dkokelley

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by dkokelley 9mo ago
You CAN turn off watch history in Youtube (not sure about Spotify). However, for better or worse revealed preferences seem to show that people prefer automatic content recommendations over doing the search & bookmark work themselves.
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by dkokelley 1y ago
Not sure what the next best option here is. There was a thought experiment once where it would require the president to kill the key holder in order to launch a nuclear attack (the launch codes would be embedded in the designated key holder
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by dkokelley 2y ago
> Engineers are in a better position to understand what the customer wants and needs. Salespeople are there to sell their product, and fundamentally don't need to understand what the customer wants, or needs. Why do you say that? My
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by dkokelley 2y ago
There could be a common cause (all 3 cables terminate in the same city, could follow a similar path where a single event/failure occurred, etc.). Another possibility is that these cables provided an ideal training environment to test t
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by dkokelley 3y ago
I've only been in low stakes sales roles (outside of personal projects) so this comes from someone with very little "professional" sales experience: The good: setting a target comp that is realistic and explained (e.g. "
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by dkokelley 3y ago
Important distinction that a tax preparer != a CPA.
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by dkokelley 3y ago
Honest question: Why don't more people (especially high earners) go with a CPA firm to take care of their taxes? With the amount of money involved, and the potential legal trouble for getting it wrong, the cost/benefit calculation
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by dkokelley 3y ago
Satellites provide humanity a ton of good. Would you say the bad outweighs the good overall? What would you propose we do instead?
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by dkokelley 3y ago
A bit late, but I built a BattleBot back during the original show days. Never finished/competed though - I was in high school and couldn't make anything competitive with my birthday money. Learned a lot about radio controllers and
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by dkokelley 3y ago
Honest question, should services that host user generated content be obligated to provide that content "for free" through APIs or scrapers? On one hand, users created the content "for free" for the platform to use and mo
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by dkokelley 3y ago
Is there something that the bused in/out employees could do to make a difference?
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by dkokelley 4y ago
I'm pretty worried about this. The fallout/plume won't just be isolated to a region we can avoid or mitigate. It's in our waterways and in our air. I wouldn't be surprised if a year from now we can detect it all aro
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by dkokelley 4y ago
Thanks for the clarification! It sounds like chatbots aren’t ready for adversarial conversations yet.
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by dkokelley 4y ago
Ahh that makes sense. It wasn’t clear to me which parts were generated by the AI, AI instructions, or the human. I guess I got fooled by prompt injection too!
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by dkokelley 4y ago
I don’t fully understand the prompt injection issue. In the bank example, the AI was previously told that a $1m credit was appropriate. There’s no context for whether the issue was or wasn’t the bank’s fault, so I assume the AI was given th
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by dkokelley 4y ago
The airline lost the bag. The customers entrusted it to them, and it's pretty clear the fault lies somewhere on the airline's side. Devil's advocate: The airline doesn't have access to the tracking data that the customer
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by dkokelley 4y ago
#3 can be abused, but a 1 on 1 isn't meant to solve a bad culture. Think of it more like "oh yeah my kid just started soccer at school", "we found this neat new restaurant", etc. It's relationship building. Wor
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by dkokelley 4y ago
1. Here's what I'm working on. (Is this a good use of my time?) 2. Here are my blockers. (Can you help clear the way so I can do my work?) 3. Here's what's going on in my life (relationship building, context for manager
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by dkokelley 4y ago
I guess eventually the earth will be swallowed up by the sun, but for practical purposes economic growth happens when we rearrange the atoms and bits at our disposal into things that people consider more useful. All of the materials to cr
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by dkokelley 4y ago
> This is an inane hypothetical. I’m sorry. You’re right. I did not mean to insinuate that Sam was embezzling from Twitter.
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by dkokelley 4y ago
If I remember, a set of emails went out to everyone at Twitter. You either got the “we’re sorry” email or the “you weren’t laid off” email, along with instructions if you were a part of the laid off group. https://twitter.com&#x2
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by dkokelley 4y ago
According to https://twitter.com/magey/status/1610856428646064129 the 60 day notice ends tomorrow, so it’s possible the payments are being sent at the last possible day.
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by dkokelley 4y ago
Why couldn’t 1 person be terminated for cause, even in the midst of a layoff? Imagine a company going through layoffs when it discovers an employee had been embezzling funds. Does that employee have to be treated the same as the ones who ar
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by dkokelley 4y ago
Was Sam laid off or terminated for cause (and was the cause justified)? Not a lawyer, but other than lying or an administrative screw up it seems like a for-cause termination might explain the situation.
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by dkokelley 4y ago
It's a nice data point, but it's not necessary to me. Do you have the source code to your mail service provider or your online banking software? [1] Having the source code available says a few nice things: 1. This company is confi
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by dkokelley 4y ago
I don't buy the "if it's open source we can see/audit/trust the service" argument. 1. Bugs get missed all of the time in OSS. There is no guarantee that the more eyes the better, and in fact there may be a nega
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by dkokelley 4y ago
Agreed to a point. Smaller companies can more easily get enough manufacturing capacity elsewhere, but larger companies are trapped by finding that capacity, technical ability, and hitting the price points they need at scale.
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by dkokelley 4y ago
At the risk of being an Apple apologist, their manufacturing is effectively held hostage by China. Yes Apple is taking the "make more profit" choice, but the alternative is pretty devastating to the company. Long term, Apple needs
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by dkokelley 4y ago
The power dynamic between China and Apple doesn't get enough attention. Apple needs China, but China doesn't need Apple. There are few if any places capable of manufacturing the amount of products China does for Apple, especially
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by dkokelley 4y ago
Agreed that squeezing too hard will probably backfire. I don’t agree that encouraging or facilitating the crossing is a win-win. It’s likely that the landowners bought the plots strategically to get de facto “ownership” of the public land.

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