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by fogzen 9mo ago
I think because capitalist employment is inherently adversarial. If employers (and managers) reveal the time budget, employees may take advantage and reduce output to expand to fill the deadline. Tight schedules squeeze employees, so hiding
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by fogzen 9mo ago
The thing that I got wrong about estimates was thinking it was about estimating. Actually, someone already has a time constraint. There’s already a deadline. Always. Your manager, VP, customer, whoever already has a time budget. Find out wh
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by fogzen 9mo ago
We have AGI. Latest generation LLMs are far better than the average human at basically everything you can throw at them. Are they smarter than the most intelligent, skilled, knowledgeable humans? Maybe not. But AGI != super intelligence.
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by fogzen 9mo ago
I wish I could use this – unfortunately UI frameworks are a political problem at every company I've worked at. The designers feel undermined or threatened by it, and product owners want to dictate design. Despite the massive productivi
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by fogzen 9mo ago
Linear is the latest trendy issue tracker. A to-do list, basically.
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by fogzen 9mo ago
I agree. The lack of discussion about replacing middle-management with AI betrays the real politics of business. Middle-managers output exactly what LLMs do: chats, documents, summaries. Particularly working remotely. They don't even g
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by fogzen 9mo ago
If you don’t have quorum the meeting is rescheduled. “Jeff you didn’t show up to the meeting. What happened?” Jeff is eventually put on a PIP or fired for not showing up to meetings without notice.
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by fogzen 9mo ago
This is the kind of stuff that makes me feel like I’m surrounded by idiots. Waiting for attendance is simply scheduled into the agenda. The first 5 minutes of the agenda is reserved for quorum. There is absolutely no need for making it any
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by fogzen 9mo ago
The catch is ethical. I personally don't feel good profiting from financial distress. Cash-back benefits are primarily funded through interest on carried balances (not interchange fees). In other words, credit card cash back is funded
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by fogzen 9mo ago
To be clear, the research appendix claims their review of RCTs does not support SFA intake correlated with coronary events or mortality, and thus does not recommend reducing saturated fat below 10% of energy.
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by fogzen 9mo ago
These discussions pit ChatGPT against doctors — but we can combine them! Doctors can use it to improve their diagnostics and treatment options.
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by fogzen 9mo ago
The "Reducing Saturated Fat Below 10% of Energy and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease" research appendix says they purposely excluded any study before 2010. Why? Also they only included randomized-controlled trials that lowered SFA b
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by fogzen 9mo ago
My 5 year old has his own iPad. We choose which games he can install, and he uses YouTube kids to watch videos (which we curate). He plays all sorts of games: Monument Valley, Hello Kitty Adventure Island, What the Car, and more. He also us
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by fogzen 10mo ago
We could fund roads (and everything else) using a progressive income tax, so that everyone pays and the wealthiest would pay the largest share.
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by fogzen 10mo ago
I tend to agree — but is there any data on this?
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by fogzen 10mo ago
That only works if you don’t receive any real communication where people expect a response, right? I think that is the case for most people. If you don’t actually communicate with email then Inbox Infinite seems the way to go. You only go i
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by fogzen 10mo ago
Same. Both my personal and work inbox are currently empty. I think it’s easier than ever now that spam filters are so good. I don’t have notifications enabled. I triage the inbox 1-3 times a day, outside of checking for an expected email. T
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by fogzen 10mo ago
Randomized controlled trials show LDL consistently drops with lower saturated fat intake, and randomized controlled trials show LDL strongly correlated with coronary risk. It’s one of the best-established causal relationships in nutrition
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by fogzen 10mo ago
Yeah, even alert/warn/info would be an improvement. I hate the concept of “errors” in general. They’re an excuse to avoid responsibility, and ship broken software with known undefined behavior. The very notion of an error basicall
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by fogzen 10mo ago
I love everything about this – the little touches like the logo, the content warning, etc. Thank you for bringing some joy to my day.
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by fogzen 10mo ago
Same. But it took learning to ignore everything every manager was telling me: Go faster, ship before I'm ready to ship, proceed without agreed-on and documented requirements, listen to product instead of customers, follow code conventi
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by fogzen 10mo ago
What’s wrong with POST’ing a report? POST to /reports with the query parameters in the body. Respond with bookmarkable, cacheable /reports/id and GET /reports/id And that’s only necessary for huge, complex queries.
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by fogzen 11mo ago
The October CPI report was canceled and delayed because they couldn't retroactively collect data during the period of the government shutdown. You may be interested to know of MIT's Billion Prices project, which scraped the Intern
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by fogzen 11mo ago
Is it really so crazy to extend democracy to the enterprise?
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by fogzen 11mo ago
What is the ideological lens that characterizes our society? Greed. The individual owes nothing to society: no limit to what I can own. Society owes nothing to me: my share of the wealth is my own fault. Might makes right. A deal is fair re
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by fogzen 11mo ago
A game’s rules are fixed. Customers, societal laws, norms, etc. are not.
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by fogzen 11mo ago
Wake me up when there's an IDE that cares about performance. My coworkers are amazed my laptop can run for days because I don't use Electron crap.
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by fogzen 11mo ago
Having been a CEO and around many CEOs... they of course do work. But they don't do x250 times more work of another worker. It's just a different type of work. Yet all work from every employee is critical for the enterprise to fun
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by fogzen 11mo ago
The problem is not immigration policy — it’s using terror, illegal detainment, and negligent and excessive force to detain people. Breaking into a daycare with no warrant, no identification (they wear masks and refuse to identify themselv
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by fogzen 11mo ago
I recently saw a video of armed, masked ICE terrorists entering a daycare and forcibly dragging a teacher out in front of babies and toddlers. America is sick. Republicans are sick. They condone this and have made no attempt to do anything

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