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by hibikir 5mo ago
It's a core question to public choice theory, and why people are generally very unhappy with politics in general. You end up with aggregations of baskets of goods that aren't just suboptimal for you, but suboptimal for the bast ma
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by hibikir 5mo ago
The massive misalignment in large companies is no secret. But neither is the fact that when someone comes to cut, they also have no idea of who is doing load bearing work that matters, and who doesn't. I look at recent cuts around my l
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by hibikir 5mo ago
Scala has no immutability encoded in its runtime either (as it's the same as Java), but yet syntactically it's immutable in practice. Will the JRE technically allow a val to be edited through some third party thread inspecting you
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by hibikir 5mo ago
From the time of very early viruses, malware has spent effort modifying the tools that make the system transparent to lie to you. So your approach demands that there must be things that are absolutely impossible to change. I have yet to see
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by hibikir 5mo ago
3 tests was already better than the traditional Spanish university class: 1 exam. which is probably written by the department head, not your teacher, and he isn't in any way interested in a high pass rate. Failing 90% of the class migh
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by hibikir 5mo ago
So man companies that are doing RTO are in no way trying to reorg to make teams stay colocated, it's rather puzzling. I know a UK manager with only reports in the different parts of the americas, and there's never more than 2 in t
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by hibikir 5mo ago
From that perspective, development has always been harder since I started. I left college with a copy of K&R and remembering courses that applied to real life immediately, because data structures and such were just what we had. In my fi
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by hibikir 5mo ago
Ricardian models of trade seem to hold well in real life, and they'd work well too if a lot of work was done by not just AI, but robots. As long as there's limit to the production capacity of the high tech population, there's
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by hibikir 5mo ago
Note that China is where it is because of efforts to do this, on purpose, over decades. 20 years ago, their urban percentage was somewhere in the 40s. We are even seeing more migration to cities in Europe and the US, even though it's u
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by hibikir 5mo ago
I basically agree, just adding context. As companies grow, it's the natural state of things, as any hope for goal alignment goes out the window. I am OK dealing with situations where the good for the company's long term might not
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by hibikir 5mo ago
The question is how long Apple will be able to maintain those prices, given the run for memory that there is. Someone is making a lot less money selling to apple than elsewhere, and while the long term contracts are worth a lot in stability
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by hibikir 5mo ago
Someone like Nintendo or Sony is making a whole lot more devices, so they probably have not just longer term contracts, but the scale to negotiate prices down. Valve might not even contract a line making it all the time: Theri total sales a
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by hibikir 5mo ago
If this has a problem, it's the difficulty of application: 2nd homes, and only if you have X amount of money, instead of just a flat increase. Property taxes (or really, in NYC land taxes, as most of the property tax is really the valu
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by hibikir 5mo ago
Eventually the maintenance comes back again: The turn-key homes have typically had most of the things that needed maintenance replaced, but they eventually come back, and they can be quite the headache. See the wonders of having a plumbing
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by hibikir 5mo ago
What I see in my deep suburbia is just far less interest in wandering past the front yard, because there's nothing to do: House after house where no front yard has anything for anyone, and quite long distances before you get somewhere
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by hibikir 5mo ago
When we go back to early Java, the death of books just came from better IDEs, not even stack overflow (which wasn't there) or Google search (which had little to find). Something like IntelliJ made the very large reference section irrel
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by hibikir 5mo ago
It's not that the cheating stayed with IBM: Ray Dalio hired David Ferrucci out of Watson to try to make an AI for Bridgewater. The pitch was to make it a very accurate people assesor, but in practice the goal was to tell you who agreed
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by hibikir 5mo ago
You know your company has made it when shadow IT has been merged into central IT after a tough political fight, and as they try to make the old shadow IT less responsive and more standard, a new wave of real shadow IT gets hired. That new,
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by hibikir 5mo ago
AI is the only way to reasonable interact with my employer's Jira board. The form for ticket creation had 206 fields across the tabs last time I checked. 10 are mandatory, including freetext that isn't really free, as the ticket g
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by hibikir 5mo ago
It's not difficult to avoid the 1000 lines per PR thing: Depending on what kind of thing I am adding, the plan might also receive as instructions to value making as small a code change as possible. It still requires judgement, as on so
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by hibikir 5mo ago
The way it works is that the origin country is worse off when people leave, but in general immigrants are much better off for moving, and it's not even close. A big argument for letting people emigrate is that they owe no real debt to
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by hibikir 5mo ago
See how the newest cards he gets to show there are... quite old. The moxes were great back in alpha, but what made them really broken was the increase in quality of what you could cast early. An environment where Serra Angel is viable is fa
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by hibikir 5mo ago
You can absolutely make your own cube, even designed so that some weird cards have good uses, or are working combos. You can have a very low powered cube where people draft something janky like Chamber of Manipulation highly if you slow dow
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by hibikir 5mo ago
It's a big reason cube is popular among people with a large enough card pool: I might not, reliably, find every card in my deck for every given game (barring a vintage cube with a lot of tooling to do just that), but the majority of my
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by hibikir 5mo ago
All complicated commercial art (movies, series, games, music, designed spaces...) has its budget as a key constraint of what is built. You don't get a new season of an anime that looks 4 times better because of a random genius: Someone
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by hibikir 5mo ago
There are a few usecases for this in some languages, where your functions might as well be class extensions. But you need a huge standard library with non-competitive types, or you end up with deep dependency stacks. You also run into troub
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by hibikir 5mo ago
I see constant hallucination in claude code when using specific tooling: It thinks it knows aws cli, for instance, but there's some flags that don't exist, it attempts to use all the time in 4.6 and 4.7. When asked about it, it sa
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by hibikir 5mo ago
If you have a very specific decision in mind, there's no need to ask the LLM at all and hope it guesses it. Depending on how sure I am, I will either explain what I want vaguely, or even phrasing things as questions, or be direct and i
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by hibikir 5mo ago
The large organization also breeds more selfish behavior. When you see clear misbehavior near you, and you know reporting it will achieve nothign but get you in trouble, then it's difficult to behave well yourself. Eventually the large
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by hibikir 5mo ago
Every large corporation is stuck in communication problems and approval processes. They have grown so large as to have minimal alignment between what the company attempts to produce, what makes the company profitable, and what people actual

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