ianmcgowan

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by ianmcgowan 3y ago
That sounds like my self-diagnosed ADHD - I have exactly the same thing. What changed your mind about having ADHD?
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by ianmcgowan 3y ago
I think the lesson is that after firing your CEO and 80% of the organization threatens to quit, then maybe don't do that. Though if MSFT wasn't there for a soft landing ($), not sure the number would be as high as that.
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by ianmcgowan 3y ago
Got to check out "Diaspora" [1], and it even ties into the theme of ChatGPT! Once a LLM has enough parameters, perhaps there will be a way to upload a human into a Polis :) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Di
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by ianmcgowan 3y ago
Yeah, it's hard to go back to wading through SEO-optimized BS after just getting a decent answer (which, to be fair to the AI-sceptics, you do have to think about before using blindly). It's an interesting mental shift - I wasn&#x
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by ianmcgowan 3y ago
n=1, but I sang to both my daughters in the womb (different songs) and after they were born singing "their" song would calm them down a lot faster. I don't think this is as much "instincts" as it is "very earl
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by ianmcgowan 3y ago
Either genius or madness, you be the judge!
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by ianmcgowan 3y ago
You wouldn't be a realtor by chance?
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by ianmcgowan 3y ago
I do something similar, but I have one file technotes.md open all the time and just append snippets/commands/URL's/TIL's to the bottom with a date stamp and a hopefully findable comment. Some notes are referenced co
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by ianmcgowan 3y ago
There are dozens of us! Dozens! I paid $99 for Coherent because Linux didn't support the fancy RLL hard drive in my work computer. Eventually Linux caught up (or I got a new computer) and Slackware replaced Coherent (for little thing
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by ianmcgowan 3y ago
Sounds very "Snow Crash" - ancient Sumerian as a mind virus..
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by ianmcgowan 3y ago
I would guess they weighted the cost of being sued into oblivion against the benefits and decided to be conservative...
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by ianmcgowan 3y ago
In the corporate world I've seen (across many countries and cultures) there is no such thing as a "separate, quiet space to work" unless you're fairly senior. The irony of course is that fairly senior folks are on zoom&
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by ianmcgowan 3y ago
It's a little expensive, but if you love elderberries, we order the jams from this online store: https://carmelberry.com/collections/all
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by ianmcgowan 3y ago
Another see also, a book I used to hand out to developers, support teams and DBA's: http://debuggingrules.com/ . It's not CS specific, or even really computers, but the mindset is invaluable. It's also got som
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by ianmcgowan 3y ago
If you're not allowed to install anything, asking for git automatically comes with git-bash, so it provides some cover for the real reason. And hey, bonus, you get git!
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by ianmcgowan 3y ago
Reminds me of my girlfriend's favorite band at Columbia in the 80's - "The Special Guests". They eventually had to change their name because people kept showing up expecting, I don't know, Billy Joel or Beastie Boy
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by ianmcgowan 3y ago
Coolness is not evenly distributed :-) Even banks now have Postgres, it doesn't hurt that Oracle is such a nightmare to deal with..
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by ianmcgowan 3y ago
AKA "The Wally Reflector" from Dilbert :_)
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by ianmcgowan 3y ago
From the article, "Who knows what could come out of that? Robust high-current-density room-temperature superconductors are right out of science fiction (SF readers will recall that one such material was a big plot point in Larry Niven’
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by ianmcgowan 3y ago
Got to admit those Friday afternoon "pub lunches" were great for team-building though, right? :_)
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by ianmcgowan 3y ago
But what will ChatGPT 10 be trained on, if no one is posting blog posts, answering questions on stack overflow, or updating Wikipedia? OpenAI will have to change the logo to a snake swallowing its own tail.
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by ianmcgowan 3y ago
That's a good point, and the sales education process is definitely important. It's a fine line between "let's step back and look at your actual pain points" and "what else can I upsell you on while I have your
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by ianmcgowan 3y ago
I think the point is when reaching higher levels of expertise is not to try and convince existing customers to move up the ladder with you, it's that you need to find an entirely new set of customers who need that level of expertise an
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by ianmcgowan 3y ago
This is the only thing that ever works for me, but a) you have to be doing repeated projects or high overlap, and b) it's hard to defend when a PM challenges. My response is usually "<shrug> this is how long this kind of th
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by ianmcgowan 3y ago
Not to be argumentative, but how did someone get hired if 7 out of 8 interviewers said "pass"? What's the point of having 7 interviewers if only one of them gets to decide? Definitely agree with your point that some people h
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by ianmcgowan 3y ago
I think you're thinking of career-ending fuckups (where you definitely should try all avenues, quickly, including asking trusted peers for help), rather than the article's more mundane examples of being blocked, having prioritizat
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by ianmcgowan 3y ago
The choice is clear - Ready Player One or Minority Report?
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by ianmcgowan 3y ago
Apart from the not-at-all-paranoid answer of "money", it's probably just easier for them to program - if you're going to have (honestly, required for 99% of users) integrations with cloud services like alexa, google, hom
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by ianmcgowan 3y ago
Not sure if it's reasonable, but a very simple answer is to get your kid a feature phone, if the intent is to be able to stay in touch/emergency contact (we let our kids bike to middle school and it was nice to be in touch). We d
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by ianmcgowan 3y ago
The lack of symmetry bugs me - if a couple swaps wives, why isn't it ever called "husband swapping", and wouldn't the (technically, and politically) correct term be "partner swapping"? Or maybe it can all be su

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