Given the geographical locations of some of your people, is it fair to say that you might accept applicants from a number of different time zones?
Yes
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This is one of the big reasons, I think. I hear about Usenet all the time, but whenever I try to go looking for it in the past to figure it out, it just makes no sense to me and I cannot figure out how to get to it. To me it's just this nebulous thing that exists somewhere, but I have no idea where.
Go to telehack.com and type 'notes'.
It's not comprehensive, but will give you a taste of the flavor of what Usenet was like.
osswid commented on What is ChatGPT doing and why does it work? writings.stephenwolfram.c... · Posted by u/washedup
In the days when Sussman was a novice Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6. "What are you doing?", asked Minsky.
"I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe."
"Why is the net wired randomly?", asked Minsky.
"I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play"
Minsky shut his eyes,
"Why do you close your eyes?", Sussman asked his teacher.
"So that the room will be empty."
At that momment, Sussman was enlightened.
-- AI koanMinsky and Sussman slaving away in front of that apocryphal PDP-10 in 1970. And 50 years later…last November..suddenly BOOM. Everything they yearned for comes into view.
osswid commented on What is ChatGPT doing and why does it work? writings.stephenwolfram.c... · Posted by u/washedup
In the days when Sussman was a novice Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6. "What are you doing?", asked Minsky.
"I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe."
"Why is the net wired randomly?", asked Minsky.
"I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play"
Minsky shut his eyes,
"Why do you close your eyes?", Sussman asked his teacher.
"So that the room will be empty."
At that momment, Sussman was enlightened.
-- AI koanosswid commented on You can list a directory containing 8M files, but not with ls be-n.com/spw/you-can-list... · Posted by u/_wldu
ls -f
osswid commented on It feels lonelier at the top with everyone working from home ft.com/content/c6ba4621-d... · Posted by u/mnming
Apart from saving money, another aspect of their reasoning iirc was that paying a single rate would create a very lopsided team in terms of geography: the company would be offering the “best” salary to employees in the lowest cost of living places, and so the incentives would lead these places to be dramatically over-represented relative to higher cost of living places. That’s the theory anyway.
I haven’t heard people in favor of geography-agnostic salaries address this concern, which seems legitimate from the company’s perspective. I suppose there are tradeoffs either way.
But why is this bad? Let people choose how to spend their money how they want. On geo, on food, on trips, on saving..on whatever. Pay them for their work, let them allocate their spending as they wish for their own priorities. Why does it matter where they live, or where groups cluster? Seems like a fear-driven response.
osswid commented on Build Your Own Weasley Location Clock github.com/randomstring/W... · Posted by u/randomstring
Well done! This must have been a massive project. 1000 hours?
Don't miss the project photo album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/7yxiuzpsFReUh5Yy5
osswid commented on Procrastination is about managing emotions, not time bbc.com/worklife/article/... · Posted by u/clouddrover
"Especially if the future fun is experienced by someone else."
I'm always reminded of the commercial where the young man saves up his money and works hard so his much older self can fly first class somewhere. I always think the same, this could be some other version of himself, does it make sense to give this your future self?
“The pennies you save will be the dollars your widow’s husband spends.”
osswid commented on How Much Land Does a Man Need? (1886) online-literature.com/tol... · Posted by u/utopian3
>There's a common saying that you can't take your stuff with you when you die, but you can't take your memories or relationships either.
The only thing of value we leave behind is our artistic creations. Whatever Javascript adware or trendy C replacement you're hacking on will be obsolete before you finish decomposing. All your "experiential purchases" like travel, relationships, etc. will be gone in a flash. The only thing left will be the art you created. The art you created is of course not entirely your own, it's essentially a restatement of the world cultural traditions, but through the lens of your life experience in a way that only you could create.
Why is it important to leave something behind?