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by ytoawwhra92 4mo ago
This is not true IME. People constantly call support for problems they can resolve themselves, where the product is actively trying to help them resolve the problem, and where copious documentation exists to communicate exactly how to resol
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by ytoawwhra92 4mo ago
> Can I do in a month what a junior cannot in 10 months? Can I do in 6mo what a junior cannot do in 5 years? I briefly worked at an organisation where I was consistently and sustainably able to ship in two month blocks what other teams o
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by ytoawwhra92 5mo ago
> The overwhelming majority of Wikipedia is not meaningless politics, but stated facts backed by decent sources. This is true of good articles, but the overwhelming majority of Wikipedia tends to lack citations or, worse, cites sources t
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by ytoawwhra92 5mo ago
There's probably some truth to this but it's hard to reconcile with the large number of parents who allow their kids to engage in behaviours known to be actively damaging and harmful at home.
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by ytoawwhra92 5mo ago
> walk to their grandmother's house (a block away) Do your neighbors have parents nearby? I think this makes an enormous difference.
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by ytoawwhra92 5mo ago
For many of these tools your prompt is a small part of the initial input, and it shrinks as a proportion of the total as more information is added to the context. IME you can get great results from crappy prompts if the surrounding context
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by ytoawwhra92 5mo ago
> Remember, immigrants didn't really play a role in the US tech industry for half of its existence and didn't play a major role until a decade ago. Bell, Wang, Fairchild, Intel, Sun...
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by ytoawwhra92 5mo ago
How is any of that the responsibility of organised labour? We used to expect training, mentorship, skill-building and effective job placement from employers. If anything, unions should be lobbying employers to provide those things to poor p
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by ytoawwhra92 5mo ago
It _is_ a source of friction. I can think of _one_ product that allows you to set up low-friction access management, and AFAIK most users of that product don't set it up that way. Software engineers _should_ be able to request access t
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by ytoawwhra92 6mo ago
> A few years from now, we'll wonder where all the seniors are. Did we solve the ageism problem by mistake?
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by ytoawwhra92 6mo ago
A liability isn't an inherently bad thing. A loan is a liability, but you might take one out regardless because you know you can use it to make more money than you'll have to pay back in interest. That said, I think it's more
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by ytoawwhra92 6mo ago
> Standardize data and services and you don't need that much software. We've known this since close to the advent of computing and yet every generation of has taken us further away from this goal. Largely driven by jealous reso
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by ytoawwhra92 6mo ago
In some ways it doesn't really matter because once you've got enough data points you'll know what percentage of views result in an ad click (or whatever) and then you can figure out how many views you need to hit your revenue
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by ytoawwhra92 6mo ago
Podcast network is an established and proven business model. You spend money to make episodes, you make money from ads. You make a bunch of different podcasts with a bunch of different target demos to reach a wider range of listeners and th
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by ytoawwhra92 6mo ago
He was effectively saying this: https://xkcd.com/538/
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by ytoawwhra92 6mo ago
There are lots of photos of Miyawaki method forests on the SUGi Project's website: https://www.sugiproject.com/forests
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by ytoawwhra92 6mo ago
> First, you've got to plan everything, using whatever Agile or Waterfall planning ritual your company uses, get the task breakdown, file the JIRA tickets, decide who's doing the work. That all can take days or even weeks. Then
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by ytoawwhra92 6mo ago
When I retire almost none of the software I produced during my career will still be in use, but I'll have memories of 40 years of work to live with until I pass away.
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by ytoawwhra92 6mo ago
You don't know what your thing is until you try it. Some people get lucky and the first thing they try turns out to be their thing.
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by ytoawwhra92 6mo ago
Reuters published a lengthy "unmasking" in March of this year and nobody really cared. I think his name not being blasted everywhere has more to do with it being thoroughly uninteresting than any gentlemen's agreement.
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by ytoawwhra92 6mo ago
> permanently deanonyming identification As is showing your ID to a bartender.
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by ytoawwhra92 6mo ago
> letting leadership feel the consequences of its decisions is a reasonable thing to do in this case In this case the consequence of leadership's decision was a permanent solution to the CX problem with no permanent increase in head
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by ytoawwhra92 6mo ago
> I intend for this post to be a question: what am I doing that makes Claude profoundly effective? I'm fascinated by this question. I think the first two sections of this article point towards an answer: https://aphyr.com
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by ytoawwhra92 6mo ago
Another big difference is the amount of interaction between kids of different ages.
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by ytoawwhra92 6mo ago
I think the author's being a bit hard on themselves. Vanishingly few people ever learn a new thing optimally. Programming in particular takes years to learn thoroughly enough to get to a level where you can consistently produce quali
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by ytoawwhra92 6mo ago
Finding work you enjoy also requires finding someone who will pay you for your work. Finding movement you enjoy is far simpler because the only person you have to please is yourself.
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That's a productivity gain in my book.
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by ytoawwhra92 6mo ago
> Don’t get me wrong, I use these tools daily. That being said I’m having a very hard time finding where the productivity gains are. So why are you using the tools? Personal curiosity? Workplace mandate? I've made measurably more an
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by ytoawwhra92 6mo ago
Yes, that's agile software development.
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by ytoawwhra92 6mo ago
Yeah, the way we talk about exercising and fitness in general often pre-supposes that it's an unpleasant chore. The "secret" to long-term fitness is finding activities you enjoy doing for their own sake that happen to involve

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