angiolillo

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by angiolillo 4mo ago
Scientific progress is typically the result of outliers at the upper end of the normal distribution which doesn't inherently contradict a decrease in average knowledge. (i.e. a larger standard deviation could overcome a lower average)
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by angiolillo 4mo ago
Whether it's reasonable depends on the distribution, not just the duration. A 2 hour onsite with the candidate being rapid-fire interviewed by six different different teams and a 20 minute call every couple weeks for three months are v
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by angiolillo 4mo ago
Making interviews efficient and making them easy are orthogonal. It depends on what attributes your organization is trying to select for. To select for people who are willing to commit to a slow bureaucratic organization, make them go throu
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by angiolillo 4mo ago
> designing interfaces that keep pointing-device-free users in mind. Agreed. Using keyboard keys to emulate a mouse cursor seems like it ought to be a last resort for graphical applications that lack proper accessibility affordances. Con
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by angiolillo 4mo ago
> Content creating is not maintenance. Technical maintenance isn't the only kind of website maintenance. Unless you're ready to put a site into hibernation, maintaining the content is an ongoing cost. For example, Ian adds test
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by angiolillo 4mo ago
> It costs him almost nothing to run > Maintenance cost is effectively zero... His estimates[1] of ongoing costs seem different: > I spend probably 60 hours a week continuously improving this website, answering visitors' quest
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by angiolillo 4mo ago
Sure, authors can adopt Gemini-like restrictions on their own simple HTML pages to gain some of the benefits of publishing with Gemini. But this ignores the benefit for readers. Simple HTML pages are one link, search, or change of managemen
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by angiolillo 4mo ago
Objections to Gemini that point out that nothing is stopping people from writing simple HTML miss the point. It's not that HTML forces well-meaning creators to add complexity, size, or user-hostile behavior; it's that an ecosystem
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by angiolillo 5mo ago
> A HN-er that has never ran before throwing out stuff about barefoot running since they read Born to Run a few years ago is just plain ignorance. This seems uncharitable. I see only one comment that favorably mentions Born to Run and a
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by angiolillo 5mo ago
True! Though if I were to pick an aspirational target it would be his sub-four at 85 :) I should clarify that it's not that I don't pay any attention to race times, just that it's not my primary focus -- I regularly sacrifice
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by angiolillo 5mo ago
> it would make more sense to run in shoes that make you slower for the same effort or make you expend more effort Some runners train with parachutes, sleds, weight vests, or rucksacks which all make even short runs feel much harder. Ult
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by angiolillo 5mo ago
Some of the disagreement I've seen seems to boil down to the fact that different runners have different goals. Advice for a number-chaser trying to crack 2:30 isn't helpful for minimalists who want better foot stability and ground
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by angiolillo 5mo ago
Fascinating. My main takeaway is that running technology is primarily driven by World Athletics' 40 mm stack limit and prohibition on physical springs or pistons but not on advanced foams. If they relaxed those constraints then number-
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by angiolillo 5mo ago
Grok and Roll appears to be stuck and speaks the following on repeat ad infinitum: "Queues clear, let's dive into All Blues by Miles Davis to keep the jazz flowing. Queues clear, let's dive into All Blues by..." Each tim
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by angiolillo 5mo ago
> Companies can’t afford to just give things away right? Let's say a cutting-edge young researcher is making a name for themselves in their field and earning $300k/yr at a company where they're encouraged to publish and sp
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by angiolillo 5mo ago
It is an interesting project. I would love to see markdown improved and I agree with many of the simplifications they've made. However I'm skeptical that any format that compromises the editing experience will gain traction with u
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by angiolillo 6mo ago
Indeed. I suppose one way to ensure you can find Waldo in any image is to add it yourself.
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by angiolillo 6mo ago
> the "stronger" road user is at fault unless proven otherwise In general I agree with this, but a lot a lot depends on how "unless proven otherwise" is interpreted. If a driver is typically at fault when a pedestrian
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by angiolillo 6mo ago
Does your forever limit apply to names besides "Asimov"? There are a lot of companies and projects that have used the names of real people without that person's involvement or approval: Einstein, Tesla, Edison (besides the on
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by angiolillo 6mo ago
> Adding filters so that developers only look at actionable tickets would be much more sane. That's a reasonable approach, but I don't understand how it's any more or less sane than autoclosing them with a stale label. Whe
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by angiolillo 6mo ago
To some people "open" means "not fixed" whereas to others it means "more work planned". I've worked on projects with both interpretations and it's fine as long as everyone is on the same page. > It
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by angiolillo 6mo ago
> What's the harm in keeping the bug open? Conversely, what's the harm in closing the bug? (As long as you don't lock or delete it, I agree that's bad.) People focused on the work often interpret "open" to m
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by angiolillo 7mo ago
> If you want to do it, do it. If you don't, then don't. Three of the "four ways to lose" described in the article are significant harms inflicted on parties besides the bettors themselves. One cannot avoid these harm
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by angiolillo 7mo ago
> Normally I cringe at doomsday preppers The doomsday preppers with a scarcity mindset and a bunker full of tin cans and military surplus make for good TV, but plenty of "preppers" don't look like that. They also have a we
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by angiolillo 7mo ago
I think another difference is that the Cambrian explosion of web apps vying for user attention meant that many web users had experience using both poorly-designed web apps as well as well-designed web apps and could gravitate towards the la
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by angiolillo 7mo ago
DARPA projects from more than a decade ago (VSAM/WAMI for arial platforms like Gorgon Stare) used arial imagery to capture ground shadows for gait tracking purposes. From chatting with some of the researchers many years ago my understa
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by angiolillo 7mo ago
> I think most painters are happy that they don't have to go out and grind up snails to make their own purple pigment People who loved mixing colors enough to become experts may have been disappointed when their hard-won skills were
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by angiolillo 7mo ago
> What is an "excuse" for a layoff, exactly? By "excuses for layoffs" I suspect what they meant was that there was an pre-existing desire to reduce headcount and RTO was used under the expectation that some percentage
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by angiolillo 7mo ago
As someone who used to teach UX grad courses, I'm happy you feel that way! But I'm unsure why you feel that my response pointing out that a product's user interface is typically a more important factor in success than the pro
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by angiolillo 7mo ago
Plenty of companies don't "need to exist". A company exists because someone decided to start it (usually to make some money) and lasts until someone decides to end it (usually when it stops making money). If you're askin

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