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I don't know what part of my comment led you to believe I was thinking.

No, I'm not. The company that became the Slack corporation was originally a game studio : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slack_(software)#History

Wasn't Slack a gaming company that accidentally became a chat company?

I guess the glass is 16% full.

Yes, that is exactly what I mean.

Yes of course. But they also have to know that concentrated compute is an attractive target for marauding countries that decide on a whim to bomb you from outside.

Yes. Gemini is mimicking its creators: this is exactly how I experienced speaking to most Googlers.

When I first learned that there were AWS Middle East regions, my first thought was "wow they are more optimistic than I am ."

I like the arrogance present in the title. "Eternal promise" in a discipline that was conceived about a century ago.

I think people feel that once the pool of humans required to do a thing diminishes to the point that their occupation is rare enough to be invisible, that is essentially the same as "fully automating" it.

I have certainly never met anyone who works in "loom engineering" in my entire life.

You won't be downvoted because of double-standards. You'll be downvoted because this is a hard tangent from the current discussion. I suspect you know that and decide to pre-emptively deflect the reason so as to appear the victim.

> or at least a way to set it as default

Ctrl+D?

This sounds like a job I would love.

My experience is being surrounded by people who sleep eight hours a night and then check their ring data or whatever nonsense to convince themselves that they could do better.

Which herbs do you take?

That was my experience as well.

I spoke about it in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnNPRqLVtaM

> Everybody wants better sleep

Bro, as someone who had brutal insomnia for a couple of years and now sleeps "normally" for whatever that means, I can tell you that I don't think about my sleep quality at all. I'm happy to be sleeping.

If you too sleep "ok" for whatever that means, maybe stop worrying about optimizing it and go do something else less insane.

It would never have occurred to me that anyone would want to get these into a Unicode standard. This document you linked is excellent, thank you.

On the flipside, there are a lot of businesses that don't open their digital product to multiple markets or verticals because the cost (in money or focus) is too high. Distribution just got a lot easier, arguably about as easy as it should have been in the first place. If you already have a reasonable moat for your product in a smallish market, going broad is a lot more feasible now. I'm doing it now (with partners who own the core product) and its going very well.

omg thank you!

For the record, the word "qotile" in the domain name is from the game Yars Revenge, one of the most fun (imo) games for the 2600:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yars%27_Revenge

Good answer bro

Performance management isn't rating how people are doing. It's transforming the resources of the company into something that you want it to do. If they want to transform the current state of the company into something that has AI use as a core capability, that is performance management.

There are good books on this: e.g. https://www.amazon.ca/Next-Generation-Performance-Management...

Unfortunately at this scale, when you are this soft on the message, everyone ignores it and keeps doing what they were doing before. Carrot and stick are both required for performance management at this scale. You can argue whether the bet is worth it or not, but to even take the bet, you need a lot more than some resources and a "please".

I have been hospitalized and almost died multiple times from stress-related disorders, so I get it. But as soon as I catch myself putting aspects of my health on the behaviour of other people -- especially for something this small -- it's time for me to start looking inwards.

*runway speculation

> Apologizing for taking time to reply to my email is awkward and makes me uncomfortable.

> It also puts a lot of pressure on me: what if I take more time than you to reply? Isn’t the whole point of asynchronous communication to be… asynchronous? Each on its own rhythm?

This one of those sentiments that makes me scratch my head. If this little thing makes you uncomfortable to the point that you need to write a blog post about it, how do you survive?

If you read this through a synth, you too can record the intro vocal sample for the next Fear Factory album