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by ghaff 5mo ago
While there are no hard boundaries (and the attribution guardrails depend on the situation), people of course loosely--and even not so loosely--use information, ideas, and even expressions from others all the time and that's considered
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by ghaff 5mo ago
That's all fair. Whether or not AI is the/a primary factor in the challenge in getting entry-level/junior roles especially in tech and especially in relation to the milk and honey situation the past decade+, I'm sure a
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by ghaff 5mo ago
Correctly or not (probably to some degree correctly) new grads are hearing AI is a major reason why they're having trouble finding jobs which is simultaneously 1.) Probably mostly has always been the case--I no longer have the vast she
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by ghaff 5mo ago
ThAt's one of the interesting(?) aspects of prediction markets. Some meaningful percentage of people in the market need to be bringing some useful insight. If everyone is just making random guesses, the market isn't very useful (o
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by ghaff 5mo ago
And GameStop would probably like a minute (or maybe not) to discuss the tenuous connection between some underlying economic valuations and stock price. Yes, the stock market is underpinned by real economic activity. But, be real, there&#x
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by ghaff 5mo ago
How is it different from the stock market?
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by ghaff 5mo ago
Different people have different wants and needs. It's perfectly reasonable to work on some interesting projects and to be something of a figurehead.
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by ghaff 5mo ago
I listen to podcasts at 1x. But there are a few people I've done podcasts with that I do various audio tricks to speed up.
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by ghaff 5mo ago
I think modern Thinkpads are still pretty solid laptops. I'm not going to make an argument that they're as solidly built as IBM Thinkpads of 20 years ago though they're probably more reliable overall.
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by ghaff 5mo ago
It's almost worse that, if you go back a ways, a lot of the theories were that extinction was fairly incremental--even comet/meteor notwithstanding. So, given essentially total extinction, convergent evolution may not have been a
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by ghaff 5mo ago
Turkeys are one of the animals in that general category that, knowing what we know now, you look at them and you're like "How could smart scientists not look at them and not see that they are obviously a form of dinosaur?"
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by ghaff 5mo ago
Northern Exposure had similar problems but, as I understand it, at least some was resolved for the (somewhat relatively) recent DVD box set release. It just wasn't an issue that was seriously considered by a lot of studios(?) at the ti
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by ghaff 5mo ago
Zune was also... not good. I was given one. It was defective. I think I got a warranty replacement and gave it to a friend who basically never used it as far as I know. Nadella's Azure play basically saved Microsoft in my opinion. They
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by ghaff 5mo ago
It helps that non-Windows trackpads were the first ones I could really use. (Deliberate phraseology; trackpads on Thinkpads running Linux worked pretty well for me too.) Interestingly, seem to work better on Windows these days as I've
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by ghaff 5mo ago
Yes, and although most users don't care (directly), having essentially a BSD command line available on Mac OS is pretty useful for a lot of us.
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by ghaff 5mo ago
I have an older magic mouse that I replaced with a Logitech one. I won't say the Apple one caused me pain after ten minutes but I really didn't like the design after using it for a while. Much more comfortable.
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by ghaff 5mo ago
I had very few take-homes in school (discounting project courses which were very time consuming). One of the problems with take-homes in most interview situations is that, at least for developer jobs, the reality (whatever the stated guardr
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by ghaff 5mo ago
This is such an ignorant trope. The last few places I worked ALL used em-dashes as part of house style and I will continue to use them. It's extremely common (and arguably the LLMs do it because it is extremely common).
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by ghaff 5mo ago
That is much less true of grad programs in technical fields. Undergrad, international students are indeed more likely to pay full-boat--or at least larger boat--than US applicants.
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by ghaff 5mo ago
Moby Dick. Khan said something at least very similar in ST 2.
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by ghaff 5mo ago
Welcome to a large company. In my previous stint as an analyst, we'd be doing a consulting day with some group and a topic would come up and we'd be: "Um. You do know so-and-so in such-and-such a group is working on exactly t
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by ghaff 5mo ago
The AI is one thing. But it's also about conversational assistants generally being largely superfluous for a lot of people including myself. I use the Alexa in my bedroom as an alarm clock but I'll have a backup for anything early
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by ghaff 5mo ago
Architecting to make portability easier should absolutely be a thing. But people in the weeds of a specific public cloud provider today will absolutely need to make tradeoffs between getting to a position where they can be more portable and
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by ghaff 5mo ago
But I think the argument that microwaves are basically for heating things up and for essentially steaming a lot of vegetables. (I'll do one ear of corn in the microwave with pepper and spices.) I do have a thick microwave cookbook from
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by ghaff 5mo ago
The worst of both worlds is that you share a less common name with someone notorious for some reason, perhaps in the same city. Happened to someone I knew in grad school and they got literal death threats on their phone, number of which was
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by ghaff 5mo ago
Well, even if it’s the living room, it’s not like being glued to a seat in a theater. I used to be associated with content groups at a former company and in the almost 15 years I was there we saw clear trends in type of content and length o
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by ghaff 5mo ago
That’s sort of how it works in banks where basically everyone is a VP.
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by ghaff 5mo ago
Not at all. Just saying that there needs to be knowledge/expertise/experience/etc. of some sort embedded beyond just a lot of people making random guesses and I’m not sure that wisdom of crowds always captures that.
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by ghaff 5mo ago
My sense is that, for prediction markets to work, there needs to be some real knowledge/analysis/judgement spread across at least a material subset of participants. Simply aggregating random guesses is likely no better than any gi
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by ghaff 6mo ago
These were Oscar predictions and similar. So no insider trading and, when I wrote about, the prevalence of major prediction sites on the Internet seemed to degrade the crowd wisdom because so many people just went with what a few sites were

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