MichaelGlass

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by MichaelGlass 17d ago
I see a lot of claims in this article without ... any proof? Both can be true: - It's useful to anthropomorphize agents when predicting behavior and - we have to use specific language to specify what we mean. What does the author mean
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by MichaelGlass 1mo ago
this sounds like a reasonable thing to do to a human being working in a call center /s
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by MichaelGlass 10mo ago
from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html : "Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be in
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by MichaelGlass 1y ago
The typical counterpoint to this NIMBYism isn't, communism, but rather most of Texas (where there's loosening zoning law) or West Virginia (where there's abundant poverty and social problems but also abundant housing).
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by MichaelGlass 1y ago
I thought it was funny. And sad. The incentives you're talking about -- they're missing because of NIMBYist overregulation. The whole point of NIMBYism is to use regulation to hamstring the positive incentives in the market. &quot
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by MichaelGlass 1y ago
Have you ever been to a great restaurant that happened to be on the wrong corner? Or been at a company where one change in execution made or broke the company? My guess: the founder lost interest but the employees still believed in the [imp
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by MichaelGlass 1y ago
I’d much rather a useful AI-aided post that gives me insight than the almost daily pedantic unrelated gripe “interesting post but I hate the font”. This AI slop is bad but is it worse? In any case “bad” should be a reasonable bar to get ove
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by MichaelGlass 1y ago
fwiw I don't have a problem with LLM posts. But I do agree that this is pretty generic. If you want to use an LLM to post comments: find a better prompt / workflow
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by MichaelGlass 1y ago
I'm not sure it's so simple as "making it pretty costs more". I'd bet there are hidden utilitarian cost benefits as well. E.g., murals prevent graffiti. (No judgment concerning graffiti, but municipalities tend to p
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by MichaelGlass 1y ago
(I thought the introduction was, if not outright funny, deserving of at least one chuckle).
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by MichaelGlass 1y ago
love it! Just wanted to share my support.
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by MichaelGlass 2y ago
I really like the slightly silly writing style! Reminds me of a toned-down Douglas Adams. Honestly, I'm not particularly interested in Janet but the style sucked me in.
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by MichaelGlass 3y ago
I don't think the article touches on internal vs external hiring at all. They tried it but eventually didn't do it. But there's no value judgement -- it just seemed like they couldn't find a great candidate and then the
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by MichaelGlass 3y ago
To be clear, “we” the cyclists want cars to be prohibitively expensive in cities. Presumably we the cyclists aren’t so homogenous.
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by MichaelGlass 4y ago
Yeah I wish you could just start with a `.tools-version` and nix would generate a development flake. Someday! That being said, the task of debugging a deprecated tool version in asdf just one time makes the investment in the nix awkwa
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by MichaelGlass 4y ago
Agreed. To use the example from the article `make_pizza(["pepperoni"])` What does `make_pizza()` do? It could be a lot or it could be a little. It could have side-effects or not. Now I have to read another function to understand i
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by MichaelGlass 4y ago
If you have a legal system, then breaking my lock is unlawful intrusion, and if you take something from behind my locked door, it's theft. Without a legal system, e.g. crypto, if you solve my puzzle, then you deserve the reward. It&#x2
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by MichaelGlass 5y ago
In a world where many are playing the, "there's a greater fool willing to buy it for more", the "it's about the future" crowd are fish in a barrel.
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by MichaelGlass 5y ago
"Government casuses cronyism -- especially anti-cronyism laws". What should the role of government be? I guess the authors would say: Governments should be replaced with financial modeling. I'm not convinced. There's som
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by MichaelGlass 5y ago
FWIW our experience has been: - finding devs with experience is hard - finding great devs who want to use interesting tooling is easy In the end, we hire interesting, curious devs, and ask them to use tooling (elm) that has a pretty shallow
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by MichaelGlass 5y ago
> We noticed the new batch of contractors were Black and Brown like us, and the Full Timers were mostly white. This doesn't strike me as drenched in a racist worldview, rather than just an observation of racism. > This was the au
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by MichaelGlass 5y ago
Regarding your first point: I want to do those things if I'm convinced they help the "good work". I might not want to clean the dishes but I'll do it until I can delegate it.
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by MichaelGlass 5y ago
No this article is wrong. Bitcoin is a battery /s.
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by MichaelGlass 6y ago
Really nice. Looks like nextjournal is making a big bet on clojure: https://twitter.com/mkvlr/status/1355272185733111809?s=19
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by MichaelGlass 6y ago
Vaccines are only paid for by the government in the USA for low-income, uninsured kids. If you're insured, you likely have a copay and if you're not medicaid-eligible and high-income, you likely have to pay out of pocket.
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by MichaelGlass 6y ago
Florida Man informs Sweden and Germany that their societies are failing. In other news https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBqY-4oDWAQ&feature=youtu.be... But in all seriousness, Germany and Sweden (and the USA for that mat
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by MichaelGlass 6y ago
Those who "invest in companies" need somewhere to put their excess money. That demand for credit is likely responsible for downstream financial crises. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40854-019
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by MichaelGlass 6y ago
"below market" because Instacart (and uber, etc) forgo normal labor law, have by-default but not by-contract full-time workers without any full-time benefits. Companies can achieve great benefit by externalizing cost on society, b
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by MichaelGlass 6y ago
Programming jobs aren't inherently stressful. There are jobs that have innate stress, e.g. anything with strict time & attention requirements. E.g. driving, cooking, surgery. Programming jobs tend to have stress because of stressfu
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by MichaelGlass 6y ago
I don't think there's a specific call to action / advocacy, more philosophizing about the challenge. tldr; Human beings are flawed. All our heroes have some amount of blood on their hands. If we start toppling statues we won&

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