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by apercu 2y ago
Oh, I was agreeing with you. My 2015 iMac died two weeks ago. Pretty sure it's the SSD I installed when I first got it. And while most of my files are in cloud storage, I also had a series of chained external drives running Time Machin
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by apercu 2y ago
I feel like I agree with you - AI is great if you're a seasoned, experienced person within the domain you are asking help for. If you're not, there is no way to know if what you are getting as feedback is accurate or not. AI is li
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by apercu 2y ago
And, at least for one of them, they also tweet all day while somehow being invaluable in providing leadership for like 5 companies. At the same time. I can't even successfully effectively juggle 4-5 _projects_ at a time.
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by apercu 2y ago
Just about every problem is a leadership problem.
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by apercu 2y ago
I'm South of Madison. Love the Driftless!
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by apercu 2y ago
In 90's I saw bald eagles for the first time (I mostly grew up in DFW, TX) in the Mississippi Valley between WI and Iowa, later in backbone ridge state park, where the valleys are so steep the eagles are flying below you when you'
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by apercu 2y ago
The U.S. has orders of magnitude of admin costs due to middlemen at every stage in health care. This should be obvious to HN types.
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by apercu 2y ago
> 3. The US pays far more for health care (28% of the budget if you include Medicare) and with worse outcomes on average. Why shouldn't the health insurance industry be the first item on the chopping block? Because late stage Capita
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by apercu 2y ago
> The document was written by people who were actively amassing wealth. It doesn't mean its not a wise document but make no mistake about the people who were excluded from its initial benefit Fair, but the document was written 200 y
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by apercu 2y ago
Yea. Totally man. A country in which I am a citizen. But an American airline and in a time where aspects of society are trying to deregulate everything. (maybe I should qualify all of my internet comments that I spent 29 years in the US, th
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by apercu 2y ago
Seriously. Oh, god, my eyes. My brain.
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by apercu 2y ago
If you agree that all people are fundamentally "good". But that's not true, so the barber will start skimping on barbicide and people will start getting infections. We need regulation because people are not fundamentally &quo
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by apercu 2y ago
Fair. But if you assume creative accounting only applies to private organizations I have a bridge to sell you.
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by apercu 2y ago
" Elon wrote the source code because he claimed to know C++." lol
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by apercu 2y ago
Completely. But security is only optional until it isn't.
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by apercu 2y ago
I am peripheral to cybersecurity, I work in process (GRC). AI isn't going to fix your security problems, in fact, it is the cause of security problems you will face in the future because your employees are using it and leaking data tha
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by apercu 2y ago
Right? I once ran a private company where there primary shareholders (who didn't work inside the organization) used to complain about the margins because they liked to calculate profit margin _after_ taking significant dividends.
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by apercu 2y ago
That basically describes my area. There are 3 streets (2 connect, the 3rd doesn't). There are 11 houses on my (dead end) street and maybe 25 on the other two streets. Because of this clustering - I live in a pretty rural area - but hav
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by apercu 2y ago
Don't use GoDaddy? (I'm a hypocrite, I have a couple dozen domains but there are a couple I haven't yet transferred out of their system).
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by apercu 2y ago
We don't need testing. We're "agile". Or something like that.
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by apercu 2y ago
Wait, maybe I do want an AI-powered project manager than proactively manages risk.....
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by apercu 2y ago
As a dual citizen that lived in Canada from 2004-2022, I do hear where you are coming from. I love Canada. I adopted it as my home and lived there until I just couldn't any more. We're all afraid of the future. That's normal
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by apercu 2y ago
I have had recent meetings with management teams that believe this. I mean, yea, some of them are delusional (and not just about AI) but they are so excited about the idea of not having to pay humans any more.
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by apercu 2y ago
I wholeheartedly agree with you, but: > I can understand anxieties for new entrants in an industry that historically has been solid and reliable alongside high-paying I started in tech in the 90's. Between 1994-2014 I worked _way_ m
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by apercu 2y ago
There will always be a market for smart people who are willing to be fearless of the unknown, willing to be lifelong learners and who are in technology because they can't imagine doing anything else. I got in to this space because it w
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by apercu 2y ago
Just a suggestion, but I have done 3-5 projects a year for a long, long time, and as an executive (for almost a decade) had dozens of projects annually I was overseeing and/or contributing to. I am not a fan of LinkedIn, but I did even
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by apercu 2y ago
People who are poor managers or in positions of power, but not emotionally regulated or unwilling to get therapy, find blaming others easier than self awareness and doing the work of bettering themselves. Couple that with financial success
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by apercu 2y ago
100% true. Completely unrelated, but I find that other people will create problems by making an off-colour statement, something mildly offensive, or disrespectful and then when they get a reaction they say "why are you making a problem
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by apercu 2y ago
The interwebs is such hot garbage that we now need to use ChatGPT to search.
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by apercu 2y ago
My dream was always a very small practice of tightly focused services and a humane work cycle due to low overhead. During crunch time you work hard and during slow times you relax and get paid a lot less. But every time I had partners or co

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