mfitton

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by mfitton 2mo ago
Well... yes, it would. In theory, efficiency gains are deflationary. Huge efficiency gains are hugely deflationary. If we're producing 10x as much, why not print 10x as much money? The goods and services each dollar could buy would rem
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by mfitton 6mo ago
What it cost doesn't actually say what it cost. I wonder what models they used. Napkin math of Opus for everything (probably not true) with no caching suggests $67,000. Cool article though!
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by mfitton 6mo ago
And then you end up raising your grandkids instead of the kids you gave birth to. It's not something that comes without cost. And what if you don't particularly trust your parents to raise kids? I suppose you would have no idea wh
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by mfitton 6mo ago
I just want to say that I'm in a similar position to you. 32 and divorced my wife a couple of months ago. We had gotten together at 18--I had lived with her my entire adult life, excepting college. Still not completely sure it was the
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by mfitton 1y ago
Testing my LLM-detection abilities. Did you write this yourself? Or is this LLM produced? The phrasings stick out to me as super GPT-like.
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by mfitton 1y ago
I think it's quite common that a company has way too many things that it could work on compared to what the amount of people they should reasonably hire can get done. And working on more things actually generates more work itself. The
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by mfitton 1y ago
I'm not sure that follows from this article. In fact, I think the logical conclusion of the article is that, by trying to grow (address weaknesses and turn them into strengths) you're actually creating strengths, which in turn cre
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by mfitton 1y ago
Do you think normal people (think, your average investing American) are trading based on this news? They probably shouldn't be... I would think that by far most of the trading these past few days has been institutions, so, a big transf
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by mfitton 1y ago
I think this would be expected though, no? Sure, there's flight to safety, but you're also reducing exports to the US, reducing the number of dollars flowing to foreign nationals, which reduces the demand for treasury bills, which
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by mfitton 1y ago
You're answering a question that wasn't asked so you can bring your view on unionization into the conversation. The implicit question is whether management should , not whether they can .
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by mfitton 3y ago
I have a public transit commute, but at the end of the day it's 8 minutes of walking to the train, a transfer after 7 minutes, and then a 7 minute walk to the office from the train. Never enough unbroken time to get into a book :(. I&#
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by mfitton 3y ago
Could they not make sure that enough of their assets are in cash-flowing assets (think, rent-yielding assets, or treasuries, or dividend-yielding stock, etc.) that need not be sold and whose cash-flow can be utilized?
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by mfitton 3y ago
As far as the change over time goes, I don't think anyone is disagreeing with you that social mobility used to be higher. I think part of the reasoning for that was an incredibly strong domestic economy compared to the rest of the worl
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by mfitton 3y ago
I've had consistently bad experiences with Apple support.
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by mfitton 3y ago
I'd say your set-up is probably more rare than people whose own code and whose company code are both stored on Github.
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by mfitton 3y ago
I think it's confusing because person 1 was talking about America, person 2 was talking globally. That said, I eat dangerously close to .66 of a chicken every day.
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by mfitton 3y ago
Aha, maybe I'm putting dramatically too many grounds into my coffee, haha.
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by mfitton 3y ago
A few cents a cup?! Where do you buy your coffee? I buy coffee at about 12 bucks a pound. A pound makes about ten carafes of 4 cups (tbh, I use the term cup loosely, because a mug for me is more like 1.5 to 2 actual measuring cups) each. I
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by mfitton 3y ago
I can really relate to this. Thanks for sharing your story.
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by mfitton 3y ago
I'm getting shot in the foot by this right now as our team embarks on tackling some long-term tech debt. The approach we've found that works is health checks and manually looking into cases when we think we've fixed a bug, as
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by mfitton 3y ago
Isn't this flawed, though? If a venture company has a billion dollars in LP funding secured, then instead of having that 1 1 billion fund, they could have ten of the 100 million funds listed in the article. Sure, it's more work, b
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by mfitton 3y ago
Does it not? Given their current profits, we would expect 25b in rolling year profits. Their market cap is 1.2t. Apple, with about 80b in rolling year, has a market cap of 2.8t Given the kind of revenue and profit growth forecast NVDA has g
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by mfitton 3y ago
It's true that it isn't always the case. We have no more than 2 people on the team at any given office, and are spread across 5 offices and a few full-time remote on a broader team of about 10.
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by mfitton 3y ago
Probably not always, but in general, yes.
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by mfitton 3y ago
I think you're right about this, but there are companies that are putting distributed teams back into open offices just so that... they can sit in zoom meetings with their team. But now, they're less likely to have ad-hoc collabor
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by mfitton 3y ago
At my place, there are desks (about 4 feet wide, set in rows of 6, with people's backs facing each other and no dividers). There are about 200 desks, and about 250 employees. Desks need to be reserved, keyboard, mouse and charger all n
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by mfitton 3y ago
You might want to look into Ray. It's a Python library lets you deploy actors (classes) and tasks (functions) and abstracts away the management of resources, message passing, lets you define automatic repairs, etc. that is entailed wit
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by mfitton 3y ago
Guessing, but he could know someone else is going to pursue it anyway, frets about it, thinks "at least I can do something about it if I'm in charge."
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by mfitton 3y ago
The problem is that this shows you how long it takes to get to a single place, rather than showing a map visualization like this site. I've often really wanted this on StreetEasy especially. I don't want to know how long it takes
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by mfitton 3y ago
I'm completely ignorant about nuclear power plants, so forgive me if this is a stupid question, but when we say that nuclear power plants today don't have the possibility of a similar meltdown, are we taking into account actions o

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