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by paulcole 1y ago
> why would you choose to use a proxy when you can just do the work "What a useful thing a pocket-map is!" I remarked. "That's another thing we've learned from your Nation," said Mein Herr, "map-making.
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by paulcole 1y ago
Dang that stinks because being able to do something while stressed isn’t a useful job skill at all.
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by paulcole 1y ago
Thanks! I tried to distill down what was in Difficult Conversations: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004CR6ALA?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_a_con... I think even a bad difficult conversation is better than no difficult conversation so
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by paulcole 1y ago
Agree 100%. This is the difficult conversation template I put together and use: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gHyfR0XAc5ehRoqRImV1yAFh...
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by paulcole 1y ago
> We have to orchestrate 10+ channels and 20+ active projects, making it incredibly difficult to stay focused on the metrics that matter. If you had to cut back to 3 channels, what would they be? If you had to measure 3 things, what woul
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by paulcole 1y ago
So it was a single professor lol? From your original comment you said “professors” making me think that some schools were pushing this message consistently. I found this odd because I was in college 25 years ago and must have missed the mem
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by paulcole 1y ago
The real dopamine hit comes from posting your own substack on HN.
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by paulcole 1y ago
iPadOS would be a good place to start. Most kids will like iPads.
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by paulcole 1y ago
Was this a case of computer science professors trying to help the sexless students feel better about their celibacy?
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because ceo bad/dumb and eng good/smart
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Lol / no
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by paulcole 1y ago
I mean you're the one who said, "Ask the kid. Or the spouse." But you're just saying "Ask the kid. Or the spouse... As long as they say what I want to hear." You may feel that the thing you want to hear is obje
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by paulcole 1y ago
> Just look at your spouse and children and ask whether they would rather have more money, or a more present husband & father. But you yourself are saying that if you disagree with your spouse's assessment of the situation (in t
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by paulcole 1y ago
If, hypothetically, your kids and wife asked you to work many more hours and earn much more money, would you do it?
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by paulcole 1y ago
What startup have you recently founded that aids in navigating AI dementia and provides strategies for safe rollback?
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by paulcole 1y ago
Do you just define success as having a lot of money? By that definition most people are not successful by the time they’re 40. It’s not a sad reality. It’s just reality. Do you actually care about having a lot of money? If so, why? What wou
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by paulcole 1y ago
I don’t eat meat but enjoy their products at least once a week, sometimes more. Very tasty, available nearly everywhere. I don’t care about the nutrition/health of it at all. Hope they can turn things around!
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by paulcole 1y ago
> For AI news in general I just browse HN. Like asking whalers for their opinion on electricity.
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by paulcole 1y ago
> AI uses 10x the energy (and thus 10x carbon emissions) as search This says more that search takes almost no energy than it does about the huge environmental toll of AI. In this day and age when “but the environment!” Is one of your key
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by paulcole 1y ago
> However, it does seem like there is a profitable business for someone there given how beloved it was/is. Normal people didn’t love small phones. They loved their small iPhones. When it comes down to it they will not love the Pine
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by paulcole 1y ago
> One critical task not possible on phones and tablets is the production of long-form textual media The key addition obviously being “for me.” For others tablets (and for some others, phones) are what they use for producing long-form tex
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by paulcole 1y ago
If your belief is that Steam Deck is Linux Desktop then you need to count Switch/PS5/Xbox as desktops as well and take those into account with the OS percentages.
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by paulcole 1y ago
> In most fields, this would be considered young / early career Is it considered young / early career in this field?
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by paulcole 1y ago
I must be more below average than you because it's a huge improvement for me over stack overflow. I'm doing mostly scripts (some Python but mostly Google Apps Scripts) to automate processes at a digital marketing agency. As long a
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by paulcole 1y ago
I use laptop only and Magnet to arrange things on my screen: https://magnet.crowdcafe.com
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by paulcole 1y ago
> What tasks is it better at doing than other technologies we have available to us? I'm not being sarcastic, I generally want to know in which areas you think it is better. I, a below average programmer, can write code myself but it
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by paulcole 1y ago
> most of them inappropriate IMHO (e.g, replacing HR) What is HR and why is replacing HR with LLM inappropriate? Is there some level of assistance that a person doing HR can gain from using an LLM?
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by paulcole 1y ago
The things I like are inevitable. The things I dislike are inevitable to people using debating tricks to shut down discussion.
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by paulcole 1y ago
I was pre-empting the ultra-clever HN commenter who might question whether I’d accidentally eaten meat as a byproduct of food production.
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by paulcole 1y ago
I love streaks like this. My current bests are: 686 days for completing the New York Times Crossword and 582 days of 20+ minutes of Apple Fitness+ classes. Plus 15,344 days without driving a car (I never learned) and without having alcohol

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