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This looks great. The decisions feature, and the focus on good async, reminds me of Stride (Atlassian's failed chat product).

Chat is such a social product, even inside a company, as many here have addressed. That said, irc, hipchat, campfire, matrix, slack, zulio, lync, wave, and a hundred others have had their moments of success, and I could see this being on the more successful side.

The Church FAQ 1 year ago

Same -- I still think of Scalzi as a new(ish) SF writer since he started publishing after I was an adult SF reader. Woof, time marches on!

Seems to get it right on my first try. Interesting unreliability.

User: Sally (a girl) has 3 brothers. Each brother has 2 sisters. How many sisters does Sally have?

Claude: To solve this, let's break it down step-by-step:

We know that Sally has 3 brothers. Each of Sally's brothers has 2 sisters. This might make you think that there are 6 sisters in total (3 brothers × 2 sisters each). However, this is not the case. The sisters that each brother has are the same - they are Sally and one other sister. The question is asking how many sisters Sally herself has, not the total number of sisters in the family. Since Sally is a girl, she cannot be her own sister. Therefore, the number of sisters Sally has is equal to the number of sisters each of her brothers has minus herself. So, if each brother has 2 sisters, and one of those sisters is Sally, then Sally must have 2 - 1 = 1 sister. Therefore, Sally has 1 sister.

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I'll make the obvious point that these interviews were not good predictors of success at the companies.

In general, I've found in 15 years of interviews that interviews are not highly correlated with the work at any given company. I wish we would move beyond cargo cult interview styles and base interviews (and screening, for that matter) on the actual work and culture of each company.

I believe we have found the economist.

What's the electrical failure rate of every appliance in your home, and the associated risk of death by electrocution? If you don't know offhand, it might be that you are implicitly relying on UL standards to keep you safe and whole.

Consumers don't have perfect information, so the risk is asymmetric. If you assume the market will sort out risk and quality so we don't need standards and enforcement thereof, I don't believe your model is aligned with reality.

You're GPT famous now. The response as of Apr 28, 2023:

Oral argument indicates property rights likely to prevail in that home equity theft case.

The Supreme Court seemed sympathetic to the homeowner Geraldine Tyler in her dispute over Hennepin County seizing her home. The case is the last oral argument of the Supreme Court's term.

Impressive! I asked, "How did oral argument go in that home equity theft case?" The case, Tyler, was argued in the Supreme Court yesterday.

I don't think the OP was counting on prices to drop; rather, they were waiting for others to be priced out (hence higher supply for them). It's still debatable whether folks will sell in this kind of market, but at least for this buyer higher rates mean less competition on the buyer side.

Dev tools are such an interesting product space. On the one hand, you have a group willing to pay for good tools because they're earning a living using them. On the other hand, it's a population almost uniquely able to and interested in making their own tools.

Just this week I saw yet another new diff/merge tool: https://juxtacode.app/

Seems like a tough market to keep moving up in.

It's amazing how many of the questions and concerns are the same regarding data longevity and portability, the pain of losing part of that exobrain, and the primacy of digital content in many of our lives.

Also noteworthy is how many of those links are dead now.

I've been a long time bookmarker, but recently added rewind.ai to my toolset. Not affiliated in any way (except as a user), but it has been game changing for my augmented memory use cases.