joelfried

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by joelfried 3mo ago
Of course in that order! Step 3: Rehire key personnel at lower cost than whomever was fired in Step 1. Step 4: Take credit for cost reductions . . . and give yourself a raise!
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by joelfried 3mo ago
My experience here (also Claude user) is that the model uses different tools in different contexts. I see rg more on frontend and grep more on backend work. I imagine it defaults to using the tool it has more learning around within the co
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by joelfried 4mo ago
Of course they do - they're in the credentialing business.
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by joelfried 1y ago
Would a smart AI accept such foolishness? I doubt it. It'll still use something deterministic under the hood - it'll just have a conversational abstraction layer for talking to the Product person writing up requirements. We used
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by joelfried 1y ago
Seems like it's time to remove links to outdated versions. Replace them with your resume?
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by joelfried 1y ago
In 2001 websites weren't what they are today. It was 5 years before jQuery's initial release . . . people needed to learn the proper terms somewhere in those days.
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by joelfried 1y ago
They would fine them by having a court case and saying they are guilty and owe money. Collecting on it would be awfully difficult, but you know, people do like trips to Europe. That said, I think fining the company seems pretty plausible.
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by joelfried 1y ago
That sounds amazing! As a founder I'd be over the moon for it.
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by joelfried 1y ago
Sounds super unique. Please include me too if you do any public follow up? I'd actually enjoy reading those, myself as I've collected folktale collections for years!
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by joelfried 2y ago
> I see no mention of race or location Location: "Think about Japan", "Compare that to the US" - this is a pretty straightforward comparison by location about culture based on location. It presumes a bunch and I'
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by joelfried 2y ago
Thank you for doing this important work!
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by joelfried 2y ago
How do you source lightbulbs? I have yet to find a reliable LED bulb that doesn't hum or flicker on a dimmer despite being advertised as "dimmable" . . .
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by joelfried 2y ago
You think there's law on the books that forces companies to speak honestly? And that someone is going to enforce it?
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by joelfried 2y ago
Yes, Ms. Pacman has the DDs, which is why PacMan himself gives her the D. 3 Ds.
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by joelfried 2y ago
If they like sports at all you absolutely know they will.
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by joelfried 2y ago
Here you go: https://www.simplypsychology.org/emotional-labor.html > Hochschild (1983) suggested that jobs requiring more emotional labor are performed primarily by women. These jobs typically involve creating feelings o
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by joelfried 2y ago
Should we know what "link in bio" means? How is that a "personal dashboard"?
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by joelfried 2y ago
The "fall guy" problem strikes me as nontrivial. Even if you add to the law that the CEO always has liability for any data leak, a sufficiently well capitalized company run by someone aware of the liability would simply create a
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by joelfried 2y ago
We'd almost certainly have to write a new one, but there are several straightforward ways to do it if we had the political will. An off the cuff example that could certainly be improved: Definitions: Government Identification Data inc
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by joelfried 2y ago
I haven't been formally diagnosed but I'm definitely on the very low end of visualization. But I'll answer for myself: While I'm dreaming and unaware that I'm dreaming, it's like I'm in real life. As soo
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by joelfried 2y ago
There's yellow squiggly underneath userShouldPay(apiKey) that reads: userShouldPay(apiKey) always evaluates to True.
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by joelfried 2y ago
According to The Telegraph, they're researching how to do it in the UK: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/07/27/apple-tv-plo...
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by joelfried 2y ago
Only if there's no repetition . . .
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by joelfried 2y ago
I'll pay you $5 for gold teeth and make a tidy profit. This article from 2019[1] said $40-92 per crown. Multiply by 1.6 based on the way gold has appreciated since 2019[2] and that's $65-147 or so per tooth. [1] https:/&#x
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by joelfried 2y ago
Here you go: https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2022/PSA221221
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by joelfried 2y ago
I would advise you to plan out the options to the best of your ability, then have a long conversation with your spouse presenting those options.
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by joelfried 2y ago
It was not true of this world 150 years ago that any person with sufficient learning could tap buttons to create an experience to be found in the hand of the majority of living humans. I agree power and greed go hand in hand - absolute powe
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by joelfried 2y ago
I've never really seen Word as anything other than inferior, having cut my teeth on WordPerfect. Others have posted their favorite shortcuts (and Reveal Codes truly was magical); my most used ones I haven't seen mentioned were Ctr
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by joelfried 2y ago
> The point was that nobody would consider a person acting under threat of death to be making freely willed choices, so defining choice in the naive and reductive sense that was suggested is just incorrect because it cannot exclude this
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by joelfried 2y ago
Many would say you can't have free will in a deterministic world because free will is about selecting one option from many. If there is no alternative option -- because the universe is completely determined -- how can you have any ch

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