missingcolours

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by missingcolours 6d ago
The corporate dilemma between "I hired some less competent engineers and they're dragging the team down" and "I hired only highly capable engineers and now I have to give 10% of them bad reviews in stack ranking and late
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by missingcolours 8d ago
I'm curious what the trend for whites in the US is over time. That would be a good first approximation on how much of this decline is due to culture or the educational system (including COVID disruptions) and how much is demographic ch
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by missingcolours 9d ago
Doesn't seem to have incentivized cryptocurrency enthusiasts away from being in that last category for years...
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by missingcolours 1mo ago
That doesn't seem untenable at all. It's perfectly consistent with legal precedent and current practice. There are MANY cases where the government legitimately possesses personal information that could potentially cause harm if re
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by missingcolours 2mo ago
Common complaint is that government enforcement of laws is insufficient, i.e. fines are only x% of their worldwide revenue. Sounds like this way has teeth and might force companies to actually obey the law?
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by missingcolours 2mo ago
I was wondering about that. I've taken a number of different cold medications over the years, one active ingredient at a time, to check their effectiveness while sick. Phenylephrine, as widely reported, had zero effect. But Dextrometho
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by missingcolours 3mo ago
What I've been doing recently: 1. Vibe code a codebase that does what I want at a high level. 2. Iterate with LLM on this codebase to add features, fix bugs, improve performance, and address issues until it basically does what I want,
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by missingcolours 3mo ago
The people doing the voting are mostly talking about how much water datacenters supposedly use.
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by missingcolours 4mo ago
As I have snarkily observed at work: if I go $100 over the meal allowance on my business trip, I'll have to have an unpleasant conversation with my manager or finance. If I use $500 in AI tokens unproductively I'll be recognized f
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by missingcolours 4mo ago
Certainly disagree with "AIs are not good at writing Rust". We can discuss the pros and cons of AI coding in general but in my experience they do just as well with Rust as any other language. If anything I'm impressed with ho
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by missingcolours 4mo ago
Yeah, same in the US. I would not leave my laptop in a cafe in SF. I would in the Austin suburbs. I might or might not in Chicago depending on the neighborhood and cafe.
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by missingcolours 5mo ago
In many of those examples, there is payment to the creator of the works that others are learning from. Authors are paid for their books, when we listen to music on the radio the musician is paid royalties, etc. When you lead a team and ment
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by missingcolours 5mo ago
If they can't tell their suppliers not to depend on Anthropic models and services, then... yes, potentially?
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by missingcolours 8mo ago
Right, usually law enforcement gets chat logs from a participant (search warrant for a phone, informants, undercover FBI agents, etc) and uses the metadata to connect messages to a real person's identity.
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by missingcolours 8mo ago
Yeah, and I wouldn't bet money on this happening for that reason. But it is possible.
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by missingcolours 8mo ago
People were also charged for coordinating and supporting J6 without being there, e.g. Enrique Tarrio of the "Proud Boys" was charged with seditious conspiracy based on activity in messaging apps. If people in these Signal chats we
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by missingcolours 8mo ago
Remember that most of the participants in J6 walked away and were later rounded up and arrested across the country once the FBI had collected voluminous digital and surveillance evidence to support prosecution.
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by missingcolours 8mo ago
Presumably Seditious Conspiracy, like many people involved in J6. Conspiracy to use force to prevent or delay enforcement of laws.
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by missingcolours 8mo ago
VXUS is up almost twice the S&P 500 year over year, although some of that is likely the weakening of the dollar.
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by missingcolours 9mo ago
> Trump is losing political steam and AI is widely unpopular. It seems extremely popular based on my LinkedIn feed! /s
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by missingcolours 9mo ago
The era of microservices and micro teams gives all "company X uses us" claims a different vibe. Maybe it used to actually mean "this is the thing Facebook uses to power its website on millions of servers" but now it&#x27
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by missingcolours 10mo ago
Only indirectly (see other comment). In 2018 a provision was attached to the Farm Bill to legalize "hemp". The public and presumably the senators were led to believe this was about legalizing textiles and things like that, not dru
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by missingcolours 10mo ago
This is what always happened with Republican shutdowns too. - You get nothing - Eventually everyone understands they're going to get nothing, so they ask some sacrificial lambs to vote to end it while they posture and pretend they woul
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by missingcolours 11mo ago
The reality is that most SNAP recipients are not going to go to food banks or anything like that; they're just going to use their own money and buy groceries or McDonald's. Now, what that means is that they'll have to spend l
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by missingcolours 11mo ago
Most "smart" devices simply don't function without connectivity back to the manufacturer's cloud, and this is basically just the same thing with extra steps.
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by missingcolours 11mo ago
As a concrete example, Nasdaq had a rule requiring boards of directors to have a certain amount of "diversity".
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by missingcolours 1y ago
I agree with this to an extent, but I've noticed that this type of knowledge is much more prevalent in people who attended the top X% of schools, e.g. Stanford and MIT. I'm not convinced that getting a degree from Midwestern State
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by missingcolours 1y ago
As I understand it, the issue is that the official pathway to hire a permanent foreign worker (PERM status) is very long (18 months+), and most companies don't want to start a process in hopes of hiring someone in a year or more. H1B o
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by missingcolours 1y ago
I assume that means "you can resign, or we'll fire you, your choice".
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by missingcolours 1y ago
An unfortunate aspect of the American system in today's political climate is that there are many veto points and it's even /typical/ for any new actions to be struck down by courts, so there is a sense in which it's

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