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by astrange 10mo ago
Fighting with your kids is not the appropriate kind of interaction to have with your kids.
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by astrange 10mo ago
Ever tried sleeping in bed while someone next to you is on their phone? It's not the kind of conflict you should promote. XR glasses are better in that case because the glare doesn't affect other people.
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by astrange 10mo ago
Ah well, the evidence for my claim is that I just told you. This particular claim is not a Steve Jobs story, but he would agree I think. I did tell a true and previously unreported Steve Jobs story on reddit the other day and was voted to -
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by astrange 10mo ago
Rounded corners are a utilitarian feature. Human vision is based on edge detection and corners unnaturally activate it more than necessary. It's basically like being continually poked in the eye. https://folklore.org/Ro
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by astrange 10mo ago
If it's AGI they could just get a regular job, I think.
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by astrange 10mo ago
I think it's interesting that people associate being in VR with being unable to interact with other people. I personally think it promotes living with other people because it reduces conflict. Like, if you and your kids want to watch d
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by astrange 10mo ago
A very common thing people do is assume a) all corporations are evil b) all corporations never follow any laws c) any evil action you can imagine would work or be profitable if they did it. b is mostly not true but c is especially not true.
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by astrange 10mo ago
I remember Perl programmers as being weird but nice enough. It's Lisp programmers who were impossible to talk to and mostly responded to any questions by telling you to kill yourself. I remember reading those BOFH stories because I tho
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by astrange 10mo ago
Morphy, who is probably the greatest chess player to ever live, would probably know.
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by astrange 10mo ago
One important thing missing from AI boyfriends is they aren't capable of paying half your rent.
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by astrange 10mo ago
Just because they have that doesn't mean they're going to use it for training.
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by astrange 10mo ago
Doesn't the heat make cars more attractive? I know squirrels like living in engines and sometimes eating the cables.
463.
by astrange 10mo ago
This "x chemical affects some people differently" thought is incoherent because what matters is the /dose/, not if it exists at all.
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by astrange 10mo ago
> before discord there were lots of self-organized forums with their own communities and rules. And running them was awful and drove the people who did it insane, mostly because you had to fight spambots.
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by astrange 10mo ago
Intuniv/guanfacine helped me a lot with that and time blindness, but in exchange it makes you tired and affects your sex drive. Also have to ramp off it, which is a problem if you run out or are traveling and can't get a refill.
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by astrange 10mo ago
"Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria" is not medically recognized and is literally just something a guy with a blog made up. (Note, the guy with the blog is a doctor, but he specifically recommends certain medications for this that I
467.
by astrange 10mo ago
Yes, you can learn "they should have added value types to this language".
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by astrange 10mo ago
His bio says he was an Intel Fellow, which is like a VP-level individual role, and yes that's what I expected too… but apparently not? These are kinda low. https://www.levels.fyi/companies/intel/salaries/
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by astrange 10mo ago
That is a regular self-review. Companies make their employees do that. In this case Intel needs him more than the other way around, as far as I know. I do know people keep asking me if they can see flamegraphs of things.
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by astrange 10mo ago
Conversely, I made HotSpot commits as an intern, but I never shipped a web app.
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by astrange 10mo ago
> An optimization coming from an engineer in Taiwan saves you the same money as if it comes from an engineer in SF but the SF engineer gets 8x the reward for doing the work. An underappreciated difference is that it's hard to schedu
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by astrange 10mo ago
I know some of them do this, but ours doesn't. There is a once yearly self-review, and as far as I can tell it has literally no impact on your actual performance review and compensation, which are basically entirely up to your manager&
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by astrange 10mo ago
Waymos are capable of seeing cats - I was in one looking at the route view the other day, and it highlighted a cat that was a decent distance away sitting in a front yard as it passed it. Then it went through a roundabout seemingly just to
474.
by astrange 10mo ago
Well, you see, there's a popular brand of computers that don't have separate VRAM and have twice the display resolution of everyone else. Luckily, windows aren't always fullscreen and so the memory usage is somewhat up to the
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by astrange 10mo ago
The size of the window is up to the user.
476.
by astrange 10mo ago
No, I'm talking about window buffers. This is about memory not disk space.
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by astrange 10mo ago
I haven't been a manager, but my understanding is that the higher IC roles assume you're competent enough to do some management-like things if needed ("responsibility without control"), and I also assume that being a man
478.
by astrange 10mo ago
Who's at your local city council meeting getting every single proposal to build an apartment cancelled? (It's the old people.)
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by astrange 10mo ago
It's the websites that are bloated, not the browsers. (Well, maybe they are too, but it's secondary.) Visit any news site or any Fandom wiki and then check eg Firefox about:memory. It'll be a lot. And for security reasons, di
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by astrange 10mo ago
Where do you put the framebuffer?

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