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by macNchz 2y ago
It's nice if you're the one presenting or leading the meeting, and/or if the person you've asked to take notes is not especially diligent. I've also been sent a photograph of someone's handwritten notes after a
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by macNchz 2y ago
I find AI meeting transcripts and summaries to be one of the most genuinely useful things to come out of this era of LLM tools. Being able to see a quick summary of what was decided or who was supposed to do what next is just so helpful, ei
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by macNchz 2y ago
It has always been pay-to-win. Expensive “expedition style” ascents—where hired Sherpas shuttle oxygen bottles and other essential gear up to high elevation camps, setting fixed ropes and ladders along the way—vastly outnumber “alpine styl
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by macNchz 2y ago
I think for discussion/negotiation with decisions being made, my hierarchy of preference would be (from most preferred to least): - Message board style like Github issues - Slack thread - Email thread - Video call - In person meeting I
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by macNchz 2y ago
Hot-desking would drive me nuts. When I worked in an office I found it disruptive having to move or rearrange desks even once a year or less. One would think we would have learned from TBWA trying it 30 years ago https://www.wire
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by macNchz 2y ago
I think those are all fair and reasonable—ultimately I've chosen not to work in an office since late 2019, so I'm not exactly an in-person absolutist. Personally, though, I do think that the higher-bandwidth effect is valuable to
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by macNchz 2y ago
A refrain I’ve heard from real life friends and people on the internet alike is that employees are being asked to come back to the office where they wind up just sitting on video calls much of the day. This seems like an absolute worst case
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by macNchz 2y ago
While there are all sorts of claims about honey, I do think that it's easy to eat considerably less sugar without going totally cold-turkey by buying unsweetened things and adding honey yourself. Most people, I think, will just natural
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by macNchz 2y ago
> If you can write a Dockerfile to install something you can write a bash script. Docker is great for making sure that magic bash script that brings the system up actually works again on someone else’s computer or after a big upgrade on
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by macNchz 2y ago
The most fundamental difference 20 years ago was that online activity was diffused across many different sites, and there was no algorithmic content feed recommending an endless stream of new things. Finding a rabbithole or dark corner requ
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by macNchz 2y ago
This assumes that mass social media is some kind of idealized “meeting of the minds” rather than like…the digital equivalent of a loud and raucous bar. The ability to block obnoxious and hateful people is fundamentally far, far less of ca
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by macNchz 2y ago
Goes way, way back—I remember announcements nearly 20 years ago where they were basically removing/setting bad defaults on what primitive privacy controls they had at the time, but calling it making things "more social."
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by macNchz 2y ago
> Seems inane an institution would crack down on it. Mad rushes to register requiring people to use automations like that sounds like a bad system to me, and something the university should be trying to address. That said, rather than a
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by macNchz 2y ago
With most software I am immediately concerned about what other unforeseen problems might happen as soon as it seems like the system has entered some kind of un- or semi-handled failure state.
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by macNchz 2y ago
I have been absolutely impressed with what's possible even in very-expensive NYC when the gates are opened to build housing—I live one neighborhood over from the Gowanus area of Brooklyn, which was rezoned in 2021 and has been absolute
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by macNchz 2y ago
Soda really is something—I drank plenty as a kid, but I kind of soured on it after an interactive exercise in a college class, where we each guessed the amount of sugar in a can of soda, scooped the sugar into a glass, and then were shown t
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by macNchz 2y ago
> CNotes were extremely successful on X. > reddit died By all measures I can find, reddit continues to grow year over year, while X seems to have been flat or in decline, so I’m not sure this is a strong premise.
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by macNchz 2y ago
The finding that using a car occasionally but not being required to certainly resonates with me. I grew up in a fully car dependent rural place, have always been “into”cars, and love a spirited drive on country roads. Now, I’ve lived in B
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by macNchz 2y ago
I was casually into this stuff like twenty years ago–read the forums, tried various techniques etc. I did have a bit of real success with it, also having some lucid dreams that are memorable years later, however I didn't actually like
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by macNchz 2y ago
> as long as it is food and stuff available at a normal grocery store (so not including alcohol). Not to dive too far down the “is a burrito a sandwich” rabbit hole, but it is interesting to think about this—a bottle of soda and a bottle
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by macNchz 2y ago
It has been surprising to me for years that people put up with this, I find it really terrible as a shopping experience. Like shopping in the worst dollar store you’ve ever been in that’s also the size of a city and loaded with ads, except
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by macNchz 2y ago
Do you drug test? Sounds like a place that might. A fairly significant proportion (though definitely not all) of the best developers I've ever worked with would simply pass over places that seem like they would.
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by macNchz 2y ago
I don’t know, having had one in my home for four years I don’t think I’d really be able to tell if I bought some bad furniture or something, there’s just so much noise. The levels are all over the map hour to hour. Could be some banana peel
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by macNchz 2y ago
As the post discusses, being unable to differentiate between the specific VOCs being detected makes these sensors, IMO, a net negative in home air quality devices. Mine will spike for a long time from opening a single beer or a fart (lol),
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by macNchz 2y ago
> What's the point of having it public then? The department of transportation is already using that data for monitoring traffic so there's zero need for anyone else to replicate their work. Personally I do find it useful to be
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by macNchz 2y ago
I've been having good results having AI "color in" the areas that I might otherwise skimp on like that, at least in a first pass at a project: really robust fixtures and mocks in tests (that I'm no longer concerned will
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by macNchz 2y ago
As someone who reads poetry regularly and has played around a bit with AI-generated poems, AI poems can be quite impressive, but have a certain blandness to them. I can see them conforming very well to the average person's concept of w
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by macNchz 2y ago
Every PaaS and IaaS I’ve ever used has had some amount of downtime, often considerably more than 5 minutes, and I’ve run production services on many of them. Plenty of random issues on major cloud providers as well. Certainly plenty of situ
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by macNchz 2y ago
> the most useful goal is to make money fast in a way that doesn't drain your life energy. And most of the time, this means responding to opportunities, not sticking to your guns This is a tightrope I think many people wind up strug
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by macNchz 2y ago
I’ve definitely seen an undercurrent of “I don’t need the crutch of a debugger” sort of attitudes online over the years, never really made sense to me. It can be painful pairing with someone who keeps adding print statements one at a time a

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