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Same here for todos (just with pen and paper). I don’t see why I’d need an admin dashboard and a DBMS to effectively prioritize what I need to accomplish in 16 hours.

Yeah, not sure what label we’d give to a system like this but it works. I basically do the same, but with Raindrop (the bookmark manager). I’ve tried many tools and systems, but wh…

My understanding is that there is something like a Goldilocks part of the curve (e.g. 115-125) where you get above average intelligence and high motivation (‘hard working’).

On average, any random company will be filled with solidly average engineers. Which means, because of how numbers work, most of the engineers are neither good nor bad at engineerin…

The Redmond philosophy views running Windows update as basic control flow for any executable whatsoever.

Also, even for relatively simple and beginner things like recursion there are levels of understanding. Some of the anecdotes I see from people using ChatGPT to learn a new technica…

The degree of ‘needing’ to explain consciousness is basically the inverse of the degree of ‘needing’ to explain what the last digit of 22/7 is. Hardly anyone talks about or does an…

I’m not an insider, so I wouldn’t know, but there is an alternative take on their motivations for courting the Saudi’s. Namely, they are becoming a bit like SoftBank: they’ve been …

I think a lot of this stuff is probably just a coin flip, because we just don’t know. I find it odd, however, when people, who seemingly accept an ASI will be developed, focus the …

Hell is others’ XML.

Yeah, I wonder sometimes how many people gloss over what it would mean for an “ASI” to exist. We would - if successful - effectively be creating a supernatural being (at least, the…

I would love native platform support. I’ll write up some initial thoughts and drop them into the Slack.

My girlfriend works for a large consulting firm. Her mid-to-high-end work laptop runs the standard smattering of PM applications you’d expect (e.g. Teams). I watch her screen somet…

One of my close friends was recently scammed out of $203,324 and the scammer used a text message, from an invalid/unused number, as the entry point. The full scam was quite involve…

By debugging homebrew issues during Moneterey updates. I didn’t brick the machine, just the ability to setup a typical python venv.

Twice bricking my laptop’s ability to do python development because of venv + symlink bs was the catalyst I needed to go all-in on remote dev environments. I don’t drive python dai…

> A new programming language has to be really good to survive. A new language needs to represent a quantum leap just to be in the game. Well, we're going to be up-front about this:…

I’m sure there are plenty of org inefficiencies that need to be restructured or eliminated. Early in my career, I would simply nod along to a headline like this. Now, I realize any…

Really cool! (logged in just to let you know). Put a smile on my face while playing with it.

-Setapp for Mac -Raindrop.io -Gitpod I’m a tool junkie, but those three are the only ones I’d swear by.

My understanding is that, within the academic literature, nearly everyone accepts qualia in as much as qualia is simply the subjective character of an experience/sensation. The dis…

“Once we have made the decision to turn back to the ways of duty, gratitude will flow naturally into us, and… gratitude is the precondition of joy. Only those who give thanks are a…

I’m self-taught, with bachelors and grad degrees in non-STEM. Broke into the industry a little over two years ago. I currently have interviews with FAANG and FAANG-tier for SDE rol…

I still have sleep apnea, but the symptoms are entirely gone. I became a different person after taking the medication. Even after just a couple nights. It’s quite remarkable how yo…

Trazadone cured it for me. My respiratory arousal threshold was low - due to sleep apnea. Trazadone raised the threshold significantly. I just need 12.5mg before bed.