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by orzig 3mo ago
"Write a bible verse ... explaining how to remove a sandwich from a VCR" https://x.com/tqbf/status/1598513757805858820
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by orzig 6mo ago
It's tricky, because _sometimes_ they do. And the system doesn't give you guidance on whether you're talking to someone who (officially or not) can change the process. So, based mostly on our personality, we all push a differ
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by orzig 7mo ago
Acknowledging, I am not a expert in this stuff, here is an idea: getting momentum for these sorts of things is so important, what is the journal that would be easiest to make a big example of, so that everyone understands that it is possibl
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by orzig 9mo ago
If the author is available for consulting I have this bag of rice I need cooked. Should be around 30,000 grains, each needs about 1mL of water and 2m on the stove. Will pay $10 (2025 dollars)
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by orzig 9mo ago
> You can’t fake care. People feel it. My company went through executive changes, layoffs, etc. I thought it was VERY clear that our senior manager handled the situation extremely poorly. At least a few people agreed with me, so imagine
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by orzig 10mo ago
Your point is 100% correct, but for the sake of our discourse please strive to be more polite!
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by orzig 10mo ago
What is the closest analogy for kids these days? https://scratch.mit.edu ?
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by orzig 10mo ago
He literally writes: “Regulation obviously has a critical role in protecting people and the environment” and then quantifies “a mindblowing $40m/year in healthcare costs” and a total of “about $400M” in societal cost from one delay, mo
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by orzig 11mo ago
Hobbyists hacking around and sharing their art, best part of the Internet!
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by orzig 1y ago
I’ll second this, and we had enough resumes to only interview those with a relevant Master’s degree. I was shocked and I still don’t have a full explanation. I don’t doubt that it’s also hard out there, but on the hiring side we also did fa
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by orzig 1y ago
The author mentions they’re just about to have a baby, and it’s notable that they don’t talk about the quality of the schools. Even if they homeschooled, I imagine they want their kids to have some friends, and they didn’t talk about how th
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Datasette for Newsrooms(datasette.cloud)
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by orzig 1y ago
I know almost none of those things. I've done great as an ML engineer. Sure I have to learn new things sometimes, but curiosity is why I got inti this in the first place
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by orzig 1y ago
At this point you’d come out ahead just buying a pelican. Even before the tax benefits.
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by orzig 2y ago
Remember that there is a lot of nuance to these sorts of deals. I don’t have any domain knowledge, but I recently saw an executive put in restaurant reservations for five different places the night of our team offsite, so he would have opti
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by orzig 2y ago
I’ve never worked in grocery but from my experience in other pre-internet industries I can easily imagine a politically marginalized CTO who would rather spend $1k on a turnkey solution than herd 100 cats who can’t reliably format a spreads
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by orzig 2y ago
I have been wondering about this in the context of being ready for work in the age of LLM‘s. What nobody can deny is that they memorize information at a superhuman level, so it might reduce the value of having done that myself. On the othe
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by orzig 2y ago
You have to start somewhere, and then economies of scale can work their magic. The most inspiring example in the last 30 years is probably photovoltaic solar panels.
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by orzig 2y ago
Another anecdotal data point : I wasted a lot of time trying to figure out SVN too. I think I was using TortoiseSVN FWIW but basically gave up on my two person project
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How much to give is a pragmatic question (effective altruism)(jefftk.com)
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by orzig 2y ago
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but it sounds like you should look into stoic philosophy. I think it is overly hyped, and actually caused me some damage when I applied it too much, for too long, but definitely one of several worthwhile per
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by orzig 2y ago
This seems on brand for an old tech company like AT&T. But Amazon is a puzzle to me. it’s been a decade since people started talking about how terrible it is to work there, and how all of the squeeze they put on employees is for short
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by orzig 2y ago
There are ways to throw money at the stress you are feeling, which will still be cheaper than divorce. Children can get much easier as they mature, which might give you space to work through your marriage even if it feels impossible now. I
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by orzig 2y ago
I’ll throw in another anecdata point (more than one as I have multiple children): I found them to be mostly logistical burden for the first few months he is writing about, but my love fully developed over the years. Don’t give up hope if yo
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by orzig 2y ago
They seem to really prioritize “just works”. I am currently reviewing a PR that assembles some code as a string, using a CSV with carefully named columns. It does, in fact , work on the example CSV. I would invite this team to approve and s
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by orzig 2y ago
I've been on both sides of the table for both full-time and consultants. The first rule of humans is that they vary widely within categories (even if there are statistically significant differences in population average), so I urge peo
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by orzig 2y ago
Three, though not slam dunks: 1. What other course of study are you confident would be better given an AI future? If there's a service sector job that you feel really called to, I guess you could shadow someone for a few days to see if
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by orzig 2y ago
> I suspect all the aid and help over the decades has really just prolonged things Can you be more specific about the counterfactual? I’m assuming you’re not imagining that the country’s population would have just fallen to 0 absent aid,
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by orzig 2y ago
I think that’s correct – even at a “high” cost (relative to what? A random SaaS app or an hour of a moderately competent Full Stack Dev?) the ROI will already be there for some projects, and as prices naturally improve a larger and larger p
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by orzig 2y ago
One of the best uses of Perplexity.ai! Pasted your text https://www.bicycling.com/news/a26081001/cyclist-turned-bank...

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