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linza commented on Open Social overreacted.io/open-socia... · Posted by u/knowtheory

steveklabnik · 3 months ago

Yes, if you are really worried about this you’d want to regularly back that up.

linza · 3 months ago

I read your reply as the scenario from GP is unlikely to happen in practice or has low impact. To me it seems you need to make frequent backups of "your" data to have a copy of it.

Can i run multiple PDSes with my own single identity to not give one provider exclusive power over access to "my" data?

linza commented on Watching AI drive Microsoft employees insane old.reddit.com/r/Experien... · Posted by u/laiysb

sgarland · 7 months ago

Sure, but if the product in question is at best tangential to your core products, it sucks, and makes your work flow slow to a crawl, I don’t blame employees for not wanting to use it.

For example, if tomorrow my company announced that everyone was being switched to Windows, I would simply quit. I don’t care that WSL exists, overall it would be detrimental to my workday, and I have other options.

linza · 7 months ago

True. i didn't mean "not terrible for employees" i meant "not terrible for company goals". Yes, these are intertwined, but assuming not everyone quits over introducing AI workflows it could make Microsoft a leader in that space.

Personally i would also not particularly like it.

linza commented on Watching AI drive Microsoft employees insane old.reddit.com/r/Experien... · Posted by u/laiysb

diggan · 7 months ago

> Depends on team but seems management is pushing it

The graphic "Internal structure of tech companies" comes to mind, given if true, would explain why the process/workflow is so different between the teams at Microsoft: https://i.imgur.com/WQiuIIB.png

Imagine the Copilot team has a KPI about usage, matching the company OKRs or whatever about making sure the world is using Microsoft's AI enough, so they have a mandate/leverage to get the other teams to use it regardless of if it's helping or not.

linza · 7 months ago

Well, what you describe is not terrible way to run things. Eat your own dogfood. To get better at it you need to start doing it.

linza commented on fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find' github.com/sharkdp/fd... · Posted by u/tosh

linza · 9 months ago

I find these tools super awesome, but i never use them beyond trying them out once, because they don't usually come with coreutils or something like that.

Haven't found a way to use these tools in a user-local way.

For my own homemade tools, i put the binary in my dotfiles and they end up in .local/bin and i can use them by default. I can do that because I don't need to update them.

linza commented on Troubleshooting: A skill that never goes obsolete autodidacts.io/troublesho... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

fatbird · 10 months ago

My skill at troubleshooting has caused me to be the goto guy in every project, which lends great credibility and opportunities for leadership. Your pride in your troubleshooting skills isn't pride in a side-quest, it's pride in having a deep understanding of how systems work in general and in the specific.

"Good troubleshooter" might not look great on a CV, but all of your coworkers naming you as the most valuable member of the team, and a natural leader, is worth more than any feature launches.

linza · 10 months ago

The value is in leadership, and being able to avoid certain classes of bugs from appearing in the first place. Troubleshooting just happens to be the skill that allows you to gain the knowledge to lead.

linza commented on Troubleshooting: A skill that never goes obsolete autodidacts.io/troublesho... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

credit_guy · 10 months ago

> Realizing that I spend more time troubleshooting than I do building or doing ...

That's not good. The problem with troubleshooting is that it messes up with your reward system. After you fix a hard-to-debug problem, you feel a sense of accomplishment. Which would be ok, but the problem is that this sense of accomplishment is often time higher than it should be. You go home at the end of the day thinking "well, today I didn't build anything, but it's fine, because I fixed that bug". You are becoming complacent.

If you end up saying to yourself, like the author of this blog here, that you troubleshoot more than you build or you do, then you have a problem. Soon you'll be seen by others as a car mechanic. Maybe a reliable car mechanic. But reliable car mechanics don't get paid a lot.

This might be a controversial take but here it is: being proud of your troubleshooting skills sits somewhere between being proud of your typing speed and being proud of your word document formatting skills. These things never go obsolete, but don't fool yourself into thinking they are gold currency on the job market.

linza · 10 months ago

It's even worse than that.

Making troubleshooting skills a profession in itself makes reliability a property of a specific person or team and not a property of the system. The former doesn't scale.

linza commented on Why won't some people pay for news? (2022) diaspora.glasswings.com/p... · Posted by u/dredmorbius

fritzo · a year ago

I can vouch for H: The incessant upselling. I'd like to pay for the Economist, but last time I unsubscribed, they forced me to wait on phone hold for a half hour, then go through another half hour of verbal upselling spiel, like "have you considered changing to a biannual subscription?". Never again.

linza · a year ago

I'd pay for news, even bad ones. I see it like a donation to the Red Cross or something.

My experience and reasons for not paying anymore are similar. Used to pay for The Guardian for some time, but when they started pestering me about a subscription renewal the whole thing felt a lot less classy. Now it suddenly was about me and not news anymore.

Me too: never again. I would pay for anonymous vouchers or similar where I'm not identifiable to the newspaper, though.

linza commented on Why Vivaldi won't follow the current AI trend? vivaldi.com/blog/technolo... · Posted by u/botanical

imiric · a year ago

I dislike the trend of baking LLMs into browsers as well, but this is not a good strategic decision. LLMs still provide features that users find useful, even if they're not perfect. So if Vivaldi doesn't provide these features based on some philosophical stance, users will just choose another browser. Not that Vivaldi had a significant user base to begin with, but this decision won't help them.

linza · a year ago

Can you name a few LLM-based features in browsers that users find useful?

linza commented on Return to office is 'dead,' Stanford economist says cnbc.com/2023/11/30/retur... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

DoingIsLearning · 2 years ago

The clear agenda divide across different media platforms is interesting.

WSJ, Fortune, FT, all fall along the same line with opinions about all the cons of remote work, or all the virtues of RTO.

Whilst most online only newspapers fall along the opposite end of the spectrum.

Seems like a topic where everyone has made up their mind and will only accept data if it aligns with their world view.

linza · 2 years ago

I found I'm ok with the divide. Both can coexist and in our case it works.

I manage people and anecdotally I see engineers having collectively more output if they are in the office, and they do grow in seniority on average.

The remote folks produce sum-of-its-parts impact and do well, but grow slower and not as much.

More senior folks really benefit from WFH, they have similar performance, but I as the manager of the team miss out on a senior person training the junior folks.

We don't offer remote positions for junior candidates.

linza commented on Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs tuta.com/blog/best-privat... · Posted by u/grammers

8organicbits · 2 years ago

What's your wishlist? Browsers feel pretty complete to me in that I can open all the websites I want to open, and atleast with FF I can easily block ads.

linza · 2 years ago

Are you asking because you have the power to implement some of the missing features, or because you will tell me I don't actually need what i think i want.

1) i never could get password/autofill syncing between several devices working quickly and reliable as in chrome.

2) no app mode in Firefox

3) on desktop i don't like the UI and i would need to install userchrome stuff to "fix" it.