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by clnq 4y ago
Repeating what was said is called a backbrief and it's useful to make sure the communication is understood sometimes. It's used as a rule in some very sensitive areas, like military command. Perhaps some manager at HP "addres
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by clnq 4y ago
Some interesting thoughts on the idea of society with no privacy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzhkwyoe5vI .
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by clnq 4y ago
> A vertical career into management is not for everyone. That's a different question which is even more polarizing - should good engineers become managers. But to be clear, I brought up promotion because that's why many people
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by clnq 4y ago
It sounds fair to me that a developer hired to do front-end work does not want to do back-end. I can't blame him for setting boundaries, especially in a dysfunctional management workplace. I've been in the back-end developer'
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by clnq 4y ago
You bring up an interesting point. I have not seen this in flat or small companies as I have not worked in many. But I imagine that those surrounding the engineer will still feel that their expectations are no longer met if the engineer tri
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by clnq 4y ago
An important cautionary tale to the “I’ll take on the world to save the project” types. Do you want working the job of 3-4 people while being paid a salary of one to become your baseline, not meeting which would make you an under-performer
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by clnq 4y ago
I can’t believe how much was written and how little was said. Of course they’ll need to cost cut and appeal to investors in other desperate ways. Ideally by weaselling out of VR somehow. I wish their management was competent with the VR eff
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by clnq 4y ago
Was it really planned for that? This sounds like just a list of initially unplanned effects it had, used as internal PR spin at best.
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by clnq 4y ago
Maybe it’s time for the pile of trash to topple. We could go back to the mindset of using specific sites for information and the internet more like a tool than a source of casual content for scrolling and browsing. Or so one can dream.
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by clnq 4y ago
> prefer the kind of content that is accompanied by a green check mark? For most searches, yes.
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by clnq 4y ago
"We" the humanity. Of course, those in certain positions have more power than others to make a change. I don't know if reseting the "lipostat" is much more than a bandage on a bullet wound. Yes, it's better to
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by clnq 4y ago
I was thinking along these lines, but we could remember much longer passphrases if they made semantic sense - the words were not random. For example, here's what ChatGPT comes up with when asked to create some short rhyming passphrases
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by clnq 4y ago
I don’t think many people who tried full self driving believe the “better than a human driver” thing. The ridiculous idea seems to be mostly in fan circles, not among Tesla owners. Tesla themselves say that the tech is meant to assist the d
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by clnq 4y ago
Something with LLMs that uses sanitized data so it’s useful and not jailbroken and shut down within a month. For example: - an app that forecasts the weather where you are in 1 sentence. - an app that summarises user reviews of points of in
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by clnq 4y ago
It's unfortunate that the morality filters dull and bias the debate so much. With certain controversial topics, the debaters end up fundamentally agreeing. It makes this application of GPT rather impotent compared to what it could be;
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by clnq 4y ago
We need to solve what’s causing the epidemic - http://achemicalhunger.com/ , declining mental health, deteriorating relationships with food, pandemic habits, and other things. Even if this medication offers 15% fat loss, eac
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by clnq 4y ago
That could happen. There are plenty of game (UX) designers that claim to know what works better than their players. Ironically, this makes them blind to feedback and improvement, which then makes them really bad at intuiting what works. The
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by clnq 4y ago
Laying off 200 is definitely a lot. That’s many more than most AAA studios have internally and closer to what AAA publishers usually have. Although EA is known in the industry to have relatively many QA people and good QA. Their games stand
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by clnq 4y ago
Yes. I don't want to live in a world where my kid sends someone a picture of immigrants on a boat and gets a criminal record. It's just a step between abolishing encryption and this. And the next step is wide scope censorship like
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by clnq 4y ago
People should tamper their expectations. This is an early access release, which only means the developer has transitioned to a more open dev phase of production. They will gather feedback from their target audience rather than only QA and f
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by clnq 4y ago
I wish we just didn't write low-density, high-redundancy non-fiction anymore. Especially books written in the "self-help" style where about 1% is the core message, and 99% are illustrations, examples, author's opinions,
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by clnq 4y ago
That's good to hear. I didn't mean to be indignant, I just don't have a nuanced understanding of this. So thanks for the insights.
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by clnq 4y ago
I wonder how effective life coaching is to people in poverty. The condition seems to have a risk of just humiliating those who are poor. Do they have the scale to do this for 80 families or more, or is it more of a rush job with the usual l
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by clnq 4y ago
Why do ISPs do this? Is there a legitimate reason or they just feel that their clients don’t host these services so they might as well block the ports for safety?
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by clnq 4y ago
The search LLMs are good at synthesizing answers that don’t appear anywhere on the net. But they also hallucinate answers often. So to get reliable results, one needs to fact-check them. Otherwise, the risk of being misled is high. The fact
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by clnq 4y ago
I don’t know… In my experience, managers’ bias can sneak into performance reviews. Sometimes that puts a spotlight on the manager and has consequences, but not always.
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by clnq 4y ago
I too am optimistic about the tech. And I would even consider myself an early adopter of convolutional NNs and these LLM products in my commercial work. But we have to state the obvious - Bing chat is not a good substitute for web search no
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by clnq 4y ago
Then they seem kind of superfluous to 1:1s, right? Without 1:1s, performance reviews alone would not be very effective for employee growth. With 1:1s, they are more of a formality - not adding anything new to the conversation.
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by clnq 4y ago
It’s just called stack ranking now. And it doesn’t make sense. A company can be full of high performers or low performers, but the stack ranking principle itself would make management blind to that.
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by clnq 4y ago
Do performance reviews work better than just constructive feedback in 1:1s though? Reviews seem to be a pathway for the company to get rid of people rather than to help them grow. As a growth pathway, it is very ineffective. Other efforts w

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