p_v_doom

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by p_v_doom 1y ago
In recorded history there have been plenty of economic setups that have very few or no downtrodden. You just gotta go and read anthropology. Another thing to take into account is where we are as a society - and where we can go. Both with a
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by p_v_doom 1y ago
IMO what we term "complex" tends to be that which the current setup/system struggles to deal with or manage. Relatively speaking google has much much higher complexity, but it doesnt matter as much, because even in simpler ca
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by p_v_doom 1y ago
Agreed. The problem is not complexity. Every system must process a certain amount of information. And the systems complexity must be able to match that amount. The fundamental problem is about designing systems that can manage complexity, e
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by p_v_doom 1y ago
Interesting. Before there even was attention I was thinking that the episodic memory model offers something that could be very useful for neural nets, so its cool to see people testing that
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by p_v_doom 1y ago
The key to universal basic income is that it is basic. There are many jobs that cannot be automated but with the right incentive even under UBI people will do them.
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by p_v_doom 1y ago
> If you just look at the success stories, you could say that today's VC model works great too Well, thing is actually it is kind of horrible. You are basically handing the choice of what to develop where - something that is actuall
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by p_v_doom 1y ago
> It's pretty maddening, and self-evidently stupid. I really cannot fathom why my company and other companies fail to understand what a waste of time and money this is. Tell me about it. I think its because of established common sen
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by p_v_doom 1y ago
IMO a lot of the product managers inserting themselves and being useless is good old school project managers pivoting to the new thing and doing the same old stuff. Likewise I do think product management should be part of the senior enginee
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by p_v_doom 1y ago
> It's like a tragedy of the commons, except there's only one party destroying all resources for themself So basically, what literally happened after the enclosure of the commons, lol
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by p_v_doom 1y ago
Most of the greater conditions that people experience today have been the result of markedly pro-social discoveries and forces in medicine, agriculture etc. Likewise the rights and comforts we have are largely driven by a) colonization that
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by p_v_doom 2y ago
There is only slack for places that allow it. All too many companies overpack their sprints with as much as possible.
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by p_v_doom 2y ago
Ive repeatedly gotten at a trouble at a job, for fixing even minor things - like moving a loop around or factoring out a single function, without PM approval. Cause it takes time from the team to review instead of working on their own thing
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by p_v_doom 2y ago
Problem is that most big companies have "professional" management. And professional management is stuck in completely outdated command and control thinking even today. Whether its people taught by other people at other big compani
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by p_v_doom 2y ago
Also Microsoft consultants are everywhere, and management consultants like McKinsey usually work closely with Microsoft, and many corporations are already locked in. In many ways its kind of really scary how so much of the digital infrastru
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by p_v_doom 2y ago
I do agree that you can hide a lot of shit in code. But I think something often overlooked is that code is simply text, and we have general rules on how to write good text. Code is in the end of the day basically applied philosophy and expr
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by p_v_doom 2y ago
IDK, Ashby's Law of requisite variety comes to mind. In order for something to control/cope with something else it needs to have the capacity to do so. It seems super trivial when stated like that, but actually has profoundly deep
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by p_v_doom 2y ago
It holds up pretty well, mostly because it is so general. It is ingrained in a lot of things, and its basically just another restatement of the classic control loop - something that used from rockets to therapy. There isnt that much remaini
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by p_v_doom 2y ago
The Architects Paradox is an absolute must read IMO. It really challenges the way we think about software. Architecture modernization is a must for everyone that works with legacy systems and modernization. Something not new at all, but new