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On a recent episode of the All In podcast, one of the hosts made a remark along the lines of "in the future [when AI has replaced the knowledge worker], insatiable demand will exist for people who are experts in querying NLPs." I think we're seeing that here.

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Totally. I opened the site and thought "Ok this is cool," but didn't get much further.

This product gives me the same sketchy vibes as Mighty[1]. There's absolutely no way I'm going to give up one of my most sacred tools to a funded company whose going to expose my every click.

[1] mightyapp.com

I wondered the same. Then I realized it sends out requests to googleapis, segment, and sentry. Imagine having data on every dev's terminal workflow? Ca$h.

Has anyone pivoted out of tech completely? What was your experience like?

Very cool

Recently joined a FAANG and did this same thing last week. 0 chance I'd install company software on my personal device.

tl;dr:

Silver: "Shit... I was so close to Gold." Bronze: "Damn, I medaled!"

In large-ish meetings (3+ attendees), I usually turn off my camera (and mute my mic) when I'm not the one talking. For less formal meetings I might relax this. But, in general, I've found that keeping cameras and mics on at all times usually derail meetings.

If, like me, you're interested in the subject matter of this book, I recommend reading The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis instead.

https://maps.org or, more specifically, https://integration.maps.org

This is my thought as well. I get the "make productive engineers even more productive" angle, but productive engineers' bottleneck isn't coding. Sure, coding up a boilerplate Go web server is tedious, but I have done it so many times that it takes me two seconds now.

On the flip side, coding can be the bottleneck for the worst kind of coder. When I first started coding, coding was hard simply because I had very little reps and was just learning to understand how to code common solutions, data structures, libraries, etc. Fast forward a few years and, if I were still struggling to understand these concepts, Copilot is a lifeline.

Remote coding interviews just got 100x easier.

I had a similar experience after switching companies (to remote) last year. Work computer has no personal accounts/services. iPhone (and personal Mac) has no work accounts/services. No Slack, calendars, etc. I made it clear up-front that I am not available before 8AM and after 5PM M-F, but very available during work hours. Best decision I ever made!

We actually do know what, or who, the denominator is. A large majority of tweets come from a small minority of tweeters: roughly 10% of tweeters account for roughly 80% of all tweets on the platform [1].

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/04/24/sizing-up-tw...

Secretlab.co makes fantastic chairs!

Did we just become best friends?

For those looking for more info and practical advice on this topic: check out the Huberman Lab podcast. The host, Dr. Andrew Huberman, spends four episodes talking about sleep. He actually draws a lot of research from the folks at UCSF (mentioned in the article).

This was exactly me last night. After four hours I realized I'd had a headache the whole time (from four straight hours of screen-time), and yet, my lizard brain snatched the reigns right back before I could make a decision to put it down or continue scrolling.

I am really impressed by the ideas here. I read the whole thing from top to bottom (rare) and I was shaking my head yes the whole time. Bravo. I hope Apple implements all of this.

Taking a 10-20 minute break to practice non-sleep deep rest immediately following a period of intense focus (~90 minutes or so) has been shown to increase rates of learning of whatever you were doing during the period of focus.

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I've had a stance on this for awhile that paying ransoms to hackers is no different than cooperating with terrorists. Like others have mentioned here, this is a national security issue. CMV.

Not OP, but I have ADHD and would love to chime in here. I love programming on meds and I hate programming on meds. Meds connect the dots, but meds also over-engineer everything. Then the meds wear off and I am stuck with a huge solution and I have no idea what I just did.

"If you're going to shoot the king, you'd better be god damn sure you kill him." - Jack Barker

Omg

Or, an alternative title: Is Water Wet?

This product would make more sense if they defined "consumer" as "engineer-inclined consumer". Swapping parts will drive the everyday consumer away from this product.

> It is interesting how manufactured distraction-free sessions like yoga, meditation, paid retreats, have emerged to fill the demand for idle time. We’re forgetting how to unplug unless it’s a product or service that we can buy.

I never thought of it this way, very interesting. But it's not surprising. There's obviously a demand for these types of products.