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I'm no developer, but I took an introductory programming course in uni. I remember for our exam (code a specific game in python), I spent literally days getting nowhere, because I just couldn't figure out how to implement the beginning. One day, out of frustration more than anything, I made a function that was smack dab in the middle of the game with no scaffolding to make it work. That helped me realize its relationship to the next function near the middle, and so on. Before I knew it, the whole game had materialized as if by itself out of my fingertips.

That was the most flow-y state I've experienced in my life.

George RR Martin famously contributed to Elden Ring's lore and worldbuilding.

Where do you keep those to avoid cluttering the "real" backlog? Separate Jira (if applicable) project?

He seems like a genuinely solid dude. I also got lots out of his older blogging and the book Startup Communities, and was surprised by his high email availability for random questions.

Testimony is a form of evidence, and in a judicial setting is often enough to convict without any supplementary physical evidence.

No way - reading this I thought I recalled one of the papers (Starcraft from the Stands). Pulled up my Zotero library, and sure enough, I cited it in my BA thesis almost ten years ago.

What a pleasant coincidence - thanks for the contribution!

> Does that sound so bad, if it's by design?

Not at all. Just important to keep in mind when setting those goals.

If you have five different goals and only need to hit three of them, you're incentivized to focus all efforts on the three easiest ones, and ignore the other two entirely. Or if you only need to hit 80% of each, to go for all low-hanging fruit until hitting 80%, then shift focus.

Non-cynical colleagues will act in as much good faith as they believe the manager is doing when setting the goals. But Goodhart's law lurks everywhere.

Without commenting on whether they normatively should adopt that culture, they should not be surprised if refusal to adapt to that custom results in business failure.

Thanks for that extra info, that was interesting. I've also been taught that viking (víkingur in Faroese) simply means person who lives in a bay (vík in Faroese). But it does sound likely it would originally refer to someone from Viken.

Next year I'll be six. [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/dWfrMMNeK2k

What a coincidence, I experienced this for the first time when falling asleep a week ago. It was clearly inside my head, so first I suspected it was somatic and was quite worried. Some quick googling and I found the hilariously named "exploding head syndrome".

Possibly related, I occasionally get "brain zaps", spontaneous sensations of an electric shock inside my head, also when on the verge of falling asleep. These are almost exclusively described as a symptom of SSRI withdrawal, but that is interestingly not the case for me.

The matter is not in a different universe, but in our universe. Just a different spatial plane of it. Much like a 3D structure intersected by the plane of a 2D universe is surrounded "by itself" in the third spatial dimension. In such a case, the extradimensional matter lines up quite well with the observable.

Mind you, I'm not a physicist, and I'm not (necessarily) proposing this as a serious model. Just an internet commenter riffing on a fun idea.

> And dark matter is just matter from other universes.

This is a fun idea. You can illustrate it by drawing your classic 2D universe on a piece of paper, sprinkle metal dust around, and move it with magnets held above or below the paper. To the 2D creature, matter in their universe seems to be affected by forces from entirely invisible objects, but 3D creatures can observe exactly what's happening. Likewise our "dark matter" would simply be matter on different planes in the same >3D universe as us. We neither see it nor collide with it, but we observe its gravitational pull.

They're so perfectly imperfect, and that's why we love them.

> I hope that by "trickle down to the workers" you aren't talking about technically illiterate workers who are not actively contributing to the automation effort.

I'm talking about every single human being who has been brought into this world through no fault of their own and deserves our empathy on that point alone.

You're right, sorry for the cynical tone. I do hope the level of automation we're aiming for will benefit everyone, not just a few individual owners and us lucky tech workers who have found ourselves in demand lately.

Oh boy, I'm excited for the massive wealth creation of this exponential growth to trickle down to workers.

> Citations are going to be recommended automatically.

I'm sure many of us remember writing assignments, and at the very end hastily finding citations that support what we wrote (No one? Yeah me neither). That could now all be automated.

Just asked chatGPT to find three academic citations supporting the statement that video games cause violence, and I verified that the articles are real: https://chat.openai.com/share/30660d38-fae7-4aa1-97cc-c14ffd...

The reverse could be equally true in many cases.

I think (hope) they mean as a passenger. The various bumps and turns are likelier to throw off your aim on a virtual keyboard compared to a proper tactile keyboard.

I recently negotiated terms on behalf of a group of laid off employees, and one item I pushed on was that they get to keep their laptop. The company said that wouldn't be possible for everyone, because many laptops were leased, and so were not the company's to give. In those cases, they would be given a different but equivalent device.

Lots of possible reasons.

Parking is a service that you receive in exchange for money. Our society has accepted that those who have more money are able to purchase more goods and services.

Fines are not payment for services rendered, but a deterrent for behavior we don't want anyone to engage in. If it doesn't scale, then it's only a deterrent for those who can't afford it.

I'm building my own Large Chair Model with stricter restraints on emergent behavior. I want no part in fueling the rise of sentient chairs.

Similar story, my computer makes a small whine when I move the mouse cursor. Not the screen or speakers, the actual PC. With both wired and wireless mice.

That's just bad discipline on your part. Just because the options are there doesn't mean you have to constantly look at your chair every five minutes.

My company is building a chair that doesn't compromise on features for when you need them, but elegantly hides them away when not in use so you won't be tempted every second of the day. We have room in our A round if you're interested.

> and look at me, im sitting around in a forum talking about bikes.

You're sitting around in a forum talking about talking about bikes. If that helps.

Assuming your core strength is to produce valuable content, you can view it in one of three ways (from the perspective of monetization):

- As the product. Sell access, early access or extra partial access to it.

- As a loss leader. Use it to establish credibility and influence, then advertise for and sell consultancy services using your demonstrated insights through blogging as your pedigree.

- As a generator for qualified traffic. Choose an advertisement format that makes sense for you and your audience. Depending on the exact nature of your blog, this could be standard exchange-served ads (broader audience), direct sold ads (niche but valuable audience), sponsored content (with very clear disclaimers), job boards, affiliate links, etc.

Boblin <3

It took a bit of back and forth before it understood I wanted it to not know. But the final answer made me slightly less worried about its ability to impersonate humans (for another few days of training, at least):

> Sure! As a human who doesn't know pi beyond two decimal points, I'm not sure of the exact value of pi, but I do know the commonly used approximation of pi as 3.14. However, if you're asking for the first 20 digits of pi beyond 3.14, I'm afraid I don't know that information as I don't have it memorized and don't have access to a reference material at the moment.