ianmcgowan

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by ianmcgowan 3y ago
Turned off in 30 seconds, boy is that annoying..
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by ianmcgowan 3y ago
Sounds like the French Revolutionary Calendar [1] or Soviet Calendar [2], both of which were reportedly quite unpopular. It will be interesting if a 4-day work week catches on - will everyone get Friday off, or will 20% of the workforce get
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by ianmcgowan 4y ago
Get shit done
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by ianmcgowan 4y ago
I’ll bite - because 80% of my searches it returns a convenient answer that matches my expectations of what the answer will look like. I still have to validate (there’s still an objective reality to be satisfied) but that’s pretty good. 20%
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by ianmcgowan 4y ago
Technically, posting on hackernews is not working, unless "compiling" in which case carry on with the chair sword fight :_)
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by ianmcgowan 4y ago
Maybe at software companies, but if you're looking for corporate IT jobs (which can be pretty cush, referring back to the thread about that), a degree or sometimes even a masters is a requirement. When I was a middle-manager in Bank IT
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by ianmcgowan 4y ago
If the us/they back and forth happens over email, perhaps between two different AI instances, that whole process would happen much faster though? It's not like ChatGPT can't review the contract json and ask relevant question
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by ianmcgowan 4y ago
If they're selling below cost, it doesn't matter. When you're selling a dollar for 90 cents, it's hard to make up for that in volume.
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by ianmcgowan 4y ago
From context (and a charitable reading), it seems obvious that the advice is to identify who is working nights in order to get them some help and spread the load.
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by ianmcgowan 4y ago
I wanted to enhance a python script that organizes my photo library to include a fuzzy city name in the name of the folder. E.g. changing from ./2023/2023-03/2023-03-03_18-29-32.jpg to ./2023/2023-03/San_Franc
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by ianmcgowan 4y ago
Why wonder? "It's not appropriate to compare a graphics card (GTX 1070) to a military fighter jet (F-16) as they are completely different things designed for entirely different purposes. A GTX 1070 is a high-end graphics card desi
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by ianmcgowan 4y ago
Presumably the same is true for social engineering people - the original "prompt hacking"? I've had customer service interactions that didn't go the way I wanted, hung up, and tried again with a friendlier person. Not su
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by ianmcgowan 4y ago
That sounds like the blog post by Steven Wolfram recently [1] where he proposes having two models cooperating - one that "knows" facts (has computational knowledge in that post), and the other that controls the language interpreta
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by ianmcgowan 4y ago
It's got to have shaken up the field of cognitive research or people studying mind/consciousness. Is there a "hacker news" of theory of mind researchers? Probably some interesting conversations happening over there.
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by ianmcgowan 4y ago
Almost a textbook answer to "what is the difference between science and technology".
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by ianmcgowan 4y ago
I really like this book (and have recommended it before on hn) http://debuggingrules.com/?page_id=31 - it helps to have a shared team vocab for some of the concepts. There's a summary set of slides here that gives a gr
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by ianmcgowan 4y ago
I've always used "divide and conquer" which is a cliche for a reason. Bifurcate is commonly used by Indian colleagues, and perhaps programmers are familiar with the term, but it's not something used by US business people
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by ianmcgowan 4y ago
There were dozens of us, dozens! It was a relatively recent exploit, I remember being at an RSA conference when the remote ssh exploit was announced and everyone’s pager started going off and people hustled out of there. Fun times!
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by ianmcgowan 4y ago
It reads like the script for the Krazam "The Hustle" video: https://youtu.be/_o7qjN3KF8U , but over several weeks instead of one day.
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by ianmcgowan 4y ago
There's a lot of criticism in this post of CPS (not just in the US), with comments like "they do more harm than good", etc. As someone who was fostered and ultimately adopted, I want to reject the characterization that CPS is
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by ianmcgowan 4y ago
AKA, the "Wally Reflector", https://imgur.com/Db0c9eP It's really easy for people to put stuff on your to-do list, reflecting even a tiny task on them before you accept it makes so many requests go away. Rela
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by ianmcgowan 4y ago
Worst. VCS. Ever! Can't believe anyone ever loved VSS - it was constantly corrupting the repository, people would lock programs and go on vacation, just a constant struggle. We switched to CVS and it was immediately better, followed b
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by ianmcgowan 4y ago
It seems that this generation's revolutionaries are always the next generation's reactionaries..
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by ianmcgowan 4y ago
The only anti spoofing technique that works for me is restricting calls to people in my contacts. It’s a bit of a pain with transactional things, but (at least in the US) it seems we’re long past the days where you could just call someone
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by ianmcgowan 4y ago
It's not scalable, but as an existence proof of what you're saying, my partner and I fulfill this role for each other - we each are tasked with remembering different facets of our lives (e.g. I know the plot and cast of every movi
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by ianmcgowan 4y ago
I use timebro.com, which is a paid service (though recovering one extra hour to bill covers the monthly cost for me). Once you have to log time in multiple systems, it's essential to get something to help manage that process or chaos
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by ianmcgowan 4y ago
And if you work in locked down corporate windows environments, asking for Git for Windows ("for local version control only") is a sneaky way to get the basic Unix utils installed. It's a lot easier to ask for VSCode + Git tha
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by ianmcgowan 4y ago
Not saying this is right, but many Americans disagree with the very concept, and want to maintain their freedom to opt-out of everything that goes along with "society". Gault's Gulch and all that. And I think it was that famo
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by ianmcgowan 4y ago
Aged like milk indeed :-)
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by ianmcgowan 4y ago
I've worked with senior managers who have zero regard for the knowledge of the people doing the work. It might be those workers don't have some over-arching conceptual framework for how the company works, but they do have intimate

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