It worked fine for a year and a half after I moved in, then they did some work and suddenly no IPv6. At least I could enable 6to4 on my router, but that has intermittent issues.

As someone who wishes IPv4 would just die, I wish I had options to push back on such nuisances.

I can see an argument around sleeping always being a net loss, since you're never consuming food while sleeping. Sleeping more thus means you may eat less.

Essentially, we were replicating the process that the ISOs used internally. The users of this product were all former ISO employees. The goal was to speed up the process of determining whether transmission costs were going to ruin a project before any money was spent. ISOs take months to do their analysis. The users told me that they were usually looking for $0 transmission upgrades on $50m+ projects.

The grid and contingency files from the ISOs were under confidentiality agreements. This rubbed me the wrong way from a competition point of view. We also had data about projects slated to be built which could take away capacity from our projects.

I could see a SaaS in doing this sort of analysis. It's probably bureaucratic between reselling TARA, NDAs, and maybe legal issues if the analysis was wrong. I have doubts about the market, most of the money is in big projects at big companies that are already doing this sort of thing.

[1] https://www.siemens.com/global/en/products/energy/grid-softw...

[2] https://power-gem.co/software/tara-software/

The engineering work was atrocious looking back. I probably fixed 50 random NullPointerExceptions in my 3 years there this way. But, it was one of the most productive places I've worked at because everything was done simple and there were no barriers between users and developers.

The engineering work was atrocious looking back. I probably fixed 50 random NullPointerExceptions in my 3 years there this way. But, it was one of the most productive places I've worked at because everything was done simple and there were no barriers between users and developers.

It would be nice if the chart would move down or something when you select a post that's lower in the rankings. I had to scroll back to the top after clicking one of the bottom posts.

I'm interested if anyone has an idea of what it would mean for an AI to generate or do something "novel" in the sense of creatively new.

I would consider it commiseration if one were to complain to their coworkers about an HR policy in the hopes of receiving sympathy or agreement about the problems with the policy.

I mess up 50% of the time when I want to open the Google Maps app. I tap the M icon, but that's for Gmail.

Regarding the bank, I assume they will almost always side with the customer, lest they lose their business. There's no nuance, they aren't going to spend much time understanding your logs because there's no upside for them.

Regarding Stripe, I assume they are mostly passing along costs.

Given your chargeback rate, I don't see why you should lose any sleep over this, it's a cost of doing business.

I think it's ideal that some level of commiseration happens, so people can try to find ways to fix problems that can be fixed or accept that they can't. It really depends on the people, relationship, and culture. Some people aren't willing to do anything for anyone else. Some cultures discourage trying to fix anything.

I didn't get the report emailed to me (yet? maybe because I censored my personal details?). Just a popup asking to subscribe. I doubt there's anyway to save more than the cost of the service.

Every three months for 5 years, he would send me some blurb that basically said "NAHWheatCracker is a great engineer. Sometimes he's difficult to work with." We would have a one-on-one to review the performance review. I would ask about the "difficult to work with" part.

My manager wouldn't say who said what. He wouldn't discuss circumstances. He wouldn't facilitate having a discussion with whomever for specifics. It could be an issue that came up once, a chronic problem, or a minor complaint on a bad day.

I wanted something specific to improve on. It wasn't hard to make assumptions, but assumptions aren't clear. Non-clarity drives greater wedges between people. I shut down in conversations lest someone say something to my manager.

The idea of it being made more dehumanizing by having an AI slop out a performance review seems even more depressing. That said, I think bad managers will ruin this process regardless of AI. You can't get much worse than being less than useless.

Paul having an editor isn't a luxury. His essays are edited because it's important for his business. He can easily justify a paying someone.

More to the point, we're contrasting Paul's essays to people who don't have the luxury. Paul's essays could be seen as less genuine, even if they seem wiser.

Garbage collection makes thinking about memory irrelevant 99% of the time. Time saved with AI is spent figuring out what the AI did.

The garbage collector rarely makes itself a problem. AI almost always makes itself a problem.

Developers can go years without thinking about memory if they aren't in a complex environment. AI can't go a day without screwing up.

Garbage collection is very predictable. AI isn't.

Low bar to hit.