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That's just a parallel fact, no one's "acting" like anything?

What were you actually trying to say?

> This is a short trip in an automobile, essentially a fancy uber ride.

We need a regulatory body that can fine people for making analogies this bad

> What's the goal of the US/Iran war?

kneecaping china by cutting off a huge source of its oil imports. Russia will not be able to make up the difference.

HN is a beautiful lesson on the hard limits of a contrarian's usefulness.

unfamiliar with chess.com but correspondence chess(day/move) and rapid (game 30+0) should fall under two different rating classifications. Having different ratings between them is to be expected.

And while people tend to make __better moves__ in slower time controls, their rapid/blitz ratings are usually higher than standard ratings.

interesting to see in the replies such incredible pearl clutching on behalf of the poor, poor businesses whenever unionization gets brought up. brain folds lighting up like a fireworks show just to combat the idea of [checks scroll] uhh not exploiting workers.

Reframing someone's disagreement as them "struggling with something" is incredibly patronizing and condescending and dirty conversational pool.

Changing "cube" to "kube" would just look like it's pronounced "koob" (e.g. rube, tube, lube), so we swap a minor spelling aggravation for a minor pronunciation edge case. unless you want to go full kyube but we're not putting that on the table.

I don't know about romanticizing a hard life but I'll definitely get hit with a very strong sense of wanting to escape and leave it all behind.

It hits me every summer like clockwork tbh - leaving a nicely typed 2 minutes notice on my VP's desk and just taking my chances as a traveling beach bum. Akin to wanderlust, I'm filled with the urge to just go off into the unknown.

In my heart of hearts I know I'm a soft city boy though. I wouldn't last a week.

Kinda but kinda not.

I'd agree that 75% you speak of is generally hostile to the mere concept of PMs, but that's usually from a misapplication of PMs as proxy-bosses for absentee product owners/directors who don't want to talk to nerds - flow interruptions, beancounting perceived as useless, pointless ceremonies, even more pointless(er) meetings etc, and the further defiling of the definition of "agile".

But a deep conceptual product and roadmap understanding that helps one steer Claude Code is invaluable for both devs and PMs, and I don't think most of that 75% would begrudge that quality in a PM

I think you shouldn't presume to know better than the author what they meant.

having known dozens of friends, family, roommates, coworkers etc both before and after they started them. The two biggest telltale signs -

1. tendency to produce - out of no necessity whatsoever, mind - walls of text. walls of speech will happen too but not everyone rambles.

2. Obnoxiously confident that they're fundamentally correct about whatever position they happen to be holding during a conversation with you. No matter how subjective or inconsequential. Even if they end up changing it an hour later. Challenging them on it gets you more of #1.

What if we're just not onboard with the premise that campers/squatters need to be pandered to in the first place?

well, using larger denominations helps.

Well, almost always.

There was that brief period in 2023 when Bing just started straight up gaslighting people instead of admitting it was wrong.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/15/23599072/microsoft-ai-bin...

I'd say it's actually completely useless.

The definitions of "weak" and "strong" are extremely malleable depending on your own subjective assessment of the person/people.

It's an almost-aphorism; nearly useful, but not quite.

How would more AI help? "given this goal with these parameters, figure out if another AI will ever game it into eventual thermonuclear war. "

Feels halting problem-esque.

I feel most bad for the other frogs in roles whose pots haven't even been put on the AI stovetop yet. I have general feeling they feel they're safe.

Looking at you specifically, Project/Program managers with little output other than attending meetings and asking for status updates and futzing with JIRA to get reports.

The dev frogs might not even be finished boiling before you notice your steam.

Deep down I believe such things about both dogs and cats to some degree.

But also this is also a survey of pet owners about their own pets' behaviors, and I can't shake the feeling there's more than a bit of projection/anthropomorphism involved.

The link from the article contained snippets but I can't access the full paper. For anyone who can (if you would be so kind) did they share similar concerns and/or control for them?

"Seeing" something in your imagination isn't a literal hallucination. It's an altogether separate form of visualization that doesn't interfere optically.

> They genuinely seem to think the age of employing people is ending which I guess isn't a shock since that's what Sam Altman and the media have been telling them.

I wonder if they have good answers as to who will buy their products after all the jobs are gone. Reminds me of https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/11/16/robots-buy-cars/ . An anecdote 70 years old at this point but seemingly evergreen in its applicability.

Before you asked the first question did you try to put yourself in someone else's (running) shoes and figure out their motives? If you haven't, try. Steel man the case for running and getting better at running before you just declare it "useless."

Though unaffiliated myself, I still have very clear opinions on policies. This leads to voting exclusively for one party anyway.

It's just the label and tribalism I reject, not their stances or some desire for a mythical "middle path".

I have no idea how common this is in the "unaffiliated base" but I'd be willing to wager it's fairly common.

That is not suffering and you should be embarrassed to type like that.

I'm really only interested in weakly solved, i.e. "forced draw from starting position" like the 5x5 variant, not a perfect play tablebase from all possible positions.

Given that 5x5 is (weakly) solved, even though your rough estimates would put its 20-piece 5x5 starting position outside the realm of possibility, I don't think you're discounting accurately how much a reduced board/piece/ruleset can affect those exploding permutations for 6x6 as well.

24 pieces on an 8x8 is a nightmare, sure.

However, other smaller chess versions (e.g. 5x5 w/ 20 pieces) are at least weakly solved and given the piece/pawn/move restrictions of this 6x6 variant, I wouldn't be surprised if a weak solution here is possible as well.

I think there's a positive knock-on effect in a lot of "I stopped eating X and everything got better" stories that usually go unsaid - once you decide to cut something out, it forces you to actually start _paying attention_ to what goes in.

For a lot of us - myself and friends anecdotally included - that's possibly for the first time in a long time, or ever.

And once you start paying attention, opportunities for other positive adjustments open up. Maybe you only intended to cut sugar, but now you realize through your tracking app you've been ridiculously deficient in potassium or way over target on saturated fats.

There's a phenomenon where a lot of tech types begin treating discussions and conversations as adversarial pursuits instead of collaborative exchanges. I definitely recognize that behavior in young me.

It has a side benefit of being a subtle intelligence signal if you're the "what about" person, i.e. "I saw the gap/flaw that OP missed, therefore smarter".

This, I think, is an "I'm smart" feedback loop that promotes more of the same behavior. It's a powerful motivator when you're on sites and boards also populated by ostensibly smart people. No one wants to be the dumb one. So you start to get wrapped up in being the bug finder/doubt-conjurer/"what about"-er.

Enough time goes by with those types being uncorrected and you wind up with comment sections that just turn into TTFC (time to first complaint) races, often by people with no practical experience in a domain save a quick wikipedia search or who don't even read tfa but boy howdy they've sure got some thoughts about that field as a "science" and gosh i can't wait to read them.

Of course this is all just an old man grumbling out a theory on a Tuesday. I'm not sure how to fully solve it and doubt there's a general solution. For myself, I was eventually broken of shitty habits like that through what would probably now be considered bullying. Gotta say though; sometimes it works. Sometimes your brain needs its ass kicked into realizing you're a smart cookie but you're not the smartest, and that's okay.

The old "everything is politics if you really think about it" gambit, eh?