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by the_af 1y ago
Because the shape is a physical thing, it's perceived by your senses. I meant remember, not understand. You can understand something, but I specifically mean remember.
902.
by the_af 1y ago
So it's like an analytical description of the event? You don't remember sensations about an experience, like touch, smells, etc?
903.
by the_af 1y ago
> I wonder if there are also sound aphantasts, but it's highly likely. My friend is one such person. He is amazed I can "hear" the opening soundtrack of Star Wars. I'm amazed there are people who cannot. It's p
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by the_af 1y ago
> A common exercise while being in the back seat of a car while I was young was to imagine someone in a skateboard riding along the power lines on the side of the road, keeping pace with our car. Oh, I've done this! I think many k
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by the_af 1y ago
No, I've talked about this with a friend with aphantasia, and that's not it. While I'm willing to concede there's probably different degrees of visualization (which in my mind also explains why some people are able to dr
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by the_af 1y ago
> I just remember how a candle is shaped its parts and similar characteristics If you do not somehow "see" the shape of the candle, how do you remember its physical characteristics? Is it like a list of physical properties in
907.
by the_af 1y ago
I especially like how Nadella speaks of layoffs as some kind of uncontrollable natural disaster, like a hurricane, caused by no-one in particular. A kind of "God works in mysterious ways". > “Microsoft is being recognized
908.
by the_af 1y ago
You just paste the outage error codes back to the LLM and pray it's still working and can fix whatever went wrong!
909.
by the_af 1y ago
I don't think 3D rendering replaces text adventures any more than movies replace books. I mean, for some people they do, but those people never liked books to begin with; they just didn't have an alternative.
910.
by the_af 1y ago
This is what the real Voight-Kampff test turned out to be :)
911.
by the_af 1y ago
I enjoyed Silo, but I think in the real world, completely destroying the world's ecosystem and a fraction of mankind surviving in tiny isolated bunkers for generations is more fantasy than scifi...
912.
by the_af 1y ago
> Is it possible to create a programming language that has every possible feature all at once? Some random thoughts about this: If languages are a tool of communication between programmers (there's that adage "primarily for h
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by the_af 1y ago
Some CEOs do, some don't. Some are successful, some are middling, some are shameful failures or frauds. However, none of this has much to do with what I said: isn't promoting someone for things they would have to stop doing (as
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by the_af 1y ago
No, that's a false equivalence. > Everything else is just recycled slop. No, not everything is slop. AI-slop is slop. The term was coined for a reason. Everyone can ask the AI directly, unlike accessing journals. Journals are inte
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by the_af 1y ago
> If you reduce "Lord of the flies" to something like "children shouldn't run a community" To be honest, and I hate to say this because it's condescending, it's a matter of literacy. Some people don&#
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by the_af 1y ago
> And it will make them up just like it does everything else. You can’t trust those either. In tech-related matters such as coding, I've come to expect every link ChatGPT provides as reference/documentation is simply wrong or
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by the_af 1y ago
> It's clearly ridiculous, yet at the point where papers or PRs are written by robots, reviewed by robots, for eventual usage/consumption/summary by yet more robots, it becomes very relevant. At some point one must ask, w
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by the_af 1y ago
It's seldom the case that AI slop requires widsom to ask, or is fact-checked in any depth other than cursory. Cursory checking of AI-slop has effectively zero value. Or do you remember when Facebook groups or image communities were f
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by the_af 1y ago
What amazes me is that some people think I want to read AI slop in their blog that I could have generated by asking ChatGPT directly. Anyone can access ChatGPT, why do we need an intermediary? Someone a while back shared, here on HN, almost
920.
by the_af 1y ago
A part of the job that is completely different to what you've been doing, only you were promoted to it because of what you've been doing? Isn't this like a recipe for the Peter Principle? "The Peter principle is a
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by the_af 1y ago
But doesn't this contradict the bit where they argue "to be promoted to X, you must have already been acting like X in practice"?
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by the_af 1y ago
> then witness the org retcon their judgment into a staff-level promotion without any significant change in duties. Isn't this good for the engineer, though? Presumably they are good at what they do because they like it. So they g
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by the_af 1y ago
I'm not sold on that kind of wisdom, it's very close to empty platitudes. Atheist here, so Bible wisdom is especially not useful to me.
924.
by the_af 1y ago
Yeah, that's my feeling as well. I'm not a Principal but I've seen people promoted to the position burn out. I'm content being in a senior engineering role where I still get to do technical stuff (and yes, some mentorshi
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by the_af 1y ago
I don't think this is like looking up a reference. This article is a general guideline on how to be a good Principal IC, the thing you're supposed to already know if you're a Principal IC. This is like reminding a top doctor
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by the_af 1y ago
> At this level the job is qualitatively different from what went before - you do start as a rookie in this role, and if you only try to keep doing what you’ve done before only better then you’re not setting yourself up for success. Ot
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by the_af 1y ago
> That’s why a lot of companies only promote after demonstrating a track record of performing at the next level. If that's the case, why is this article needed? Someone promoted to Principal is already savvy, why would they benefi
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by the_af 1y ago
Yes, but the stakes at your job are different. You don't get fired or get bad performance reviews if you fail to convince your friends to go out for dinner. You're not expected to be constantly be doing this either. You are not pa
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by the_af 1y ago
Being balanced about political/soft skills makes me nervous, especially when it becomes a mandate and your main role. Some people are good at it, some are bad -- but it's completely irrational to expect this to be the logical next
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by the_af 1y ago
I would rather land in the latter too. I actually don't mind that some people are good at influencing others, through well earned respect, good communication skills and technical chops. I resent it when it becomes a mandate and some of

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