surgical_fire

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by surgical_fire 4y ago
Nothing is more permanent then temporary loopholes. They exist only for long enough time until the next loophole is put in place. > One example would be tax cuts in exchange for committing to provide N jobs. Gotta love this one. Trickle
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by surgical_fire 4y ago
> And it just so happens that the current system we came up with - a mixed market with a strong, democratically elected public authority, yet freedom for individuals to pursue taxable profits This is naive to the point of absurdity, when
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by surgical_fire 4y ago
> This is presenting a bank run like it is a bad outcome for the people involved. It isn't obvious why that would be so; SVB is now one of the safest banks to park money in Only when looking in hindsight. Unless those extremely weal
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by surgical_fire 4y ago
> Moreover, this trillion has a higher propensity to spend than most of the investor wealth that gets destroyed—so there will be proportionately macroeconomic effects. Deflationary effects. This money that people thought they had, was no
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by surgical_fire 4y ago
> In places like the EU, governments see Google as a giant piggybank of funding. They know Google will not pull out of any region as large as the EU, so they will use any excuse to introduce fines and penalties. They also know Google can
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by surgical_fire 4y ago
Because Germany has good living standards in many cities and salary is not as bad as you indicate. I would consider moving to Germany before considering the UK. I certainly wouldn't ever move to the US. The only place you mentioned I w
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by surgical_fire 4y ago
I didn't want to be promoted. I prefer getting raises by changing jobs. I studied new things on the side (very important for switching jobs).
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by surgical_fire 4y ago
I wanted more people to be approved. But I didn't make the rules, I just worked there.
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by surgical_fire 4y ago
You misunderstood me. I approved about 2% of candidates. The actual hiring rate was much lower, meaning that even when I approved them, they ended up being rejected anyway.
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by surgical_fire 4y ago
I approved 1 in 50 I interviewed. The actual hire rate was lower than that. Maybe much lower. As I said, I was one of the most lenient ones. I did my best to approve, while still remaining within calibration and hiring guidelines. I intervi
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by surgical_fire 4y ago
> That's misleading. If you're able to get an interview, the success rate is much much higher than 1%. Nope. I was an interviewer for one of the FAANGs. My approval rating was around 2%. And I was one of the most lenient ones,
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by surgical_fire 4y ago
Well, depending on the question I answer with what would be most beneficial to my team. They are asking if having standing desks for everyone would be good? Sure. But a lot of fluff questions regarding satisfaction are answered with lies. &
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by surgical_fire 4y ago
> We're starting to add new members in timezones that are 5+ hours I am all for remote work, but large time zone differences is a massive hurdle to proper remote collaboration. The only way to smooth it out in my experience is with
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by surgical_fire 4y ago
TBF, it was always easier to look busy in an office, with everyone around you. Plenty of ways to procrastinate work with "work". When you work remote the only thing you have to show is your output.
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by surgical_fire 4y ago
> common-sense conclusion that junior people need more direct supervision is clearly sugarcoating it for junior recipients for whom the message is intended. I see this being repeated ad-nauseam. I don't really buy that at all. I hav
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by surgical_fire 4y ago
Yeah, that's what they always say about those internal surveys.
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by surgical_fire 4y ago
Yes. It fails sometimes on known problems, not even particularly hard ones - i.e.: simple questions about the capabilities of programming libraries for which there is ample documentation available. The thing is, by talking about its shortc
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by surgical_fire 4y ago
> I'm just saying I think GPT does exhibit some logical reasoning abilities and not merely remembering statistical patterns. I agree with most of your reply, except this bit. I mean, generating a response through statistical languag
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by surgical_fire 4y ago
Do people answer these in good faith? I always lie in those internal surveys.
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by surgical_fire 4y ago
Not even advanced programming. ChatGPT is impressive, but gets many things wrong. If you know what you are doing it's an amazing programming assistant. It makes me noticeably more productive. It may lead someone who doesn't know w
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by surgical_fire 4y ago
The dude you replied to you gave out the sort of bad take I come here for. If anyone thinks genuinely that ChatGPT can meaningfully replace a software developer should be starting a tech business right now. You can replace basically your la
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by surgical_fire 4y ago
I use it on a daily basis.
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by surgical_fire 4y ago
ChatGPT will definitely make a dev job obsolete if their job is simply copying and pasting code they found online. By all means, that is part of everyone's job. Sometimes I really can't remember how to do some specific thing. I kn
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by surgical_fire 4y ago
The weird thing is going for Chrome, that is another bloated corporate mess.
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by surgical_fire 4y ago
There's some beauty on it. Nature incorporates our garbage, and it becomes part of nature. It might kill us, but then new creatures will evolve and grow, with plastic being part of their ecosystem, perhaps even desirable. In million ye