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Is cutting people with knives good or bad?

Does context matter, like if it’s OJ Simpson vs a surgeon?

A lot of people who think their job is typing in code are going to be very unhappy.

People who see their job as value creation are going to be just fine.

That's really cheap.

The duty to disobey illegal orders is connected to the Holocaust but existed long before and applies to many other situations.

Just because a situation is not exactly the Holocaust DOES NOT mean that it's fine for people to abdicate personal responsibility by saying they're just following orders.

You do understand that right?

Funny, I guess we proved each other right.

I meant nothing personal, but you took it personally. To me, someone saying "hey, maybe you're bringing your baggage to this and interpreting this differently than the speaker meant" is not at all a personal attack.

To you, I guess it is.

So, yeah, HN is full of conversations where people politely suggest you may be wrong. It's never bothered me.

There are switches that move trains between tracks. Now you need every switch to report, keep a history of that. Many trains also separate and combine. Trains sometimes go backwards to be switched.

It's not impossible. But handwaving GPS placement of trains at the correct location, direction, and track deserves more than a handwave as trivial.

If you’re having to look through layers and layers of jargon, misdirection, and plausible deniability to find the toxicity, is it possible there’s a roarscach element to it?

Look up commissary kitchens. A ton of food is made that way, and I don’t see it as being all that different.

And the DD-specific kitchen I know is basically just a typical restaurant kitchen minus attached dining. You can make slop in an industrial park, you can make slop in a real restaurant (I’ve certainly experienced that).

Why in the world would it be necessary to have dining tables for a kitchen to make good food?

Just following orders, eh?

He’s stolen billions of dollars and is too senile to protect it. Everyone’s angling for a piece of the grift.

Do you think Google should serve customers or politicians?

As a user I want the map names I know, not whatever BS some egomaniac politician announced yesterday.

Yeah mixed blessing at best. Increased volume, but not every 30-table restaurant is set up to do much more; kitchens are sized to expected in-person dining.

And all the stuff you mention.

The one restaurant owner I know who’s happy with DD set up an entirely separate kitchen in an industrial park. But to get to the DD revenue necessary to justify that investment, he had a couple of years of DD hell in his main restaurant.

Tool calls don’t sent the full transcript? I think you mean one more turn?

As long as price elasticity is zero.

What would software companies do if electricity stopped working?

They published the numbers. 83% of revenue is API rates, 17% is subscription (individual and small business).