jordwest

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by jordwest 1mo ago
> I'll think back to the conversation, realize I don't actually think or believe what I said I can absolutely relate to this, it was a very common occurrence for me when I felt pressured to speak. > Silence is one way to avo
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by jordwest 1mo ago
The problem is that there is a “yes” policy, a sort of social pressure that you must say something. The opposite “no” policy is also not something to aspire to. Both are artificial policies. The silent retreat simply helped me to see the “y
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by jordwest 1mo ago
It’s a good word of caution and to be clear I’m not suggesting intentionally going mute. The paradox I mentioned is that not rushing to fill the silence actually allows conversation to flow more naturally. It allows time and space for somet
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by jordwest 1mo ago
I’ve been on several silent retreats now and one of the most surprising discoveries was just how much speaking is unnecessary. Without the pressure to speak amongst others, it became clear that I often said things out of anxiety - fear of l
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by jordwest 2mo ago
Ah wow of course, I think you just made something click for me. It's strange how we take interest on cash as a law of nature, when the original intention might have been nothing more than compensation for the risk the lender was taking
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by jordwest 2mo ago
> While those businesses have created meaningful value, they did not grow at the pace we expected. That this is seen as a problem tells you everything about business today. It has to be explosive growth or it’s pointless, according to ex
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by jordwest 3mo ago
It's not at all caused by the train company hiking their fees while neglecting maintenance to increase profit margins to railway shareholders
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by jordwest 3mo ago
Paraphrasing Nate Hagens, at the end of the day the modern economy just turns megalitres of oil into microlitres of dopamine
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by jordwest 3mo ago
Haha this is excellent, I believe you’ve just invented a new genre - Garbage Collector fanfiction. I have no idea how reading this people would jump to the conclusion that you have problems, but I will jump to the conclusion that those peop
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by jordwest 3mo ago
Would you be willing to share it again here? I love reading these personal things - especially the things that people publish in spite of being told they're crazy. In my experience they're usually the more real, honest and raw thi
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by jordwest 3mo ago
> the alternative is too grim The problem is, reality doesn't care whether you think it's grim or not. I think the environmentalism movement faces this - it's easier to believe that everything is fine and we're not ha
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by jordwest 3mo ago
From the title I thought this was gonna be about software (like MacOS updater) giving users an “Update now” and “Maybe later” option but no “don’t show this again”. I’m still holding out from upgrading to macOS 26 and it’s doing its absolut
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by jordwest 4mo ago
I can totally relate, funny enough I find myself drifting back to really appreciating old school interfaces and pixel fonts lately. I've been enjoying using the old IBM DOS font [1] [2] in my editor, terminal etc. Hard to tell if it&#x
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by jordwest 4mo ago
She just didn't see the point in them, she enjoyed a simple life, grew up with little but had a full life and didn't see the need for more. She would ask me as a kid "you've been playing the television again have you?&qu
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by jordwest 4mo ago
Unfortunately there are plenty of highly legible metrics that make the world a worse place ("engagement" might be among the worst)
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by jordwest 4mo ago
> The scary part now is people denying its happening right in front of them. I wonder if age is a factor. Those of us who have been around for a while have seen all the promises and hope and excitement about the future, that maybe 20% of
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by jordwest 5mo ago
Same here, picked it up a week ago and haven’t touched git again. Probably my favourite thing that has really changed my workflow is being able to write empty commits in advance then just switch between them. It helps me remember what I’m d
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by jordwest 5mo ago
The second environment I was describing fits what you’re describing more than “yak shaving idealists”. We were working on control systems for large industry that had to work reliably and with minimum intervention. A lot of these systems wer
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by jordwest 5mo ago
> they’re often put to work making the boxes more blue or sitting in meetings with PMs for hours Haha, this is exactly my experience. I'll never forget the best candidate I ever interviewed - my feedback was to absolutely hire him a
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by jordwest 5mo ago
I've worked in two different types of environments - one where what you said is absolutely true (most of my jobs), and another where it's not true and the quote holds up. The difference, I think is: - Code factories where everythi
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by jordwest 6mo ago
My hypothesis: we are social creatures and have an innate instinct not to hurt others, but we’ve been trained to various degrees (through upbringing/trauma/school/work) to disassociate from the pain of hurting others. The peo
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by jordwest 6mo ago
I tend to agree, I’ve been thinking a lot over the years that this is the way we get out of this mess - lots and lots of smaller independently owned forums that splinter off onto small communities instead of monolithic single-identity mecha
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by jordwest 6mo ago
I’ve been using the offline version of Options+ that somebody recommended me a while back, it removes AI and auto updating and has done the job for me. It’s kind of hidden on their website but you can grab it here: https://hub.sy
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by jordwest 6mo ago
From an article [1]: We can build out discreet systems of brain cells and use them for the purpose we want. They're not going to have traits like consciousness, and we're able to test and assess for that, and build away from
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by jordwest 8mo ago
I think it comes down to a fear of uncertainty. It's comfortable to believe in authority. Authority provides the illusion of a sense of control, predictability, certainty and orderliness, and it's like we gravitate toward that eve
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by jordwest 8mo ago
For me the biggest gaps in LLM code are: - it adds superfluous logic that is assumed but isn’t necessary - as a result the code is more complex, verbose, harder to follow - it doesn’t quite match the domain because it makes a bunch of assum
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by jordwest 8mo ago
> it’d be wasteful for evolution to only use the brain for computation Even what we consciously experience as the brain is really only a tiny part of the brain. The little language centre and the capacity to imagine are only a tiny subse
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by jordwest 8mo ago
A common trick is that the first click on the X will go to the ad, but if you return and click the X again it will close, gaslighting you into thinking you just misclicked the first time. Another trick that I’ve noticed on the Reddit app is
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by jordwest 9mo ago
> Every previous job I've had has a similar pattern. The engineer is not supposed to engage directly with the customer. Chiming in to say I’ve experienced the same. A coworker who became a good friend ended up on a PIP and subsequen
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by jordwest 9mo ago
> but if a OS manufacturer can’t be bothered to interact with their own UI libraries to build native UIs But if they don’t use web tech it would be too expensive to build the start menu in a way that works cross platform! Oh wait

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