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by strken 1y ago
If you've got 30 developers then you've probably got, what, five or six teams? Your tech leads/senior engineers/whoever provides tech leadership at a team level are operating at a scale where they can go to the pub with
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by strken 1y ago
If you rephrase "ending DEI" to "reducing the risk of getting sued when laying off x% of staff", does it make any more sense? Nobody knows how to actually hire competent staff because it's a constantly changing bar:
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by strken 1y ago
It's possible and often desirable to calculate the estimated impact of externalities, positive and negative. Human lives are (in)famously given a monetary value by environmental agencies to enable this calculation. I think the more lik
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by strken 1y ago
I tell people I don't like country because I grew up in the country, and I'm sick of listening to relatable things like one lane roads and escaping cows one moment, then switching to bible-thumping alcoholism when the song changes
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by strken 1y ago
One of the golf clubs near me has a joining fee of $50k and annual membership fees of $8k. The club next to it has annual membership fees of about $700. The one next to that has annual fees in the $1k to $3k range. I am willing to believe t
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by strken 1y ago
When the essay says "a literal tooth", does it really mean a literal calcium tooth from some animal's mouth?
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by strken 1y ago
Surviving something like that (a much less serious adenoma near the brain) is neat because I can mentally use the memory to alter my current state of mind. I can't recreate the exact feeling, obviously. Just remembering waking up in th
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by strken 1y ago
Just considering one component, what is stopping good sleep? Here's a random list of what I can think of: - noise pollution - lack of fitness - stimulant use during the day - inability to manage a clean, nice sleeping environment - obe
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by strken 1y ago
I don't understand why false DMCA claims don't result in legal consequences for the people or companies making them.
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by strken 1y ago
People expect that they can pay 0.05x in the Philippines or India, or 0.1x in Poland or Estonia, when that's just not going to happen. I've heard a few people say the multiplier starts at something like 0.4x or more for equivalent
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by strken 1y ago
In my experience, the reason people don't scrape them off is the rumour that they leave their mouthparts behind. Removing the terrestrial leeches that live near me in Australia is easy. Put the edge of a credit card a few cm away, rest
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by strken 1y ago
A lot of it is quite debatable if not outright wrong. Imagine you find yourself going into a meeting with no strong opinion on whether the new queue should be implemented with Kafka, Redis, or your existing SQL DB, and only average time pre
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by strken 1y ago
The NYT is $23/month and I live in Australia. I'd be happy to pay them a dollar or two and buy an issue containing a known and limited set of articles from a particular date, but a subscription is irrelevant to me and I would bank
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by strken 1y ago
> The engineers will spend 10 minutes thinking about it, come up with a solution This is fine if coupled with a dose of humility. Coming up with obvious solutions then researching why they don't work (or asking an expert) is a good
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by strken 1y ago
I question whether such a thing as superhuman charisma exists. Or if it exists, whether it can be used over chat without access to body language and human empathy, against someone who refuses to engage from the outset, and without side chan
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by strken 1y ago
I mean, sure, you will eventually be able to convince someone, somewhere to do anything, but the whole thought experiment of a superintelligent AI in a box is about the AI convincing one specific human to let it go using only superhuman c
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by strken 1y ago
Wasn't there an experiment where they had two groups of people, one which would be paid if they didn't let the AI out of the box, and nobody in that group actually let it out? I really seriously doubt that an AI can convince a nor
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by strken 1y ago
I did something like this a while back, although it didn't take 48 hours. The point is to move you from that infinite five year timeline where decision paralysis is stopping you from doing anything, and taking you back to three years,
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by strken 1y ago
It happened more than 70 years ago. What would be the point? I remember my mum wearing a Free Tibet t-shirt in the 90s, but even then it was a fait accompli.
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by strken 1y ago
I've had two separate experiences reading a story on RoyalRoad, getting ten chapters in, noticing that any individual chapter is technically great but I just don't care about the characters or plot can't be bothered reading f
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by strken 1y ago
Gemini was originally called Bard. That's what thenoblesunfish was asking about: the original name, not the new one.
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by strken 1y ago
The effect sizes for antidepressants and therapy are comparable to the effect sizes for exercise and diet when it comes to relieving depression. There's a reasonable argument that someone with depression who goes to therapy but doesn&#
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by strken 1y ago
I think that for a lot of examples, the differentiating factor is infrastructure rather than science. The current wave of AI needed fast, efficient computing power in massive data centres powered by a large electricity grid. The textiles in
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by strken 1y ago
I fix documentation typos or broken links because they really annoy me. There are some egregious examples of people doing it for GitHub-as-a-social-network reasons, but I think some are like me and just want to fix the writing.
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by strken 1y ago
Maybe I'm missing the point, but all that stuff is personal spending on luxury goods, which is probably the least useful thing money can do. If your goal is something like "solve supply-side housing in my city" then you might
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by strken 1y ago
In Australian English, calm rhymes with farm and uses a long vowel, while com uses a short vowel and would rhyme with prom. (I know this doesn't help much because some American accents also rhyme prom with farm). Consider the way &quot
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by strken 1y ago
Thank you! "Calm incense" makes very little sense when said in an accent where calm isn't pronounced like com.
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by strken 1y ago
I did, sort of, depending on what you mean by "public". My local pub provided a free desktop computer, my local library did too (and the librarian once allowed me to set up my own desktop), my community had two regular lan parties
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by strken 1y ago
I have only very brief experience from once owning half of a 15 foot fibreglass runabout fixer-upper, but if you've got a 30 foot yacht then can't you just stick it on a trailer yourself? I feel like you're imagining a much b
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by strken 1y ago
Most states of Australia (which, yes, is the anglosphere capital of government overreach) ban most hiking on government land on days that are rated catastrophic fire danger. Not for months at a time, though.

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