CuriousSkeptic

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by CuriousSkeptic 3d ago
Someone mentioned PS, also consider if this new FDE thing is for you in that case. Some other people suggested QA, if you enjoy interfacing with customers I would also suggest you look into the PM role.
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by CuriousSkeptic 1mo ago
Note sure this is a strong counter argument. It not that surprising that a system optimised in a certain direction has trouble accommodating operating modes it hasn’t optimised for.
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by CuriousSkeptic 1mo ago
> you pay them interest directly or indirectly through everything you pay for I wonder how feasible that would be to track as an economic index. Even on individual level its popular to workout which day of the year you start earn money y
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by CuriousSkeptic 2mo ago
FWIW it was a genuine question. I’ve only seen charts where the exponential trend remains, or even accelerates.
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by CuriousSkeptic 2mo ago
> We have probably hit a limit to scaling LLMs through raw parameter count alone, at least we're not seeing the exponential pace. Source?
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by CuriousSkeptic 2mo ago
Try handing them a copy of “10X Org” (the authors tries to abstract over team topologies, adding some additional design dimensions)
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by CuriousSkeptic 2mo ago
I do wonder though, how does metric based factoring compare to expert intuition based factoring? Can the latter be emulated by agents? Are there studies?
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by CuriousSkeptic 3mo ago
Has it been tried? I mean, it is a common moderation goal, in physical meetings, to make sure the silent ones gets heard. Could be interesting to try a social network approach om those terms: promotion inversely correlated with engagement.
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by CuriousSkeptic 3mo ago
A better analogy would perhaps be to consider the land the farm uses as the commons (it was before becoming private property) We can debate the just access to land (commons) and point to Henry George, John Locke, Thomas Payne and others, bu
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by CuriousSkeptic 3mo ago
You can substitute Robin Williams with Peter Naur, and the speech with his “Programming as Theory Building” essay, and that is more or less what you’ll get
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by CuriousSkeptic 4mo ago
> we must fix these top three problems!!!” And it’s all the stuff everyone has known for years but management has refused to give anyone the authority to fix So a net positive then?
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by CuriousSkeptic 4mo ago
You can’t is an acceptable answer. The entitle point of such a feature is to prevent people from doing that.
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by CuriousSkeptic 4mo ago
Tristan Harris?
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by CuriousSkeptic 5mo ago
Your graph model lack the aspect of increasing complexity. As you traverse the graph every available node gets increasingly more distant. In some areas of the graph less so than others, a good heuristic function not only identifies a single
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by CuriousSkeptic 7mo ago
Could your observation be any other way though? It recognise addiction (limited agency vs influence) and monetisation (economic rewards the primary means to influence behaviour) as problematic. It kind made “doing bad for pay” a premise of
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by CuriousSkeptic 7mo ago
> death by 1,000 monthly subscriptions Is another area needing new legislation. Changes to copyright, interoperability requirements and such, we can change more than one parameter
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by CuriousSkeptic 7mo ago
I like to think of it as the period when software engineering finally grows up to be a respected discipline with a body of actual theory
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by CuriousSkeptic 8mo ago
> the contractor If there is a single policy change I could pick for public spending on IT it would be to forbid outsourcing to “contractors” and thinking of software delivery as “projects”
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by CuriousSkeptic 8mo ago
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-drive/
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by CuriousSkeptic 8mo ago
> Proponents of what we now call "open source" wanted to distinguish between two senses of the word "free" Some would argue its a little deeper than that https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source
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by CuriousSkeptic 8mo ago
A lot of NVC writing is pretty bad. I recommend going directly to the source https://youtu.be/l7TONauJGfc (3h video, but worth the time) I think NVC is better understood as a framework to reach deep non-judging empathic und
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by CuriousSkeptic 9mo ago
Not sure this equation works out. If demand for labor goes towards zero it really means there is no demand. In other words, when AI and robots fulfil every desire of their owners there really is no need for “tax payers”
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by CuriousSkeptic 10mo ago
This exchange reminds me a bit of the experience of becoming a parent. The permanent reconfiguration of priorities from the intense oxytocin high is also quite impossible to explain to non-parents.
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by CuriousSkeptic 10mo ago
The idea being that if we put apple in a regulatory environment where rent-seeking is no longer the winning strategy they could be forced to redirect their resources towards competing on customer value instead.
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by CuriousSkeptic 10mo ago
How about instead of a single os level toggle you get a trillion dollar company, renowned for their high quality design, invested in providing the best possible UX while respecting the user as the owner of the device?
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by CuriousSkeptic 10mo ago
They may also produce text describing an internal representation of a negative sentiment towards themselves https://www.anthropic.com/research/introspection
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by CuriousSkeptic 11mo ago
I don’t get it. Did you men that “It seems totally right to protect people's intellectual property” follow from “your financial model depends on you being the only distributor of copies of something”?
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by CuriousSkeptic 11mo ago
Im sure this guy has some helpful hints on that: https://youtube.com/@azisk
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by CuriousSkeptic 11mo ago
From a PM point of view waterfall and agile can both have clear end dates. The main difference is in how they approach scope and quality to meet that deadline.
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by CuriousSkeptic 1y ago
> This idea that "woke" has somehow threatened people is an amusing but rings more hollow every day. Tim Urban makes an interesting argument to the contrary in https://waitbutwhy.com/whatsourproblem Though he a

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