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by gonehome 4y ago
The only thing I’m focused on is: are companies with an in office working environment at a competitive advantage to those that are not. I don’t care about the other stuff, imo it’s not relevant (putting aside I don’t really agree with your
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by gonehome 4y ago
That’s only one factor, though it’s not just “Gary” IME many people are in this category, the very effective remote people are less common. The junior engineer issue and the comms issue affects everyone. Companies are teams of people and yo
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by gonehome 4y ago
+1 - it’s great for excellent people, it’s horrible for junior engineers, it’s bad for people who have trouble motivating themselves and keeping on task. There is a decent % of people that do close to nothing while working remote. It’s not
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by gonehome 4y ago
We’ve started using gathertown where I work and it gives you a bit of the best of both worlds (minus the nice in person social lunch type of thing). We’re fully distributed/remote. With gathertown or something like it I think you can g
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by gonehome 4y ago
This is one where Sagan’s book has the opposite conclusion. In the book a team of international people are selected to go (rather than just one) and it ends with them doing science to gather evidence to prove their story (whereas the movie
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by gonehome 4y ago
I was confused about the movie you were talking about - in “her” yeah there’s this scene, but the screen is black (and it’s more uncomfortable than anything else). Parent can always watch first. 12yo is middle school right? 8th grade? I dou
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by gonehome 4y ago
Not really? Main theme is a general intelligence that’s not aligned with you may trick or deceive you.
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by gonehome 4y ago
Ex Machina has some nudity, but less gun violence? It’s a lot more idea driven than action/violence driven (matrix). And the themes are different. Depends on what people culturally mean as adult I suppose.
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by gonehome 4y ago
Arrival - best science fiction movie in recent memory (maybe ever?) Ex Machina - also great. Her - different style, but still very good (also with recent LLM developments maybe closer than we think). The Martian (not as good, but entertaini
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by gonehome 4y ago
Unfortunately it's not that simple. I talked to someone building related tech in the industry and E-Ink the company has a stranglehold on suppliers and leverages that to force compliance despite the patent nearing expiration (blocking
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by gonehome 4y ago
Yeah, I’d guess prison time also feels pretty long. Children in modern culture serve a pretty long sentence (depending on how good your parents are I suppose).
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by gonehome 4y ago
Supposedly that effect continues, the first third of life feels longer than the last two subjectively (at least I've heard that claimed). Wouldn't surprise me if it's a mixture of processing speed slowing down making things f
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by gonehome 4y ago
That’s the opposite of what I want. It’s directly incentivizing clickbait headline crap based on views. If I click on something and hate it I’d be annoyed I paid them anything. Substack’s model is better. I pay for quality writing I like th
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by gonehome 4y ago
Lots of things, but mostly misaligned incentives. On medium you’re a commodity as a writer and you have to drive traffic for ads. Your brand is devalued in favor of the “medium” brand and medium’s interests only loosely align with yours (mo
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by gonehome 4y ago
I’m not attributing it to little-s science, I’m attributing it to “believe in science” - people are using “science” to mean something different than the scientific method and following evidence where it takes you. It’s being used as a proxy
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by gonehome 4y ago
I don’t think that’s what OP is talking about. For me an example would be the early “masks don’t work” rhetoric, but then simultaneously also telling the public not to buy masks because healthcare workers need them. The early recode article
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by gonehome 4y ago
A lot of it isn’t just chat native stuff imo. All the rules around instagram likes and reposting, the rules around “k”, that “:)” is passive aggressive etc. A lot of that feels juvenile which makes sense if it’s a gen z post. I’d guess it’l
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by gonehome 4y ago
Yeah, they mean the original masters (so they could add it back in at high quality in future releases). We had it on vhs which is the first one I saw. It looks like Disney finally updated Disney plus December 9th 2022 - it just took them 2
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by gonehome 4y ago
This is the article I had read: https://www.vulture.com/2022/12/muppet-christmas-carol-song-... In it they say Disney cut it - I had read elsewhere it wasn’t an order but they definitely seemed to have pushed it d
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by gonehome 4y ago
The scene doesn’t really make sense without it.
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by gonehome 4y ago
I was upset when Disney cut the “when love is gone” song from it in the dvd release because it was “too sad for children” or some other dumb reason. This lead it to being mostly missing from it on streaming services. The cut part was then a
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by gonehome 4y ago
Sure, but they’re not the entire set - and it’s the people that hold the view earnestly that are more interesting to steelman. The same could be said for people who want encryption (and often is by partisans on the other side, “you just wan
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by gonehome 4y ago
Yeah - also sometimes there are legitimate tradeoffs and the answer is non-obvious! Stuff like Google’s CSAM detection really does detect abuse. It also can cause problems for a parent if there’s a false positive. The reason these things ar
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by gonehome 4y ago
On mastodon you’re just an account on someone else’s server (except for the extreme minority that run their own server). On urbit every user is also their own ‘server’ - there’s no distinction between account and server. Infra nodes just do
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by gonehome 4y ago
We want to get to native, but you don’t replace the hardware in a day. It doesn’t make sense to build a custom nock cpu until it’s necessary. For a new system to succeed it has to run on the hardware people have. That’s why there’s a runtim
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by gonehome 4y ago
Yeah, I didn’t meant to imply subreddits are federated. I was using them as an example of how a little power like that is usually abused. Federated systems like mastodon where most people are users on a random person’s server leads to simil
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by gonehome 4y ago
Is that true? I thought phd students typically had access to these via the (expensive) agreements universities have. I thought sci-hub was for everyone else?
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by gonehome 4y ago
Yeah, I’ve always found this complaint weird. It’s like that in Unix and 0 being true (or default) while 1 is error also feels more intuitive to me.
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by gonehome 4y ago
For what's it's worth, it's a little tongue-in-cheek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXSDaLkxA9o Trying to do something new like this is hard.

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