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by davedx 2y ago
Who do you think sets the incentives? This conversation is so weird to me, I don't get what people are arguing: is the argument that it's better to replace middle management than top level management? That we shouldn't do any
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by davedx 2y ago
Who didn't have any knowledge of what, here? Are you saying the CEO of Boeing had no idea what was going on with the 737 MAX program?
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by davedx 2y ago
The C-level people have already failed catastrophically, they need replacing wholesale. This is done frequently as other corporate actions like M&A's or bankruptcies. There are specialists whose entire career is dedicated to being
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by davedx 2y ago
Boards are often toothless though, just look at Tesla's. Replace the C-suite. This is done frequently in M&A's and other corporate strategies in extremis. Fire the guys at the top and replace them with people with good track r
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by davedx 2y ago
> The problem is that finding the people responsible can be extremely hard > What Boeing really needs is a complete change in management culture Who is ultimately responsible for management at a company though? The CEO and the other C
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by davedx 2y ago
It’s not sustainable. Solar panel producers are going to be in big trouble in 8-10 years I think.
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by davedx 2y ago
The nice thing about Fly is it’s very docker oriented, so depending on your app migrating it off may be fairly straightforward? My apps are all on Fly but in the regions without big hikes thankfully, so I’m sticking around for now, but it s
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by davedx 2y ago
I suspect he would think ChatGPT voice is pretty close to what he envisioned for man-machine symbiosis
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by davedx 2y ago
Yes I read the book first 6-7 years ago! One of the best books I’ve read, up there with Skunk Works.
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Man-Computer Symbiosis (1960)(groups.csail.mit.edu)
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by davedx 2y ago
Well it is competitive with other salaries in the Netherlands. If you don't have a family or want to buy a house then you can live reasonably well here on such a salary. If you have a family or are trying to buy a house though, it can
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by davedx 2y ago
Suffering is "the state of undergoing pain, distress, or hardship". Having to delete the occasional marketing or sales email that get past your spam filter is hardly any of these. Annoying or frustrating, yes. Suffering? Really?
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by davedx 2y ago
Having tried to start a business and known other business owners, I will die on this hill: sales and marketing are not "acts of malice". Without salespeople we wouldn't live in the world we lived today. This is like the irrat
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by davedx 2y ago
I know GPT4o can diagnose medical images. Is their model likely to be using the same kind of datasets as these models for medical systems?
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by davedx 2y ago
In recent years due to the somewhat mixed economy, "competitive salary" in the Netherlands is typically in the 50-70k/year range in my experience (for mid/senior engineers). Salaries and freelance rates have been quite d
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by davedx 2y ago
I can’t read the paywalled article but this just isn’t true (I work in this area). Financial services is taking a thoughtful approach to where and how to apply AI, yes. “Shunning” it? Not at all.
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by davedx 2y ago
> Leja explained that if you took the Milky Way and compressed it to the size of the galaxies they found, the nearest star would almost be in our solar system. The supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way, about 26,000 ligh
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by davedx 2y ago
Yeah for sure. Even with my phone's brightness on max, in bright sunlight ereaders are much better. That's probably always going to be the case I guess.
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by davedx 2y ago
It took a bit of mental training to stop switching to browser/chat apps while reading, but I have most notifications disabled so it was more a "me deciding that now I'm going to just read" than a device/software thi
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by davedx 2y ago
I owned ereaders for a while (had the first Kindle) but I ended up going back to my phone for reading books in the end. One device, less charging, less things to remember. The Kobo app works great now it’s matured, and everything is super s
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by davedx 2y ago
Thanks, I’ll give it a try!
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by davedx 2y ago
Danswer supports pdf natively, I’ve been trialing it and it works pretty well
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by davedx 2y ago
Sloppy journalism: you only need one of these “lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese, and graphite”
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by davedx 2y ago
I’ve checked out quite a few RAG projects now and what I haven’t seen really solved is ingestion, it’s usually like “this is an endpoint or some connectors, have fun!”. How do I do a bulk/batch ingest of say, 10k html documents into th
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by davedx 2y ago
Labour just said they’ll enforce the warrant for Netanyahu’s arrest. You find that lacking backbone?
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by davedx 2y ago
I visited a small museum near where I live the other day (The Kröller-Müller Museum, in the Netherlands), the founder happened to pick up quite a few Van Gogh paintings over her collecting, including one of my favourites (Terrasse du Café l
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by davedx 2y ago
I read much faster when I can focus on reading instead of vocalizing; in this case I am no longer internally vocalizing the text. If I do vocalize what I read it goes a lot slower, but then it helps me to synthesize conplex concepts in a te
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by davedx 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspiration4
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by davedx 2y ago
No, why on earth?
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by davedx 2y ago
Joint account for daily stuff (I guess that’s checking) plus a joint savings for big things, rest is separate. We pay in an agreed fixed amount each month, which needs to be semi regularly raised lately due to inflation etc etc…

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