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New comment by GlickWick in "The labor share of income in the US is at its lowest post-war level"

GlickWick — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:03:30 +0000

It's trickier than that. There's a lot of people who are naturally aware of the history behind the word, and it's tough to remove emotion and intent from that history. Sometimes things bother people, and it's nice to understand why before deciding if you should do anything about it or not.

New comment by GlickWick in "The labor share of income in the US is at its lowest post-war level"

GlickWick — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:27:34 +0000

Nah, that's knee-jerk. Don't have a particular horse in this race, just explaining why some people might react this way to the word if they're aware of the history behind it. We as a society can determine whether or not we like certain words in our vernacular.

New comment by GlickWick in "The labor share of income in the US is at its lowest post-war level"

GlickWick — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:25:37 +0000

Nah, I don't care either way. Just explaining to the person why the definition isn't the whole story.

New comment by GlickWick in "The labor share of income in the US is at its lowest post-war level"

GlickWick — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:28:02 +0000

The origin of the word is a bit darker than its meaning, unfortunately. It comes from the Greek word for Uterus. You can kinda fill in the blanks from there as to how it came to its modern meaning.

New comment by GlickWick in "The truth about being a manager"

GlickWick — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:21:41 +0000

That feels tangential to the article and not super relevant. Whenever you're offered something with more pay it'll be your personal decision whether or not the pay justifies the role change or whatever.

Some would argue going from a regular SWE to a Senior, Lead, or Staff is also not worth the pay depending on how it impacts your life.

New comment by GlickWick in "The truth about being a manager"

GlickWick — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:05:45 +0000

That's pretty much the first bullet point

New comment by GlickWick in "It's death"

GlickWick — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 05:21:16 +0000

I agree to the extent that you can impact things around you, but is the general chaos and suffering in the world outside of that sphere really a responsibility? At some point you have to accept you can really only impact the sphere unless you end up being a major historical figure.

New comment by GlickWick in "They’re made out of weights"

GlickWick — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:16:59 +0000

This is a good model. If you take an old ROM dump from a video game, it's just a pile of bits. You don't know what bits represent code, what represent an image, what represent text, etc. You have to analyze them contextually to actually figure out what is code and what is "data" in context, because without context they are truly one and the same.

New comment by GlickWick in "White House Plans Broad Crackdown on Liberal Groups"

GlickWick — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 00:55:12 +0000

I find that hard to believe after watching the FBI shift the narrative like 6 times in a matter of days. They're just fishing.

New comment by GlickWick in "White House Plans Broad Crackdown on Liberal Groups"

GlickWick — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 21:34:36 +0000

Extremely against any kind of murder over difference of opinion, but this obsession with making it look like an evil coordinated group was behind this killing is legitimately one of the larger threats to US I've witnessed in my life.

Making this event into an excuse to crack down on any kind of group opens a door that nobody, left or right, should ever want open. JD and co. are playing a deadly game here.

New comment by GlickWick in "When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines"

GlickWick — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:33:29 +0000

I use Bluesky and literally only see Gamedev content. Unlike X or whatever, I control what I see.

New comment by GlickWick in "Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10"

GlickWick — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 02:28:28 +0000

Warframe works flawlessly via Proton these days. Probably don't even needs Windows anymore if that's all you do.

New comment by GlickWick in "Google offering 'voluntary exit' for employees working on Pixel, Android"

GlickWick — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 18:57:21 +0000

This was common in 2008, during the dot com crash, and in plenty of other industries. Definitely not a new thing.

New comment by GlickWick in "TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday"

GlickWick — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 21:24:23 +0000

There's nothing free-flow about TikTok, though. Like Twitter/X, Instagram, etc it's actually a carefully curated experience that can be tuned opaquely by whoever runs it to control the flow of information. The US took umbrage to this being in the direct hands of a foreign adversary.

New comment by GlickWick in "Ask HN: How to go about reverse engineering and deformulating a beverage at home"

GlickWick — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 19:56:04 +0000

Until you realize "Natural Flavors" does all of the heavy lifting!

New comment by GlickWick in "Say less in your emails, get more replies (2017)"

GlickWick — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 15:33:03 +0000

This is a great case of actually putting in the steps to prove something many people implicitly or observationally assume is true. You only have a few seconds (at best) to grab someone's attention, so it stands to reason that a short email will be more focused and likely to grab their attention.

I'd be curious to see how this works in an internal corporate setting. I tend to notice that 1+ page email blasts about some technical or process change at my employer (who I do not speak for) tends to get ignored. If you ask people if they know about the process change, they generally have no idea what I'm talking about. A quick email that says "Hey we've migrated the schmission engine from forkilate to quantilate, please stop using forkilate by August 7th" tends to get a lot of attention!

New comment by GlickWick in "A WFH 'culture war' has broken out across Europe"

GlickWick — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 15:42:00 +0000

We will see. The EU is more employee-friendly than the US of course, but so far US corps are winning the war there.

New comment by GlickWick in "Viagra improves brain blood flow and could help to prevent dementia"

GlickWick — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 00:30:18 +0000

Wasn't this class of medication originally for cardiovascular issues, and the whole ED mitigation was a happy marketable accident?

New comment by GlickWick in "Google Announces Stealing Part of a Production Language Model"

GlickWick — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 01:04:43 +0000

I think you might want to take a step back and understand the abstraction they were making.

New comment by GlickWick in "Google Announces Stealing Part of a Production Language Model"

GlickWick — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 18:06:00 +0000

I think it's a meaningful comparison still. As a human I can comb through tons of prior art to learn my trade, and that's how we learn most of what we know.

Yes, an AI requires more, but it's still the same basic idea. I'm still not comfortable with using AI to replace artistic functions in particular for a variety of reasons, but the person you're replying to is definitely within the realm of reason.