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by parpfish 11mo ago
I took a 66% pay cut to work at a nonprofit once, and it was hell. The problem is that not many folks are willing to take a pay cut like that, so the level of employee talent was abysmal. Years and years of the “Dead Sea” effect made it a t
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by parpfish 11mo ago
I think it’s in part due to the fact that we’re expected to expend effort in these jobs thinking “big picture” about the roadmap and planning. If you’re at a job where you get handed jira tickets and crunch bugs, you can probably ignore the
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by parpfish 11mo ago
You mean you DONT work a leisurely 6-8 hour day with breaks? I thought everybody did that until there was some urgent firefighting
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by parpfish 11mo ago
an interesting contrast that i think about a lot: - in rural america, there are dollar stores everywhere that overcharge for small items. people treat them as a necessary evil and begrudgingly shop there. - in nyc, there are corner bodegas
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by parpfish 11mo ago
it'd be nice if there was an attempt to give an example of what kind of powers moving into 3d-lispland allows instead of just saying that it's beyond the comprehension of the 2d-planar programmers. because, i guarantee that it&#
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by parpfish 11mo ago
One weird thing about software jobs as opposed to other crafts is the persistence of the workpiece. A furniture maker builds a chair, ships it out, and they don’t see it again. Pride in their craft is all about joy of mastery and building a
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by parpfish 11mo ago
I wonder if this could be explained as the result of LLMs being trained to have pro-tech/ai opinions while we see massive run ups in tech stock valuations? It’d be great to see how they perform within particular sectors so it’s not jus
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by parpfish 11mo ago
I didn’t think can-am cars were homologated? It’s easy for a manufacturer to make a couple hand crafted cars with insane specs. But by requiring homologous, it adds a unique kind of restriction where it’s a car that they have to be able and
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by parpfish 11mo ago
I think that an ideal race league would use WRC-inspired homologation rules and little else (except for some safety features) Any chassis size. Whatever aero you want. Any engine size/configuration. The only constraint is that it needs
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by parpfish 11mo ago
Because they can make one nice pdf formatted to get printed out in the restaurant and then reuse it to display on the website
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by parpfish 11mo ago
When I was a youngster getting into cars, I obsessed over the quantifiables. Which car had better horsepower, 1/4 mile, or skid pad scores. I couldn’t drive, much less afford, any of the cars so it’s the best I could do to form an opin
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by parpfish 11mo ago
to me it feels like something that would be a 'wonder' you could construct in one of the civilization games. and i love that there's something that awe-inspiring just... sitting there for free on my computer.
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by parpfish 11mo ago
reason (3) is social signaling. elite schools aren't only desirable because they set you up with big opportunities. they are the way for high-school overachievers to signal to everybody how smart and good they are. elite schools coul
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by parpfish 11mo ago
what if clippy's true purpose was sales/marketing and not productivity? back in the day people needed to be convinced that they needed a computer and that they'd be able to figure it out. if you see clippy on a showroom floor
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by parpfish 11mo ago
the meme of "omg, clippy sucked and was sooo annoying" has overshadowed the actual level of annoyance from back in the day. nobody used clippy, but nobody expressed vitriol. you just easily dismissed it and went on with your busin
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by parpfish 11mo ago
i spent a lot of time playing with microsoft bob. i don't know what you were actually supposed to do with it, but in real life i spent a lot of time building houses/forts so i did that in bob too. in a different era i'd&#x2
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by parpfish 11mo ago
pizza is portable lasagna.
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by parpfish 11mo ago
i think there's two main flavors of linkedin slop. there's the founder/ceo trying to brand themselves as a "thought leader" slop. stupid made up inspirational stories. grind/hustle motivational stuff. etc. then
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by parpfish 11mo ago
the purpose of linkedin is to do online sleuthing when you get curious about what happened to somebody you half remember from high school. then you find their profile and you're left with the question "Have they really been a ma
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by parpfish 11mo ago
i hate it when the set up the half-pane in such a way that you can't adjust the water temp/pressure without being directly under the shower head. when dealing with a new set of shower controls, i like to stand to the side and figu
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by parpfish 11mo ago
i've noticed an uptick in the last couple years of new outlets doings stories about the slang -- "kids are saying {skibidi, rizz, 67} now, here's what it means." kids have always had slang, but i don't remember th
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by parpfish 11mo ago
doesnt the existence of a widespread fad like labubu imply a degree of homogeneity and centralization? if things were decentralized there'd be tons of ongoing fads that tiny groups would get excited about but they'd never get to
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by parpfish 11mo ago
I don't even know what it would it even look like to "build a city" from scratch in the US. who does the building and puts together the central plan? does the government build a bunch of public housing and a publicly owned co
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by parpfish 11mo ago
video game cutscenes usually involve real artists designing and animating the characters, not just using preset stock characters
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by parpfish 11mo ago
I would have kicked up the 4d3d3d3. Maybe thrown in a hat wobble.
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by parpfish 11mo ago
but wouldn't they make money if they made an app the reduced user engagement? the biggest money making potential is somebody that barely uses the product but still renews the sub. encourage deep, daily use probably turns these users
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by parpfish 11mo ago
they said AI was going to take all of our jobs. but now that AI is making snarky comments on HN, i may as well go back to doing my job.
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by parpfish 11mo ago
if the social pressure was strong enough to push them to get married, it would undoubtedly be strong enough to push them into making babies
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by parpfish 11mo ago
categorization difficulties aside... why does an app like this need to exist at all? it seems like you can just use existing utilities. write your journal in notes. put stuff on a calendar if you want to track dates. if you're into mak
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by parpfish 11mo ago
the human resources required to make it work are a bottleneck, but even if we had the resources we need to build a humane modern asylum system, there'd be a whole slew of civil liberties issues

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