dccoolgai

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by dccoolgai 8mo ago
Remember when they "censored" the guy who had the gall to write "men and women are a little different" at Google. There's an object lesson here, even if you disagreed with that guy.
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by dccoolgai 8mo ago
Also played Nurse Chapel in the Original Series and Deanna Troi's mother in TNG.
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by dccoolgai 8mo ago
Carbon copy repeat of the Soviet Union. Headed to the same place in the same way just 40 years later.
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by dccoolgai 8mo ago
Let's not pretend that firing software engineers for reading a publicly available Slack list with software is anything but the crack of a whip. Or equivocate doing that with firing _700 people_ while the board gets their million-dollar
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by dccoolgai 8mo ago
I read it more as "look for the thing that was _never done_ because no one was going to hire 20 people to do it" and all the examples were pointing out how you _should not_ try to "better, faster, cheaper" AI because you
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by dccoolgai 8mo ago
They made half the point, in my opinion - that you should be "doing the thing that wasn't possible before" but missed the other half - that maybe the thing you should be doing is owning and creating relationships with custome
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by dccoolgai 8mo ago
In fairness to the author, I think their point was that you take _several_ agents (not just one) and find a way to have them work like a team of 20 people. In the example, Sarah is trying to do the same job she did before, just marginally b
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by dccoolgai 8mo ago
It would make you feel better if they did it with a pen and paper?
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by dccoolgai 10mo ago
Most "big" projects (huge chip foundries, etc.) require various forms of government approval (if not outright funding). They get asymmetry from knowing: 1. Sometimes that the project is happening before everyone else 2. If the pro
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by dccoolgai 11mo ago
Can't keep Slivovitz a secret forever and Kala Megdan is one of the most amazing experiences in Europe.
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by dccoolgai 11mo ago
Fleeing as in "I don't want to die in Putin's war". I've heard from friends that it's actually becoming an issue with locals there (the overwhelming number of Russians who have moved there) to the point where i
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by dccoolgai 11mo ago
Belgrade, historically, was a "gateway between East and West" and in some ways it still is: as a non-EU member in Europe it has access to a broader range of markets than a lot of other cities. I think recently, the wave of Russian
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by dccoolgai 11mo ago
You can buy the Microcenter knockoff one (Inland) for under $10
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by dccoolgai 11mo ago
Train them to run and maintain the new machines? Find a new business opportunity and have them work on that? All of the above with an optional buyout?
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by dccoolgai 1y ago
Lots of naysaying this, and I don't necessarily disagree with the general skepticism, but there's something I learned in Military Science class in college that I found interesting: in the U.S. marines, every marine from generals t
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by dccoolgai 1y ago
Always interesting to think about Postel's law in the context of these kinds of things. ("Be liberal in what you accept and conservative in what you send")
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by dccoolgai 1y ago
Those designers aren't good at their job. What you're describing is a failed artist. There are a lot of these that call themselves designers.
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by dccoolgai 1y ago
555s are so much fun. It's bananas how much you can do with that chip and a few dirt-cheap resistors and capacitors. Make has a really nice little book where they walk you through some simple projects on a breadboard with 555s, transis
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by dccoolgai 1y ago
Weird how you can remember these little things from Sierra games: 6858 was the code to disable the Star Generator in Space Quest 1.
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by dccoolgai 1y ago
Parity error...
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by dccoolgai 1y ago
I would put a finer/pithier point on it: The "attention economy" is out, the "trust economy" is in.
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by dccoolgai 1y ago
Agreed. The tough thing, though, is that it's (generally) a lot easier to spot a bad engineer than a bs "ideas guy".
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by dccoolgai 1y ago
Not to make you feel old, but to today's 20-somethings an 80s movie is the same time difference as a 40s movie would be in the 80s. There's some interesting stuff I read a while back about why the 80s "feels culturally closer
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by dccoolgai 1y ago
Exactly this. AMP was not a technological concern so much as a "contract": I won't act like a jackass and do anti-user things on my site and you will convey that to your readers/searchers.
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by dccoolgai 1y ago
Bingo, and most engineers have zero clue or respect for this skillset. Even traditional PMs / business dev types don't know what they don't know about how to talk with government or government-adjacent businesses. I've w
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by dccoolgai 1y ago
Meshtastic UI is pretty far along that path right now. You can purchase a device for like $50ish that gives you a few miles of reach in the right conditions and has a decent UI built in (on the latest rev). If you want to run firmware on c
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by dccoolgai 1y ago
Unfortunately, when cheap goods are sourced outside the US "innovation" usually just means "slave labor" or "flouting environmental regulations". Not the case for Europe, etc. but most Americans are better off
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by dccoolgai 2y ago
It's also the "lawyer/MBA's fantasy" that you can move the physical "making of things" to place B while the "good innovation jobs" stay in place A. It might work for a _short while_ but eventuall
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by dccoolgai 2y ago
So if you took the deal last year you would have gotten 9 months, now the severance is 9 weeks. Way to reward "loyalty". Good thing we're so smart and better than everyone else and we don't need unions.
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by dccoolgai 2y ago
The house GOP guys that dragged Hillary through all those committees are going to be _so mad_ when they find out about this

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