anon_e-moose

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by anon_e-moose 4mo ago
ie - people that are incompetent at their role of people managers. Why is incompetence so discussed for ICs but rarely for management? Maybe if more managers were competent and less conflict-averse they would do their jobs better and cycle
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by anon_e-moose 6mo ago
Didn't Australia recently ban social media for under 16s? Sounds like kids are rediscovering fun and socialization in the outdoors. Isn't this an unintended byproduct of what Australians wanted and legislated for? They really coul
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by anon_e-moose 7mo ago
A corporation is a bunch of people cooperating to achieve a common goal. There is a very important factor that heavily influences (perhaps even controls?) how people act to achieve that goal, and sometimes even twists or adds goals. Is that
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by anon_e-moose 11mo ago
He made the point clearly, stop dodging the question...
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by anon_e-moose 1y ago
That short-term individual success is at the expense of the wider long-term success. If 10 people live in a lake and I fish more than everyone I will be better off that others. But then everyone else will seek the same individual short-term
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by anon_e-moose 1y ago
If you reach out to them you're risking validating that the data they already have is somewhat accurate, plus they might demand more information from you. What do you get back from giving that?
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by anon_e-moose 1y ago
Maybe he did not embrace AI enthusiastically enough... https://www.businessinsider.com/github-ceo-developers-embrac...
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by anon_e-moose 1y ago
> Obviously the LLM doesn't have "senses" in the human way, and it doesn't "see" words > A different analogy could be, imagine a being that had a sense that you "see" magnetic lines, and they sh
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by anon_e-moose 1y ago
> while one can't control the company's behavior, a person can control their own behavior. As such, it is perfectly reasonable to criticize them when they choose to act without integrity. That leads to a society where people ar
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by anon_e-moose 1y ago
If your competitor is lazy and grows to accept more money for less quality that is immoral. The moral thing to do is to compete against that company so that you provide better products and services for lower cost. That is the moral thing. C
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by anon_e-moose 1y ago
That has nothing to do with communism, go educate yourself, and actually try
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by anon_e-moose 1y ago
> None of these questions seem especially hard, and they're exactly the sort of problem that I face on a daily basis in my work. Really? Do you invert linked lists all day? When the last time you had to traverse a binary tree? Genui
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by anon_e-moose 1y ago
Leetcode has nothing to do with actually programming a project that lives long enough to deliver value.
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by anon_e-moose 1y ago
Hiring that guy is a badge of honor because admitting otherwise would be to admit that the interview processes have nothing to do with the job, thus the real incompetence here is with the companies and people following that interviewing sty
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by anon_e-moose 1y ago
For me too, anyone that does horribly, bad signal. Anyone who does perfectly, bad signal. I've found that looking for mediocre and sub-par results will give you professionals that spend their time getting good at the profession instead
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by anon_e-moose 1y ago
I have had the exact same experience with the exact same kind of person. We used to be in the same team for years and after we collaborated once, I absolutely hated any work interaction related to his him or his work. Outside of work we got
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by anon_e-moose 1y ago
/s... Right...?
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by anon_e-moose 1y ago
There is no such thing as a 100% free market, not in America, not anywhere. What was passed was a petition for the EU to listen to the needs of a million EU citizens. It is not yet a law, but it might become one. Laws are the rules of the m
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by anon_e-moose 1y ago
> First of all we are developers only. Calling ourselves engineers is a sociopathic lie. Almost none of us are capable of doing anything that resembles engineering. What if you did engineering before and just moved to software engineerin
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by anon_e-moose 1y ago
Good points, he seems to be in to something in the health field, but the analysis was incomplete and flawed. Given the importance of the health results, perhaps someone could build on top of that and build an improved study?
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by anon_e-moose 1y ago
Phone usage while driving is a big one. Flat out looking down at your lap and texting, instead of looking at the road. I have seen people do this everywhere, in the city, in the highway.
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by anon_e-moose 1y ago
Considering the whole world, gun utility for the civilian population is clearly much smaller than car utility. You will also find even in US a higher number of individuals that have at least one car VS number of individuals that have at lea
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by anon_e-moose 1y ago
> the skill that actually matters is reaction time to sudden unexpected hazards (and consequent need for stopping distance) More important than that is actually learning to predict hazards. Over years of experience, what was unexpected b
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by anon_e-moose 1y ago
If grandma can't tell that the picture is edited, then it's no longer a meme, it's slander. The comedic value would be even higher if it was an obvious tongue-in-cheek edit. Given it's professionally and seamlessly edite
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by anon_e-moose 1y ago
That's all fun and games until a single company puts the top 3 or 5 candidates pitted against each other to see who waits the longest without a rejection and takes the lowest offer... I heard this from friends, and despite being very c
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by anon_e-moose 1y ago
What is it with the trending focus on the negativities of remote work? Are all the corporations trying to promote in-office work as a justification for buying offices in an attempt to hedge against inflation with property? I wonder how the
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by anon_e-moose 1y ago
Public meltdown still sounds better than a private meltdown
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by anon_e-moose 1y ago
I did but unfortunately that day I did not have a military of my own that could serve as the tool of last resort in advancing my political will.
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by anon_e-moose 1y ago
Aligning incentives through financial penalties = forcing an entity to give you money until what you want happens. The key question here is intent - 1)which entity, 2)what's the scope of what you want to happen, 3)what happened before
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by anon_e-moose 1y ago
> Art builds on art, and "stealing" is probably the most important part of the process[2]. > [2]: https://www.everythingisaremix.info/watch-the-series/ Nice try ChatGPT stealing from studio ghibli and S

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