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wilde··on Why Cities: Skylines 2 performs poorly
It is very possible to make a game that runs like shit in Unreal. Immortals of Aveum comes to mind.
wilde··on U.S. State Senator Arrested in Hong Kong After Carrying Gun onto Flight
If I put my drink in an unloaded handgun can I have it on a flight now? /s
wilde··on Strong static typing, a hill I'm willing to die on
JustJS would like a word https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r20&tes...
wilde··on Why is it so hard to measure productivity?
They are correlated until you admit to using them in the performance process. Then they’re far too easy to game and become useless. What we haven’t found is an adversary-resistant measure of productivity.
wilde··on Why is it so hard to measure productivity?
This is effectively Meta’s perf process in portions of the company.
wilde··on Why is it so hard to measure productivity?
Your citation is structured vs unstructured interviews. Not overall.

Ugh I can’t find the original source but this concept comes from a 2013 study from Google? Finding old stuff on the internet is hard. https://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-link-between-job-interview-...

wilde··on When tech says ‘no’
What positive effects have you seen?
wilde··on Tesla braces for its first trial involving Autopilot fatality
I hope Tesla pays lots in damages and then keeps improving their systems. If they’re truly below the rate of human error when segmented by scenario there’s no reason for a ban.

I also wish they’d knock it off with purposefully misleading marketing. They have a decent product but for whatever reason their CEO feels like compulsively lying about it.

wilde··on Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf
Check your credit card statement. It’s $13-19 now and steadily rising every 6 months.

And that’s on top of the in-content sponsorships and merchandise most creators are selling.

Nah, happy to steal from Google, the creators are fine.

wilde··on Arguments against IDEs
I might believe the argument more if there wasn’t a typo in the first sentence.
wilde··on Most bosses regret how they mandated workers return to the office
The prisoner’s dilemma of existing residents resisting density thinking it drives up their home price.
wilde··on Most bosses regret how they mandated workers return to the office
Ah yes if only they had a survey to ignore instead of loud employee complaints in Slack telling them this would be the outcome. But nah, that’s just the troublemakers. The silent majority of employees love 2h commutes to reset for the work day.
wilde··on More Than 40% of Japanese Women May Never Have Children
Income has fallen below costs.

Costs: $40k equivalent [1]

Income: $37k equivalent [2]

Combine that with an expectation for women to stop working once they marry and surprise, people rationally find that it doesn’t make sense.

[1] https://www.candyjapan.com/life-in-japan/what-it-costs-to-li...

[2] https://kimi.wiki/work/income

wilde··on Some tactics for writing in public
The author is saying that they want to write things that generate discussion threads of interest to them. You have different interests.

Quick on the trigger is exactly the point of the dig example. The author is reminding you that you have control over what you see and you should use it. Most people have a set of topics they can’t constructively engage in debate over. That’s fine. I’d rather they conserve their energy and keep posting on topics where they can.

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Upvote means I agree. Downvote means I disagree. You might have other opinions about what they should represent but the nature of voting systems is that they trend towards this. Like how I wish people would rate things 3/5 by default rather than 5/5. Sadly only IMDB ended up like this.

wilde··on Replace peer review with “peer replication” (2021)
The pressure to replicate would make folks publish things in forms that are easier to replicate. This cost would go down over time.
wilde··on Replace peer review with “peer replication” (2021)
You can easily look up non peer reviewed papers on arxiv. Why would this be different with replication?
wilde··on ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared for 100k Concurrent Players, They’ve Gotten 700K
Can you start it without a login? They have a launcher
wilde··on Modern action films fetishize the body even as they desexualize it (2021)
Before the first marriage only? Since people can remarry the objection stands.
wilde··on Jeremy Vaught spent 16 years to build @music on Twitter, then X took it away
I mean yes Elon doesn’t want to spend money. Whether he has to would be determined by a court, if the handle owners decided to sue for unfair trade practices or the like.
wilde··on Modern action films fetishize the body even as they desexualize it (2021)
Of course there’s a correlation between number of divorces and number of partners. If you stay married you are less likely to have more partners lol. It’s the reverse of the cause you’re implying.
wilde··on Twist: Slack alternative from the makers of Todoist
Yeah I can turn off notifications in slack too. What are the defaults? If they’re all on by default it sets the expectation of online availability 24/7.
wilde··on Twist: Slack alternative from the makers of Todoist
I’m glad folks are trying things. But if the messaging triggers a sync notification, they probably haven’t solved anything
wilde··on It doesn’t take much public creativity to stand out as a job candidate
Hiring managers are looking for people like themselves. Simon is big on blogging and OSS so he looks for that. This type of bias is especially present at smaller companies where there isn’t much formal evaluation of hiring processes. Hell, some even amplify it with a “culture” interview.

This post didn’t say “I’ve found that candidates with public work are more likely to pass the interview.” Just that he noticed that he’s biased and that could be a good way to get the interview. It’s unfair but if you want the job you could use this to your advantage.

wilde··on A glitch in the SEO matrix
You’re making a few bad assumptions.

1) Google and you are defining spam differently.

2) Spam is adversarial. They have the ability to block spam domains from last week, but it’s an ongoing investment as the adversaries adapt.

That said I do think Google depends too much on human raters who are not customers. It’s caused a lot of drift between the customer’s expectation of quality and Google’s.

wilde··on Ask HN: Could you please brutally review my product website?
* As others were saying “no-code” implies non-tech. I’d focus on “continuous” or “api performance testing on autopilot”.

* Marketing websites need to be mobile first. Your first impression will be on a phone even if the product isn’t usable there. The demo should be a one click on an example domain and you might even fake the formatting.

* Put the case study logos on the home page for social proof

* A much simpler and more useful solution to API testing is to scrape or record latency data from prod. With that data I don’t have to worry about authentication or making sure the automated tests are hitting a realistic account setup. Those are the hardest parts of doing synthetic performance testing and you expect the customer to do those for you.

wilde··on AI weights are not open “source”
Tell that to some illegal numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number
wilde··on Meta developer tools: Working at scale
Yeah compared to not having a monorepo and buying more SSDs. The separate repos are much nicer to work in, but harder for the infra folks to manage. I miss having dataswarm as a separate repo. I will miss IG’s.

I understand the tradeoff. That doesn’t mean it’s “fast”. It’s slow but the other alternatives are slower.

wilde··on Meta developer tools: Working at scale
That’s like saying cargo ships are fast because they carry lots of stuff. It’s still slow in absolute terms to get my stuff from China.
wilde··on Meta developer tools: Working at scale
> Eden is fast. Crazy fast, in fact, if you look at the size of the monorepo.

You’re measuring the wrong thing. The user actions are slow and take several seconds to complete usually. No one gives a shit how big the repo is. They care how long their operation takes.

wilde··on The 'fuck you' pattern (2021)
This is what chargebacks are for.
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