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by joelfried 3y ago
I think parent meant: Assuming tenure is defined ONLY for those who have already left, 2 years is a bad sign. For a 3 year old company, if that definition is used, it is indeed pretty bad. It means that _of the people who are leaving_, p
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by joelfried 3y ago
You have to try a little harder with GPT to get it to understand its mistakes, but it's not as bad as it used to be, at least if you pay. It failed for me the first time ("Earlier inert, it could rouse in fury before long"),
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by joelfried 3y ago
Why the scare quotes? There's no actual Hebrew text in that article.
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by joelfried 3y ago
So is Justice Thomas.
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by joelfried 3y ago
If my use of "actual work" offends you so greatly, you can replace "people doing actual work" with "people you manage" and my point stands. Managing competing priorities and setting company-wide direction are c
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by joelfried 3y ago
Personality differences are certainly a piece of it, sure. But if the folks On High do not realize what the people doing the actual work value about their current position, that seems like a pretty big failure of leadership. If you don&#x2
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by joelfried 3y ago
I don't know what parent had in mind, but I was personally disappointed that not one of these conjectures was actually talked about in detail. They had a nice picture of two images of a rotating line and then . . . proceeded to just n
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by joelfried 3y ago
Counter-counter-counter point: Reddit reached its heyday under the leadership that allowed people to leave and come back to discuss. Its current leadership has intentionally driven away a decent percentage of users within the last year. I
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by joelfried 3y ago
It may seem that way but I'd argue the hardest part is coming up with the specifications for what the output needs to look like. Even if the best LLMs could write full projects like that, the business side would need to specify far be
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by joelfried 3y ago
We communicate with words, and people as a whole are used to being lied to and gaslit regularly especially by those in power. It's true that mathematics and the hard sciences have mechanisms for understanding that are on a different s
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by joelfried 3y ago
Perhaps you could argue that high initial sugar matters but final sugar content definitely does not. I only like my wines dry with no residual sugar remaining after fermentation is complete. A decade on my big reds are tasting fantastic.
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by joelfried 3y ago
I made a wine kit for each of my children - it makes 30 bottles and we drink one a year on the birthday itself. I've found it helps for scale and as a bonus you get to see how a wine really ages over time.
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by joelfried 3y ago
Regardless of where the burden of proof lies, telling someone who nearly lost a parent this year that they are a horrible human being for expressing their gratitude in a way you disapprove of isn't going to convince anyone of anything.
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by joelfried 3y ago
Perhaps I missed it but I didn't see the author put forward a mechanism for how the "gate later" approach was supposed to work. Did I miss it? To your point though, absent an implementation of "gate later", it&#x27
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by joelfried 3y ago
Lithium mines in the Donbas region, perhaps?
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by joelfried 3y ago
Doesn't that enhance the effect of the gate rather than detract from it? If, ceteris paribus, being around the shiniest of gold stars helps you shimmer a little brighter, that seems likely to make the gating-function effect more prono
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by joelfried 3y ago
Agreed all around. Especially the part about abolishing all parents -- humanity definitely loses then.
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by joelfried 3y ago
That instantiation of 'now' is gone, but you have more to come. If missing that one is the proximate cause for future beneficial actions, isn't that better than having it be the source of more guilt and angst?
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by joelfried 3y ago
I'm a bit surprised you've never heard of the spouse of a parental sibling called an uncle as well. To make that more explicit: my father's sister is my aunt, and her husband is my uncle.
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by joelfried 3y ago
For people who already have USB-C phones and are considering switching it means "All of the cords you have right now will still be useful", which is a definite improvement over "All of the cords you have right now are junk yo
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by joelfried 3y ago
This is difficult because there is no spoon.
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by joelfried 3y ago
I hope you are able to keep that idea in your head should you ever be in a situation where the damage caused by increasing your money is sufficiently abstracted away from your actions. History has shown us that many folks do not have that
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by joelfried 3y ago
Do you love money so much that, like the Sackler family, you would kill millions to have more of it? I hope not!
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by joelfried 3y ago
If you haven't read it, the book you haven't realized you're looking for is Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.
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by joelfried 3y ago
I was all set to read and see whether they took LED manufacturers at their word for how long their bulbs lasted, and it turned out the article's source is nearly 30 years old. Can we update the flair to say 1994, given that the embedde
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by joelfried 3y ago
It's a lot easier to lie about a degree if nobody knows where you got it. That seems like a fatal flaw to your plan.
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by joelfried 3y ago
There is something physically moving: the machine itself. You can't wash or dry clothing without moving it around. Given that the entire machine moves (and on spin cycles, reasonably quickly), you need to make sure your circuitry is
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by joelfried 3y ago
Making it harder for bad actors to create malware would seem like one legitimate case.
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by joelfried 3y ago
Many of us have the ability to entertain ourselves entirely within our own minds on the regular. None of us can snap our fingers and summon a chair from nothingness. Do you know anybody who owns zero chairs?
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by joelfried 3y ago
Given that knowingly visiting one of these locations exposes you to potential liability in the state of Texas, I wonder whether this exposes Google itself to any liability -- especially if there's any chance that they might log you at

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