, one way or another.
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by alchemism 1y ago
In certain tribal societies, there is no "chieftan" per se, there is just the guy who happens to be correct about things more than everyone else, so his opinion gets the most weight.
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by alchemism 1y ago
Yes - blades-of-servers replacing what was 2 or 3 rack mount servers. Both air exchange and power requirements are radically different in order to fill that rack as it was before.
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by alchemism 1y ago
As above, so below. Two humans colliding, too.
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by alchemism 1y ago
The City of Philadelphia sent all of its workers back to the office with an explicit statement from the Mayor about struggling commercial office real estate in the city center. They may not be "running the country" but they are de
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by alchemism 5y ago
There is a pre—existing vaccination mandate for enrollment at colleges in the US.
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by alchemism 5y ago
Humans learn quickest through mimeses (imitation of what they see). That is why airplane flights start with a certain ritual demonstration.
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by alchemism 5y ago
Don’t forget to prep the floors before every run!
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by alchemism 5y ago
While Ishtar can be considered an equivalent goddess, it is not quite accurate as the rite was most-likely originating from a Germanic/Slavic/Baltic entity, Eostre. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ēostre
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by alchemism 5y ago
This is also true in Greece - it originates from either Balkan or Orthodox culture I figure.
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by alchemism 5y ago
The opposite, if you think about it for a minute… (Traditionally)
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by alchemism 5y ago
Are you a biological woman that enjoys hunting? Two-Spirit. Are you a biological man that enjoys maintaining a household? Two-Spirit. It is an indigenous cultural construct for allowing variation in gender constructs.
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by alchemism 5y ago
That is why diamonds are traditionally used for that sort of transfer.
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by alchemism 5y ago
> you are limited to the scope of a single team scope, report to an Engineering manager, just be a worker at a feature conveyor </snip> I am in your age demographic. My current title is simply ‘Engineer’ without modifiers, but
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by alchemism 5y ago
There are currently two flavors of SRE in the marketplace: one role supports public-facing internet applications; the other is as the parent describes, the ‘modern’ sysadmin who will understand how to do more than click boxes in a GUI.
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by alchemism 5y ago
That sounds somewhat like a toxic culture leaving you with a sense of insecurity more than their position on remote work.
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by alchemism 5y ago
People with responsibilities in a fixed location probably should not take traveling salesperson positions, generally speaking.
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by alchemism 5y ago
I do that reading and skill-training for unrelated tech things on the company’s dime, not mine. They are paying me highly to be a professional.
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by alchemism 5y ago
There is also sprouted-grass for cats which is sometimes also sold like a chia pet: add water and the cat grass (note: not its scientific name) sprouts and then the cats eat it.
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by alchemism 5y ago
I would clarify that it is common in the US. Every state has an association but they are ‘lightly’ regulated at best. [Edit: except in the area of racial discrimination — the Federal government is keen to prevent realtors from racial profil
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by alchemism 5y ago
They are deliberate in that they know how to take a photograph which maximizes the attractiveness of a space. The same tradition occurs in filling the written description of a place with no amenities. “Walking distance to schools & chur
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by alchemism 5y ago
Likewise I don’t know what to think when I meet frequent flyers who don’t know how a jet turbine functions! :) It is a process of commodification.
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by alchemism 5y ago
You would be a sociopath’s dream colleague, let me tell you :)
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by alchemism 5y ago
To your point, the top of last section dropped as if it was free-falling into empty space for 3 seconds.
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by alchemism 5y ago
Does your employer offer its people the 10-20% annual salary increase so they do not have to look elsewhere for what the market is willing to provide? I ask this seriously.
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by alchemism 5y ago
That is my takeaway also - the editorial staff at The Economist must have friends in commercial real estate.
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by alchemism 5y ago
My favorite cinematic metaphor for Bad Management is the night-bridge scene in Apocalypse Now …

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