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by klodolph 2y ago
I disagree with that—I don’t think it would be good enough for 90% of customers. I think it would be about the reverse. Maybe it would be good enough for 10% of customers.
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by klodolph 2y ago
Cheap money seems to have dried up, so maybe more old-school approaches wouldn’t get sniped by VC-funded startups.
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by klodolph 2y ago
Funny how fiduciary duty in these contexts is overwhelmingly short-sighted.
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by klodolph 2y ago
“Engineers did this to themselves…” Long, long ago, the compact was that employees worked hard for a company for a long time, and were rewarded with pensions and opportunities for career advancement. If you take away the pensions and take a
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by klodolph 2y ago
> They aren't considering the long term downside to this. This echoes sentiments from the 2010s centered around hiring. Companies generally don’t want to hire junior engineers and train them—this is an investment with risks of no re
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by klodolph 2y ago
I see the reason for the middle man is to: 1. develop the platform 2. set standards for what “delivery” is 3. be liable for orders not delivered, or orders fraudulently placed With a P2P app, wouldn’t you be engaging with a courier directly
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by klodolph 2y ago
Home values in Japan are somewhat anomalous. There are some good policies that contribute to this, but also other factors that make me reluctant to generalize from Japan. It’s a country with declining natural population, where houses are as
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by klodolph 2y ago
Bricks have to be manufactured and transported. In denser countries, the transportation cost is lower and there is a factory near you. In the US, you’re damn well sure you can find timber, the US is loaded with timber. Brick also isn’t some
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by klodolph 2y ago
“Stick-built” is the name for it. There are two main ways to build a house out of wood. You can go for stick-built construction or timber framing. Homes in the US were mostly timber framed until the early 1900s. Advancements in tools and ma
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by klodolph 2y ago
For those who want to try it out, you can also access these sounds in a somewhat easier way by using an NES audio emulator in your favorite DAW, or by using one of the various tracker programs: https://www.mattmontag.com/p
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by klodolph 2y ago
You’ve articulated, correctly, a need for performance reviews. We have a need to measure performance, but we don’t have reasonably objective ways to do it that simultaneously measure what we actually care about. There’s a kind of tradeoff
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by klodolph 2y ago
We’re talking, like, $10 million in drones to replace one pilot for 18 minutes. I don’t see any reason to believe there’s a pilot shortage, and I don’t understand what’s wrong with the current targeting, or how that could be improved. There
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by klodolph 2y ago
I tried doing some back of the envelope math but it doesn’t come out in favor of drones. The CL-415 that you shared in the link has a reported capacity around 6100 kg of water. When I searched for “heavy lift drones” I got the Draganfly Hea
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by klodolph 2y ago
“Best practices” is a bad term partly because it has some kind of gravitational pull that attracts junk, partly because you almost always need some clearer term (it’s vague), partly because it describes something that isn’t relevant. Altern
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by klodolph 2y ago
The problem is the actual term itself, “best practices”. It really seems like we might be speaking past each other… the question is not about whether the thing you have, which you call “best practices”, should exist. It seems like you are a
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by klodolph 2y ago
Sure, you can invent a scenario where the term “best practices” is a half-decent term. I’m not speaking in some kind of absolute. I still think it’s not a very good term here. It’s not really describing best practices, is it? It’s just de
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by klodolph 2y ago
At my most recent jobs, it’s been middle and lower management that was most prone to corporate business speak, and upper management had an incredible and somewhat fearsome ability to cut through bullshit. Depends on who your managers are, w
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by klodolph 2y ago
> I get the feeling the best practices you're complaining about are TPS reports, I’m talking about the actual term “best practices”, and not the actual practices themselves. The term is an ineffective way to communicate something. M
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by klodolph 2y ago
I’ve worked at some companies with senior managers that were really good at training other managers and good at fixing problems at a department / org level. Rare, but it happens.
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by klodolph 2y ago
> If you’re not C level and somebody reports to you, you’re a middle manager though. You’re a middle manager if you’re not in “upper management”, but managers report to you. It’s called “middle” management because it’s between upper mana
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by klodolph 2y ago
One meets people who are really trying to look important by having more reports than the other managers. People who use Linkedin, say “best practices” without irony, and like to tell stories about what programming was like 25 years ago when
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by klodolph 2y ago
For a circle, pi is the ratio of the circumference to its diameter. Every ellipse also has a circumference-to-diameter ratio. Well, two ratios, since ellipses have both major and minor diameters. You might think that there would be some kin
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by klodolph 2y ago
The math department at my college had three linear algebra courses. “Intro to linear algebra.” 200-level. Vectors are (x,y,z), more or less. Class includes math, engineering, science, and business majors. 200-level makes it nominally a se
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by klodolph 2y ago
I took these classes in college and none of them would be described that way. They were linear algebra classes.
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by klodolph 2y ago
Right, but there’s another linear algebra after that one.
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by klodolph 2y ago
> Also, the capitalists that originally funding and benefited from the public model also send their own kids to schools with different models. Re: “different models”—the main difference with private schools is that private schools are pe
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by klodolph 2y ago
> Linear algebra is a year 2 course in a undergraduate eduation. From what I’ve seen, the year 2 course is great for graphics programming, game development, that sort of thing. It’s not enough for the tasks that require more serious line
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by klodolph 2y ago
There was also a dire need for more programmers. I think the industry would take what it could get.
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by klodolph 2y ago
> Also, one might wonder why a school system would be designed to maximize compliance to authority figure’s seemingly meaningless rules and facts. I think the explanation is a little more mundane—it’s just an easier way to teach. Complia
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by klodolph 2y ago
I find it hard to make impartial judgments about school because of my own personal experiences in school. I think your comment may reflect a similar lack of impartiality.

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