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by norseboar 3mo ago
I think this is more aimed at the US gov't than anything. They want to be clear that it's not very good at hacking, so that the gov't won't ban it. I'm sure they're well-aware that this also will make it worse
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by norseboar 3mo ago
This might vary state-by-state, CA MediCal for instance did limit the subsidies based on income last year. I don't think it was an all-or-nothing cutoff, but I do think there were points around the 50k mark where the delta between your
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by norseboar 9mo ago
I love Claude Code, but this feels a bit like the perennial "our team spent a year on project X and then some intern built the same thing in a hackathon" claims. The hard part isn't writing the code, it's investigating,
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by norseboar 1y ago
If the author wrote the same sentence, but with "Plenty of theories -- no agreement", would you have an issue? I think the point works just as well. "Theory" and "hypothesis" are pretty interchangeable in collo
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by norseboar 1y ago
I love docs written like this, and writing culture generally. But I've also seen something like this backfire a bit. I think this approach is particularly good for docs where the assumption is the audience wants to understand why you r
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by norseboar 1y ago
I feel like random selection devolves pretty quickly back into the problems it's trying to solve? The examples in the article, with some commentary: > Place critical appointment/hiring processes into the hands of randomly selec
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by norseboar 1y ago
I second this. I've done lots of game jams and I think the "messy code" threshold for me is like, 1-2 hours away from the deadline at most, on files nobody else will touch. It depends on the type of cleanup, but factoring out
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by norseboar 1y ago
> the list is very informative and meant to force the "invisible hand of the market" (its a pun, relax) to pay for better studies if they truly believe it is not harmful but studies are inconclusive To make sure I understand ri
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by norseboar 1y ago
I think the argument is interesting, but the specific example of prop 65 doesn't really work on a few levels. The argument in the post is that Prop 65's warnings are legitimate in some sense, but only apply in specific contexts. H
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by norseboar 2y ago
Is there actually an epidemic of firing programmers for AI? Based on the companies/people I know, I wouldn't have thought so. I've heard of many companies encouraging their engineers to use LLM-backed tools like Cursor or jus
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by norseboar 2y ago
The "era of good enough" here really resonates with me, I've been in product and people mgmt and there's a lot of tension between "optimal amount of quality for the business" vs "optimal amount of quality
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by norseboar 2y ago
I think this confuses the responsibilities a CEO may have (write memos, etc) with the responsibilities they must have (ultimate authority/responsibility for company decisions/direction). If a CEO hired somebody to do ~all comp
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Buying the Dip(reedmolbak.substack.com)
2 points by norseboar 3y ago|0 comments
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Good Designers Borrow: Creating a Visual System for Modified RNA(benchling.engineering)
5 points by norseboar 4y ago|0 comments
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by norseboar 6y ago
Totally. I don't think there's anything wrong with saying "Gee, this store is making way more money but its employees are being paid the same, that sucks". I think indexing the minimum wage to inflation makes sense. I th
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by norseboar 6y ago
It depends on why productivity is increasing. Generally speaking, the employer is pushing productivity increases (implementing better processes like assembly lines, buying equipment that lets an employee do more, etc). If the employer is pu
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by norseboar 6y ago
I think there's a bad assumption in here, which is that pay should keep pace with productivity gains in the first place. I'd argue the whole point of productivity gains is that they do outpace pay. The idea is the same work gene
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by norseboar 7y ago
(Benchling PM here) As far as sweeping generalizations go, I think that's a pretty reasonable one :). I'd imagine that almost all of our users (including most lab admins who assign permissions) don't want to keep a complex pe
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by norseboar 11y ago
I think the author's complaint has merit, but I don't think tying this complaint to wanting Zelda to be "saved" makes sense. The issue is genre. To take an extreme example, I might like the brutal open-world genre a la D
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by norseboar 11y ago
Where is the evidence that present hiring methodologies don't predict successful business outcomes? I recall seeing evidence re: resumes, but not on the overall process itself [1]. If this data is present (data showing that present hir
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Show HN: Tell Me More – Look up terms in Wikipedia without leaving the page(chrome.google.com)
1 points by norseboar 11y ago|0 comments
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C++: The Good Parts(amazon.com)
3 points by norseboar 12y ago|0 comments
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by norseboar 12y ago
Rational self interest might be a myth when applied to the extent that some economic models apply it, but at a basic level holds up. I know /tons/ of people that have taken one job over another because it pays more, even if it&#x2
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by norseboar 12y ago
I think there are two different problems here: building a good solution, and building a solution for a problem that people have to begin with. If you /don't know/ if there will be any customers for your product (no matter how
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by norseboar 12y ago
I actually asked Stallman about this once at a talk. It is precisely because we own our desktop. The analog he used was a food truck. It's fine to eat something from a food truck that somebody else prepares, even if there's a secr
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by norseboar 12y ago
Do you see this system of the elite ruling as an ideal that will never be reached (a la Plato's Republic) or as a practical system? Because in the latter case, you've got an intractable problem on your hands. The problem is a basi
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by norseboar 12y ago
also relevant: http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1995/06/30
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by norseboar 12y ago
Does this remind anybody else of: http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/05/26
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by norseboar 12y ago
I've read all of the Stanford 183 notes that Blake Masters took, but not the book that just came out. Have any of you read both? Did you think the book was worth it if you already have the notes?
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by norseboar 12y ago
That certainly used to be an attitude Y Combinator had ( http://old.ycombinator.com/noidea.html ), although it sounds like that didn't work out. Paul Graham's essays also perennially mention that the people are far

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