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by wjnc 4mo ago
A long and a short cancel out. So you could construe this yourselves. (Recognise that this has a long tradition on HN ;)
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by wjnc 5mo ago
In highly bureaucratic companies there starts to exist a value for bureaucracy ‘per se’. This can be found in endlessly growing risk and operational policies. Actually, one is lucky if the policies don’t say much. That means that the bureau
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by wjnc 5mo ago
What about expecting them to suck up their pride, work with the other lead for a comprehensive plan that includes possible WONTFIX-es? Strategy and leadership don’t come to exist on their own. It’s middle management that has the best operat
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by wjnc 6mo ago
This is spot on. My dad was a professor and had dozens of PhDs. The only thing differentiating them (as I remember him telling me) was the resolve to keep work as /tiny/ as possible. Who is remember for his/her PhD? Only the
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by wjnc 6mo ago
I have not much followed the science of gut microbiome and psychology. Is this really going where this article is pointing? That we can tease out causation in foods and habits via gut microbiome towards behavior and psychology? Pretty rad.
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by wjnc 6mo ago
He should try to cancel the original purchase agreement on the grounds that now the functionality is available Tesla has demonstrated no intention of delivering it to him, thus voiding the original agreement. Normally if a judge agrees, you
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by wjnc 7mo ago
Buy whatever you want! Buy what makes you happy and buy two if it makes you happier! Do tell all your friends of your keen finds. But remember to buy some put options with each of your Lovely New Products! Thank me later.
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by wjnc 7mo ago
Both Comanche and Settlers 1 were so magic to me as a kid. You learned to work with DOS in text mode. Most shiny on the PC was Wordperfect. And suddely your text computer was capable of displaying graphics and ... games. Hooked me for life.
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by wjnc 7mo ago
Nobody mentioned the smell of that time yet. An acrid air, stingy for the first few seconds but then somewhat enjoyable because of the ozon. The smell of stale coffee and cigarettes lingering. The smell of wood for cabinets (instead of pres
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by wjnc 7mo ago
Satire And Performance Art no less.
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by wjnc 7mo ago
Nope, it cascades back to all those in the same lane who’ve not yet decided on overtaking. It’s multi player game theory. Easiest way out I can think of is punishing both those too slow and too fast to create equilibrium. Haven’t thought ab
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by wjnc 8mo ago
My firm has partially transitioned through this curve. We went went from "fully externally supplied" systems, to an architecture that combines "externally supplied" (core functionality) with "low code" about 6
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by wjnc 9mo ago
I would enjoy hooking up Claude to KDE with voice control and audio feedback, but am 100% on board with that it should be 100% the user deciding to go for that folly.
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by wjnc 9mo ago
True, but what would sanctioning producers do? I think it's not even the availability of fresh products in the supermarket, but the willingness of customers to prepare food themselves? I agree it's postmodern funny that you need t
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by wjnc 9mo ago
Napoleon ultimately was a master in Getting Things un-Done. * Many layers to this joke. Think about his imprisonment and escape. To keep it thoughtful: The impact of the Code Napoléon is massive. With a tad bit less expansionism and a tad b
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by wjnc 10mo ago
My parents once took a struggling man in. I think he stayed with them for about three years, up until the moment I was conceived and my mom started planning for a future for our family and helped him get into a housing project. For all of m
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by wjnc 10mo ago
My philosophy of math muscles tingle at both sentences at about the same rate. P=NP and P=!NP are both proven nor disproven. (There is redundant information in this sentence.) History shows us that the historical / ‘effort’ argument is
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by wjnc 10mo ago
To defend OP somewhat: his throw out should be someone else’s pre-owned and then we are square. Not in defense: This is a customer who sees itself as an ultra pro user that only wants the best on all dimensions regardless of economics. Nice
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by wjnc 10mo ago
Great advice. This works in companies as well! What is the goal of your writing and who is the target audience? Memos (they still exist) can be drastically different for different audiences. Mess this up and you end up on the wrong end of t
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by wjnc 11mo ago
She has a right to seek attention? And you are right. The truth untold and the moments that never were cannot be recounted. They can be grieved and part of grief is anger. I re-learned by my tears when reading this that the only thing that
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by wjnc 11mo ago
Clear mission, a well set up team and autonomy in execution can make most jobs fun to do? Stress (due to), lack of autonomy, lack of clear mission and bad teams and management I think are the root of unhappy work?
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by wjnc 11mo ago
We agree. Two bits floating in my mind: I'm in management (different sector, totally different scale) and deciding to move forward against a market as a market leader is a really scary decision. We did and changed our proposition again
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by wjnc 11mo ago
With the power of M-chips, this would cannabalize MacBooks via iPad Air / Pro. They are sitting on a golden cash flow and not willing to revolutionize computing again (as the iPhone did). Just as a N=1, I would rather pay a recurring f
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by wjnc 11mo ago
The world of mathematics is only a language. The (Platonic) concepts go from simple to very complex, but at the base stands a (dynamic and evolving) language. The real world however is far more complex and perhaps rooted in a universal lang
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by wjnc 11mo ago
Profound point. My mother struggled with alcoholism and ultimately succumbed to that disease. In philosophy of mind they use “akrasia” and “akratic thinking” for acting against ones better judgement. It helped me somewhat getting to underst
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by wjnc 11mo ago
Haha, have you missed your etymology and poetry classes? A lesson is something you learn. A learning is an act or experience. A joke telling someone of when you’ve learned to RTFM is intended to feel like a yoke.
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by wjnc 11mo ago
Around 1997 I learned the concept of RTFM! Obviously my father already taught me to look in the DOS and WordPerfect manuals to learn about features and commands one might use. Great learnings. Oh and: https://visopsys.org/ab
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by wjnc 11mo ago
For those in workplaces that treat you well. One suggestion that is not in OP: Tell others, explain, expand, give presentations on what you went through. Not only will it help your environment understand WHAT you are doing, they then are al
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by wjnc 1y ago
I think we imagine them to sell mostly consulting and re-using those 0-days on thousands of unconnected victoms bringing in many millions for a billion dollar valuation. This is somewhat in jest, but goes to show that the value of the zero
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by wjnc 1y ago
I am left wondering. Can’t people (in general) understand that Alzheimer’s changes a person fundamentally, irreversibly and forever until death follows? Many positive traits of personality disappear, the negative starts to dominate, I think

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