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by non_aligned 1y ago
I think this is interesting, but perhaps for reasons other than intended. I think it shows the formation of the post-war mythology that Germans used to explain to themselves how their family members or parents were good people, and did not
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by non_aligned 1y ago
> just want to point out that maintaining a knife is a whole hobby that requires a time investment of learning the skill and storage of additional tools and material. You're right that's a hobby. But the hobby's definition
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by non_aligned 1y ago
Ultrasonic knives have been available for non-food uses for a long time. They are useful in certain narrow applications, such as cutting leather or some plastics. That said, they come with two big caveats. First, if you push them into any h
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by non_aligned 1y ago
I would be surprised if that's the case. For commonly-used functions, you quickly learn knob shapes and their general locations. I'm sure you can adjust volume without looking in both cars. With touchscreens, it's not just th
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by non_aligned 1y ago
Well, if you define leaders as people who do the things outlined in the article, then sure, it tautologically describes the traits of leaders. But then, it means that Steve Jobs wasn't a leader, Bill Gates wasn't a leader, Jeff Be
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by non_aligned 1y ago
No, but these are slogans that seldom survive contact with reality. "Managers Hoard Information. Leaders Overshare." - sure, until they don't. Because as companies grow, the probability that there is a hostile or careless emp
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by non_aligned 1y ago
Sure, but if I said that, I'd have a response saying that actually, it's not true. So let's start with a conservative number. It still doesn't add up.
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by non_aligned 1y ago
I'm not sure what you're saying here. Yes, if you're truly exceptional, you can get in the US. You can also get into any other country in the world. And the Trump administration doesn't seem to be interested in changing
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by non_aligned 1y ago
> A core strategic strength of the US over the last century has been that everyone with any talent wants to come here to work, and by and large we’ve let them do so. That's largely a myth, though. The vast majority of smart, driven
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by non_aligned 1y ago
I think you're addressing the wrong part of the argument. Of course there are loose associations between concepts that manifest on abstract word-association tasks. It is a considerably stronger yet less-supported statement that these b
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by non_aligned 1y ago
I know it's a joke and I had a sensible chuckle, but if you want to routinely use it at work, just keep in mind that it's probably gonna make things worse. Since you can't exhaustively enumerate every good thing or every bad
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by non_aligned 1y ago
I think it's just clunky, like "a pencil can be used for a recipe". My first take is "wait, are we cooking a pencil? or stirring with it?" The first meaning of "use for a recipe" is "use as an ingredi
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by non_aligned 1y ago
> It's a cute "how do I reach these kids?" idea But... which kids? Do we have a fundamental problem reaching kids who are interested in basketball? My kid had a period of being interested in dinosaurs, but I never felt the
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by non_aligned 1y ago
"Having" and "willing to use" are two things, right? The problem is that the US, for the most part, no longer has any appetite for projects that leave the landscape scarred and the waters polluted. In California, we pref
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by non_aligned 1y ago
I really don't think that's a good example. That's someone who designers hold in high esteem. Most people today would not buy products with these aesthetics. Granted, I does hold up better than most, but I don't think it
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by non_aligned 1y ago
> I think using GenAI for learning is cool and exciting (especially for autodidacts) I don't know. I've been trying, but I think there are two fundamental issues. First, I don't think it's all that useful for "ou
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by non_aligned 1y ago
Isn't that just a lot of words to say "my taste is objective / rooted in reason, other people's tastes are a crapshoot"? Can you prescribe some specific test to tell objective design aesthetics from the "groupt
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by non_aligned 1y ago
I mean, yes? You're not violating the 4th. We have plenty of other laws, including laws against trespassing, that might apply here.
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by non_aligned 1y ago
Ah yeah, I stand corrected. I didn't realize this is a paper by the original team that found the number a while back, I thought it's an independent formalization in 2025.
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by non_aligned 1y ago
The research into BB numbers is purely academic and unlikely to be more than that, unless some other part of mathematics turns out to be wrong. Our current understanding is that the numbers are essentially guaranteed to be useless. This par
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by non_aligned 1y ago
You're literally arguing that a government intelligence agency couldn't find a couple of experienced people, provide them with commercially-available equipment, and get them to coordinate a medium-complexity task. Yes, it's a
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by non_aligned 1y ago
What's the part that's hard to imagine? It's literally just a boat ride to a publicly-known location that isn't monitored in any way, diving to a depth humans can dive to, placing some standard military / commercial
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by non_aligned 1y ago
> The appropriate place to find out what is and isn't true is research. Do research, write papers, discuss results, resolve contradictions in findings, reach consensus. Few hot-button social issues are resolved via research, and I&#
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by non_aligned 1y ago
"Metacybernetics" is a concept with a small handful of Google hits, some of which appear to be obscure research papers and some appear to be metaphysical crackpottery on blogs. I think it's worth considering that the theories
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by non_aligned 1y ago
I have no regrets. My point is that it's easy to have regrets if you build your self-worth around the company and your impact there. That's the part that's almost always too ephemeral to matter. The secret is that the "c
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by non_aligned 1y ago
I think LeetCode tests two things. First, your willingness to grind to pass an exam, which is actually a good proxy for some qualities you need to thrive in a corporate environment: work is often grungy and you need to push through without
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by non_aligned 1y ago
I worked crazy hours in my early 20s because I liked it. I liked computers, I liked my team, and to be frank, I had not much else to do. If I went home early, I would be spending time on the internet anyway. But the thing is, unless you&#
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by non_aligned 1y ago
A lot of technological progress is about moving in the other direction: taking things you can do yourself and having others do it instead. You can paint your own walls or fix your own plumbing, but people pay others instead. You can cook
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by non_aligned 1y ago
Isn't that just a comforting fantasy, though? Germans also embraced the myth of Hitler as a guy who just somehow hoodwinked everyone and made good people do terrible things. There was a prominent component of political scheming to his
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by non_aligned 1y ago
I've seen similar stuff in a couple of other places, including IT back in the 1990s (back when it wasn't nearly as glamorous as it is today). I think some of this has to do with... resentment? You're this incredibly smart per

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