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by hibikir 10mo ago
They couldn't use the same paint, if just because for miniature painting we are almost always running acrylics, so it's all plastic binding the pigments. Even a modern oil paint is quite a bit more advanced than what they could do
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by hibikir 10mo ago
Not all painters, and not in all cases: See, for instance, grisalle painting. One can then sketch the highlights and shadows first, and then come in with pretty translucent pigments. When the pigment is what is expensive, it can be more eco
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by hibikir 10mo ago
Where the AI makes a difference here isn't regular personalized advertisement (which already isn't all that great, based on the percentage of ads I get for products I would never consider at all, or are downright offensive to me),
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by hibikir 10mo ago
That's not how it works: Most things that people call non-discretionary still have opportunities for market effects. Take food: You might have spikes for, say, beef, but what is necessary is just enough calories, not necessarily havin
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by hibikir 11mo ago
It gets worse than that: You can possibly get rewarded based on your manager's goals, or maybe your skip level's, but that doesn't necessarily have to line up all that well with more serious business goals. I am sure I am not
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by hibikir 11mo ago
Yep, and splatter around some talk about the horrors of being a combatant in those wars, as if you don't fight, your loved ones die anyway. You can see how Evangelion is doing a lot of riffing on Gundam. In some ways it's not Jane
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by hibikir 11mo ago
Forget about calling it mental healthcare or not: Most people end up dealing with people in significant distress at one point or another. Many do it all the time even when they aren't trained or getting paid as mental health profession
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by hibikir 11mo ago
He's pretty right on the "get bored" bits. I have few friends that are doing a lot of conferences every year after, say, year 6, and they are people whose circumstances lead them to not wanting to spend much time at home, for
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by hibikir 11mo ago
I think there's a non-malicious explanation for a percentage of this. As I grew up in the 80s, there were two kinds of gifted kids in school: The kind that would ace everything anyway, and the kind that, for a variety of reasons, lacke
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by hibikir 11mo ago
In many cities in the US, there's Microcenter, where you can walk out with every part you need. We also still have smaller stores that can build clones for you/hand you the boxes, but they don't quite have the same variety of
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by hibikir 11mo ago
Those are probably the easiest levels for simplification, but I'd expect significant pushback anyway. Something like start medicare at 55 would be a huge difference to most providers, just due to changes in reimbursement.
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by hibikir 11mo ago
Basically every bit of the current system, from how much people are paid to how a hospital looks like, is a side effect of the way we pay for healthcare, and the way we decide which provider to select. So we cannot just wave a magic wand an
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by hibikir 11mo ago
It was before this: It was never a huge community, but from very early on it was split thanks to some rather unfriendly, competitive personalities and very different goals. You didn't just use scala: you either ran scala with a Twitter
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by hibikir 11mo ago
It's interesting that you talk that there's a lot of good management, followed by a list of things I'd call bad management: Forget about good vs bad code, of course that's unimportant. But insufficient maintenance that c
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by hibikir 11mo ago
Note that even many of those "long knowledge" things people learned are today obsolete, but people that follow them just haven't figured it out yet. See how many of those object oriented design patters just look very silly th
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by hibikir 1y ago
The difference is the monadic capabilities of the result type. Thrown exceptions pepper codebases in ways that are even more unfortunate than monadic composition, which is already kind of iffy, but at least has generic transforms for error
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by hibikir 1y ago
There were a variety of things they didn't predict, including the fact that the executive branch would believe that they have the right to not spend the money congress appropriated to do things. This is the real crux of the shutdown: N
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by hibikir 1y ago
Talking about non-necessary is IMO a cop-out: I bet we can verify systems with even fewer features that he is using, or just a different set of features that get him to the same spot. The interesting question is always whether a feature is
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by hibikir 1y ago
And don't forget the real crux of the problem: Do I even know whether a specialist is good or not? Hiring experts is really difficult if you don't have the skill in the topic, and if you do, you either not need an expert, or you
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by hibikir 1y ago
Well, they aren't wrong about the bare metal either: Every organization ends up tied to their staff, and said staff was hired to work on the stack you are using. People end up in quite the fights because their supposed experts are more
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by hibikir 1y ago
I thought the modern lingo was "impacted". So and so was impacted. Ten thousand employees were impacted. It avoids let go, but detaches as much as possible from the personal crisis.
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by hibikir 1y ago
In your typical large company, there's always enough nebulous process as to minimize personal accountability for any decision that is made. There might be a decision maker in practice, but there will be enough wide meetings and committ
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by hibikir 1y ago
I thought the main issue, ICE or not, was that a low energy crash after 10 years makes it a total loss, insurance wise. So drive enough miles in, say, a random US urban highway/stroad environment and you'll find yourself having to
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by hibikir 1y ago
A nimble enough company doesn't need it, but I've had 6 months of lead time to request one extra server in an in-house data center due to sheer organizational failure. The big selling point of the cloud really was that one didn&#x
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by hibikir 1y ago
In 2021, we bought everyone M1 Pros with 32 gigs of ram. Historically, keeping a developer in a 4 year old laptop would have been crazy, but nobody is really calling for upgrades, like we did back when we got rid of the Intels.
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by hibikir 1y ago
The description of the whole "copy something, but ignore the regulation" scheme is missing the most important part: Make sure that the extra risk you are undertaking be eaten by someone else, while you get most of the upside of th
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by hibikir 1y ago
This would all be well and good if the doctors weren't also profiteering. When you visit one, you still don't know if their recommendations are good for me or for them. I have seen allergists which are no less slimy than used car
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by hibikir 1y ago
Ah, but this has also lead to many private practices getting bought by hospital groups, at which point they have superior pricing power. The doctor makes more money, and the insurance company pays more, as it's harder to strongarm a co
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by hibikir 1y ago
Have you spent much time looking inside non profits? A lot of hospitals in the US are non profits. Some are part of non profit universities too. This in no way leads to superior cost controls, or those universities being cheap. What it does
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by hibikir 1y ago
"Healthcare that isn't for profit" doesn't mean just a national health insurance. Just that as a random citizen you are shielded from seeing all the same issues underneath. The pharma companies, test providers, equipment

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