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by ghaff 4mo ago
That seems like a very reasonable timeframe for a physical book. Certainly used to take longer than that to special-order something.
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by ghaff 4mo ago
And, with the Internet (e.g. Gutenberg), evergreen classics are less of an issue. Speaking for myself, I've gotten rid of most of my books in the public domain unless they have other characteristics like illustrations that make me want
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by ghaff 4mo ago
My local town library has a book sale every fall and you can take away a paper bag of books for $10. It's not practical for every small library, in particular, to hold onto every book forever.
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by ghaff 4mo ago
Twitter was also effectively wrecked in a variety of ways and nothing really came in to replace it. Which may well have been OK. But it was the reality.
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by ghaff 4mo ago
I don't disagree with him not being in the film. (Perhaps more controversially, I think the scouring of the Shire properly appropriately didn't belong there either.) Great as The Lord of the Rings is, IMO it has structural proble
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by ghaff 4mo ago
There are definitely limits in some countries relative to the US. I was in university at 16. My parents were covering a lot of costs but I was certainly making regular purchases of all manner of things. My understanding is that would perhap
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by ghaff 4mo ago
I mean, he's really not part of the story. There's a reason he's not in the film trilogy. Nothing wrong with that but he really is a side quest or whatever you want to call it.
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by ghaff 4mo ago
Some variant of this topic comes up with some regularity. Leaving aside technical issues associated with implementing real-time hard caps, you still have a tradeoff. You either implement hard cutoffs which a student or someone else on a har
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by ghaff 4mo ago
It doesn't and ums aren't the only consistent tic you often want to clean up--"you know," long pauses, etc.
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by ghaff 4mo ago
When I was doing podcasts regularly, it made me acutely aware of various people's speech mannerisms. (Somewhat similarly, recording a lot of videos during COVID made me very aware of a variety of my own mannerisms--especially overactiv
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by ghaff 4mo ago
And changes happen at pretty much all levels of scale. Even once you get well past startup size the times of structure and processes required for a 10,000 or 20,000 person company is much different from a 1,000 or 2,000 person company.
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by ghaff 4mo ago
And at larger companies, teams and groups are often geographically distributed if only in other buildings and office locations.
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by ghaff 4mo ago
Possibly. At that point it becomes a cost/profit calculation. Maybe the EU is big enough to matter. Maybe it isn't.
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by ghaff 4mo ago
Yes. If a company in another country elects not to deliver a product or feature because of local regulations, consumers should take that up with their local legislators. That company has no obligation to sell something just because local co
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by ghaff 4mo ago
No idea about the specifics in this case. But, unfortunately, it's an increasingly common trend. Especially when going on vacation I like to have backup paper printouts of tickets but, these days, it's not uncommon to have a &quot
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by ghaff 4mo ago
Yes. A lot of people have this sense that you should be able to attend the World Cup, a Taylor Swift concert, or the Indianapolis 500 without taking out a second mortgage. But there are only so many seats. You can have a lottery which is ac
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by ghaff 4mo ago
The em-dash has a fairly specific use. It's just that some people have decided that it indicates AI and can't resist trumpeting that supposed insight at every opportunity.
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by ghaff 4mo ago
Everything is ultimately vulnerable, especially once you're gone. No institution lasts forever. Some are probably more likely to endure than others but there are no guarantees.
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by ghaff 4mo ago
Basically you need to pay a lawyer to set up a trust which requires trustees if you care or donate to an institution with their own lawyers who you trust with a presumably long institutional timeline.
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by ghaff 4mo ago
Never had art in school. Did do writing although a lot was extracurricular.
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by ghaff 4mo ago
Yeah. I have no doubt that I would have used LLMs “just this one time” to help with problem sets or papers when I got behind or wanted to do something else.
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by ghaff 5mo ago
Exactly. I do unsubscribe--perhaps not as aggressively as I should--but there's a ton of stuff I may want to be aware of that I don't want polluting my primary mailbox. Sometimes I even shift them to my primary tab but, in general
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by ghaff 5mo ago
I don't want to unsubscribe from everything that I might not be interested in at the moment but may want to skim now and then to various degrees. I find gmail is very effective for that sort of thing. I find gmail's tabs pretty us
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by ghaff 5mo ago
Honestly, the whole, ooh em-dash means it must be AI meme makes me want to use them like I always have more.
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by ghaff 5mo ago
In a world where double quotes are incredibly overloaded in meaning, the multiple types of dashes (including hyphens and double hyphens) do seem excessive. But em dashes are widely used and are a pretty commonly prescribed style. I use em d
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by ghaff 5mo ago
I'd probably use either a semicolon or a period there. But this demonization of a perfectly reasonable English punctuation mark absolutely has to stop.
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by ghaff 5mo ago
Benefits factor in too as do various other things including bonuses and RSUs at public companies but I don't really disagree in general. For most people, base salary is often your comp and something over $100K is probably the norm for
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by ghaff 5mo ago
I would think the general situation would be that it's probably harder to develop juniors now in a (more) remote environment so we shouldn't hire them and hire more experienced people instead.
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by ghaff 5mo ago
At the end of the day, there are a bunch of different things going on. Higher interest rates, general overhiring during COVID for whatever reasons, and (yes) AI. And probably more macro trends. Maybe at some point we'll see some data-d
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by ghaff 5mo ago
My personal experience is also that some of the more extreme noninclusive language policing in some circles has faded away to a significant degree.

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