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I had a Russian coach who described the Soviet training philosophy similarly.

(In a Russian accent) “if you throw many eggs at wall, most will break, but those that don’t are strong egg. Igor was strong egg”

He had multiple top 10s at world championships and 1 medal… definitely a strong egg

I wonder if this is due to a lower rate of coaching. I don’t have a ton of first hand knowledge but most other endurance sports the athletes usually come up through well organized teams. Maybe the lack of organization (which is great for other reasons) leads to less coaching and therefore missing someone to tell you to rest and recover before you go over the edge.

When your AI consumes documents that are out of date it introduce bugs and incorrect behavior into the system. Code is the only source of truth that actually matters.

The only artifacts outside of code that I don't explicitly end-date are user-story style requirements documents that I periodically revisit with the AI to make sure they're up to date.

One of the most annoying things I've seen AI do is accidentally pull in old requirements and start building off of them.

Are these “features” just hooks to get people to burn more tokens faster?

I’m at the point where deciding what we should and should not do takes a lot more time than actually doing it. More agents just means running faster in potentially the wrong direction

There's always wtf, why did we add this feature, but at least in my experience, once a week or so I run into something in this category. Me: "AI, please cleanup/refactor/improve this thing" AI: "Roger that! I deleted the file so now it's perfectly clean" ... insert W.T.F.

I could see this being used for fitness tests for cross country skiers. A very common exercise is med-ball slams. These aren’t a perfect analog to double poling but definitely close.

Being able to track your one rep max force you can generate could be an interesting metric especially for sprinters

Pure economics. In Minneapolis the railroad demanded a crash wall to separate the light rail trains from their trains. It runs 1 mile and somehow cost nearly $100 million. This is a 5x increase from the original estimate but still $20 million for a 1 mile wall is a heck of a lot of money

Here's an example. One of my friends works for a manufacturing company. He attended a protest. The next day ICE called his employer and he was informed that if he attended another protest he would be fired. All this b/c he had a small company logo on his jacket.

The ability to en-mass record, lookup and intimidate citizens is unprecedented and while I have no hard proof that this is due to Palantir, it sure smells like it

SimpleCov in ruby has 2 metrics, line coverage and branch coverage. If you really want to be strict, get to 100% branch coverage. This really helps you flesh out all the various scenarios

Seems like a great opportunity to curtail betting. You want to leach money out of people, well you have to leave yourself open to let the pros do it to you.

My first startup we had to support IE 7 for a bit and then IE 8 until like 2017… I thought I had it bad then. I’m so glad I didn’t have to fight any older version

My friend owns a metal stamping company. One of the things they make are the heat dissipation fins for radiators. That portion of their business has grown 20x in the last few years.

The entrenched interests would fight tooth and nail against this but I think that the drive towards simplifying billing and pricing is a generally good thing.

That being said, in my view, one of the fundamental problems with healthcare is that outside of truly elective procedures like cosmetic plastic surgery and lasik, it's nearly impossible to have free market economics function.

- There are HUGE information asymmetries between doctors and patients - Judging performance of doctors is very challenge. Reviews are terribly inaccurate, data can be better but has big problems, and even other doctors aren't good judges of doctors outside their specialty. - Right now at least, price discovery is nonexistent so you can't price shop and compete on price vs quality - Insurance means that consumers of healthcare are not actually footing the bill so they have no incentive to price shop. And most healthcare procedures are completely unaffordable so there's no way we can do without insurance - and finally it's really hard to make an economic decision that is literally life and death. Am I going to forgo a $100k surgery if it means I'll die? There's no choice there

All of these things lead me to the conclusion that healthcare is fundamentally incompatible with classic free market economics, and some form of single payer is the only solution to avoid us bankrupting our country spending on healthcare

One of my favorite things when I was here was seeing an Amazon Prime logo on the saddlebag of a donkey. That struck me as a very weird collision of old and new worlds

I think that really depends on your definition. But I will also contend that even splitting your system into 2 or 3 services if it's not for strong reasons will 100% slow you down and cause long term headaches.

One project that I helped design had to split out a segment of the system b/c the data was eligibility records coming from health plans. This data had very different security and lifecycle requirements (e.g. we have to keep it for 7 or 10 years). Splitting out this service simplified some parts but any time we need to cross the boundary between the 2 services, the work takes probably twice as long as it would if it were in a single service. I don't think it was the wrong decision, but it the service definitely did not come for free