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New comment by shard in "AI Product Management"

shard — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 13:05:16 +0000

Is it me or does this sound like a Project Manager and not a Product Manager? Where is the discussion and negotiation with customers and engineering teams on specs/targets/requirements? Where is the roadmap alignment with strategy and marketing teams? Where is the discussion with research teams on future features? Product managers don't babysit engineering teams on their deliverables. Calling someone doing the work listed on the grandparents post a product manager does not make them one.

New comment by shard in "A Man Who Thought Too Fast (2020)"

shard — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 01:13:04 +0000

Does this formulation work?

You have 6 wooden blocks, each can be 1 of 6 colors. There will always be either (A) 3 blocks of the same color, or (B) 3 blocks of different colors.

Iterating through all possibilities:

6 of 1 color - case A

5 of 1 color, 1 of another - case A

4 of 1 color, 2 of another - case A

4 of 1 color, 1 of another, 1 of yet another - case A and B

3 of 1 color, 3 of another - case A

3 of 1 color, 2 of another, 1 of yet another - case A and B

3 of 1 color, 1 of another, 1 of yet another, 1 of another another - case A and B

2 of 1 color, 2 of another, 2 of yet another - case B

2 of 1 color, 2 of another, 1 of yet another, 1 of another another - case B

2 of 1 color, 1 of another, 1 of yet another, 1 of another another, 1 of another another another - case B

all colors different - case B

New comment by shard in "Caffeine suppresses cerebral grey matter responses to chronic sleep restriction"

shard — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 17:47:39 +0000

I've learned to drink coffee only in the morning. If I drink coffee any time after 12PM, I'm not going to get much sleep that night. Therefore I have limited my coffee intake to medicinal purposes (i.e. as needed in order to stay awake).

New comment by shard in "I Spent a Week with Gemini Pro 1.5–It's Fantastic"

shard — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 15:25:30 +0000

Whatsapp now has an AI chat feature which includes chatbots such as relationship coach, travel expert, career coach

New comment by shard in "Biologists discover four new octopus species"

shard — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 16:48:11 +0000

Joke's on you, we're into that:

Hongeo-hoe is a type of fermented fish dish from Korea's Jeolla province. Hongeo-hoe is made from skate and emits a very strong, characteristic ammonia-like odor

Skates (hongeo) are cartilaginous fish that excrete uric acid through the skin, rather than by urinating as other animals do. As they ferment, ammonia is produced, which helps preserve the flesh and gives the fish its distinctive, powerful odor.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hongeo-hoe

New comment by shard in "Tiger moth jams bat sonar (2009)"

shard — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 13:55:30 +0000

At first read I thought the title was a secure password example along the lines of "correct horse battery staple":

https://xkcd.com/936/

New comment by shard in "Farscape and Henson’s Lasting Legacy (2011)"

shard — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 15:54:47 +0000

Thomas Riker was mentioned again in the animated show Star Trek Below Decks, when one of the characters gets doubled by a transporter accident.

New comment by shard in "Museum of Obsolete Objects"

shard — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 17:39:48 +0000

I still see calculators being used by salesmen to show numbers and results of simple calculations. The most recent at a car dealership two days ago.

New comment by shard in "Rolex fined $100M for preventing its watches being sold online"

shard — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 19:59:10 +0000

Have you heard of the women who would not date men using an Android phone, as well as the kids being pressured or excluded? In some social circles Apple devices are definitely status symbols.

New comment by shard in "The transparent chip inside a vintage Hewlett-Packard floppy drive"

shard — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 14:41:45 +0000

> Given the billion of dollars at stake and thousands of human-years of R&D needed, none of these companies are "winging it"

You'd be surprised. My personal knowledge of one major fab is that they have policies such as regular rotation of employees which make it difficult to maintain institutional knowledge. I have heard complaints from multiple people of their teammates and managers "winging it" to think it's isolated incidents.

New comment by shard in "Bit banging a 3.5" floppy drive"

shard — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 15:09:05 +0000

I remember having to realign my Commodore 1541 floppy drive, which involved a lot of banging sounds if I recall.

New comment by shard in "Gemini AI"

shard — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 23:51:51 +0000

Are there people paying for Google's weather predictions?

New comment by shard in "Canned food went from military rations to fancy appetizers"

shard — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 12:05:04 +0000

Are cans not all lined with plastics nowadays and therefore a source of microplastics and endocrine disruptors?

New comment by shard in "Critically Acclaimed Horror Film of the 2010s or Your PhD Program?"

shard — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 19:27:20 +0000

I don't know how contrarian I am but I thought the movie was about an upside-down world where the women held all the power and the men were oppressed, and when the men tried to change things, the women reasserted their oppression as the rightful thing to do. To me, it's quite a tongue-in-cheek interpretation of feminism actually.

New comment by shard in "Critically Acclaimed Horror Film of the 2010s or Your PhD Program?"

shard — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 19:22:54 +0000

Many also apply to life at certain multinational conglomerates. Although I suppose the pay is better than PhD life.

New comment by shard in "Impacts of lack of sleep"

shard — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 22:02:06 +0000

I have the same feeling regarding much of what you said, with the slight difference that even though my body didn't feel the need to go to bed, strangely enough, after lying in bed for 20 minutes or so, I often fall asleep without noticing any sleepiness before that, just wide awake, and the next thing I know I am waking up in the morning.

New comment by shard in "Impacts of lack of sleep"

shard — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 21:58:41 +0000

I think is a combination of physical activity waking the recruits up and keeping them alert, as well as physical exhaustion helping them fall asleep. I suppose anyone who is chronically unable to stick to that schedule would get weeded out quickly.

New comment by shard in "Pillows to help workers snooze at desk"

shard — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 19:58:38 +0000

I used to go out to my car and nap in the car during lunch, until I started working at a company that was close enough to not need to drive, and away went my nap time. With WFH, nap time is back on the table and I am a happy man.

New comment by shard in "Tire dust makes up the majority of ocean microplastics"

shard — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 19:43:54 +0000

I was in Shenzhen recently, walking around the shopping districts, and I was constantly feeling a sense of unusualness. Eventually I figured out that it was because that despite all these cars and scooters on the road, I felt like I was waking in a forest, as most of the sounds I hear are from people, and the cars and scooters are pretty much silent, since so many of them are electric.

New comment by shard in "Ask HN: Sales Tips for Solo Devs?"

shard — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 20:40:32 +0000

Just want to be clear if you are looking for sales tips (converting potential customers into actual paying customers) or marketing tips (creating potential customers)? Because the tips are very different. As a starter:

For sales, e.g. people who have already landed on your page, you are working on improving your conversion funnel. It could be beneficial to have a high touch process in the beginning for a few to find out what they are looking for, whether they found the info they need on your site, and whether your product satisfies their need or not. (Maybe a survey page? Ask for email and try to talk to them directly?)

For marketing, it's about getting the word out to people who might need your product but don't know about it. Look to creating blogs, engaging in discussion forums of relevance, and creating a web presence where people can find your product easily.