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They have genetic markers for all these? Any good test recommendations?

They call this factoring in the trucking industry.

The customers of distributors are retailers. They’re not killing the retailer. They’d be killing the supplier in this scenario.

This is pretty cool!

Compensation for FOSS engineers is so broken. So much economic value gets created and rarely any of it is captured by the creators. It’s infuriating.

This resonates. I’ve noticed my work goes in cycles. Part of a cycle is the actual implementation (where all this boilerplate work resides). I can’t wait until this mindless work is no longer a burden and I have free cycles to do more interesting things.

Can you elaborate on this window you reference? Or can you list any terms that I can use to read more about this? I'm really interested in learning about the limitations. Is this just a resource constraint or an algorithmic constraint?

So instead of gaming backlinks, you’re gaming volume of content online (ie. training data)

They’ll get better

“Now” appears in a huge number of these…

Some of my best friends started as work colleagues. Very bonding working really hard with people you respect on problems you’re passionate about.

Also, absence of problems isn’t a metric that leads to recognition from leadership (unless you’re inheriting a problem with the explicit mandate of fixing it). How do you attribute cause to the absence of problems? Would they have never existed anyways (in which case the opportunity cost was a bad decision)? Or do they not exist because of your efforts? It’s unfortunate, but the system doesn’t incentivize problem avoidance; only problem solving.

What problems would you pay to have solved for you that don’t already have a solution?

> Now if my manager would look at the number of lines of code I would still write the stored procedure, however, rather than auto executing the SQL code, I would just copy and paste the auto generated code into my Python codebase increasing my LOC for that week.

Not everyone panders exclusively to optimizing grading metrics. I wouldn’t do that even if my manager looked at lines of code because I care about the quality of my work. I’m confident a lot of people share my sentiment.

Fruits have other vitamins. And aren’t they also a good source of antioxidants?

Can’t you still benefit from sunlight with sunscreen on? I wonder what the risk curve for skin cancer from sun exposure looks like.

Biking results in high cortisol? Doesn’t exercise reduce stress hormones? I’m assuming you’re saying exercise causes short-term spikes in cortisol?

Wasn’t he a sexual predator?

Everyone feels this way. It feels like such a market inefficiency (which a company could arbitrage to get top talent). But the fact that this inefficiency never goes away makes me think I’m missing something. I usually just chalk it up to the majority of engineers not understanding the basics of startup equity (or expected value and failure risk… idk). Regardless, the end result seems to be that there’s an adequate supply of labor. So much so that the pressure which would correct this inefficiency is sufficiently mitigated. It makes no sense from a risk/reward perspective that an “founding” engineer is making 1/100th of a founder. They both have the same level of risk.