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by zachmu 3y ago
This reclassifies Starlink as not broadband, at least for the basic plan.
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by zachmu 3y ago
Being an old grumpy guru is somewhat different from being a mentor, we're talking about different things.
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by zachmu 3y ago
My leather sectional cost as much as a decent used car and it hurt to write that check, but it's definitely well built.
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by zachmu 3y ago
https://www.theonion.com/area-man-constantly-mentioning-he-d...
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by zachmu 3y ago
Once you get above a certain level sure, it's not mostly about IC metrics anymore. But that doesn't mean you can't make them objective. If a person has a set of defined responsibilities, they either delivered on them, or they
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by zachmu 3y ago
Don't confuse objective with easily quantified. Did they ship the features they were responsible for? Did those features turn out well, with a low defect rate? Did they promptly address bugs? Any manager paying attention can answer the
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by zachmu 3y ago
Mocking bad systems like this is all fun and games but it definitely demonstrates your inexperience. Eventually you realize this is just normal, most stuff is as bad as this in one way or another. Mocking it all would be your full time job.
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by zachmu 3y ago
Same. Thought I must not have been signed in and was getting pushed into a signup flow or something, so I cleared cookies and got the same behavior once I logged in. Forcing you to give them your real name before allowing you to use the sit
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by zachmu 3y ago
Sometimes you get the cranky old guy archetype who doesn't really get much done but is really good at making sure the kids don't make any really dumb mistakes, which is its own kind of value
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by zachmu 3y ago
People making lots of soft contributions like mentorship / leadership tend to be the kind of well-liked personable sorts who do well on non-objective assessments, which always manage to color evaluations even when you try to make the
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by zachmu 3y ago
This is why you need to structure your review process around objectively verifiable info as much as possible. Have clear areas of responsibility for each individual, such that you can readily evaluate what they accomplished and how well it&
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by zachmu 3y ago
The CCP owns 1% of Bytedance and gets to appoint a board seat https://www.wsj.com/articles/xi-jinpings-subtle-strategy-to-...
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by zachmu 3y ago
You are drastically overestimating the capabilities and determination of tiktok users
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by zachmu 3y ago
Indeed, we are so awash in propaganda it's often difficult to recognize it as such. "What's water?"
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by zachmu 3y ago
It's not even content per se, it's much more insidious than that. The comment I originally replied to likened tiktok to a printing press, but that's not quite right. Imagine a printing press owned by an enemy that would subtl
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by zachmu 3y ago
A US citizen distributing foreign media themselves is quite different than what is effectively a directly controlled broadcast owned by a foreign government.
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by zachmu 3y ago
The US government working with social media companies to censor Americans (and other people) on those platforms is also pretty bad, yes. My impression is that their influence is much weaker and more marginal than is the case with the CCP an
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by zachmu 3y ago
Whatever you think of our home-grown propaganda outlets, the US govt taking different approaches to foreign outlets should be uncontroversial. Unlike the CCP, US citizens have first amendment rights.
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by zachmu 3y ago
Tiktok isn't "some website", it is partially owned and controlled by the CCP, which influences what content gets shown to Americans. A majority of zoomers get most of their news and information primarily from this platform, w
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by zachmu 3y ago
You don't have to apologize :)
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by zachmu 3y ago
It's not a retinal phenomenon, it's a cortical spreading depression passing over your visual cortex. The fact that the aura moves through visual space in a regular fashion in one piece implies that the neurons in the visual cortex
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by zachmu 3y ago
I get these, but there's no pain associated with them while they're happening. Hours later, there's a kind of "sore spot" in my brain that I can feel if I cough or sneeze, or shake my head quickly. The spot correspo
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by zachmu 3y ago
The easiest way to do this is to replicate to a database system that uses prolly trees for its storage, then run your diffs in that other system. I.e. dolt. Currently supports mysql binlog replication, postgres logical replication coming in
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by zachmu 3y ago
The dolt implementation uses a 20 byte address space with a SHA 256 cryptographic hash function. The risk of a collision is trivial.
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by zachmu 3y ago
Neon is basically a copy on write postgres backend. So you can create a branch at near zero cost and start making changes, but there's no way to merge those changes back to the original branch. To do that, you need a storage system tha
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by zachmu 3y ago
Pretty sure dolt actually is the first SQL db with branch, merge, and diff implemented natively.
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by zachmu 3y ago
One of the biggest challenges for us has been getting through people's heads that "version controlled database" doesn't mean "schema migrations with extra steps". Some people get it immediately, but in general
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by zachmu 3y ago
We used to have a feature on the blog that would hide articles until their publication date even if we submitted them a bit early, but it was kind of buggy so we got rid of it. You guys weren't supposed to find the article until tomorr
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by zachmu 3y ago
Since the earliest reporting on this topic, "bias" in AI has never referred to accuracy. It's not the case that certain professions have a demographically representative proportion of all ethnicities and both sexes. Accuratel
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by zachmu 3y ago
The science is in and it confirms that our values are objectively correct

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