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Comment · 1 month ago
Elizabeth Holmes is beautiful. Amanda Seyfried did a good job of capturing her persona in The Dropout, and Holmes is a narcissistic self-deluding villain in the story from anyone else's perspective, but she is really just beautiful. I can see where her presence charmed people into seeing what she believed.
Comment · 4 months ago
What IDE do you use? How do you integrate it? I was using Continue but it exited its funding round to the Titler octopus and the Chat function in VSCode is choking on the Ollama responses.
Comment · 9 months ago
Bitching is free and easier than making pull requests. And I bet it was 1 or 2 choads plus a variable pack of minions, not everyone. And Megacorp X can file all the bug reports they want, their lack of investment is not my urgency.
Comment · 9 months ago
That also includes knowing how to process game. A dead deer or a dead rabbit has a small window between being a dead creature and a toxic mess. If you're gonna plug animals learn how to make proper use of them.
Comment · 9 months ago
Reality is infintely analog and therefore digital will only ever be an approximation.
Comment · 10 months ago
Systems and processes are good, but if the individual doesn't want to help make it better that is a different but related problem. Testing locally, checking work...that's the behavioral part of this he _can_ control. You can't force him, but might be able to encourage it, not by calling someone out in a code review/etc but privately discussing some local validation they could do. Also, I'm betting the "typos" aren't for corpus words but config strings like swmn0023094 or server names or whatever. That might be more of a custom dictionary type or DSL solution to check values against valid constant values.
Comment · 10 months ago
It's a question of what you want to invest your time in. Everyone creates output, whether it's lines of code, a smoke screen to hide your social media time, or a set of ongoing conversations and perceptions than you have a use in the organization.
Comment · 10 months ago
It also comes that the well-compensated people are probably that because they know how to advocate for their worth, which usually includes a list of things they will tolerate and a list they will not, whereas "market rate" is just happy to be there and more inclined to go along with, ya know, whatever.
Comment · 10 months ago
Exceeds 1. Politics is the craft of influence. And, debatably, there's a politic even when population size=1, between your subconscious instinctive mind (eat the entire box of donuts) versus your conscious mind (don't spike your blood sugar).
Comment · 10 months ago
Well you did hire some(thing)...for $100/month.
Comment · 10 months ago
Also, physical books are immutable; electronic content is not. Orwell was not wrong, just premature.
Comment · 10 months ago
Ditching for what?
Comment · 10 months ago
Yeah, capitalism. Our sense of fairness hate it but our portfolios love it.
Comment · 10 months ago
"Seamless" may be irrationally exuberant but it's better than the others _at scale_.

LibreOffice, etc. may see similar from the UI end but if you're scaling across multiple sites/archetypes/employee models/regulatory environments, -and- want access to a wide and deep pool of administrative labor, M365 is seamless by comparison.

Comment · 11 months ago
To me the terms mix and it helps to separate the things that are externally manageable from the things that are not. The physical is complex but straightforward - the body biochemistry operates on material in, biochemistry mix, expenditure out. The brain is physical - neurons, pathways, etc. The mind, OTOH, is a virtual little candle isolated in a prison of meat and bone trying to understand how to interact with the world around it. External forces can alter the body and brain, but only the mind can change the mind. And does, in ways that are very difficult to control because the sole operator is part of the mechanism. People who try to change on their own and can't aren't failing or weak, it's just really f-ing hard.

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