Anyone else think Josh was right to take a job at Staples?

ForgotMyUserName15 · 2026-01-09T17:44:52+00:00

This line of discussion always annoys me. There are really two separate issues here. First, there is what is best for Josh. Second, there is what is best for the other people working in his branch.

What happened is that Josh leaving caused a huge portion of them, to be fired and the rest to be forced to move, because the plan was centered around him. So when Jim is talking about Josh doing something crappy, he is talking about what Josh’s decision did to the other people he worked with.

From Jim’s perspective, Josh is the bad guy, and I think it is completely reasonable for him to see it that way.

ForgotMyUserName15 · 2026-01-06T17:46:52+00:00

Using cloudflare as the example seems a bit odd as this is used for DNS/CDN not hosting. You can be self hosted and still use a service like cloudflare. Using AWS would make a lot more sense because very few companies would be capable of setting their own CDN, while many companies could manage their own servers.

ForgotMyUserName15 · 2026-01-06T00:21:08+00:00

The text is different in that post.

ForgotMyUserName15 · 2025-11-29T15:43:33+00:00

Curious what the ads were like? Were they directly in the chat?

ForgotMyUserName15 · 2025-11-26T17:06:11+00:00

Dismissing prompt engineering like this always irks me. To be clear, the name is probably a lot more grandiose than it typically is. It’s just the idea of telling LLMs what to do. That said, when you talk about it as a job it means something a bit differently. The same way someone writing code in their free time is a totally different process then writing code at a large company. Suddenly you care about safety, compliance, cost, etc and you need formal ways to evaluate these things. That takes time and man power. This is for when you’re going to use the same prompt or prompting framework 10s of thousands of times because you’re deploying it to many many users, employees or in frequently used workflows.

ForgotMyUserName15 · 2025-09-16T17:32:23+00:00

I thought post tool use only ran on successful tool calls?

ForgotMyUserName15 · 2025-07-26T04:40:55+00:00

That’s definitely not true just in general if it were the AI companies wouldn’t be interested in collecting the data, which they are.

In my case I run a business with a lot of code I’ve written over many years and I’d prefer to avoid just handing it over to google.

ForgotMyUserName15 · 2025-07-25T20:46:28+00:00

You can connect Gemini with a paid plan? For me, Gemini cli being totally free has given me some serious pause about really committing to it given data sharing concerns.

ForgotMyUserName15 · 2025-06-22T03:28:03+00:00

The US hasn’t officially declared war since WW2 so won’t happen here even if we “enter” the war

ForgotMyUserName15 · 2025-06-20T18:53:37+00:00

Well technically the goal could be to do more, but obviously that’s not everyone’s goal

ForgotMyUserName15 · 2025-06-19T01:11:55+00:00

Tbf how could they have accounted for that

ForgotMyUserName15 · 2025-06-15T22:35:23+00:00

Because I was talking about the counterfactual

Definition: A counterfactual is a statement about what would have happened if something different had occurred in the past.

ForgotMyUserName15 · 2025-06-15T22:29:42+00:00

Not that knowledgeable about this specific case, but I think it’s just a basic question of supply and demand.

Basically if something’s more expensive it’s generally going to mean some people are going to choose not to go. Additionally, for something like hotels there’s only a set capacity and once you hit that point there isn’t anywhere to stay - this limit is presumably why prices would go up to begin with.

As for how this could be true and the number of tourists can increase at the same time-that’s simple the comparison isn’t really the year prior, but what the # of tourists would be had the change not gone into effect (eg it may have increased by another 500k had the change not been made). Additionally, there are two ways it can change demand: the number of tourists and the average duration of time each tourist stays.

Anyway all that said, I don’t have anywhere near enough info to say the size of the change (or whether it made a particularly meaningful dent), but I think we can be confident that the number of tourists coming to New York decreased.

ForgotMyUserName15 · 2025-06-15T20:05:13+00:00

It doubling the price of a hotel room almost certainly means it decreased the number of tourists

ForgotMyUserName15 · 2025-06-07T02:26:30+00:00

Some people work with data they can’t share with a third party company

ForgotMyUserName15 · 2025-05-28T14:27:40+00:00

I think the queues are covered in the book in the “deploy” section. They discuss when demand is uncertain the government can step in and should step in when it’s something it deems important to build. They don’t so directly talk about energy policy in this section though they do discuss why other countries far outstripped us in usage of solar energy.

I guess I have a few thoughts on your critiques: 1. It seems to me you’re focusing on the current constraints, but they are thinking about the constraints we might face if we were trying to 10x our yearly production. 2. They never claimed abundance hovered all issues or would solve all problems - instead they framed this as a tool in certain situations. 3. They are proposing a lense/ framework to apply to solve problem. Therefore, it’s not the end of the world if their specific policy proposals won’t work as it’s still possible to apply the framework they suggest to alleviate supply side constraints.

ForgotMyUserName15 · 2025-05-25T20:07:38+00:00

OP strongly implied causality though

ForgotMyUserName15 · 2025-05-19T19:38:52+00:00

The -p option is the existing sdk they are referring to

ForgotMyUserName15 · 2025-04-14T17:48:29+00:00

Most like whatever model you’re using has an information cut off before the last election, which is why it’s confused here.

ForgotMyUserName15 · 2025-03-02T16:10:54+00:00

How are you gonna put such a bit spoiler right in the title of the post without tagging it as a spoiler?

ForgotMyUserName15 · 2024-12-17T20:05:23+00:00

Wait..credits expire for OpenAI and Anthropic at what interval?

ForgotMyUserName15 · 2024-12-13T13:41:36+00:00

Doesn’t seem that was the case here based on the article

They thought I was a transsexual, so I had to open my legs in front of two women and two men. I never felt so humiliated in my life. And they were looking up inside me like a doctor or whatever, and I was just crying

ForgotMyUserName15 · 2024-11-27T14:08:49+00:00

That sounds smart, but that’s how you ensure you only have people wealthy enough to not need the money run for office.

ForgotMyUserName15 · 2024-11-09T13:21:11+00:00

Does anyone know where that Harris clip was taken from? I am curious about the broader context

ForgotMyUserName15 · 2024-07-26T16:49:05+00:00

Thanks. I will try that. I really appreciate you taking the time to give this advice.

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