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by groby_b 2y ago
But it's still not baked data, no? The whole point of baked data is that you don't generate static pages for every item in the data set. Mind you, it's great to have a Jekyll plugin to do that from sqlite, it's just co
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by groby_b 2y ago
There are a number of decent books. "Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager", "The Manager's Path", "Becoming a Technical Leader", "An Elegant Puzzle", "Resilient Management".
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by groby_b 2y ago
There is no "the IQ test". The most prominent ones are Stanford-Binet and Wechsler. That, I think is the first problem. There isn't a single agreement what IQ is or how to measure it. There isn't a single one for good re
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by groby_b 2y ago
> There is probably a ton of data already in different industries with regards to productivity. Uh. Not really. Our industry is notoriously bad at measuring productivity. And the bigger problem is that when we try to measure it - "p
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by groby_b 2y ago
> It would be a monumental achievement if computer science ever advances to the point where we have a mathematical way of determining the minimum absolute intelligence required to solve a given problem. While that would be nice, it'
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by groby_b 2y ago
It's not so much that managers need a performance review per se, but they need training and useful feedback. If you've ever worked in tech management, your experience likely was "IDK, you're senior, you vaguely have an i
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by groby_b 2y ago
I'd be surprised if either mice or human cells eat "the Standard American Diet"
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by groby_b 2y ago
Outside of cartoons and a couple of rather bad environments, that's just plain made up nonsense. Management in most places is rather interested in getting planning right , not making up numbers and then failing at achieving them. They
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by groby_b 2y ago
And what makes you think it won't, anyways? Quoth Churchill: "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile-hoping it will eat him last." The crocodile is still intent on eating you, even if you're nice to it. I really wish E
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by groby_b 2y ago
Yes, we are. Outside of Poland, everybody's closing their eyes to it, but war is coming. We might be able to stop it before it becomes a hot war, but the ambition is there, the indicators are there, the opportunity is there. Assume i
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by groby_b 2y ago
If it weren't Sy Hersh, this might be more believable. The guy has been putting some distance between himself and reality for over a decade now. (Could it be true? Maybe. IDK. No dog in that particular fight. But if you, as an anonymou
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by groby_b 2y ago
One way to get the point across is by stopping to pretend estimates are precise. Instead of giving a single fixed estimate, give one with error bars. "3 months, plus minus 4 weeks". Most engineers know their estimates have error
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by groby_b 2y ago
I haven't seen those, mostly because finding people on Mastodon is impossible ;) Maybe it will be different, maybe it won't. But the people moving to bsky care more about usability than they care about federation. They're not
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by groby_b 2y ago
Thanks for pointing there! It's still not used for training, though, and the retention period is 30 days. It's... a livable compromise for some(many) use cases. I kind of get the abuse policy reason for image inputs. It makes sens
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by groby_b 2y ago
It makes you better at math . That's it. Which means you can function better in environments that rely heavily on advanced math, sure. It does not, however, make you "better" than other people. As for "better functional
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by groby_b 2y ago
That's not what [1] says, though? Quoth: "As of March 1, 2023, data sent to the OpenAI API will not be used to train or improve OpenAI models (unless you explicitly opt-in to share data with us, such as by providing feedback in th
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by groby_b 2y ago
You'll also need to break up intermediate products. An egg breaks down into yolk and whites. Whites may be used for different purposes, one of them foam. Foam might be broken down further. Recipes are not a tree.
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by groby_b 2y ago
We demonstrated in 2022 that they don't. There is no single mechanism that does. Paying well is always a component in attracting talent (see my original comment) It is not a guarantor of quality/motivation. That's ongoing lea
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by groby_b 2y ago
Depends. There are people who put in the absolute minimum work they can get away with, and there are people who have pride in their profession. That's independent of pay scale. Granted, if you pay way below expectations, you'll lo
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by groby_b 2y ago
Given that I've got a rather nice chunk of cash (buy-a-really-nice-car nice) from a settlement in a pay gap lawsuit, there's at least existence proof that a pay gap exists occasionally to the extent a judge will believe it does. I
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by groby_b 2y ago
There never was going to be one. The pixelmator team is deeply steeped in the Apple world, and I seriously doubt they'd ever consider Windows.
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I am probably missing an essential point here, but my first reaction was "this is literally the quality part of the scope/cost/time quality trade-off triangle?" Has that become forgotten lore? (It might well be. It'
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by groby_b 2y ago
Counterpoint: Most podcasts were utterly worthless before AI too. The world will do fine losing a few mattress ad vehicles. Like other data, provenance suddenly matters a lot. From my POV, that's good. Not all data sources are created
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by groby_b 2y ago
How on earth does the "AI! Paradigm change!" noise make any sense as reason for a shutdown?
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"Can store data" isn't "will work locally" For one thing, it's origin-private, so take a guess how well that works when the company owning the DNS records for that origin goes out of business. (There's als
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by groby_b 2y ago
It'd be fairly easy if we decided to tackle this problem as a society (averaging out individual spikes). But we went with rugged individualism, so the choice is eating cat food or amassing ludicrous amounts just in case.
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The debts very much don't die with the person - the estate is on the hook to pay your debts before distributing to heirs. Obviously, with some "it depends" nuance - but if the difference between this and your world view woul
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by groby_b 2y ago
fwiw:I don't think WYSIWYG is that useful here. It'll by its nature appeal to a crowd that's more technical than the average user. (You won't replace Excel day 1) There's also the fact that if this is supposed to be
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by groby_b 2y ago
Not meant as criticism, my apologies - it's a natural choice for a lot of new sites (because we've all seen the pattern so often). Just meant as a "it might work better if..."
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by groby_b 2y ago
Because all dependency managers at some point devolve to "install ocean, then boil ocean". (If you care, "brew deps <package> --tree" will tell you.)

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