lostcolony

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by lostcolony 2y ago
The job of a leader is to define the problem to solve. Meetings are a tool, not an outcome.
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by lostcolony 2y ago
I'm not sure that ranking them makes sense. Like, there are absolutely places I as a manager recognized a win/win/win (company/team/myself) by doing something other than what the company said to do, or to message di
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by lostcolony 3y ago
Hopefully people know not to ask others for factual information (unless it's an area they're actually well educated/knowledgeable in), but for opinions and subjective viewpoints. "How's your day going", "H
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by lostcolony 3y ago
Also a missed opportunity for an obvious pun, 'plane educational failure'
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by lostcolony 3y ago
> 'or be extraordinarily talented and hardworking' Maybe you meant "and possibly", since otherwise the 'or' there detracts from the point I think you're trying to make (that ludicrous amounts of wealth
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by lostcolony 3y ago
Or more succinctly - a quorum agreeing to a leader to serialize writes through is both less work than trying to get a quorum to agree on every individual write, and equally as consistent.
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by lostcolony 3y ago
Unless, of course, someone has already monopolized the pretty rock collection market with robots. That's really the threat; that all 'useful' labor will be conducted and collected upon by a very few, and how do we as a societ
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by lostcolony 3y ago
And, of course, if you -do- agree to just let the money go, they won't actually charge you. So the people who can afford to lose the money (criminals) get to avoid a charge just by bribing the cops, and the people who did nothing wrong
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by lostcolony 3y ago
If you read the article you'd see just the opposite. People without any actual charge, or any actual evidence, who have had the state supreme court in Nebraska still side with 'law enforcement'. Because that is modern day pol
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by lostcolony 3y ago
I was living in Georgia when CNN's building in downtown was hit by a tornado. They're not nearly as bad as in the midwest, but they certainly happen. Mind you, it's a perfectly reasonable place to build up, but the likelihood
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by lostcolony 3y ago
During downturns the more sure opportunities are through my network, definitely. But I've still landed jobs during them just from searching (I've been lucky enough to avoid layoffs during downturns, so job changes have always been
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by lostcolony 3y ago
The US (SW and SE coasts mostly, though some of those jobs were for companies headquartered elsewhere), so yeah, can't speak outside of that.
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by lostcolony 3y ago
I've had ~10 jobs in my career so far. 1 was via my network; the others were all just me searching. But that said, networking makes it far easier. I've seen people be brought in even when an interview panel was meh, because they h
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by lostcolony 3y ago
Could also be the increased income disparity, the huge leap in housing costs without associated pay increase, the obvious inability of the US to change the direction it (and the world) is heading... I mean, it's rising most amongst you
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by lostcolony 3y ago
I set up everything to basically turn off at 6. Close the work laptop, and either set up time based notifications for everything on my phone, or a work profile (Android) that I turn off. While meetings have had a tendency to spread out (due
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by lostcolony 3y ago
I feel like San Francisco, and in general, the Bay area, is the sort of place a billionaire could rationalize maintaining a crew.
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by lostcolony 3y ago
The parent wasn't suggesting a rental pilot, but a salaried, on call pilot. As in, "You. I have fully vetted you. I have spoken with you. I will pay you hundreds of thousands of dollars to live near the airport just to fly me whe
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by lostcolony 3y ago
And not like you'd have to come in via the street like the poors . You'll have a helipad at the top, because what kind of billionaire would you be otherwise, coming in via street level? The other billionaires would sneer!
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by lostcolony 3y ago
It also misses (well, leaves out; not sure the intent of the comment) the fact that unions have been gutted heavily in the US compared to where they were a century ago. When the US was an industrial, workers were treated poorly, unions bega
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by lostcolony 3y ago
Didn't read the article didja? Or even click and read the full title? The $750k figure is the amount of Mux's services they provided in 2021, that were (claimed to be) pirate streams, and were not paid. By taking steps to catch an
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by lostcolony 3y ago
Honestly, most of my work experience has been those mythical magic moments just led to a decrease in morale. As a remote worker I am not as invested in the company, and that's a feature, not a bug. I'm doing my job, I'm activ
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by lostcolony 3y ago
It always struck me as strange that corporations rely on chance for people to connect and understand what other parts of the org are doing, to find synergies* and suchlike. That feels like something that absolutely can and should be operati
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by lostcolony 3y ago
From the article - "but it also reduced the amount of feedback that junior engineers received (in the form of comments on their code)" Sooooo...literally just measuring how many comments are being added to the code? That feels lik
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by lostcolony 3y ago
This is the main thing I've noticed - the people who talk about how there is something lost in how work gets done haven't changed how work gets done . You can't just move to being remote without rethinking how you do everyth
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by lostcolony 3y ago
I mean...it's self-evident if you've worked in any large software department. Well, with one caveat; there is the inverse, where a company's organization doesn't reflect its software, and there almost nothing gets done,
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by lostcolony 3y ago
Yeah, I should probably say "they're treated as CP systems", in that they purport CP guarantees, when in reality they adhere to almost none of them (but, they also adhere to none of the traditional expectations of an AP syste
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by lostcolony 3y ago
He -has- done some positive things towards the Everglades (signed an EO that puts another 3.5 billion towards restoration and water management there), but I do tend to think his track record is ultimately kind of limited just from the fact
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by lostcolony 3y ago
You don't think code is involved in that my dude? The input wasn't a description into an AI model, with copilot the model. It's code that calls to an ML model. Which is my point. The model was created with code. The model is
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by lostcolony 3y ago
When you've built a product using only OpenAI, and not a programming language, come back and tell us. While at it, come back and tell us when you've implemented a neural net using AI, and not a programming language, come back and
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by lostcolony 3y ago
Can't speak for op, but can speak as just an observer - probably not. Blockchains are ultimately CP systems, not AP. From that link - "Data can be inserted into the sequence by appending the data to the previous generated state. T

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