candu

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by candu 3mo ago
Well, yeah. That's why we have "research & development" as a term. What you're referring to is the "development" part of that. In some sense: the job you have _exists precisely because it's not part
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by candu 4mo ago
As a Canadian / American who now lives in Europe: IMHO the two-party system and current constitutional structure in the US is an unfortunate local maximum. It was very definitely better than the centuries of militaristic monarchic feud
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by candu 4mo ago
"Force" is often an unrealistic expectation, though. Taking Claude Code as an example: you can add as many rules / guidelines as you want in instruction files, but they will not be followed 100% of the time, and more is not
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by candu 6mo ago
As someone who now lives and works in Denmark: it's sad that so many of us have been conditioned to think 6 weeks severance is generous. Here, labor unions are quite widespread, and very effective at negotiating reasonably but firmly.
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by candu 7mo ago
> but people have hundreds and thousands on conversation on these apps that can't be easily moved elsewhere. Except these aren't conversations in the traditional sense. Yes, there's the history of prompts and responses ex
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Adversarial Wordle(savageevan.com)
1 points by candu 8mo ago|1 comments
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by candu 8mo ago
For anyone who's a fan of the word game Wordle (where you try to guess a secret 5-letter word in 6 guesses): I've been working on a small side project I call Adversarial Wordle. Enjoy!
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Trust and Mistrust(savageevan.com)
3 points by candu 9mo ago|1 comments
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by candu 9mo ago
Some meandering thoughts on high-trust and low-trust systems, and the design choices they make.
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by candu 9mo ago
TBH there will likely be a _huge_ demand for "digital sovereignty consulting" over the next while, especially in the EU (and maybe also Canada). Here in Denmark, the previously unthinkable is happening: because of Schleswig-Holste
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by candu 1y ago
As a Canadian-American living in Denmark, I've seen both sides of this. In short: trust and mistrust are _both_ self-reinforcing concepts. To take an example - would I want the current US government to be better at compiling informati
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by candu 1y ago
I see a lot of complaints about scope creep and vision drift here, so I'll add a different perspective: I use Notion right now, but have been considering a switch to Obsidian for a while now (variety of reasons, chief among them a desi
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by candu 1y ago
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. There's a gaping conceptual chasm between "publicly funded" and "communist".
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by candu 1y ago
100% agree that spending on R&D is _very_ efficient in terms of just about anything you could conceivably care about - downstream economic outcomes, quality of life, geopolitical strength / prestige, etc. For instance, in 2023 the
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by candu 1y ago
Government investment in science is...the only way basic science happens, really. I'd recommend reading The Entrepreneurial State [1] here: in essence, basic science pays off too slowly to interest even the most deeply-pocketed capita
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by candu 1y ago
Agree that it's messed up, but it's _not_ working for free: > I was laid off in May, and per Danish law, as an employee of over nine years, I have a six-month notice period. I've been relieved of my duties, but I am still
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Goodbye, Big Tech(savageevan.com)
5 points by candu 1y ago|1 comments
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by candu 1y ago
A writeup about how I'm migrating large portions of my digital life away from Big Tech platforms. I'm not making as exhaustive or dramatic an effort as e.g. [1] - but in exchange, the goal is to show that this is something people
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by candu 2y ago
(Disclaimer: I've never tried to move large numbers of people off of Facebook; I have organized community groups from scratch before, and I have led initiatives at work that consisted largely of convincing people to do a thing. Much o
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by candu 2y ago
Cool! This could be interesting as the base for a quick kanban board for mid-sized personal projects. That said: agree with others that sharing state between devices (either yours or others), and being able to collaborate on the same board
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by candu 2y ago
> ...it corresponds to the ability of a person to convince others that they are at that level. One note on this: as your career progresses, your ability to convince others around you that you're at a certain level goes from being un
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by candu 2y ago
Well, you can always leave. Usually this should start with a frank conversation with your manager. Something like this: "For a while now, I've been fielding IT requests from the entire company. I appreciate that you've been
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by candu 2y ago
> Like is it supposed to be this hard to build a UI? Yes. It is hard to build UIs that are accessible, intuitive, and robust to a wide range of user inputs, interactions, and devices. It's a different kind of hard from backend &
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Schengen ain't what it used to be(savageevan.com)
53 points by candu 2y ago|61 comments
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by candu 2y ago
It's always worth thinking about who the audience / userbase of your UI is, and whether they'd benefit from an expert user interface [1] or not. Sometimes, they would (e.g. the "users paid more than the programmers"
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by candu 2y ago
I mean, Montréal also regularly sees temperatures around -30 C in the winter, so it's not completely ridiculous to suggest this decision may be informed by fundamentally different design constraints from, say, San Francisco or many Eur
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by candu 3y ago
Well, for their Danish employees at least, they’ll get 3-6 months notice, and they’ll be required to negotiate with employee representatives due to the size of layoffs. And then a combination of public and private unemployment benefits kick
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by candu 3y ago
Tbh, I downvoted you not because I don’t value quality communications, but because negotiating around your capacity is a small slice of professional communication, and your approach is needlessly adversarial. You will experience a lot of u
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by candu 3y ago
I'm not sure I would call losing 30-60% of your US + Europe ad revenue year-over-year [1] the same as "to no real consequence". Not that I'm a fan of ad-supported social media platforms, mind you, but that sort of drop
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by candu 3y ago
I mean, Github is doing a lot more than the documentation page for Bear, so it's a pretty meaningless comparison. I'm also a fan of the "only as complex as needed, and no more" approach, but part of applying that appro

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