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You are aware that's a very bad flex.

It'd be one thing to highlight bad teams you've been thrown in to; its a very different one to state that about the teams you've hired.

What was it exactly that prevented you from building good teams, with good process supporting them; that limited you to 20% good hires??

Sure, here's a few screens or current state: https://imgur.com/a/M1Dy2ag

I prefer the MDI view, but wanted a native option, so showing both. :)

(First time I'm sharing this publicly. The caveat being I'm still unsure if I'd release/sell this as a proper thing, FOSS it, or just keep playing by myself)

Oh thanks for the note about ergo.chat, need to have a play with this!

I've been building my own (native) mIRC clone for MacOS as a side project, exactly on the scratch my own itch kind of thinking! :)

Didn't really look into iOS though, I'll have a think...

So far:

- Swift 6/AppKit built with SwiftPM only, no Xcode project. As a stack of modules.

- The default behaviour is native window(s), but have a classic MDI frame (with child windows inside one main window) that I really enjoy playing with and debugging.

- Behaves "the mac way" (menu bar, text editing, scrolling, full-screen, dark mode, VoiceOver), and anything that belongs to mIRC behaves the mIRC way. Still lots of rough edges though.

- Conversations are tabs in one shared window, the tab bar acts as mIRC's switchbar, the treebar becomes a sidebar. DCC transfers get their own standalone windows as I felt that makes it better as p2p.

- The options, defaults, and menus are an exact copy of mIRC 7.85 - I'll evolve it after "finishing"

- Only the top UI layer touches AppKit, so the parts that have to match mIRC exactly can be tested headless in CI.

- The IRC protocol, session state, mIRC formatting, a mirc.ini-compatible config, a scripting interpreter that copies mIRC's evaluation model (PCRE2 tuned to behave like mIRC's PCRE 8.45), DCC, and the display format strings are all pure Swift.

- Some decisions go beyond mIRC to fit MacOS: an untrusted server certificate is asked the user and pinned, never just trusted. Router port mapping uses MacOS's own port mapper. And also created a few new pixel icon sets I haven't fully decided on.

I would say its even more proactive than support other projects. It is becoming clearer that every single technically competent member of the friends or family is now required to educate and proactively change devices.

Remember this upcoming Christmas that the ye oldie tradition of fixing PCs clearing awful exploiting phone apps (and cancelling subscriptions) should also include the "fix my browser" again, instead of Internet Explorer being replaced by Chrome, our collective duties is to replace Chrome with Firefox, plus its useful extensions to block ads and improve the web experience removing trackers etc.

Your call to arms today is to ensure all your tech colleagues join the movement, and then we can see Google's management views on "market growth"; they forget they made Chrome, we sold it - its our fault we forgot the "infinite growth of shareholder value"...

While I absolutely agree with your points, and do feel the same towards books I've read and later revisited similar to the ones alluded to. I would echo the transparency of giving readers the choice rather than the thought process that it'll still be enjoyable, therefore the deception is fine.

Especially as I feel that more and more this degree of transparency will be crucial for people to make more informed decisions in what they wish to read - and by the author's point, where do they want to spend their money.

What if an individual not knowing any better could absolutely enjoy AI written stories from cradle to grave, but would rather live in the blissful innocence of contributing to a lone writers' income rather than content farms? Isn't that enough reason to want transparency here?

My point being, if there's really "no harm" in the deception of either human-powered or AI-powered content farms. Then let's opt for imposing the transparency for readers to truly have the choice.

Well I want to launch Straightening Forks: the B-Corp that hires experienced developers, designers, and other digital folks and instead of buying dying digital estate to extract the remaining bone hurting juice from its user-base, it would instead: re-implement (fork, LOL) open alternatives seeking viable business models or just FOSS a working path, with minimal product features serving those core users and their needs, centralising the core cross-product services and cost optimising the backend plus realising what's the actual features users "need" vs. "want", and try to create sustainable products which instead of just extracting value try to provide value in this world.

Surely this isn't difficult???...

There are two important points to consider though:

On the bubble pop it's the feedback loop of investments to ROI materialising or not which will dictate if this stabilises in the current trajectory or if the bubble pops and massive investments will get written off (whoever is holding the bag can cry a river and won't be made whole).

But on that point for a team delivering value and demonstrating ROI I'm curious to see how many businesses fly through their roadmaps at whatever velocity and quality LLMs can deliver - and how does that translate to business growth. Are you achieving more in features and accelerating growth to the same 2 months instead of 12+? Or has the LLM spend just made 12+ months of "cost to build roadmap" into 2 months of staff + LLM costs anyway without profit to match??

Unless "other lines" go up as well, just compressing that increased cost without the benefits in revenue and growth, it'll still fail the ROI to keep paying the LLMs tax for these frontier labs to recoup their investment and then some...

I initially submitted without comment, but just want to also say:

This is a looong conversation between Kelsey and Gergely, but I feel it's worth watching (whatever that means coming from someone you don't know).

There's plenty of really valuable insights into both Kelsey's mindset and attitude, which I really appreciated and connected with, from the path taken, to things probably all learn in our careers.

And absolutely loved the arch of the conversation, the value for us later in our careers is likely towards the last half of the video, but it does make me really appreciate the storytelling I feel we should all share with our peers and our younger colleagues.

