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Learning and understanding is enjoying the ride.

Please ban it for me too thank you

General answer: anything that you're interested in.

You are in the middle of a large body of water. Swim towards any island that looks close. Make sure you get to an island before choosing a different one to swim to. You'll find that becoming a stronger swimmer was the main benefit of the journey.

Personally, after 10 years in the industry, I'm convinced that psychology is going to be extremely important in the coming years. (But maybe this is a budding middle-manager in me talking.)

Depending on the context, probably? During my suspension of disbelief of the narrative, it might make me say "I don't like this destruction!" and to root for whatever might be mitigating the destruction

Why make laws if everyone bad is just gonna break them?

This would make a pretty decent New Yorker cartoon premise/punchline circa 2007

I can agree with the article's framing during performance reviews and periods of heightened scrutiny. But for the day to day, frequent collective appreciation and recognition has mattered a lot to me.

"You did well on this grunge work" is a death sentence only if it's contrasted by silence. Maybe I have a blind spot here, but even if the compliment had to stand alone, does the receiver really have so little agency to not reframe or rebut any unintended consequences of the compliment?

Does frequency cheapen compliments? Maybe. Does every piece of praise need to be so weighty? I don't think so. "Please" and "thank you" might not mean much but I still like it when people are polite. So too effort can be recognized.

There are a few notable inventory improvements, but the most important is that BG3 is much less gear/stat dependent than DOS2. You don't have to sweat trading stats for each slot and character building is simpler (no skillbook type of progression beyond wizard spell scrolls, and that's optional). You'll still get engaging, difficult, beatable combat. The inventory is kludgy and there are a lot of items but it's much less important to focus on than DOS.

No lone-wolf mode made me wonder if the game would be too fiddly for me, but there are other ways to streamline combat. Champion fighters, berserker barbarians, non-arcane trickster rogues are mechanically simple subclasses that are fun to play. 5e is forgiving for party composition in a way DOS2 isn't.

Now we just need this for mdr, en français

Really interesting information here. I’ve definitely noticed that I tend to write significantly more typos when I’m feeling less brain-foggy or distracted.

HN thread about the Ted Chiang piece in question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34724477

Blurriness gets weird when you're talking about truth.

Depending on the application we can accept a few pixels here or there being slightly different colors.

I queried GPT to try and find a book I could only remember a few details of. The blurriness of GPT's interpretation of facts was to invent a book that didn't exist, complete with a fake ISBN number. I asked GPT all kinds of ways if the book really existed, and it repeatedly insisted that it did.

I think your argument here would be to say that being reversible to a real book isn't the intent, but that's not how it is being marketed nor how GPT would describe itself.

I tend to agree with all of the principles here, with some caveats.

What if you find yourself giving so much direct feedback that you're basically rewriting the code via comments, time and time again?

Feedback or instruction that's not super direct has its place - we have to foster independence somehow. If I'm in a lead position, I have to be able to ask you to go work on a bug or think about something on your own, even if I could probably figure out an answer in a short period of time myself.

Trust must always be in the room in order to ask someone to work, whether it's in code review or elsewhere. If that trust is not there, more direct feedback/instruction can help rebuild trust, but it is not the end-all-be-all.

To tie this directly to the example: there may be points where I don't give a suggested name or solution in my comment simply because I haven't thought of one, and the reviewee may need to be able to accept that without them thinking I'm being passive aggressive. (I would do my best to communicate that context in those instances.)

Neither of those things applied to me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Which means going back to work to pay the debt off, just like the rest of us. Got it.

Isn’t it the same for the people “risking” their money? The only “risk” is that they lose their bet, meaning they have to go find a job like the rest of us.

Most recent snapshot on archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20221127025706/https://jungiance...

Sometimes I like a remixed version of a song better than the original.

See the "Tolerance and freedom of speech" section in the Wikipedia link for further discussion of how the idea applies to speech.

Paradox of tolerance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

I've been looking for a tiny mixer with 3 band eq + FX sends per channel for a while to run synths and/or decks through. This look like this might fit the bill. The compressor on each channel is a bonus. I'm not entirely sure if there's alternative products that would work for me instead, but this has my attention.

For sure. We started with Cyberpunk RED actually, but we went to D&D simply because of how much prewritten stuff was out there. We've done a few small jaunts into other systems (mostly PTBA ones) in the meantime too. I've also been meaning to play Ironsworn solo (one day...).

Luckily for me, my favorite part of RPGs so far has been "meaningful stuff can happen anywhere and the gears of this world turn no matter where we put the camera (if a tree falls in the woods & no one is there to hear it, it still absolutely makes a sound)" which feels system agnostic.

I've carried around a certain kind of disappointment about video games ever since I was a kid. I knew I really liked them as a concept, but few stuck and I liked reading game magazines more.

I started playing TTRPGs like D&D with some friends about a year and a half ago. They feel closer to the ideal of what my brain wants from at least some kinds of games.

Somewhere between TTRPGs, reading (esp. fiction), and embracing balance (why have I always been looking for "that one thing" that I can put all my time into, anyway?) I feel I get at least some of what I crave from games.

I need more free time from my work responsibilities so I can think about this very scary question with the gravitas it deserves. Can you give me a day off?

Yes, I don’t wanna give too many personal details but I gave them a lot of solid work for years after that.

Some in the comments suggested a differentiator about my performance gap was my self awareness that I was doing poorly - I certainly had an anxiety problem in general that was getting in the way beyond work too, but knowing my manager really had my back went very far. I knew of course that I could still get fired, but it meant a lot to me that no one was jumping at the chance.

I think if my meeting with my manager went another way I think I might have spent more time looking for an escape route rather than focusing on the tasks at hand. Someone who thinks they're going to be fired can sometimes cause a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Totally get that. I want more money and growth too, but this taught me I need a good boss.

My first leadership lesson looked like this: as a junior engineer I had an abysmal quarter or two. My manager asked me what was going on. After I gave them an assessment of the situation, they said that they believed me and went to bat for me.

Because of that manager's trust and belief in me even in the face of irrefutable evidence that I was doing poorly, I immediately became fiercely loyal to that manager and the organization, and I wanted to work harder for them.

I'm no 10x engineer, but any time I get frustrated with someone else's poor output, I think about this.

It's worth noting that Diet Coke has about 50% more caffeine than regular.

As opposed to you, who is definitely not virtue signaling.