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by dasil003 2y ago
Apologies for the rude tone. I was mis-reading your comment as saying it's possible to fully avoid negative emotions around this type of situation, but going back I see that wasn't what you said. Yes, I agree with everything you&
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by dasil003 2y ago
> But don't feel guilt: it's more like a moral obligation. It's a good thing, not a negative emotion. It means you're thinking like a complete person in a world where it is common to pretend that isn't necessary
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by dasil003 2y ago
How much of London's wealth comes from infrastructure versus financial engineering leveraging The City's unique rules and sovereignty arrangements?
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by dasil003 2y ago
Scrum is good for delivering small incremental results in a chaotic environments, and is popular because it naturally provides a tunable paper trail for mediocre managers to cover their asses with. But if you are trying to anything ambitio
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by dasil003 2y ago
I don't like the blame narrative either way. There's no single party with both the power and the knowledge of the details to counterbalance the strong incentives that are all around them. It's all well and good to say engin
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by dasil003 2y ago
Agreed, but this matters little if you can't hire people to manage your on-prem infra. 25 years ago everyone had a sysadmin and a DBA, now they are outnumbered by "devops engineers" who just know AWS and K8s.
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by dasil003 2y ago
I don't think 37signals is a very strong example that this could become a trend. They are in the goldilocks zone where they're big and stable enough to save a lot of money with self-hosting, but not big enough that they can negot
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by dasil003 2y ago
No one would let AI get shut down in the US, there’s just too much at stake. Even if we don’t like what’s going on, we’ll take a measured approach in regulating, because otherwise it will just go overseas.
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by dasil003 2y ago
The idea of tech as a tool of oppression is something that increasingly bothers me. I got into tech because I just liked building stuff with computers, and at the time I naively thought it seemed democratizing. Looking back I think this w
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by dasil003 2y ago
I took over a team that was struggling with a very large architectural migration that had been going for a couple years. Two years later we have largely gotten things back to a healthy state, though we have only achieved maybe 20% of the or
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by dasil003 2y ago
Now you get into the definition of "locally". Gene pool local or individual local? I think it's evident that cooperation has proven highly effective at the gene pool level. Will it prove to only be effective short-term loc
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by dasil003 2y ago
There’s just not enough time to understand the huge range of societal and political issues to a depth that can inform a well-reasoned and holistically defensible position. Those who try inevitably find less reach than those who specialize
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by dasil003 2y ago
> My favourite thing about microservice architecture is how simple individual microservices are to understand and contribute to. Whether this is good depends on the type of changes you need to make. Just as you mentioned maintaining m
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by dasil003 2y ago
Your response is fair and I hope you didn't take my message personally. I agree with you, AI is just a tool same as countless others that can be used for good or evil.
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by dasil003 2y ago
> humans learning is the old-school digital copying. computers simply do it much faster, but it's the same basic phenomenon This is dangerous framing because it papers over the significant material differences between AI training
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by dasil003 2y ago
Yeah I feel like successful founders natural ambition and optimism is sort of weaponized against them by the VC industry here. From a VC perspective it's worth playing the odds for moonshots. As a founder though, if you can create a
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by dasil003 2y ago
It’s just a refutation of naive bias towards statistics, which is rampant in big organizations (see the McNamara fallacy). This is codified in the idea of being “data driven”, which is the right thing if your data is a true proxy for the t
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by dasil003 2y ago
A few generations have grown up with them now, which greatly elevates their status. It's not that unlike the original trilogy in that way. I can think of any number of films that I liked as a child, some hold up better than others, b
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by dasil003 2y ago
It's probably true on average job hopping pays off when you're young, it also has some real upside risks as more senior positions generally require you to think longer term, and that's very hard if you don't see how your
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by dasil003 2y ago
> I tend to think that people in positions of leadership overestimate their competence and ability to actually effect positive change in an organisation. To the contrary, I think executives in large companies are far more lucid about h
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by dasil003 2y ago
Wow, this is some ultimate clickbait, combining peak AI hype with timely economic concerns as well as the evergreen hatred of bad bosses. The fact that articles like this get traction is ironically exactly why an AI can’t be a good CEO—pick
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by dasil003 2y ago
Wait, what? There are so many assumptions packed into this statement. Why should we view things through the lens of whether we are glorifying pirates or not? Is your assertion we should be condemning them? Why? Is it because they are ta
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by dasil003 2y ago
Yeah, having been an engineer, tech lead and manager in various forms over the last 25 years, I have to saw I appreciate the thoughtfulness and nuance that Will Larson is trying to bring. The problem is nuance on its own doesn't reall
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by dasil003 2y ago
Because even when you’re all powerful, it’s hard to find good help
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I consider LinkedIn to be a great case study in the value and perils of social networking. On one hand, maintaining a list of all the people I've worked with and their up-to-date CVs is incredibly valuable, and LinkedIn has enough net
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by dasil003 2y ago
There's a fair amount of insight in this article buried under layers of insults and ad hominem attacks. Perhaps it's a bit ironic that the author feels the need to frame things in this way to drive engagement because that's
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I don't think it's nonsense but it's incomplete. A lot of people work really hard and achieve nothing notable. A lot of people sort of phone it in and do alright just by shrewd positioning (or luck). There is no substitute f
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by dasil003 2y ago
Yeah but only in earth gravity. Depending on your remote work location things change substantially, though I’m not sure exactly how in your mixed metaphor.
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by dasil003 3y ago
> Financial advisors counsel people all the time not to put their eggs in one basket. One nuanced take that I've found useful: diversify to preserve wealth, but concentrate to build it. To be clear, I'm not advocating against
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by dasil003 3y ago
When I moved to London the fact that cycling was my primary mode of transportation meant I quickly learned the overall distance and distribution of common destinations and landmarks in central London to a much greater depth than many acquai

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