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by dahart 5mo ago
> I have managed a lot over my career Ah, I do sincerely apologize for making assumptions! Discussions of history aside - I don’t think your opinion of management, as summarized as an “artificial function with self-fulfilled busywork” is
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by dahart 5mo ago
No, I think this still this isn’t an accurate framing of history. Managers have always had a completely different job than the people they manage. If anything, having a lot of managers that are in the trenches, writing code for example, is
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by dahart 5mo ago
What I’m describing is my 1:1s. I’m describing my experience, from a management perspective. You’re describing your experience from a non-management perspective, and I’m not arguing with your experience, but your claims about other people’s
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by dahart 5mo ago
Yes exactly! Devs resist asking for help when they need it, and this is why as a manager I have to insist on asking questions to discover blockers. I can see why this happens, and I was (and still sometimes I am) guilty of thinking as long
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by dahart 5mo ago
I’m not sure this framing is accurate. Companies have always had management. All large organizations have layered management; the Catholic Church has had layered management for two thousand years; your government has layered management; all
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by dahart 5mo ago
I do check, of course. As you can see from the comment you replied to, progress updates aren’t the only reason for 1:1s. But as far as updates go, questions are almost always needed, and face-to-face conversations are faster & easier fo
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by dahart 5mo ago
Yes, of course, and I do use both. There are underlying assumptions in your suggestion that it’s one or the other, and that async is somehow better. It’s worth considering whether those are always true, and trying to put a finger on the spe
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by dahart 5mo ago
> We don't need weekly 1:1s to check on feelings. As a manager that does weekly 1:1s, I agree with that statement. But I do need 1:1s to check on progress, uncover blockers that people haven’t surfaced on their own, make continuous
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by dahart 5mo ago
Never twice in one sentence like you did, and there are 13 “but”s. Is something wrong with using ‘however’? If so, what exactly?
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by dahart 5mo ago
I’m sympathetic to both the default distrust and to devs like you who want telemetry to improve their software and won’t use the data for anything else, but it is because of bad actors and enough dark ad patterns that we just can’t trust co
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by dahart 6mo ago
That is a more reasonable position than trying to imagine or push a single language. And yes, acknowledging it’s not everywhere necessarily, it does seem like multilingualism is fairly automatic out of necessity in much of the world. As an
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by dahart 6mo ago
Yes I’ve been having similar thoughts - how amazing would it be to have a common global tongue. Last time I looked, Chinese and the Spanish were the two most spoken languages, at least counting native speakers - there are other legit ways t
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by dahart 6mo ago
> By 2031 or 2032, we’re going to have 20-30TWh of battery production What’s the source on this? I just googled it, and the sources I see are saying 5TWh by 2036, with increasing supply chain risks over time… https://finance.y
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by dahart 6mo ago
Agreed, but it is worth noting that the inline apps on the Bézier page won’t work with JS disabled. And they are very helpful and well done. The quote is too nice and doesn’t explicitly admit that the experience is degraded & incomplete
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by dahart 6mo ago
What concepts were you “meant” to be learning? Doesn’t the content of the lectures give you a clue as to the educators’ intent? Are you aware that Bézier curves cover many fundamental CS topics, such as recursion, function evaluation, funct
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by dahart 6mo ago
No I understand apps are making dubious claims and implications; obviously claiming LLMs can accurately estimate carbs from a photo is just wrong. But that doesn’t necessarily change my question. Should people use photos to estimate carbs?
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by dahart 6mo ago
And what’s the variance & accuracy of their responses? Isn’t comparing the models’ variance to baseline human variance what matters here? It seems like they didn’t do that, and I agree with parent’s call for that kind of baseline. Havin
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by dahart 6mo ago
> I know not everyone wants this mental overhead, though. I’m curious how to even do it. I have no idea how to choose which model to use in advance of a given task, regardless of the mental overhead. And unless you can predict perfectly
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by dahart 6mo ago
You got some strangely negative reactions, but I agree; the article has not accounted for the safety net effect of a kinship society. It’s a glass half empty view, and there is a glass half full view too. The article is also not considering
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by dahart 6mo ago
> yield signs are go faster signs Reminds me of a good line from Starman…
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by dahart 6mo ago
My kids made fun of me yesterday when they saw me using a question mark in a search query.
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by dahart 6mo ago
Help me out, I don’t understand the scorched earth perspective. You want to eliminate the playing field even for the people playing fairly, just because there are some bad actors? Would destroying all SaaS actually cause the cheaters to sel
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by dahart 7mo ago
Yes rent (like everything) does scale with inflation. All the absolute numbers you’re using make reasoning about this more difficult than necessary. It’s better to use percent of income, in order to get a sense for whether today’s rent is m
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by dahart 7mo ago
You’re repeating several of my points in your own words, supporting them and not arguing with them, even though your language and emphasis suggests you think you are arguing. > then the entire experiment is invalid Isn’t that what I said
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by dahart 7mo ago
I agree completely. My point is that documenting methodology is standard practice, as is strict quality control, in the microplastics literature. I don’t know what controls are missing according to GP, and we don’t yet have references here
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by dahart 7mo ago
You’re still bringing up different issues than this article we are commenting on. > There’s no such thing as “overestimating in baseline samples” What do you mean? Contamination and mis-measurement of control samples is a thing that actu
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by dahart 7mo ago
Are more “controls” what is necessary here? The problem wasn’t plastic contamination, it was the presence of stearates. Distinguishing between stearates and microplastics sounds like a classification problem, not a control problem. There is
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by dahart 7mo ago
> I really don’t know where you get your number from I googled it. According to Google, London’s average rent is around €2,700, around 3x higher than the average. I assume the number of people living there and paying that much balances a
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by dahart 7mo ago
It’s true that average rent prices are regional and poorer areas have lower rents, but that doesn’t tend to make much difference in urban areas and large cities where the majority of people live now. Why do you feel that rent scales with d
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by dahart 7mo ago
$200/mo is a lot, sure, but the shocking part of that comparison is your rent. I didn’t know $400/mo apartments still existed. For most people in the US and EU, $200 would be closer to 15%-20% of rent I think? My cell phone bill f

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