munchbunny

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by munchbunny 28d ago
I will readily admit that even when I know my counterpart is neurodivergent, I still have issues adjusting my expectations and reactions. Without practice with repeated interactions over time it’s hard to mentally pivot. Sometimes I find i
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by munchbunny 1mo ago
Agreed with what you said, when you're only considering security and usability you're often not at a Pareto optimal state, but once you add cost into the picture you see a lot more cases of being on the Pareto optimal boundary, or
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by munchbunny 2mo ago
> I would then have to wonder if all the time saved in the first place at all. From my experiences using AI to write documentation, if your bar is high quality documentation, yes, you do save time, but it's on the order of a 1.5-2x
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by munchbunny 2mo ago
> We do this and then no one reads it. My experience with AI-written documentation is that, as a category, it contains just enough technical errors that more often than not I end up spending time running down confidently stated errors th
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by munchbunny 2mo ago
If it’s a problem you’re willing to solve with money and don’t want any special stuff like mods, you can pay for a server with Realms and then you don’t need to think too hard about it. But the canonical way to do it that is both free and i
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by munchbunny 2mo ago
If you're not set on a "survival mode" design, could you design it as counting up instead of counting down? And maybe showing a "par" time, that way players can opt into the challenge vs. just a morning brainteaser.
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by munchbunny 2mo ago
Another idea: maybe time how long you take for each word, and for the competitive among us, show stats on how long you took compared to everyone else, and a leaderboard for who took the least total time.
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by munchbunny 2mo ago
> I've been around many conversations over the years where people would say goofy things like they couldn't use Python because it's untyped. I'm not sure I would go that far, but I would definitely say that I remember
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by munchbunny 5mo ago
> The whole “you could only possibly pretend to care about other people” response to the book is vaguely psychopathic. I prefer to interpret it charitably: the line between influence and manipulation can be pretty fuzzy, and some people
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by munchbunny 5mo ago
> for some reason I got it in my head that it's a sort of red pilled book that teaches you how to manipulate people. It's two sides of the same coin. Many techniques in that book are things that both genuinely kind people and m
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by munchbunny 5mo ago
It’s rough at first but you will learn the baby’s rhythms and preferences. If you track their sleep and wake up times (I did it the old fashioned way in a notebook) you’ll see a pattern emerge pretty quickly, and then it gets easier because
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by munchbunny 5mo ago
> But as any parent knows, changing nappies is really one of the easier parts of looking after babies and toddlers. For sure, probably because stinky diapers are visceral but psychological challenges aren’t, yet I think most parents woul
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by munchbunny 5mo ago
"E2E teams" are difficult because your success depends on specialized teams to not screw you over - and not just in terms of politics, but it can happen just from them protecting their codebases and trying to focus on delivering u
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by munchbunny 6mo ago
I sneak thirty minutes in here and there for it regardless of my manager. If you work, say, 40-45 hours a week, you’re probably doing 20 hours of true focused productivity. It’s easier to borrow here and there from the other half of the tim
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by munchbunny 6mo ago
In my experience it doesn't really work that way. It's somewhat akin to a house that's undergone multiple remodels. You eventually run out of the house's structural capacity for more remodeling and you have to start gutt
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by munchbunny 7mo ago
> The point of the question is to have something remotely understandable for both sides to talk about, that’s it. I think a lot of people miss this point. Real projects are complex and have tons of context at the historic layer, politica
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by munchbunny 7mo ago
> While I agree, how much training does anyone get as an interviewer? TL;DR: not enough training. As a hiring manager, whenever we start a hiring period I have a conversation with my interviewer team about what qualities we're looki
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by munchbunny 7mo ago
It depends on the situation. Sometimes you just have a bad interviewer who is looking for something specific from you but isn't telling you. If you're experienced in these interviews, you catch the signs and adapt by asking questi
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by munchbunny 7mo ago
Having been both the interviewer and the candidate in this kind of situation, this is really a big interviewer training failure. The general way to handle this as an interviewer is really simple: acknowledge that the interviewee gave a good
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by munchbunny 7mo ago
> If they're good at whatever it is they end up doing, that's good. As a former PM (now an engineer), I think that's pretty much it. Teams and companies will vary a lot in terms of what they want the PM's to do, with
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by munchbunny 7mo ago
I generally agree with the take. At the moment the models and agents aren’t good enough for someone who isn’t trained to build and maintain a production system. So as long as Eng isn’t significantly more bandwidth starved than PM, PM’s writ
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by munchbunny 7mo ago
I've definitely found that I could inhale information faster and memorize much faster as a teenager. I think I was even faster in college. In my mid-30s, I'm definitely slower to pick up new things than in my college days, but I h
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by munchbunny 8mo ago
My personal experience with this from the manager's perspective: I aim to promote someone as soon as they are ready, but no sooner. If I promote someone who will not succeed against the expectations of the higher leveled title, I'
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by munchbunny 8mo ago
This is cool. It feels a lot like business school cases where you get a packet of context and need to think about how to navigate the many factors at play, though with more direct practice, much less of the social dynamics of a class discus
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by munchbunny 9mo ago
Or it could be both. Time will tell. ConcernedApe's next game is also built on MonoGame, so he has self-interested reasons to want MonoGame to continue to be maintained. But just because ConcernedApe has self-interested reasons to dona
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by munchbunny 9mo ago
> I would like to see how fundamental the requirement to have directories are to AI workflows. In my experience, it's not that directories are inherently important, it's that an organization mechanism is, in the service of a fe
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by munchbunny 9mo ago
> 2. People behave as if they believe AI results are authoritative, which they are not I'm not so sure they actually believe the results are authoritative, I think they're being lazy and hoping you will believe it.
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by munchbunny 9mo ago
In practice, it's like how having Adobe Reader used to be. You mostly don't need it, but occasionally you need it for interoperability with other people, such as lawyers. Otherwise, I keep it around for the desktop Excel app. Stil
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by munchbunny 10mo ago
> It also hammers home the idea that you need backing and buy-in from key players in the workforce before everyone else will follow. Yup, this is the key issue and what makes it primarily a people problem. Technical solutions don't
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by munchbunny 10mo ago
> Then I offered as part of my design (and from my XP in more than 10yrs of working in products with petabyte datastores) that dealing with so many services connecting to the Data store directly could run into scale issues. There's

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