it does feel good to write, especially given i spend most of my time in front of a screen (laptop, phone, tv)... i just wish i had more reasons to handwrite things.

Ideally you could handwrite something and your unobtrusive bionic whatsis would ask you for a directory where to put the OCR of it as a text file maybe with images.

great way to optimize for retaining incompetent busy-bodies.

"let's not focus on retaining efficient, smart workers, but instead focus on people who take 40 hours to do something that should only take 15!" /s

what's wrong with testing in prod? /s

Nothing. Always Be Testing.

But _only_ testing in prod is bad.

how long before ChatGPT answers are actively pushing malware?

this is such a commonly-repeated fallacy. just because something is infinite, doesn't mean everything is possible. the sequence 1,3,5,7,9,... is infinite, and yet it contains no even numbers. there are many such cases.

In this case, the existence of earth is an even number, so I don't see how this is a fallacy.

Take the sequence of prime numbers, with Earth = 2. ;)

>Some of your engineers are already deferring decisions to other engineers

are you saying the ones doing the deferring should be managers, or the ones being deferred to?

The engineers being asked for guidance should have more influence according to the organization's chain of command, since their influence is already being used voluntarily to the advantage of others.

This happens in every organization and you can't really fake it. The alternative to asking another person for help is becoming a low-performing lone wolf. Given the choice, people choose to reveal who they believe is competent.

yeah. a bit suspicious. that's < 5% of the US population. highly dubious.

Seems about right to me, if not high. Keep in mind that this isn't the number of Americans that consume alcohol, but the number of Americans that consume alcohol on a daily basis. People that drink on the weekends, or a few times a week after work, don't qualify. 1 in 20 seems a bit high to me, but within the ballpark.

This thread is fascinating for highlighting that what seems normal to one person seems rare to another.

I'm not sure I know a single "daily drinker". Even the people who had reputations as being heavy drinkers I don't think drank every day. Drinking daily sounds like something someone in recovery would talk about as the final stage of their spiral towards rock bottom before they went to rehab, not something I'd expect 1 in 20 people to be doing.

But maybe I'm underestimating how many people have one glass of wine with dinner or one beer after work.

Before becoming a techie I did construction work and nearly every person drank beer after (and often during) work. It was a way to alleviate the pain from hard manual labor.

Heavy manual labor jobs almost require two beers in the evening if you don’t have a bathtub to soak in.

I forget the exact statistic, but something like 10% of Americans drinks 90% of the alcohol.

For daily drinking? Why is that dubious - most people drink occasionally, not daily.

I think there's a lot of people that drink a glass of wine at dinner maybe? They're not by any means alcoholics but would be included in that 5%, which seems expected I guess.

It's possible that those who drink wine daily, both cluster together and reinforce each other.

Thus, it may seem like a significant proportion of the population from the perspective of someone who does, or hangs around at least 1 such person.

In Hungary, it seems maybe half the male population drinks daily.

Is Starlink going to suffer the same fate as Tesla and X? Willy-nilly org thrashing and "removing 10% of features"?

Is there a better alternative to "the one to beat" spending unsustainably, only to fail once all competitors are too far behind to stay viable?

You could say it’s the living results of that fate already.

Here’s an HN discussion about firing the leads of Starlink[1] early in development (2018). And another in the following year laying off 10% of the workforce[2] (2019).

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18349991

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18888641

> same fate as Tesla

You mean it’s obliterating traditional western competitors but facing stiff competition from China?

Define "obliterating"?

While the Model Y is doing great (global top seller, #5 in U.S. for 2023) it's just one model. If you look at the U.S. total auto sales in 2023, Tesla accounted for 7% of the Top 25 best selling models, while the five brands that did better accounted for a combined 67% (and those brands include Ford, Chevrolet and Ram.)

Tesla's bet is that just a few models with minimal changes over time (outside of software) will be enough to "obliterate" the existing car sales model of making a wide enough variety of vehicle models for everyone's tastes, and keeping those models fresh and new to keep sales going. Time will tell, but it would be surprising for the Western companies to be obliterated, when their top sellers are still pickup trucks (750K F-series sold in 2023), and there's no competition from Tesla (unless you count the 4000 Cybertrucks.)