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by asoneth 2y ago
Perhaps, though personally I haven't found that to be an advantage compared to having two separate roles with decent communication skills.
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by asoneth 2y ago
Agreed that there are some downsides for employees. I worked at a company that incentivized owning the company's stock. The company was doing fine but it was still controversial among employees because of the risk of correlating your e
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by asoneth 2y ago
Of the hundreds of my students and coworkers who had both design and development skills, only a few could fill both roles on the same project without compromising on either. But when hiring I rarely bother reaching out to them. It's no
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by asoneth 2y ago
Came here to write the same. I used to teach at a UX grad program where students were required to learn both design and development. But doing both on the same project was almost always a mistake -- the designer has to deeply understand and
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by asoneth 2y ago
More than a decade ago I worked as a research programmer on a similar AI tutoring product for hierarchical skills like mathematics at Carnegie Mellon (in conjunction with the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center and Carnegie Learning). The
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by asoneth 2y ago
I like the idea of a standardized way of conveying where the project exists on a spectrum of personal hobby to foundation. I'd personally imagine four levels: Level 0: This code meets (met?) my personal needs. I'm pleased if you f
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by asoneth 2y ago
Thanks for your contributions! Deleting inappropriate requests is totally reasonable, but one alternative could be a template letter, if you don't happen to have one already. When I receive inappropriate demands for my time I find it h
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by asoneth 2y ago
> they saw it as an opportunity to build a community Many small open source projects still operate this way and their community consists a small number of people who have fun hacking on a project together after work. But as projects grow
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by asoneth 2y ago
Personally it takes me a couple days to re-cement a routine after missing a day. Which means I can maintain my routines as long as I don't miss more than a day or two a week. I used to schedule a weekly rest day with no routines and no
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by asoneth 2y ago
I also find it challenging to put on weight when exercising, but to make this comment more accurate you may want to caveat that this is how your body responds to exercise. Many people appear to experience a commensurate increase in appeti
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by asoneth 2y ago
NYC is a fantastic city -- high paying jobs, ubiquitous transit, amazing food, support for the arts, beautiful parks, good people... But compared to other world-class cities they have (had?) this weird car-shaped blind spot where every neig
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by asoneth 2y ago
> I was floored at how _well_ NYC traffic moves in comparison My criticisms of NYC traffic aren't based on the throughput efficiency for drivers, but the impact on the people who live there. At least when I was in NYC, every attempt
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by asoneth 2y ago
> congestion pricing certainly didn’t align with the needs of my relatives who live in the old neighborhood No doubt, but the question is to what degree the preferences of people who live in Queens should override the preferences of the
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by asoneth 2y ago
That's awesome! It was well after I left but I heard they finally closed off the loops to cars. It always boggled my mind that they even let drivers take over the nicest park in the city. Now all they need to do is calm traffic on the
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by asoneth 2y ago
The drivers commuting into Manhattan aren't terrible, they're responding totally rationally to the relative monetary and time costs of driving into the city vs park & ride vs living closer. The terrible thing is that the incen
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by asoneth 2y ago
My bike commute took me past a bridge entrance and a tunnel entrance in midtown which were both perpetually gridlocked, so I'll admit that probably colored my recollection a bit and it wasn't literally every street in NYC that was
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by asoneth 2y ago
> Roads in Manhattan are narrowed frequently to allow more pedestrians. That's wonderful to hear! I lived in NYC for the better part of a decade and was a big supporter of orgs like Transportation Alternatives and their work with th
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by asoneth 2y ago
I have a thirty-five-year-old truck and it's still perfectly fine for my hauling needs but out of curiosity I looked at what new trucks or minivans might be appropriate replacements when the time comes. A huge fraction of the trucks I
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by asoneth 2y ago
When I lived in NYC many years ago I'd be walking, biking, driving, at a park, dining in an outdoor cafe, in my living room, etc and perpetually surrounded by the noise, smell, and inconvenience of gridlocked traffic and road construct
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by asoneth 2y ago
Back when I was a professor I would give a lecture on ethical design near the end of the intro course. In my experience, most people who think critically about ethics eventually arrive at their own personal ethics which are rarely uniform.
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by asoneth 2y ago
At every company I've seen the executive asks a manager to develop a report comparing a up to a dozen options. Then the manager delegates to a few of their directs to actually slog through all the sales discussions and compile the anal
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by asoneth 2y ago
> A laptop/phone that needs to be recharged every few weeks… heaven. Agreed. Unfortunately it seems like increases in battery density are soaked up by either increased energy consumption (screen resolution/brightness, processor
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by asoneth 2y ago
> we mostly don’t have demand response pricing in the US What makes you say that? Do you know of a region that does not have DR (demand response) options? Every US utility I am aware of has had DR programs for commercial and industrial c
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by asoneth 2y ago
True, a few workloads can be time-shifted (like filtering your pool) but the majority of grid load is at least somewhat time-dependent. Some loads are slightly time-dependent because you can shift them with minor inconvenience such as pre-c
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by asoneth 2y ago
The number of tasks where AI (or any machine) can outperform humans is not necessarily proof of human-level intelligence. I could easily imagine machines replacing the majority of current human occupations well before reaching human-level i
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by asoneth 2y ago
Many years ago I worked on a campus with many "car-free" areas, but really big items like construction equipment, event tents, catering equipment, server racks, or industrial restaurant equipment still used a van or truck, typical
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by asoneth 2y ago
> That is not what GP advocated for Right, that's why before I responded to your question ("why would the government have any right to tell me what to do with my building?") I tried to make it clear that I think there are
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by asoneth 2y ago
> tell property owners that they are required to keep their property occupied otherwise the government should seize their property? I suspect it would make more sense to do so via tax policy, i.e. high property taxes (or LVT) with a dedu
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by asoneth 2y ago
I'm curious how you define "raiding"? I could imagine cases where a well-capitalized company hires all the members of a competitor's team at 2x salary only to fire them six months later with the goal of destroying their
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by asoneth 2y ago
I've worked on a synch+asynch voice platform for financial traders called a trading turret[1] and on collaboration tools for military and education. I've seen quite a few voice systems used factories, construction, and other works

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