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by hibikir 2y ago
I'd be happy ordering with a voice assistant if it's at least as good as I am at deciding good alternatives. Imagine I want to, say, purchase garbage bags, because I am out. It's not exactly a complicated product, and yet I m
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by hibikir 2y ago
True, but that part only makes a significant difference if the unemployment rate is quite high. At a time where restaurants have trouble filling their staff in low tip shifts, the salaries are closer to what the employer can pay without ser
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by hibikir 2y ago
But every serious chess game is a matter of time allocation. The best players in the world are unable to calculate as much as they want in every position: Ultimately there is bluffing and risk taking. See the last game of the last candidate
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by hibikir 2y ago
You don't need to mandate a short term view when the executive's massive pay packages depend on stock valuations: They will chase the money all by themselves, not trying to build a company that might make major discoveries eventua
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by hibikir 2y ago
It's like anything else that makes the job worse: The people that are first to leave are those with the best alternatives elsewhere, which are often your strongest workers. When some of those leave, your workplace becomes worse for any
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by hibikir 2y ago
Read the GP carefully.Expect to beat is very different than beat. You don't expect to beat the casino in roulette, but some people will luck out. That doesn't mean they could expect to win in advance: They should expect a small lo
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by hibikir 2y ago
The best advantage of cloud was never price: It was not having to argue with your data center organization, which often lead to taking months to provision anything, even a very boring VM. If those companies were good at managing data center
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by hibikir 2y ago
Most corporations end up building systems that spread responsibility and make it very difficult for anyone to believe they can say no to things they disagree with. How many decisions are supposed to be made by groups where nobody can claim
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by hibikir 2y ago
I think of the Stripe Mongo install, as it was a decade or so ago. It really was sharded quite wide, and relied on all shards having multiple replicas, as to tolerate cycling through them on a regular basis. It worked well enough to run as
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by hibikir 2y ago
And this isn't just a matter of AI: You see all kinds of companies trying to provide value adds on top of cloud: "We will annotate DNA for you as a service!" When all they do is dockerize the same tools their customers use, a
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by hibikir 2y ago
Once precedent has already been set over and over again, changing said precedent is, in itself, activism. Same as with Bruen: One can dress it in restraint all they want, but it's a massive divergence in the interpretation of the law,
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by hibikir 2y ago
It's not crazy, but many company divisions are set up in such a way to dilute guilt, and make people feel helpless about fixing issues near them. It will often be difficult to follow a paper trail and find that yes, X Y and Z were the
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by hibikir 2y ago
Wargames tend to try to be fun, as opposed to being a realistic simulation of war. Imagine you are playing Napoleon at Ligny: How much fun is it that your reserves receive conflicting orders all day from a field marshal fighting in a differ
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by hibikir 2y ago
There's some cool mechanisms in type-forward languages that lead to minimal dynamism loss along with safety: For instance, you can do scientific programming that carries units along. So you really can divide a length by a time with no
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by hibikir 2y ago
The tax doesn't really increase wealth disparity, as your example with no tax requires someone being able to buy the land in the first place. If the land is still very desirable, the person that owns a very well located plot is extreme
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by hibikir 2y ago
Disclaimer: I was Will's direct report, and then Will became my skip level in a past life. I'd rate him as better than average manager, who was surrounded by a lot of well under average managers. I'd love to hear longer stori
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by hibikir 2y ago
My dark perspective here is that what Will is saying is that, as the number of people under you grows, the ability of some people to completely bungle everything up without consequences goes up. And this isn't really about really bad e
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by hibikir 2y ago
It's a matter of max throughput. The diverging diamonds is great when we are talking many lanes in all directions anyway, like in highway interchanges. The roundabout wins when max throughput is not the goal, and some of its side prope
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by hibikir 2y ago
True, but often the project that was supposed to build something users care about turns to dust. On one side, you have rosy projections. On the other, a cap on gains, so sure everyone picks the first, but nobody measures if it worked. One c
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by hibikir 2y ago
The game Garfield envisioned was played with Ante, which is something the community ran away from real quick. His game also had no serious text templating, so it was a far harder game to play. He might not have envisioned play to win, but h
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by hibikir 2y ago
It definitely deserved a lot of praise, but the testing situation wasn't really against a fully fledged stockfish running on similar hardware, but one that, among other things, had no opening library. The issue is not whether alphazero
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by hibikir 2y ago
Many of the top companies you know were that healthy company once. You basically need to be one at that magical inflection point where the growth will crush you if your engineering is not empowered and on point. Especially back when clouds
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by hibikir 2y ago
KC was smartin choosing lines that had actual demand, so the lines remained popular: Go to the other side of the state, and see what happened in the streetcar in St Louis. It's only running because running it seasonally at a loss is ch
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by hibikir 2y ago
Four corner apartments work great if the floor plate is small enough to divide the floor by 4 and end up with a sensible square footage. Many office buildings are just so much bigger that this would lead to massive apartments that have few
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by hibikir 2y ago
The hardware might be a loss leader, but the manufacturer controls access to the hardware, so every game developer for the hardware is giving them a portion of the sale price. They were Steam before Steam existed. Sony didn't make most
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by hibikir 2y ago
There are similar versions of the scam aiming at companies, as the CEO needs money wired to him as part of a secret acquisition of some sort. There's training trying to target this vector specifically, as the amounts are huge, but it a
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by hibikir 2y ago
A great technique we used in my servers, it that involves having repeated servers, and a server culture where some trusted players are mods, as otherwise the cheaters vote to ban enough non cheaters to turn the game into a jungle. TF2 itse
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by hibikir 2y ago
I actually have seen that done at a former employer, a very large agribusiness. I bet there are more examples of that very specific, not so intended versioning system out there.
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by hibikir 2y ago
Basically every single US healthcare provider needs someone whose job involves insurance claim disputes, just because there's just too much money in it. The person denying claims, and the person maximizing billing on the other side are
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by hibikir 3y ago
There are different ways to be profitable in the payment space. One is to try to give you simple services at the lowest possible price, focusing on the lowest cost. The other is to try to make it really easy to do the complicated parts of p

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