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sfgvvxsfccdd··on Walmart exec: 'I've never believed in the term work-life balance'
it’s a very reasonable take: you can’t simply balance work and life at a particular ratio. You must adjust to the demands at the time. Otherwise both work and life will eventually need more than you initially allocated them.

Whether “work life balance” ever meant “fixed work life balance”? For some I imagine. Integration makes it clearer that it’s specifically not that.

(None of this means you should assign “too much” time to work, nor should employers violate labor laws to require you to work without being compensated).

sfgvvxsfccdd··on The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake
“Story is a dying form” is a take all right.

Story having been with us since time immemorial makes me question its correctness.

sfgvvxsfccdd··on AI has a deep understanding of how this code works
This was a pretty spot on analogy. In particular “the manager cannot justify this, but doesn't seem bothered by the fact, and insists that the contractors are amazing” is too accurate.
sfgvvxsfccdd··on AI is a front for consolidation of resources and power
> Office…Exchange

The challenge in competing with these products is not code. The challenge competing in lucrative markets that need a fresh approach is also generally not code. So I’m not sure that is a good metric to evaluate LLMs for code generation.

sfgvvxsfccdd··on Time to start de-Appling
> But I will say that the shutdown of ADP is Apple being on the right side of the geopolitical fight, as inconvenient as that may be to you and me.

Author doesn’t. Not sure who you are disagreeing with.

sfgvvxsfccdd··on Friendly attributes pattern in Ruby
Haters gonna hate. My take: DSLs are a useful way to make code easier to read, and more importantly easier to write correctly. Exploring this space and sharing your learnings is useful and valuable.