thenoblesunfish

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by thenoblesunfish 6mo ago
Maybe this unfairly off topic, but in reading the intro, my thought was not that things become brittle and hard to change because of the inelegance of the abstractions, but because of the banal dynamics of work. Mostly, people act quickly t
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by thenoblesunfish 6mo ago
Very interesting! An aside and fishing lazily: I am one of those people where caffeine has a very strong and long lasting effect. I don't have caffeine after about 9am or it affects my sleep that night. I love drinking coffee, and fort
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by thenoblesunfish 7mo ago
"This audio is embedded from SoundCloud and requires cookies to function. To view this content, please enable analytics and marketing cookies using the cookies opt-in at the bottom of your screen." - lame!
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by thenoblesunfish 7mo ago
I still use Vim a lot, even though for work I use a fork of VSCode, like most people. Why? Because it's something I feel I can understand - it's simple and runs everywhere. It's the world of shells and text files. The work se
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by thenoblesunfish 8mo ago
People don't like these checks. Ok. But. Parents worry about their kids being exposed to porn and social media. They want someone to do something about it. That political force is real, and someone is going to take advantage of it. Wha
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by thenoblesunfish 8mo ago
Just to make sure it's somewhere in these comments: the fundamental issue is people trying to measure something they don't understand. That is not new. The article gives an interesting exploration of how things break down in a new
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by thenoblesunfish 8mo ago
I was hoping for more on "... The only way to prove that you checked is to keep the data indefinitely." What do the laws say on this? What data is this? I would have assumed that just like a bouncer can check my ID and hand it bac
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by thenoblesunfish 8mo ago
Okay, funny. What does it prove? Is this a more general issue? How would you make the model better?
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by thenoblesunfish 8mo ago
I personally find the same approach very effective. It forces me to know where to look for things, and to document things because I cannot hold onto the fiction of being able to hold it all in mind. But the real advice here is "think a
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by thenoblesunfish 8mo ago
This location in Switzerland reminded me of some placeholder Python code. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_Pass
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by thenoblesunfish 8mo ago
From my team's PoV, I reject the premise. The non-eng people can scale their ambitions and asks even faster than AI has accelerated the engineers' work. In fact, they always have a bunch of stuff that ends up below the line, they
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by thenoblesunfish 9mo ago
He doesn't get into why he didn't switch to Apple. Kind of a middle ground - it's still got the maddening things about being from a corporate behemoth, but it's closer to Unix and you can run your audio software there. (
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by thenoblesunfish 9mo ago
Be a part of (IRL) groups.
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by thenoblesunfish 9mo ago
I think the commonly used platforms, ISPs, etc. make this just annoying enough that most people really don't know how easy this should be.
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by thenoblesunfish 9mo ago
Is being able to SSH into your home machine that easy these days? I never had a strong enough reason to spend more than a few minutes trying, but I always suspected that my ISP would make this harder for me than I would hope.
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by thenoblesunfish 10mo ago
Good advice, in general. But there is a risk here, which is that you're encouraging people to do something which isn't their job. Are you sure you don't want this person working on the things they are supposed to be working o
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by thenoblesunfish 10mo ago
This article is aimed at younger kids, before normal Lego is appropriate. I like Duplo more than magnatiles - slightly harder to clean up I suppose, but that's because they hold together better than magnatiles, which create quite fragi
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by thenoblesunfish 10mo ago
Comments like this make me feel very lucky to have the job and manager I have! If the situation is as adversarial as the one you're describing, are you perhaps missing out on the fact that when people trust and genuinely support each o
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by thenoblesunfish 10mo ago
People do the New York Times crossword every day for years..
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by thenoblesunfish 10mo ago
These guys are more like artists than engineers, right? I don't care if my favorite band only releases one album a decade, if it's good.
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by thenoblesunfish 11mo ago
Fun! Would love a "style 4" where you see the thin lines e.g. within the solid squares.
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by thenoblesunfish 11mo ago
There is an extreme where you procrastinate on the real work, yes. But half the things on the list are not procrastination, but preparation. If you skip those you hit the other extreme where you are so focused on doing the thing, you waste
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by thenoblesunfish 11mo ago
Fair point, I didn't mention where in Europe I live. (The German-speaking part which is maybe the part I'm generalizing about).
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by thenoblesunfish 1y ago
Also an issue of asking the wrong question. When the interviewer asks, "are you happy?", they mean relative to other people. The interviewee probably takes it as relative to their own baseline, even if explicitly told not to.
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by thenoblesunfish 1y ago
This seems like exactly the same as "why aren't rich people happier?". It's because unless you are very low on the scale (and in many countries few are), your situation isn't so bad as to obviously make you suffer,
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by thenoblesunfish 1y ago
Americans tend to have larger, more casual social circles, probably. Having hosted parties in both the U.S. and Europe, the "flake rate" in Europe is much smaller, but the parties are also smaller, less frequent, and planned furth
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by thenoblesunfish 1y ago
$6000 worth of stolen goods doesn't seem like that big of a story? Tens of thousands of lego pieces isn't much?
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by thenoblesunfish 1y ago
Key strategy is to get a job in the past, as a professor, where you can get away with not really doing most things you "have" to do.
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by thenoblesunfish 1y ago
If you wrote code that is to be maintained by someone else, which I think has to be true 99% of the time, it is "we". You are still operating as a team even if you did the initial work.
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by thenoblesunfish 1y ago
Great essay. And it's true about all politics. Power will always rest somewhere. You want it to rest with people who know what they're doing, and who care about other people, and are very uncomfortable about the idea of power for

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