satyrnein

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by satyrnein 28d ago
Not to be glib, but I assume you're not quitting your Western job and moving there. So isn't this romanticizing it?
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by satyrnein 2mo ago
This has been the prevailing advice all along, and yet we have security vulnerabilities everywhere that LLMs are good at spotting and exploiting. I think we need more options on the menu.
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by satyrnein 5mo ago
This is a curious choice of fields for you, if the last technology you think was a net positive was literacy !
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What happens when code becomes abundant(zendesk.engineering)
2 points by satyrnein 6mo ago|0 comments
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by satyrnein 7mo ago
For folks who are not familiar, this is "The Library of Babel" by Borges. There is no creating, just selecting among characters sequences we already knew were possible.
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by satyrnein 9mo ago
If other people didn't have children who grew up to be doctors, nurses, etc, there would be nobody to pay.
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by satyrnein 9mo ago
You need schools, pediatricians, daycare, other kids, etc. Cities (and suburbs) have those, not sure about every rural area. Certainly not the village in the article.
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by satyrnein 1y ago
Bush was 8 years while Biden was only 4. Biden was much higher on a per year basis than anyone else since 2000, but obviously people believe what they want to believe.
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by satyrnein 1y ago
I think the graph you linked obscures the issue a bit by showing total immigrant population by year, which would change much more slowly than arrivals by year. I found a graph of arrivals by year here: https://www.visualcapitalis
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by satyrnein 1y ago
I thought that was basically accepted truth? For example, the New York Times described it as: Recent Immigration Surge Has Been Largest in U.S. History https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/briefing/us-imm
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by satyrnein 1y ago
I was wondering about this, but digital versions are typical DRM-encumbered and actually a license (not a true purchase) whose terms probably don't allow this. The court's decision was that training is fair use, but in practice, i
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by satyrnein 1y ago
I'm on the distributor side, I used to fantasize about using XSLT to produce all the different XML formats (beyond DDEX, like Apple, etc) from one house format, but that was probably a bad idea!
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by satyrnein 1y ago
It's almost more of a warning to founders and VCs, that an AI developer that replaces a $100k/year developer might only get them $10k/year in revenue. But that means that AI just generated a $90k consumer surplus, which on a
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by satyrnein 1y ago
This is how non-engineers have always lived! The code is a black box, but Product Managers develop a sense of whether the developer really understood what they meant, the QA team verifies the outputs, etc.
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by satyrnein 1y ago
From the docs: Users exclusively belong to Organizations; every User belongs to exactly one Organization. But I also see a screenshot where, after login, the User has to choose an organization or to create a new one. It seems to me that
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by satyrnein 2y ago
It's the latter, but is there any effective difference, really? Say that lowering their their staff level from X to Y would result in a 15 minute wait for a smaller, undeterred group of callers. Putting an artificial floor for wait tim
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by satyrnein 2y ago
Sounds interesting, I'll have to look into that. I'll say that the shared TV was better in one respect: it was right-side-up for more than just one person!
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by satyrnein 2y ago
In this specific case, I bought it during a long overseas trip and our physical games were back at home! That said, while I love physical games, some digital aspects seemed potentially appealing: automatic scoring, rules enforcement to pr
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by satyrnein 2y ago
This is very cool! Somewhat similar, I recently bought a Nintendo Switch version of Ticket to Ride, which supports using a "companion app" on other devices to show each player their private hand. However, one unfortunate bit is th
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by satyrnein 2y ago
I would recommend updating your resume (or at least thinking about what you would put in it) and considering how attractive it is to other employers. The situation you want to avoid is being comfortable and respected in your current role fo
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by satyrnein 2y ago
Well, you kind of assumed it away in your second sentence, but alignment is more important than individual productivity. And unfortunately, meetings, interruptions, and other communication are the best tools most teams have for that.
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by satyrnein 2y ago
I did a quick search, and there are generators that I guess you bring up on your phone, like so: https://code-names.netlify.app
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by satyrnein 2y ago
Sorry, I'm not following, how is getting paid less the same as getting a higher percentage? Artists have always been in competition with each other for the same consumer attention/dollars. Indie artists often undercut prices of po
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by satyrnein 2y ago
So you want new artists to be promoted and you're willing for those artists to be paid less to make it happen? Spotify Discovery Mode seems to fit the bill. Artists agree to take a lower rate, and Spotify is incentivized to include the
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by satyrnein 2y ago
I agree that people have creative impulses, and not everyone wants to be a couch potato. However, I imagine a lot of people would rather noodle around on a guitar (or try to be a YouTuber, or mess with RPGmaker, or write a blog, etc) than h
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by satyrnein 2y ago
Great example of how taking people's money leads to new expectations!
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by satyrnein 2y ago
Indeed the culture you describe does not sound healthy! In theory, Engineering does not report to Product, it is a partner with an important perspective, and can negotiate prioritizing certain projects without subterfuge. In low trust envir
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by satyrnein 2y ago
You don't think the local water co-op would raise water rates 10% to give themselves 10% raises? Unless literally every user is an owner, there will always be the incentive to extract as much from the general public as possible to dist
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by satyrnein 2y ago
In practice, trying to satisfy everyone's target for perfection took forever and immediately after launch the vision of perfection was revealed to be incorrect anyway; this is the classic "waterfall" failure mode. It also (in
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by satyrnein 2y ago
I think it's less a "convenient excuse" and more like sincere conviction that "I will do anything to help/protect them" for better or worse.

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