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by aworks 6mo ago
I worked for awhile as a janitor in a college dorm. Not an easy job but it definitely revealed a side of humanity I might not have otherwise seen. Especially the clean out after students left for the year.
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by aworks 6mo ago
Likewise he can probably defer his Social Security payments until 70, in order to get the higher benefit... +1 for Medicare for the non-rich, though. I'm a retiree and the monthly payment is about 1/4 of what I was paying for heal
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by aworks 6mo ago
"Agile Vibe Coding in action: short cycles, fast feedback, continuous correction.This isn’t a formal spec. It’s a conversation that keeps going during the work, not before it."
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by aworks 6mo ago
Hmm. The design of left turns on "stroads" seems to vary in the US. Mostly left-turn/U-turn lights in California, loop arounds in suburban Detroit, unprotected left turn lights in Kentucky, differs if the route is a national,
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by aworks 6mo ago
It was a long time ago but I attended a session by IBM at an OO conference. The speaker's claim was that the half-life of programming language knowledge was 6 months i.e. if not reinforced, that how fast it goes. I learned the Q array
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by aworks 6mo ago
I"m not saying it had high approval. I'm saying it had high community awareness, unlike the current mission. I was in a bookstore where they were playing the radio over their speakers as Apollo 13 reported problems. That seems dif
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by aworks 6mo ago
I was 10 in 1969. Landing on the moon was a communal and shared event for a large percentage of the population, via one of the three television networks. As was the war in Vietnam. Many decades later, our institutions are in need of rebuild
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by aworks 6mo ago
I was an engineering manager for a commercial C/C++ toolchain used in embedded systems development. We, and our customers, examined the generated code continously. In our case, to figure out better optimizations (and fix bugs). For som
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by aworks 6mo ago
Interesting counter-factual. Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle suggests what would have happened if the US did lose the war. Remaining neutral would have been a different result, though.
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by aworks 6mo ago
6 quarters, not 6 semesters! Decades later, I wish I had more linear algebra.
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by aworks 6mo ago
I understand the value of statistics. But calculus? I say this, as someone who took 6 semesters of calculus in college.
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by aworks 6mo ago
I was a manager of engineers and manager of managers. I've never heard the word fun used in conjunction with reviews. It's a system and process put together by others, with forms and criteria that were flawed. It required real eff
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by aworks 6mo ago
Americans during WWII thought it was a fight for national survival, starting with the shock of Pearl Harbor. Isolationishm turned to intervention in the "Good War." I won't defend any war after that...
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by aworks 6mo ago
I need to reread it but Paul Fussell makes the case that old wealth is inconspicuous and secure (and maybe inherited) versus nouveau riche which is about visible luxury, branding, and showy consumption. I don't remember if he mentions
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by aworks 6mo ago
Is this a difference in kind versus say the printing press and books? That technology gave some souls a platform. Then and now, having a platform isn't the same as having an effective and popular platform for force indoctrination...
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by aworks 6mo ago
I think this is the right question. My search/chat is now 50% ChatGPT, 30% Google, and 20% Gemini. I have no idea the business implications of this. For that matter, I don't know the bandwidth and compute cycle tradeoffs between t
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by aworks 6mo ago
I'm a retired engineering manager so judge me appropriately :-) I've had 1000 good chats with ChatGPT on a wide range of topics. I build personal Excel and Access applications but not any real programming. I don't need workfl
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by aworks 6mo ago
Good link from the other day about spreadsheet impact on business https://davidoks.blog/p/how-the-spreadsheet-reshaped-america
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by aworks 6mo ago
I'm curious how long it took Google to reach that valuation.
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by aworks 6mo ago
Dumb people given bad incentives can be even worse. No politicians come to mind...
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by aworks 6mo ago
I bought a cheap Samsung phone. And it sucked. So I bought the new Pixel and it's so much better. I'll probably never buy a Samsung phone again. I was disappointed Google killed Reader but I pivoted. Otherwise, Google's reput
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by aworks 6mo ago
Hmm. I have a hand-crafted personal finance dashboard that I continue to tweak. After reading the post, I copied an output table into ChatGPT, asked it a couple of questions and have more ideas to consider than I had in the entire life of
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by aworks 6mo ago
This has interesting speculation on the future business impact of AI, extrapolated from Excel: "This will be genuinely extraordinary for what organizations, particularly the best organizations, can achieve. But if each previous ideolog
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by aworks 6mo ago
FYI: Larry Ellison's net worth is down $200 billion since September. (Hateful Eight = Mag 7 + Oracle). https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-the-ira...
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by aworks 7mo ago
I was an development tools engineering manager who was in enumerable "bug scrubs" to triage the flow. Sometimes I would advocate based on business reasons to fix the bug. Or to de-prioritize it or close it. I took every side possi
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by aworks 7mo ago
I asked about my comments and was amused by one part of the answer: 6. Slightly dry, understated style The tone is usually compact, matter-of-fact, and occasionally wry rather than performative. Even their Wuhan taxi-driver remark has that
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by aworks 7mo ago
I'm halfway between a technical and non-technical user. And half my time is spent in Chrome. But my other half time is in Excel, Dropbox, and Everything. Do those run on Linux? Maybe there are equivalents but I don't have the time
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by aworks 7mo ago
If this is a real strategic shift, some will adapt and some won't or can't. From Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions: "a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents... but rather becau
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by aworks 7mo ago
"must have X number of years in Y IDE" Not quite on topic but as an engineering manager responsible for IDE development, explaining to recruiters and candidates I wanted engineers who developed IDEs, not just used them. Unfortunat
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by aworks 7mo ago
I was an engineering manager an for decades and I did first technical phone screening of a very large number of candidates. I couldn't really assess someone's design and programming skills. So I would pick a particular area they w

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