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overvaleon Seven signs of ethical collapse (2012)

Haha. Yes. Basic risk aversion.

overvaleon Seven signs of ethical collapse (2012)

This matches my experience. Complexity is a real problem. I've found this video does a good job outlining how this happens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp4RCIfX66I

overvaleon Seven signs of ethical collapse (2012)

Is it better to lay off 10 more people and save the money or is it better to keep more people around to deal with the uncertainty of the next 6 months? How do you want to protect the team? With extra people or with extra money?

overvaleon Seven signs of ethical collapse (2012)

> To front-line employees, the line between right and wrong is very bright. Something happens to people as they climb up through management, she said. The bright line seems to fade.

This doesn't seem like a mystery to me. In my experience the more you climb up through management the more you leave the realm of clear-cut choices and enter a world of nasty trade-offs. Do that enough times, and get your head spun around enough by trade-offs you don't know how to navigate but have to deal with immediately, and you'll get a kind of "trade off numbness".

overvaleon Where do fonts come from? Monotype, mostly

Here are some of mine:

https://mbtype.com/

https://fsd.it/shop/fonts/pragmatapro/

https://tosche.net/fonts

https://berkeleygraphics.com/typefaces/

overvaleon Interview: Francis Ford Coppola (2012)

You can now buy a facsimile of that book. https://www.reganarts.com/the-godfather-notebook-special-edi...

overvaleon Uninstall the NightOwl app

    osascript -e 'tell app "System Events" to tell appearance preferences to set dark mode to not dark mode'

overvaleon Rand Turns 75: A Look Through the Decades at World-Changing Research

Seeing is believing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3Ak-SmyHHQ

overvaleon Rand Turns 75: A Look Through the Decades at World-Changing Research

Everyone says that. Been meaning to do it. I'll set a reminder!

overvaleon Rand Turns 75: A Look Through the Decades at World-Changing Research

That’s really cool. There has always been a connection between LA/entertainment and science/research/aerospace. Burbank airport used to be a Lockheed facility, JPL is nearby, etc.

In “Hail, Caesar” it actually makes sense for Josh Brolin’s character, as a studio head, is considering a job offer from Lockheed.

overvaleon Rand Turns 75: A Look Through the Decades at World-Changing Research

Wow. Had no idea. Where did you learn that?

overvaleon Ask HN: What is something you wish you were taught at a younger age?

Experiment more! Try clothes on that you can't afford. Try loosing 10 pounds. Try being super lazy. Stop doing all the normal things you do every day. Try living somewhere else. Try not watching TV/Movies for a month. Try reading 2 hours a day. Try calling your parents every day. Try staying off the internet for a week. Try volunteering. Try traveling alone. Try waking up at 5 AM.

It is very very easy to do what comes naturally and never deviate from that. Break the pattern.

overvaleon Ask HN: What focus/coding music are you listening to these days?

Movie Soundtracks! You can start with all the ones nominated for awards and figure out what you like from there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAFTA_Award_for_Best_Original_...

I tend to like TV soundtracks for suspenseful shows. Action movies/shows are too bombastic generally.

overvaleon Ask HN: Where do you discuss computer related stuff now?

Hacker News. I think too much attention is paid to the front page. Sure, it is my main source of great links, but all the good discussions I've had are on not very popular posts. Try exploring these: https://news.ycombinator.com/lists

overvaleon Ask HN: Will LLMs increase or decrease the value of human-written text?

Call me crazy but I don't think it is possible to overestimate the value of language, especially written language. Language is a tool for communication between humans. An LLM can enhance a human's ability to communicate but it can't take a thought or a feeling and express it in language without a human instructing the LLM on what to say.

In the same way the paper and pen, the typewriter, the telegraph, or the internet changed how people exchanged various kinds of language, LLMs will greatly change how we communicate, but LLMs are fundamentally about generating text - so I would think it would increase the value of very good written language. Hopefully it will also greatly help people who struggle with communicating themselves with written language.

overvaleon What's your favourite unknown newsletter?

The newsletter is just website updates, but I recently discovered https://brr.fyi.

Also, it is probably well known, but I don't ever see it posted here: Liberty's Highlights - libertyrpf.com

overvaleon Ask HN: Anyone using proportional fonts for coding?

I use them from time to time. I'm not working on large codebases with collaborators, just my dotfiles and CSS and stuff. If I was auditing other people's code I don't think I'd want proportional fonts, simply because in code every character matters.

overvaleon The dream of the personal machine

Cyberdecks? - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&query=cyberdeck&sort=b...

overvaleon Panic Among the Streamers

This article is weak for so many reasons (mentioned my others), but I'll just point out this nonsense:

> Netflix could buy 10 top quality screenplays per year with the cash they’ll spend on that one job [$900k]. They must have big plans for AI.

Most films Netflix makes have a budget of over $5M. According to the WGA agreement with the studios writers get paid a MINIMUM of $175k for those films. Which means you could buy 5 of the cheapest screenplays on the market for $900k. But if you think paying WGA minimums will get you top quality scripts you're in for a surprise.

[ref]: https://www.wga.org/uploadedFiles/contracts/min20.pdf

overvaleon Ask HN: macOS apps/utils you can’t live without?

Hammerspoon - http://www.hammerspoon.org

Bike Outliner - https://www.hogbaysoftware.com/bike/

Magic Lasso - https://www.magiclasso.co

overvaleon A simple system I’m using to stay in touch with hundreds of people

Yeah, this happens to me a lot. But I’ve accepted that’s the price to be paid for keeping in touch with certain people. Of course, there are plenty of times when I decide it’s not worth it to be the only one who reaches out.

overvaleon Ask HN: I have $450K cash, what should I do to maximize my return?

Relevant: Remembering John Bogle, patron saint of the amateur investor - https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2019/01/21/r...

overvaleon Stop Taking Regular Notes; Use a Zettelkasten Instead

The solution for me is to keep an index in the front or back of the notebook. Each time I write something of significance I put it in the index.