lostdog

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by lostdog 3y ago
Yeah, the problem is that accountability for PMs is usually missing. No one checks whether the PM is adding or removing effectiveness, so the good PMs go unrecognized and the bad ones keep siphoning energy from the project. Second, bad PMs
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by lostdog 3y ago
If they standardize and open the server shape and plug interface then it gets really cool. Then I could go design a GPU server myself and add it to their rack. The rack is no longer a hyperconverged single-user proprietary setup and becomes
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by lostdog 3y ago
Do you have any reason to believe this applies to people who are not you?
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by lostdog 3y ago
There are no accurate checkers for whether something was written by an AI.
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by lostdog 3y ago
They still believe that being in-person with a handful of peers helps productivity. For example, you might not work directly with Karl, but he could still give some suggestions for using git that could be helpful.
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by lostdog 3y ago
Lots of execs and managers believe that groups of people are more innovative and productive when they discuss things in-person. You may think they are wrong. You may not like that they believe this. But they really do believe that in-person
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by lostdog 3y ago
I would go with, "I was not involved with pen testing, but <director> has assured me that it was done." But really the right thing to do is to have a conversation with the director where you tell him that you want to support
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by lostdog 3y ago
Finding a new hobby.
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by lostdog 3y ago
I would love to hear pg's analysis of the business case for this company. By my math, 5k people in the US are diagnosed per year, and if your keyboard costs $1k, then your ARR is $5m, and maybe the company valuation is $50m. Numericall
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by lostdog 3y ago
Agreed. I got a gen10 thinkpad (with Linux). The power supply makes a crackling noise. After 6 months the fan starting making grinding. The screen flickers when the CPU is loaded, and once a week the whole thing just locks up. Worst laptop
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by lostdog 3y ago
Why have hospital billing departments become more mean? Why are credit card agencies and collections companies so cruel to the average person? Why do airlines not give a crap about your well being? I wonder if the author has it backwards. A
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by lostdog 3y ago
Have you made a coop? Why or why not?
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by lostdog 3y ago
No? A JSON object could have any type at run time. You cannot do anything at compile time to figure out the right type. Please point to a specific library if you disagree.
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by lostdog 3y ago
That is called "hotdesking" and it sucks.
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by lostdog 3y ago
> Hotel desks for the entire office basically. So your office is crappy? Similar story for my office. It's very close, but the facilities people made it terrible to work from. Why go in when I would get half as much work done?
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by lostdog 3y ago
Compile time reflection doesn't work for this case.
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by lostdog 3y ago
Pointer dereferencing is a missed opportunity to use a postfix operator. If a* was the way to dereference, then a*.foo() could have been the way to call a function on a pointer.
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by lostdog 3y ago
Try representing JSON in C++. Sure, you can figure out a way that works, but the C++ code for printing out the JSON is much uglier than a language with tagged unions.
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by lostdog 3y ago
In the 2020 election in Georgia, 49.24% voted for one party and 49.49% voted for the other. The "blue droplets in a red ocean" is very obvious: the ocean has very few people.
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by lostdog 3y ago
In GIL Python, you might think you could speed something up by multithreading, but it turns out you can't. The GIL will just run it serially anyways. No-GIL means it is possible to run things in parallel (without resorting to fancy C e
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by lostdog 3y ago
I flagged that top level affirmative action comment, and I hope more people do. Contentless flamewars about unrelated culture war policies are boring, and are a negative contribution to the discussion.
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by lostdog 3y ago
This "article" doesn't say anything. The meat of the post is mostly gristle: > She is running an agency focused on overreach. Attempting to stretch the law to cover things that it does not.
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by lostdog 3y ago
Commit to getting less done. The company wants less work to get done. That's why they built such a distracting office. There's not much you can do as an employee but just feel ok with getting a lot less done. IMO you shouldn'
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by lostdog 3y ago
Take a picture in the car lot of the car when you return it! Try to get an employee in frame too. That's how I managed to avoid a no-return penalty with Hertz a few years ago, and now I always take that picture.
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by lostdog 3y ago
This simulated camera projects the image onto an internal film plane. But blender cannot read an image off a plane directly, so you need to point a blender camera at the film plane to capture the film to the blender output.
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by lostdog 3y ago
Very cool, but it does flicker for me, and setting background_update to false didn't help. (Every 2 seconds, it flicker 1-3 times)
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by lostdog 3y ago
This is a great idea in practice, but it really points to how sql could improve. You have a library of useful joins that you've checked for correctness. Saving the library as reusable code would be even more useful.
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by lostdog 3y ago
> Can you make a step plan for some deliverable? No? Then, sorry, it's not that planning is not possible, it is that you are simply not experienced enough. Perhaps you work in a simple domain? This would be infeasible at my current
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by lostdog 3y ago
What kind of deliberate practice can help if morove your mental liquidity?
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by lostdog 3y ago
"Final version perfected" is a trick for digesting long Todo lists. I've used it a couple times to make a long list manageable.

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