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by n4r9 1y ago
I'm not against ticking boxes, but a culture that relies on it overly much.
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by n4r9 1y ago
That, and be careful to avoid a "box-ticking" culture where people rely on systems over independent thought. Also a hard balance.
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by n4r9 1y ago
Of course! I've added an edit at the bottom of that comment.
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by n4r9 1y ago
Likewise. This sort of manager would immediately trigger my instinct to "manage up" and start documenting every scrap of communication as they're likely to have an unrealistic understanding of current capabilities and will ov
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by n4r9 1y ago
Someone posted a link on HN years ago to a set of google docs titled the "Mochary Method", which covers all sorts of management skills just like this. I have it bookmarked as it's the only set of notes I've seen which ta
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by n4r9 1y ago
The game takes on a new level when you find you can build an army of big cats, or gallivant about with a lance on a warhorse (P.S. nevertheless this is still newbie stuff. I never got very far after many hours of attempts...).
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by n4r9 1y ago
To be fair, the two statements are not inconsistent. He can continue to hire junior devs, but their job might involve much less actual coding.
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by n4r9 1y ago
The spidery green font is really hard to read against the background.
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by n4r9 1y ago
Bit of an stingy take. His mum may have been born in the 50s, and could reasonably be expected to have known the term prior to its change in usage.
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by n4r9 1y ago
I still feel like something is "off" in comparing this Bible quote to the linked article. Christianity is deontological: there is a pre-existing set of "right" and "wrong" things, and the Bible is a set of rule
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by n4r9 1y ago
Agreed. I lean left on the UK spectrum and it was the first time I voted other than Labour in a GE. The walk-back on stuff like tuition fees and childcare was untenable, as was ordering MPs to stay away from picket lines. The nightmare cont
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by n4r9 1y ago
Is it really love if someone's commanding you to do it?
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by n4r9 1y ago
I agree to some extent. If you're blinded by your own ignorance or selfishness then intentions seem less important. For example, parents that force their child to study medicine because of their own fixed ideas, depriving them of a hap
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by n4r9 1y ago
> nobody can ever prove good or bad intent You're certainly happy to throw about assumptions. > The outcome here was the dam was blocked It was slowed but not "blocked". The dam exists! > the taxonomists were wrong S
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by n4r9 1y ago
> women themselves voted against it Do you have a source for this? According to Wikipedia, > An earlier referendum on women's suffrage was held on 1 February 1959 and was rejected by the majority (67%) of Switzerland's men.
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by n4r9 1y ago
> have been caught in the past inventing non-existent new sub-species That's not what happened, and your own links fail to support your narrative. It was genuinely believed - before the passing of the act - that the recently-disco
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by n4r9 1y ago
The claim is not that humans write fewer bugs than AI. The claim is that devoting senior time to fixing bugs in mass-produced AI code lowers overall quality.
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by n4r9 1y ago
Yes but we're talking about books for school libraries. IMO you're still restricting kids' freedoms by forcing them to pay for something that was previously free. Especially impoverished and/or neglected kids.
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by n4r9 1y ago
> freely ... spend your own money Come on, now.
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by n4r9 1y ago
A quotation from someone named Dave in a Guardian article doesn't constitute a representative sample either. But that's beside the point. Your post said that "nobody" could be persuaded to wear masks and "everybody&
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by n4r9 1y ago
> If you narrow it down to just studies that use the scientific method correctly and which are built on strong evidence, no convincing findings remain. That's a significantly weaker claim than the "masks did nothing" claim
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by n4r9 1y ago
I recall friends who worked for Google telling me that they instituted WFH for all employees from the start of March. I also remember a call with a co-worker in January/February who had a PhD in epidemiology (not a "rationalist&qu
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by n4r9 1y ago
Cool! This paper is also quite readable: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.04841 On p.2 they follow my idea of adding the lowest possible letter at the end, although they generalise it to adding the letter as close to the end
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by n4r9 1y ago
It certainly seems like you can get much longer words. I just had a quick go and came up with 0 1 0 2 0 1 2 0 1 0 2 0 2 1 but I stopped there because it gets tedious to check manually for repetition. Might be worth writing a little s
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by n4r9 1y ago
> I wonder how the situation changes if 2 times repetitions would count as pattern I might be misunderstanding, but do you mean that you cannot even have two of the same colour in a row? This is a very simple win for first player: W B W
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by n4r9 1y ago
As a counterpoint, myself and most people I know continued mask-wearing for many months after it stopped being a legal requirement in the UK.
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by n4r9 1y ago
I'm not sure where you're getting this from. Repeated studies continue to affirm that COVID is spread by respiratory droplets and that masks are effective in reducing transmission. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/arti
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by n4r9 1y ago
> Not getting insurance doesn't make this cheaper really as you'll just lose your property completely every few years It sounds a bit like the "Boots theory" of Discworld [0]. > insurance rates are often highly sub
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by n4r9 1y ago
Is insurance a legal requirement for a trailer in Tornado Alley?
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by n4r9 1y ago
I may not agree with you but I appreciate your efforts to call out demaning and absolutist language on HN. It really drags the discussion down.

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