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by roarcher 1y ago
Betting your freedom on the idea that corporations and the wealthy will side with the little guy instead of the powerful because some of them happen to live in the same city as you is, frankly, insane.
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by roarcher 1y ago
H1B workers are supposed to be people with qualifications that are in short supply in the United States. The unspoken part is that the "qualification" employers are so desperately searching for is usually the willingness to work f
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by roarcher 1y ago
I'll quote from my parent comment: > somebody asking you to review something they haven't even looked at The situation you're talking about is not the one we're talking about, so I'm not sure what you're tak
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by roarcher 1y ago
Consider that your experience may not be universal. Just because your reviews are useless rubber stamps to satisfy "some boomer" does not mean that other shops also have no standards. I get explicitly asked for reviews at work all
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by roarcher 1y ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one who gets viscerally irritated when I'm asked to review a PR that was obviously generated. You didn't take the time to write this code, but you expect me to take the time make sure it's
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by roarcher 1y ago
Top to bottom advantages everyone. Left to right advantages the right-handed. Right handed being the majority, top to bottom and left to right wins in almost every writing system.
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by roarcher 1y ago
The lesson you seem to have taken from it is "it's different when I do it". The motto of every blood-soaked despot and every useful idiot who put him in power throughout history. > I can see that if your mother tongue does
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by roarcher 1y ago
I'm sure Hitler used similar logic to justify gassing children.
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by roarcher 1y ago
> Every time I buy a product as an ordinary consumer I marvel at how much worse my huge employer is at buying products than I am. It's the size of the deal that matters. Most of the consumer goods you buy are sold on a take-it-or-le
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by roarcher 1y ago
That's not what the author is saying. Calling humans "stochastic parrots" implies that there's no actual thought or meaning behind what they say, that their output is a probabilistic process with no "driver". T
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by roarcher 1y ago
I believe some TV executive thought "Mad Men for the tech industry" would be a good cash cow. It even had its own Don Draper character, if a very poorly executed one.
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by roarcher 1y ago
...if you want to take your chances with cheap junk in a safety-critical application. I watched about 3 minutes of that video and the number of issues that guy ran into was disturbing. You'd have to be nuts to put that thing in your ho
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by roarcher 1y ago
I think what I said is actually the strongest interpretation of the article's claim, just with the author's word games stripped away. You called out two claims from the article as being worthy of deeper thought, so I'll addre
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by roarcher 1y ago
The article's premise is "some animals are better at specific things than humans, therefore humans are not exceptional", or stated differently, "humans are only exceptional if they're the best at literally everythin
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by roarcher 1y ago
You can on the Maverick. The tailgate has a "middle" position that puts its top edge level with the tops of the wheel well humps in the bed, and you put your sheets on top of them.
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by roarcher 1y ago
I recently used Claude to help me understand a math-dense research paper. It was useful for answering general questions about the structure of the algorithm, where to find information in the paper, and gain a high level/intuitive under
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by roarcher 1y ago
> The clients love Brenda – she is young and in tune with Gen Z culture. She offers unique insights like “Instagram DMs are out” and “Being cringe is cool”. Her boomer clients run every piece of marketing material by her to avoid the nev
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by roarcher 1y ago
I wouldn't call that mindless, just not as cerebral as some tasks. But mindless or not, if it needs to be done then it's still productive work. Why the author feels that only "deep work" counts is beyond me.
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by roarcher 1y ago
Selenium gets washed down residential shower drains every day in the form of dandruff shampoo. Surely if we can afford that, there's enough to go around for the semiconductor industry?
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by roarcher 1y ago
I ran a couple miles on a treadmill the last time I had COVID because I was going stir crazy from lying on the couch all week. It actually gave me a bit of a boost for the rest of the day, though I returned to feeling crappy the following d
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by roarcher 1y ago
That "job offer" tells me everything I need to know about this guy. Cheerfully dictating what you're going to do as if it's a great opportunity for you, with an obvious ulterior motive. Just "you will start tonight!
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by roarcher 1y ago
What a bizarre and unnecessary comment.
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by roarcher 1y ago
> One can defend oneself and others in a myriad of ways that do not involve murder. As we used to say in the military, "the enemy gets a vote, too". You may find that your non-lethal methods of self defense come up short when t
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by roarcher 1y ago
That tracks with what I've heard about people getting genuine therapeutic benefits from it, like with PTSD. Thanks.
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by roarcher 1y ago
> whenever I see wellness healers and the like extolling the virtues of psilocybin, I want to point out that there could be a downside Anecdotally, I had a friend once who was very into psilocybin for its mind-expanding properties. He ce
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by roarcher 1y ago
I have felt like that. When I was a child. And you totally can opt out. You can go live in a mud hut in the woods. People do it all the time. But we both know that's not what the original commenter means by "opting out of society&
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by roarcher 1y ago
On the contrary, there are plenty of things to complain about and I personally find HN to be a tough, even cynical, audience. The guidelines don't say you can't be negative, you just have to explain your reasoning. One doesn'
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by roarcher 1y ago
Is Reddit bleeding into HN now? The anti-work subs often feature these whiny hot takes like "woe is me, I don't get to do whatever I want" followed by a comical self-impressed implication that there's a great academic di
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by roarcher 1y ago
I think there are actually two separate axes here, one for the meaningfulness of the job, and one for the behavior of management. There are lots of companies where the work is personally fulfilling (level 3) but the bosses are in it for the
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by roarcher 1y ago
> Going forward, I won’t be hiring for languages, I’ll hire devs who can solve problems, no matter the stack. Ah, there it is. Every time I see one of these posts, it's by someone who isn't actually a developer. It's alway

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