philwelch

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by philwelch 5mo ago
If the penalty for hiring too many people for the wrong job role is being barred from hiring people ever again even for a different job role, then companies are just not going to hire people in the first place.
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by philwelch 5mo ago
> Generally lawyers need to be involved to make sure any rejections are compliant. There's a whole cottage industry around this. That's why most PERM job postings are advertised in the classified ads of the print edition of a n
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by philwelch 5mo ago
Use/mention distinction
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by philwelch 6mo ago
If it’s a natural language prompt, it’s not a hook.
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by philwelch 6mo ago
It's a bit more complicated than I implied because many or most Taiwanese prior to the beginning of KMT rule were still ethnically Chinese; they just hadn't been part of "China" for 50 years (a period when there wasn&#x2
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by philwelch 6mo ago
Interesting point. There are a lot of sports (football, basketball) where the cumulative rules end up requiring any player to have a humanoid form (references to elbows and knees and hands and feet, etc.), but even in ping pong it kind of s
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by philwelch 6mo ago
The majority of Taiwanese are the descendants of the people who lived there before 1949, not the descendants of the Chinese Nationalists who fled there at the end of the civil war. In fact, the Taiwanese were, uniquely among East Asian nati
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by philwelch 6mo ago
The Marines did it with a rocket launcher. https://www.twz.com/marines-test-fire-robot-dog-armed-with-r...
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by philwelch 6mo ago
There is a very broad consensus that labor theory of value is nonsense however. And when it comes to a theory being “bad at guiding policy changes and decisions”, attempts to implement Marxism killed more people than the world wars, many th
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by philwelch 6mo ago
Used to be more true than it is now. I’ve been in a couple really shitty Marriotts.
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by philwelch 6mo ago
They already didn’t get money or recognition.
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by philwelch 6mo ago
The problem is much older than that. Academia didn’t start overproducing PhD’s and exploiting grad students and adjuncts in 2025.
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by philwelch 6mo ago
How does that compare to adjunct pay?
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by philwelch 6mo ago
> You can’t merge partially merge a large “review commit by commit” PR so you are forced to wait until it is all ready to merge. These are two different use cases. I thought we were talking about the one where a set of changes is more re
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by philwelch 6mo ago
We may not have AGI yet (“artificial general intelligence”, AI equivalent to a human), but we sure have AGI (“artificial Guardian intelligence”, AI equivalent to The Guardian). Corollary: since self-driving isn’t a solved problem yet, this
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by philwelch 6mo ago
You can review PR’s commit by commit, and you can ask people to review PR’s commit by commit. Not a big deal.
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by philwelch 6mo ago
Not at all. One of the tricks of using AI is context management and managing the Git history yourself can be a big part of that. If the AI has a stupid idea and implements it, even when you tell it, “that was a stupid idea, don’t do that, c
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by philwelch 6mo ago
Squashing is fine if you’re just making a mess of temporary commits as you work and you don’t want to keep any of those changes separate in master, but that’s not a useful review workflow. A lot of times I’ve built a feature in a way that d
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by philwelch 6mo ago
No but they might be able to fix authentication problems, which is what this is.
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by philwelch 6mo ago
Jobs was a perfectionist and a minimalist. Part of minimalism is that sometimes you delete marginal features (arrow keys) that you still end up wanting back. If you never delete too many features, you aren’t deleting enough features.
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by philwelch 6mo ago
You’re right, it’s much easier to replace the entire federal bureaucracy.
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by philwelch 6mo ago
You’re confusing a few of the issues here. This isn’t an interstate commerce case, it’s a tax power case, which does reflect on the NFA but not on Wickard v Filburn or civil rights. The important aspects of federal civil rights law aren’t l
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by philwelch 6mo ago
There isn’t really a shortage of money for those things, just rampant levels of fraud, corruption, and incompetence in the government to make those things artificially expensive. California spends so much money on high speed rail and gets 0
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by philwelch 6mo ago
Coding is one thing that is genuinely more enjoyable with AI than without it. It’s a different (but overlapping) skill set, but my median AI sessions remind me of the most exhilarating design discussions I’ve had with colleagues, and I get
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by philwelch 6mo ago
What a load of pointless handwringing.
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by philwelch 6mo ago
So someone who can barely walk is supposed to safely jump from a space capsule to a boat in the middle of the ocean?
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by philwelch 6mo ago
“Stepping” from one vessel to another in the middle of the ocean is not like getting on your buddy’s sailboat at the marina even if you have your sea legs. Astronauts don’t even have their earth legs when they splash down; when they return
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by philwelch 6mo ago
This is the same mission where the commander radioed to Houston, “I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working”.
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by philwelch 6mo ago
If we got to a point where going to the Moon was significantly safer than that, we’d better start trying things even more ambitious and risky or we’ll stagnate as a species. The fatality rates for circumnavigating the globe or settling in N
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by philwelch 7mo ago
It's because of the way companies align their own behavior. "Listening to feedback" is just a good intention but increasing engagement with copilot is a measurable goal. With apologies to George Orwell, imagine an OKR stampin

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