Viewing profile — MichaelGlass

this sounds like a reasonable thing to do to a human being working in a call center /s

from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html : "Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage…

The typical counterpoint to this NIMBYism isn't, communism, but rather most of Texas (where there's loosening zoning law) or West Virginia (where there's abundant poverty and socia…

I thought it was funny. And sad. The incentives you're talking about -- they're missing because of NIMBYist overregulation. The whole point of NIMBYism is to use regulation to hams…

Have you ever been to a great restaurant that happened to be on the wrong corner? Or been at a company where one change in execution made or broke the company? My guess: the founde…

I’d much rather a useful AI-aided post that gives me insight than the almost daily pedantic unrelated gripe “interesting post but I hate the font”. This AI slop is bad but is it wo…

fwiw I don't have a problem with LLM posts. But I do agree that this is pretty generic. If you want to use an LLM to post comments: find a better prompt / workflow

I'm not sure it's so simple as "making it pretty costs more". I'd bet there are hidden utilitarian cost benefits as well. E.g., murals prevent graffiti. (No judgment concerning gra…

(I thought the introduction was, if not outright funny, deserving of at least one chuckle).

love it! Just wanted to share my support.

I really like the slightly silly writing style! Reminds me of a toned-down Douglas Adams. Honestly, I'm not particularly interested in Janet but the style sucked me in.

I don't think the article touches on internal vs external hiring at all. They tried it but eventually didn't do it. But there's no value judgement -- it just seemed like they could…

To be clear, “we” the cyclists want cars to be prohibitively expensive in cities. Presumably we the cyclists aren’t so homogenous.

Yeah I wish you could just start with a `.tools-version` and nix would generate a development flake. Someday! That being said, the task of debugging a deprecated tool version in as…

Agreed. To use the example from the article `make_pizza(["pepperoni"])` What does `make_pizza()` do? It could be a lot or it could be a little. It could have side-effects or not. N…

If you have a legal system, then breaking my lock is unlawful intrusion, and if you take something from behind my locked door, it's theft. Without a legal system, e.g. crypto, if y…

In a world where many are playing the, "there's a greater fool willing to buy it for more", the "it's about the future" crowd are fish in a barrel.

"Government casuses cronyism -- especially anti-cronyism laws". What should the role of government be? I guess the authors would say: Governments should be replaced with financial …

FWIW our experience has been: - finding devs with experience is hard - finding great devs who want to use interesting tooling is easy In the end, we hire interesting, curious devs,…

> We noticed the new batch of contractors were Black and Brown like us, and the Full Timers were mostly white. This doesn't strike me as drenched in a racist worldview, rather than…

Regarding your first point: I want to do those things if I'm convinced they help the "good work". I might not want to clean the dishes but I'll do it until I can delegate it.

No this article is wrong. Bitcoin is a battery /s.

Really nice. Looks like nextjournal is making a big bet on clojure: https://twitter.com/mkvlr/status/1355272185733111809?s=19

Vaccines are only paid for by the government in the USA for low-income, uninsured kids. If you're insured, you likely have a copay and if you're not medicaid-eligible and high-inco…

Florida Man informs Sweden and Germany that their societies are failing. In other news https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBqY-4oDWAQ&feature=youtu.be... But in all seriousness, Germa…