zdragnar

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by zdragnar 1y ago
> you are paid for your time, with minimum expectations of productivity There's legal distinctions between part time and full time employment. Hence, you are expected to put in a minimum number of hours. However, there's nothin
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by zdragnar 1y ago
The distinction you make is known to me as natural complexity (the base level due to the nature of the domain) and accidental complexity (that which is added unnecessarily on top of it). Your definition rubs up against what a UX designer ta
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by zdragnar 1y ago
> “more more more” If you're a salaried or hourly employee, you aren't paid for your output, you are paid for your time, with minimum expectations of productivity. If you complete all your work in an hour... you still owe seven
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by zdragnar 1y ago
You don't need a test for every function. You probably want every function call covered by a test, though, otherwise you have untested code. The exact granularity is a debate that has gone on for a long time. Nowadays, people seem to p
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by zdragnar 1y ago
RAD programming held the same promise, as did UML, flow/low/no code platforms. Inevitably, people remember that the hard part of programming isn't so much the code as it is putting requirements into maintainable code that can
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Thank you for sharing. I am sympathetic to the struggle, being an occasionally unreliable narrator myself. It can be incredibly surprising and disappointing how people can react to mental health issues, even just hearing that you have them
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by zdragnar 1y ago
It is a condition that is employable in the abstract, as symptoms are as varied as individuals are. The difficulty begins with the treatment- the medications can be extremely unpleasant, and it is not uncommon for patients to cease taking t
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by zdragnar 1y ago
If you don't trust the subject, he would most likely decline to participate in an independent review entirely. In any case, just like the stock market, the fact he responded well does not guarantee someone else will. What we need is mo
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by zdragnar 1y ago
The objective and subjective observations are about different but related things. The objective measurements are about his enhanced abilities. He can do things he couldn't before. But, the GP comment referred to "quality of life&q
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by zdragnar 1y ago
This is nothing new. The number of hoops a former employer had to jump through to export, from the US into the EU, what amounted to a steel bar with some brackets on it was almost worth more in salary hours than the entire value of the sale
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by zdragnar 1y ago
No placebo can let him "do things like play Mario Kart, control his television, and turn his Dyson air purifier on and off without physically moving his fingers or any other part of his body." Given that there are objective change
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by zdragnar 1y ago
I find there's a ton of value in "mob debugging"- if there's a serious issue, or your backlog or support queue is piling up with issues, turning the process into a live team exercise is fantastic. Poor test coverage? Eve
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by zdragnar 1y ago
It's been done, but not without controversy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanpah_Solar_Power_Facility At home, it's suitable in warm climates but is more challenging in snowy / very cold regions. Gener
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by zdragnar 1y ago
We could have had other competitors, but nobody wanted them. Windows phones had a very enthusiastic but too-tiny following. Blackberry lost the plot with terrible hardware and software for the app era (developing an app for the Storm was en
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Pretty much none of the stores allow that. If my memory is right, Apple and Steam don't, though Google might be a bit more permissive in their store.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Conversely, my grandmother's Alzheimer's became apparent when she was overdosing on either ibuprofen or aspirin, I forget which. She would take a dose for a headache, ten minutes later she'd forgotten so she'd take anoth
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Claude code is neither sentient nor sapient. I suspect most people envision AGI as at least having sentience. To borrow from Star Trek, the Enterprise's main computer is not at the level of AGI, but Data is. The biggest thing that is m
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Find yourself on the bad side of child protective services (rightly or wrongly) and you'll discover rather quickly how hard the government can come down on your rights as a parent.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
The tariff was oppressive in large part because the colonies didn't have representation in Parliament and were allowed limited (and decreasing) local governance. The Stamp, Townshend and Intolerable Acts were a whole lot more than just
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by zdragnar 1y ago
If that were the case then no physical artwork could be privately held. That, too, is covered by IP laws but there is no obligation to provide society access.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Notably, that is a company that... adds AI to group chats. Startups offering crap salaries with a vague promise of equity in a vague product idea with no moat are a dime a dozen, and have been well before LLMs came around.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
> but of course, this being the US, it's not really a viable means of transportation. Surely if the problem with roads and cars is that private transportation takes up too much room, then widespread private train cars by everyone wo
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Not OP, but I think you're missing one aspect- senior engineer time doesn't scale well, because there's not just wage but also opportunity cost of context switching and taking them away from tasks that might contribute to inc
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by zdragnar 1y ago
If my memory serves right, the browser vendors couldn't agree on the implementation. On the one hand, allowing any function to be eligible for TCO means that the developer won't know if the code was optimized or not. A trivial cha
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by zdragnar 1y ago
... Because the specifications are open. Practically the whole Internet is built on open specifications. The security and operations benefits are obvious for enterprise customers. Startups could also benefit greatly from it, but the cost ra
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by zdragnar 1y ago
> California > without a problem That doesn't really line up.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
The market for customers who freely move is very small, as most get their insurance through their employer. Many large companies self fund their own health insurance offerings and just have third party companies administer it. Everyone else
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by zdragnar 1y ago
That depends entirely on what you're using them for. In most cases, consistency and control go hand in hand.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
> Maybe it's just ableism or puritanical views against the idea of stimulants It was very widely abused in my college days. There was also a (IMHO justified) concern over whether it was being over-prescribed as a way to deal with pr
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by zdragnar 1y ago
LLMs are just the latest in a very long line of disparate attempts at making AI, and is arguably the most successful. That doesn't mean the approach isn't an evolutionary dead end, like every other so far, in the search for AGI. I

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