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vovavili··on Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory
It's just sound reasoning. You're confident if you have less reasons to be desperate.
vovavili··on Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory
I would speculate that 10x devs' underestimation primarily concerns their percentile ranking relative to peers, not necessarily their absolute skill. Comparing yourself to the likes of Carmack and Wozniak is what pushes you to become cracked in the first place.
vovavili··on Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory
I can imagine that this is the dynamic which for actual x10 developers makes flexible YC-style startups more appealing than rigid FAANG-level companies.
vovavili··on Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory
"Tend to correlate" is a strictly probabilistic statement, I'm not talking about guarantees here.
vovavili··on Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory
Do your due diligence and research companies that behave in this manner via platforms like Glassdoor. AI makes this process much easier. And always publicly call out companies that do this instead of sucking up.
vovavili··on Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory
These very much tend to strongly correlate. You're definitely more confident in negotiating and counter-offering if you have 10x skill as your leverage.
vovavili··on Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory
Companies have bureaucracies and bureaucracies are very much budget-constrained.
vovavili··on Digital minimalism
As a person who almost certainly has ADHD, AI has done wonders to my social skills. You can either analyze what went wrong when you accidentally blurted out something somewhat inappropriate or pre-plan your presence in a social setting to avoid a costly faux pas, e.g. in job interviews or formal gatherings. Most pre-AI advice on the Internet for these situations is either very heavily NT-coded (blogs, self-help) or has very strong social desirability bias (forums with an upvote system).
vovavili··on Python's experimental JIT to be removed
The biggest winner from AI indeed appears to be Rust.
vovavili··on Bringing uv and ty together
Where is your evidence?
vovavili··on Bringing uv and ty together
>If you want speed and strict conformance, Pyrefly and Zuban are better

Not sure if that's true.

vovavili··on Bringing uv and ty together
I'd imagine that, for a substantial percentage of these, part of it is to avoid negotiating and bargaining over an additional tool in your CI arsenal, especially in bigger corporate environments where these sort of conversations are dragged through layers of non-technical middle management.
vovavili··on Bringing uv and ty together
Projects that use ty for its type checking but something else than uv for managing dependencies are probably in a very tiny minority of users.
vovavili··on Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust
That is a confidently incorrect assertion.
vovavili··on SimCity, but with Permits
https://iep.utm.edu/fallacy/#StrawMan
vovavili··on AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right
Article without the e-mail wall: https://vovavili.github.io/afd-leak-article/
vovavili··on There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]
I hope you understand that you're essentially conveying an image of a mathematician as a rent-seeker.
vovavili··on There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]
>Imagine waking up one morning to find that an alien technology has solved the problem you had dedicated your life to

I would be ecstatic.

vovavili··on Tesla Roadster
I don't envy your reading comprehension.
vovavili··on Tesla Roadster
I would argue that neurotic bureaucrats forcing everyone to share their excessive worries are rent-seeking at best and actually-not-intelligent at worst.
vovavili··on Designing more efficient quantum circuits with Claude
The link got slashdotted.
vovavili··on Tesla Roadster
Says more about the EU than about the Cybertruck.
vovavili··on How to make System 1 LLMs show System 2 competencies?
Feel free to substitute these terms for "default mode network" and "execute control network" if you're looking for rigor.
vovavili··on How to make System 1 LLMs show System 2 competencies?
It'a probably obvious to you because of cultural osmosis.
vovavili··on Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?
I have made an observation and allowed the intellectual heavyweights persuade much better those who observe otherwise. Seems quite close to what academics call a "citation".
vovavili··on Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?
I would encourage you to consult the aforementioned figures if my observation is not shared by you.

- https://www.optimallyirrational.com/p/how-ai-will-revolution...

- https://philpapers.org/rec/ELSHAS (via Sci-Hub)

vovavili··on Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?
You are explicitly responding to a person who is not in that 99.9%.
vovavili··on Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?
>That said, I don’t agree at all that authors are incentivized to be obscure. That is a typical criticism from people that don’t have actual experience in the field, but are just repeating culture war tropes.

People like Jon Elster and Lionel Page much be culture war ideologues, I see.

vovavili··on Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?
Academic philosophical arguments are enormously wordy. A bulk of points academic papers try to convey could be cut dramatically short, but then passing peer review would be challenging. Authors are thus incentivized to signal erudition through hard (analytic) or soft (continental) obscurantism. Being educated (read - socialized) in this environment would only hurt a person already predisposed to being too wordy.

This may not be the case for historical philosophical arguments. And while these are enormously influential from the standpoint of history of ideas, from the standpoint of a contemporary observer most of them contain trivial logical mistakes.

t. majored in philosophy

vovavili··on Pg_vectorsearch: An index that is faster than pgvector's IVFFlat and HNSW
Points 2 and 3 would probably apply to every interesting bleeding-edge Postgres extension out there.
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