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by gen220 3y ago
I think this generalizes to “cargo cutting process” is evil. If you don’t know or can’t reach consensus what your goals and principles are, no process will make your org functional.
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by gen220 3y ago
I like to call this zero sum management, and the parent to your post is a good example of positive sum management. As long as the business is making money, the prospect of it continuing to make money in the near and medium term future is no
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by gen220 3y ago
This is true. If you're an experienced cat owner in good financial health, indoor cats are generally not worth insuring. For dogs, it ranges wildly from "not worth it at all" to "mandatory" depending on the breed, a
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by gen220 3y ago
> But what does it mean to say "the Greeks" disseminated their knowledge better when virtually all of what we have comes from Roman citizens living centuries later? That Greek knowledge and culture survived the collapse of thei
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by gen220 3y ago
Is it not a simpler explanation that Greece simply did a better job of disseminating its own literature than prior cultures? My understanding is that the “through line” of modern scientific progress begins in Greece because that’s where “tr
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by gen220 3y ago
George Washington was also a surveyor before his later career(s). It was a well-trodden path to wealth and status for people of middling backgrounds and aptitudes for math and law in the pre-revolutionary U.S.
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by gen220 3y ago
Just curious, for Amazon specifically does this service capture price changes that don't appear on https://camelcamelcamel.com ?
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by gen220 3y ago
`kwargs.pop`, what a phrase – it's amazing how the right arrangement of syllables can make your brain shudder. (:
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by gen220 3y ago
As jrmj notes, phone plans with tethering aren't as common and often come with strings attached. I use my phone in coffee shops that don't have [acceptable] WiFi. The main drawback is needing to be mindful of phone battery in addi
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by gen220 3y ago
Those metrics are in fact routinely gamed by well-meaning PMs whose (perceived) compensation is affected by those numbers, with UX-dubious features like unnecessary and disruptive notifications, highly discounted introductory promotional pe
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by gen220 3y ago
Aligning employees' interests with the long-term interests of the company is really challenging. A typical counterexample to compensating in proportion to equity performance is compensating in proportion to revenue or profit performanc
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by gen220 3y ago
I remember in the "microsoft office <> Generative AI" demo, one of the motivating examples was a parent generating a graduation party speech for her child... [1] The first half of the video is demonstrating how the parent ca
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by gen220 3y ago
Building tools for other companies’ platforms (first one was Twitter, second one is macOS, last is OpenAI) is always a double edged sword. It makes growth / user acquisition easier, because you’re going where the people already are. Bu
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by gen220 3y ago
There’s been attempts to revise the SQL standard to accommodate various types of temporality as a “first party” feature. I think that we won’t see traction at the RDBMS “kernel space” until it’s in the SQL standard. There are many valid and
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by gen220 3y ago
In a world where UNIX-inspired systems run most software, I like to imagine that it’s possible for a UNIX-like browser to become dominant. Recall that UNIX (and C) were built (and adopted) in response to perceived over-complexities in conte
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by gen220 3y ago
I always thought the same. Bargaining for some minimum amount of cash is important (food on the table, gas in the car, etc.). But beyond that, meaningful equity in the hands of labor should surely be the goal — it aligns interest in a way t
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by gen220 3y ago
I think you’re right about side effects being the missing ingredient to this discussion, that is leading people to talk past each other. The pattern’s sometimes called “imperative shell, functional core”. And I totally agree, this is how yo
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by gen220 3y ago
The collective worship is the set of people who (1a) have worked there previously and (1b) didn’t hate it, or (2) want to work there in the future. It’s a pretty large absolute number of people, although thanks to section 1 clause b, it’s g
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by gen220 3y ago
That average salary must include non-engineers. The average salary for a mid-career engineer at google is north of $300k if you assume no stock movement. https://levels.fyi
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by gen220 3y ago
Note it isn’t the demand for AI driven software and tools that has to be sustained or increased, it’s the demand for massive GPUs that are used to train AI tools. To make a flawed analogy, but if people want oil (AI), NVDA sells drills (mea
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by gen220 3y ago
The fundamental model of company valuation is that the company's equity is worth the accumulation of the company's future cash flows, typically discounted by some rate so that predicted cash flows 5 years from now are worth some %
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by gen220 3y ago
How durable do we think their Revenue is? To remind us all, they're selling capitalized assets, not contracts or services. Is the marginal demand for GPU chips over the next 3 years enough to sustain (or grow?) current revenues and kee
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by gen220 3y ago
Are people durably achieving a competitive advantage through the GPT? I think we've seen some people striving for a competitive advantage, and willing to see one exist, but I don't know if we've seen any "AI company&quot
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by gen220 3y ago
On the other hand, they probably spend significantly less time bickering about their respective salaries. IME, talented people can spend an absurd proportion of their time bickering about how ${other_talented_person} makes ${trivial_number}
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by gen220 3y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to suggest that the pilots were operating under conflicting regulatory guidances. Rather, I was pointing out that the international community of aviation regulators had established conflicting norms with regards to
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by gen220 3y ago
Yep! I think, at this stage, `plenty` is the point of my comment. While there are many competing and quality options (vibrant), none of them are the de facto leader (young). I think, given where we are in 2023, it'd be difficult for a
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by gen220 3y ago
According to the article, there were actually conflicting guidelines. The FAA said always follow TCAS ("any guidance from TCAS overrides guidance from ATC"), whereas other regulators were either vaguely non-committal to which had
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by gen220 3y ago
As somebody who writes a lot of python, I'm going to quibble, but your statement isn't unfair. :) My quibble would be "don't use lib x". 99% of the time, you don't need an unsupported 3rd party library from 202
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by gen220 3y ago
I think Go is on that Java/.NET adoption curve, but it's climbing it slowly because backend programming, as a whole, is a lot bigger, mature and diverse today, than it was when Java/.NET emerged. I think there's a decent
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by gen220 3y ago
Have you considered implementing this with database triggers instead of in your application logic? Requires a bit of brainpower to set up a system around it, but it makes your application logic dramatically simpler. (You don't have to

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