Hope you are fortunate enough to have or can find the time to enjoy this, I really enjoy the "exit plan".

Perhaps you should wait to make that case, we're starting to see ramifications from USAID cuts as the worse one, but there's also health and nutrition effects from Medicaid/SNAP reductions, and whatever in the world is happening on immigration and detention with insane ICE behaviour, plus second order effects from abortion and public health changes.

Trying to solve my own problem of drowning in meetings and scattered tools, turning things into actionable items.

It sits on top of what I already use and gives me a unified "What do I need to do (now/today)?" view.

Trying to auto-capture action items from meeting transcriptions and other inbound, and routing quick thoughts to the right tool with a couple of keystrokes, helping me prioritise my day so I'm not spending energy on too much organising (or through lack of organising getting distracted).

I wanted something that watched my inputs and keep my GTD loop running, especially when back-to-back meetings and context-switching make it really hard (or impossible) to stay on top of things I need to do!

Might also augment it with LLM for some support of task breakdown, but only as human-in-loop assistance.

Not thinking this could ever turn into a product since it's so custom.

It was, and and the same with ReTweets (RT) and #hashtags, some of us were even there since the SMS days and witnessed that formal adoption

Some countries don't allow dual citizenship, which means you'd no longer be a citizen of your country of origin, you know, where your family might live.

I have plenty of friends who otherwise would apply, and ILR should be sufficient in a democratic government following social and political contracts.

Not American here, but I'm aware of both privacy in mixed forms (privacy act 1974, HIPAA, COPPA, and CCPA in California); as well as anonimity in First Amendment et al since there's case law (IANAL) demonstrating the requirement of anonimity to avoid persecution of free speech.

All of these have limitations and exceptions in a complex legal system. But to issue a blanket statement like the comment above is no really correct - just trying to make a point, I guess

What a weird way of phrasing that. The whole point of ethics in multiple disciplines is to try and study the principles of humanity in the society we've formed. The areas of philosophy, medicine, justice, and religion are filled with centuries of discussions trying to argue and explain a lot of these matters.

But the philosopher of the Internet of today, instead of curiosity of reasoning and arguing for what should change in deontology, and why; sums it up as "ethicists forbid...".

I'd really like to understand your views better on what should change and why...

Especially when there's plenty of ignoring of ethics in today's world!

How big of an Internet Troll do you have to be, to leave comments that have very clear Historical Artefacts and regulation demonstrating this?

https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/jacksons-messag...

This should probably link to the actual press release since its more of an announcement of something forming rather than a release of any models, code, whitepapers, etc.

https://openeurollm.eu/launch-press-release

I would echo this and share with the parents: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCAGc-rkIfo

Also Russell Barkley has since fully retired though has been very active in diaseminating what's happening in (good and bad) research, plus other lectures on https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0tLWu7ljYVFPiZQfHjTMsA

I believe this is a better approach for scale.

Make it a local or company-wide identification of FOSS packages, and a way for those individuals, teams, and businesses to score them by importance or criticality (or needs of the FOSS project if they are aware).

Having just worked with some of the Thread folks at M&S, thought I'd reach out and say hello. Seems like it was an awesome team! (=

Not that I've used this extensively, but months would likely increase to quarters.

And if you're estimating something to the lengths of months, you're already into project management territory size, rather than broken down to development/delivery sizes... The amount of unknown unknowns and other uncertainty certainly warrant happily estimating years length, surely.

Also #NoEstimates (=

Of course there's a need for a lender, even at a microsecond transaction you do need funds to perform arbitrage, it's not just all theoretical funds - there's backing to them.

Else let's all just pretend trade on a real market until it collapses and just make sure they come a-knockin' on some non-existent firm...

Plus my conjecture, from my understanding, is the flash loan terms incentivise fast payback, whilst still retaining some fixed profit.

Akin to a credit card which has an effective 0% rate of you pay back within a certain time frame, but raises to 30% monthly after that.

I'd be happy to provide you with a flash loan at 0.001% fixed rate of profit for me/cost for you for the first 5mins and scare you with a 30% rate calculated every minute after that. For some pre-validated huge sum I know your business can be liable for, of course.

Which allows capital scarce firms to leverage these micro-loans on fast arbitrage opportunity where they should take any transaction that provides anything larger than that 0.001% in transacted profit. And let's them compete with larger firms on optimising pricing.

Majority of times I've seen this being solved with shopping cart items being copied from the main product table by SKU with the current price.

There is a TTL on the shopping cart itself. However, that meant for a period of time you had a frozen cost per-line-item in a shopping cart.

Latest moves seem to imply Apple might want a slice of the Ad network pie. So I wouldn't bet on capitalistic ideals/incentives not overtaking idealistic consumer protections.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-08-14/apple-...

Since you might know - as I've seen the references on social media for this exact occurrence - is this referenced somewhere in T&Cs?

The article mentions "Transcendentalism", the above comment's author seems to have researched, and offered their opinion on the matter. Seems like an appropriate comment, and a worthwhile discussion of what the transcendental ethos imply, coupled with what drives the behaviours that are antithetical to those goals, which leads to the historical moments the article refers to.