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by jdlshore 1y ago
Big companies are made out of people, and those people are just as fallible as everyone else… and more so, in fact. They’re prone to group-think and suppressing bad news. The existence proof is, well, every financial crisis ever. Start with
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1. There’s no indication that AI is capable of doing so. 2. Outside of software, inventions have to be turned into physical things like power plants. That doesn’t happen overnight and is expensive. 3. The industry is already going through a
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My bad. In my defense, Poe’s Law.
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> The part that is on fire and suffering from massive insurrection I assume you’re talking about Portland. Speaking as someone who lives in Portland, you’re grossly misinformed. It’s time to change your filter bubble.
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At first I said no, but… maybe. The GDPR requires a lawful basis for processing PII. The lawful bases are all fairly narrow, except for “the user said I could,” which is the “consent” lawful basis and can be applied to just about anything.
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It’s a “Trump deal” with absolutely zero information. It’s probably not going to amount to anything. Solar + battery is eating everybody’s lunch, and nuclear was way too expensive even before that.
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That’s pretty disappointing. I pay a premium for Apple devices because I perceive them as customer-first. Highlighting businesses because they pay more, and not because they’re better for my needs, is decidedly not customer-first. It’s abso
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Do you have evidence that they’re going to put ads in everything, or are you just catastrophizing? (Yes, I know there are already some ads. That’s not evidence that they’re going to put $100bb more in.)
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It’s surprisingly common for managers to have no clue what’s going on in their teams. Doubly and triply so for skip-levels and higher. The reason is exactly what you’re seeing here: people will complain to each other, but not inform their m
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There have been a few attempts at “building a business by following ChatGPT’s instructions.” All the ones I’m aware of failed, and were really just a scheme to grab eyeballs. There’s also a website showing a company’s attempt to use multipl
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> for an astonishing number of tasks that a normal person could come up with, chatgpt.com is actually a good at or better than a typical human. That’s not my experience at all. Unless you define “typical human” as “someone who is untrain
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People like the way they look and feel, and I imagine they get some satisfaction out of having turned a rough rock into something beautiful. They put them in their house where they can admire them, and others can admire them. Many are proba
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Based on what you’ve written, you owe it to your skip to have this conversation with him. This issue isn’t just affecting you, it’s affecting the whole team, and I guarantee it’s dragging down the performance of the team as a whole. (Team p
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VP of Eng here. If we take your statements at face value, your manager isn’t doing his job. Toxic employees are death to companies and it’s management’s job to get rid of them. (After attempting to address the issue. But my experience is th
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HATEOAS is hypertext as the engine of application state. When a person reads a webpage and follows links, it’s not HATEOAS, because the person is not an application. HATEOAS and by-the-book REST don’t provide much practical value for writ
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No, it’s based on English clemency. https://govfacts.org/explainer/the-presidential-pardon-power... has a nice explanation of the power and its history.
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Thanks! (Author here.) I wrote the markup by hand, and did spend extra time on the “alt” tags. I’m glad someone noticed.
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I don’t think that story illustrates the point you think it does. Prices aren’t based on cost, they’re based on perceived value on the part of the buyer, and the marketing and brand recognition behind Fritos raises its perceived value much
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I’ve not read the paper, but it appears to be suffering the same fallacy that AI boosters tend to suffer: the mighty “if.” Yes, if AI is godlike, then the first company to leverage the machine god will be rewarded. But it’s not. The “bene
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> As soon as we can prompt… This is the fundamental error I see people making. LLMs can’t operate independently today, not on substantive problems. A lot of people are assuming that they will some day be able to, but the fact is that, to
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I’m not sure how you’re getting that at all. GGP said they didn’t see how junior developers could “sow dissent” and I shared an example of where it happened. I wasn’t making any generalizations. (I also wasn’t on that team.)
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I’ve seen it. In my organization, open discussion and creating space for disagreement and alternate perspectives are the norm. A couple of junior programmers were upset about a process change, and weaponized the process to sow discontent at
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Well, yes, their site says clearly that you need to talk to an agent to arrange this. (It also says they’ll refund it if the plane isn’t sold out.)
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Programmers are incredibly well paid.
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This is the type of toxic, cynical attitude GP is talking about. It doesn’t have to be this way, and you approaching it with this expectation is possibly creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Trump’s MO seems to be to intimidate and threaten, and his threat to fire workers rather than furloughing them is in line with that. So is his threat to affect WIC first. Given this tendency, it seems like this shutdown could be worse and l
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And they can. https://support.apple.com/self-service-repair
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I think you’re going to need to back that up in order for me to take your claim seriously. I’ve always found Nate Silver to be opinionated, sure, but with opinions based on data. (To be clear, I’m not disputing that Silver thinks BlueSky is
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“Legendary” benefits (especially healthcare) are extremely expensive. It’s plausible that the average total compensation was the same, or even more, than other companies. The trick is that not everyone gets the same value from those benefit
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I think this is the fear, but I haven’t seen any evidence that AI is making companies more productive. Lots of anecodotes, pro and con, about individual effects, and a small number of studies, pro and con, about company effects, but nothing

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