mathgeek

Consider a world with one person in it. That person defines the jobs to be done. As soon as that person is disabled for one reason or another and is dying due to lack of care, there are by definition more jobs to be done than people to do them. "Businesses" and "institutes" are just constructs that exist to summarize those needs at scale.

> The universe imposes strict limits on the math that can exist within it, and certain broader limits on the math the creatures and well-organized sand within the universe can conceive of in the first place, whether or not it can maybe exist in other universes.

When you have a moment, please reference some proofs supporting this.

Net benefits perhaps. It absolutely lets the hiring company get more information by increasing the amount of time spent by the candidate before a commitment occurs.

What are you inferring from that? Interested to hear.

This will always be the problem with trials. Anyone with a job, often underemployed between software roles these days, will be excluded.

Still, it does benefit the hiring company, just not the applicant in these situations.

I think your point on “cutting down on words”, so to speak, is relative to personal writing style. I find that AI tends to write far more words than I personally do, which is sometimes useful, but in the opposite direction that it works for you.

Like the best art, it's left up to the viewer to decide!

Technically, Oklahoma is on the short list of locations that _have_ detonated a nuclear bomb on their enemies in wartime.

I wasn’t addressing your point, correct. Just helping you be more accurate.

Much respect for being able to admit that you haven’t used a model in a while after saying folks probably haven’t used the models you use.

For me, this art form is one of my “saw it many times growing up and assumed they did it everywhere” experiences. It fascinated me as I grew older and realized I was just lucky enough to experience it (the later sculptures along the East Coast in the 80s-00s).

Planned obsolescence is absolutely to the benefit of corporations if those goods are being rented. Non-durable goods are inherently profitable to rent out at above the cost of outright ownership, because then the companies involved can double dip on the consumers paying the costs of producing the good as well as claiming depreciation on the good the company still technically owns. It's a similar concept to why owning durable goods and renting them out to consumers is so viable.

I imagine you're looking at it from the avenue of "if those goods last longer, they can be rented for longer", but having to manage and store more durable goods after consumers have moved on to newer and better things is a considerable cost. A good that has to be returned is often better discarded, from the company's point of view.

It certainly feels like this is an intrinsic friction point in a world where more and more of the actual code is written by AI. I know in my workflows, reading a design doc of any length is a big tradeoff of time that could be spent building. Which isn't a new problem to have, of course, but as the time from plan->code->review->deploy keeps racing downward, "reading design docs" feels like it's ripe for disruption as far as how much time and attention it takes.

> The religious retort to that…

_A_ religious retort. Also it’s not a binary “lots of kids or no kids” spectrum.

I really enjoyed working with imagemagick back in the day. Really did feel like magic to be able to manipulate custom images dynamically.

Makers rediscovering the joy of hobbies is a thing that I'm all in on and here for.

It’s the units that make it seem unintuitive. 12 days is roughly 0.032 years, and 17 minutes is likewise 0.000032 years. It’s relative to how we were taught to view smaller lengths of time. Of course you could argue measuring time by the rotation of heavenly bodies is more intuitive than counting on your fingers for the hours in a day and days in a lunar cycle.

Not to downplay the risk, but I reckon it’s human nature to embrace the benefits and ignore the risks.

> As our weather grows more extreme, the stakes grow higher.

Never let a good crisis go to waste for marketing, especially if the product you're promoting is contributing to exacerbating it.

Both, in a way. In order to be sure it's the skill reducing token usage, you measure it with and without the skill, and then you do that periodically to account for all the other variables.

Alternatively, you pick a belief based on prior evidence from either approach you mentioned, which is the natural thing that many of us do.

> Add to that videogames, comics/manga, TV shows, etc, and I literally just can’t get bored anymore.

It's a bit strange to me (and I figure I'm just unusual in this respect), but all of those things lead me quickly to boredom these days. It's the brain rottenness of it all that leads me to be bored, and in a way I'm thankful for it. I find that even compared to my childhood, I'm more bored today than I've ever been.

Definitely, but it would be silly to say not needing to eat is a luxury. Not starving, perhaps.

> The real luxury, for any age, in general, is in not having dependencies and needs.

Fewer. Everyone will always have some dependencies and needs.

Personally, I pity anyone who sees a desire to be loved as a weakness. That’s quite literally a lesson taught as a trope about being a good person vs an evil one.

I’d be interested to see the data for that claim, since I would imagine a strong correlation between glp use and lower body fat.

I read the introduction as referring to the effects on those regions that gave up their status as members of the empire, rather than what you’re saying.

I wonder how many are like me and just use it as a terminal and changes previewer.

That's what I took away from this as well. Headline is clickbait but at the end of the day there are uses for these instructions.

True, but only a little bit each time you read it.

Have always loved cookingforengineers. We should really just be linking to it directly instead of whatever this “having to scroll through a life story f other people’s tweets” spam is.

“Sorry y’all, now that I have mine I gotta say, not worth the price”