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by zug_zug 2y ago
I think it only takes a few moments of skepticism to show that "Is X the most important thing about being a Y?" doesn't mean anything. Being good at something obviously comes down to multiple different skills (manager may req
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by zug_zug 2y ago
I think this is a decent article, with some distilled wisdom... Though I also think it has some repeating status-quo mumbo-jumbo. Every time somebody says a soft-science claim and presents it as a fact, I try to vet it with this heuristic:
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by zug_zug 2y ago
I won’t presume to suggest a cause, but it’s worth acknowledging how terrifying it is that any of a number of compounds in a relatively small dose could cause wild effects on the human mind or body.
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by zug_zug 2y ago
My intuition is that if there isn't capitalism/meritocracy within your company (i.e. competitive forces that allow superior people to move levels quickly) then the company itself will be more subject to selection pressure agains
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by zug_zug 2y ago
> We wouldn't have to guess and allow for right-wing conjectures if FAA were just transparent on the process and if any changes have been made. There's no world where you out-research every conspiracy theory, especially all the
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by zug_zug 2y ago
No, they haven’t lowered the standard to graduate.
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by zug_zug 2y ago
So how it works is there's a selection process to go to ATC school/training. Just getting into training doesn't mean you get to be a controller, you get tested a lot and hard with very representative work (a close relative fa
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by zug_zug 2y ago
tl; dr -- "Pinning Last Night’s Disaster On Diversity Hiring Is Unsupportable"
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by zug_zug 2y ago
I suppose it’s at least nice that it’s so unsophisticated about its bias, for now at least.
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by zug_zug 2y ago
Asgs can do both of those things, it’s a 5% use-case so it takes a little more work but not much
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by zug_zug 2y ago
I’ve never seen a single company use kubernetes or terraform to move vendors; the feasibility of that was massively over represented
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by zug_zug 2y ago
I think you’re comically misunderstanding what 95% of companies actually are doing with kubernetes
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by zug_zug 2y ago
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair
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by zug_zug 2y ago
> There's not really any other (well supported) alternative if you want that You don't think AWS autoscale groups give you both of those things?
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by zug_zug 2y ago
Not really.
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by zug_zug 2y ago
I think you're sort of hand-waving here. I think the concrete question is -- do you need to learn more or fewer abstractions to use kubernetes versus say AWS? And it looks like kubernetes is more abstractions in exchange for more custo
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by zug_zug 2y ago
I think the point is that there are abstractions that require you to know almost nothing (e.g. that my laptop has a SSD with blocks that are constantly dying is abstracted to a filesystem that looks like a basic tree structure). Then there
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by zug_zug 2y ago
I'm not sure what your point is here... Where the author went wrong in this post is that he tried to interpret an error ("I was asking claude to solve the wrong problem"), was wrong, and then wasted a lot of his own time. I r
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by zug_zug 2y ago
This roughly mirrors my experience so far. Mind you I'm an extremely qualified engineer who has worked at FAANG. Except I'd add that as one gets experience working with the AI I can only assume they'd get much better at makin
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by zug_zug 2y ago
> At the dawn of a second Donald Trump era, Mark Zuckerberg has been busy sucking up to a president who last year threatened him with life in prison. I'm guessing most of the upvotes are schadenfreude and hoping that the lesson here
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by zug_zug 2y ago
The sad thing is, I feel like Meta has used up so much trust that I wouldn't even entirely dismiss the possibility that this was a deliberate thing to show a reduction in certain metrics on certain topics to curry favor. Betting odds a
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by zug_zug 2y ago
The internet was a government project. It's laughable to even imagine that if these billionaires didn't exist then nobody else would have invented video chat...
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by zug_zug 2y ago
Good thought. The only change I'd make, to make your neutrality explicit, is to say - A specific trans person can be an an asshole. A specific trans person can be a saint. - A specific white man can be an asshole. A specific white man
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by zug_zug 2y ago
That's a really weak argument. Let's clarify: 1. An anti-free-speech government that arrests people for discussing certain topics that controls a company that seems not to show certain topics much. 2. The company doesn't make
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by zug_zug 2y ago
No, I'm saying that if they aren't even willing to assert innocence of manipulating what trends then we certainly shouldn't presume innocence. I'd like for them to testify under oath about how they alter what is trendi
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by zug_zug 2y ago
This feels pretty convincing to me. It also feels to me like we shouldn't have to reverse-engineer platforms to deduce whether they are pushing an agenda... If they aren't doing any interfering then they should simply put out an
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by zug_zug 2y ago
My question was whether they are allowed to go viral. Sounds like there's evidence in another thread that they are actively manipulating what goes viral on key current political topics... which seems pretty damning.
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by zug_zug 2y ago
Well, I looked up Taiwan protest and the 4 I looked at were all allegedly Taiwanese protesting against their own independence.... (For context only 10% of Taiwanese support unification with China per a google search) Would love somebody w
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by zug_zug 2y ago
Sure, the ones posting cat videos don't. But what are the odds that TikTok would ever let a Taiwan Protest go viral? I wonder if it even lets use use the word Taiwan...
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by zug_zug 2y ago
I think there's a few possibilities: Maybe he has some political ambitions. Maybe he's trying to get cred with trump so that he can try to have influence over the tik-tok ban (a huge competitor).

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