mavelikara

Why were nuclear explosions harmless before 1996?

“I ask Claude only questions to which I don’t know answers to - which there are plenty of. That saves the company money by avoiding frivolous use of tokens.”

> The natural instinct is then to compromise on the "simpleness" of the first prototype and already try to anticipate all the scaling and nonfunctional requirements that might come later

This is a form of Second System Effect Brooks wrote about in 1975.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect?wprov=sft...

> this is where software goes to die

The ones that IBM passed up on, yes.

Definitely, no.

+1 - one of my favorite songs of all time. Rod Stewart-esque than Stewart himself on this one.

You are asking the wrong person.

> A law which will be used from the opposite side just as well, as soon as the power switches hands again.

This is the real test. If these changes are so bad, will someone campaign bare on overturning these? Will the “other side” change it?

If they don’t, you know that they also agreed with it - this handwringing now is just for show.

Adding “this is my opinion” to every post would be tedious, rt? :-)

My understanding is that the EB green cards are for a job offer, and not the current job.

In practice, though, almost all employers file EB GC petitions for only their current employees, not future ones.

Not the person you asked, but here are some real world examples: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/quint-co_community-spotlight-...

(One of the entries cited is something I worked on).

Everything that can be expressed in TLA+ can’t be expressed in Quint. But everything useful for specifying programs, I believe, can be expressed in both languages.

I am guessing you were being snarky. Care to explain what about it you find about it objectionable?

> A real industry should be responsive to events of nature, or at least the market, not vibes.

Market is vibes! The price of something at a moment is, for example, what market participants collectively agree what the price of it should be.

> He wants to push it just because he lost a bragging contest.

That is an uncharitable interpretation, IMO.

The CFO heard of a novel technique used by his peers in other companies, and they reported good results. He wants to try it within his organization too. As an executive, he is paid to (among other things) keep abreast of such developments in the industry and ensure that the organization he is leading is not caught flat footed in the market.

Polydactyly can be treated surgically! /s

Jokes aside, if in 15 years you have worked with only few good Indian engineers, you probably have not yet worked at places with high talent density. I could understand if you had said you have (a) worked with many low quality engineers from India, or (b) worked with far more low quality engineers from India than high quality ones. But if, in absolute numbers, you haven't come across many good engineers from India, I can only infer than you probably haven't worked with very good engineers across the board.

> This type of thing should come along with a reduction of allowed H-1bs.

H-1Bs also lose jobs in these layoffs, so there is an implicit reduction.

How does the “flattening” affect equity grants. With fewer employees, does each get larger equity stakes?

A newspaper ran a contest to write prose in the style of Graham Greene. Greene sent in the opening two paragraphs of an unfinished work. He came in _second_ in the contest. Many years later, Greene sent in an entry to a similar contest. This time he didn’t win any prizes but got an honorable mention from the judges.

Love to see the evals on this one!

> I still remember the people arguing that lightning is just fine and we don't need usb-c. It's true, they existed.

Before that, many of them argued that powerpcs were better than x86. :)

What is meant by snapshot testing in this context?

That is an LCA requirement. The company did well to publish this at a place where employees frequent.

And Aung San Suu Kyi.

>Why should that obligation be proportional (or progressively proportional) to the wealth you have and not to the resources you use (or wealth you have in that country).

This is analogous to asking why should software be priced on value delivered, vs priced on costs incurred in producing. Value pricing is much more common.

The value you derive from living in the country of your residence is higher that your poorer neighbors; hence you are charged more.

> It's something like 50k right now which is ridiculous

It is ridiculous. Do you have a citation for the $50K number?