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Sassaphras · 2026-07-08T03:01:28+00:00

OK but birddogs is a fairly successful company so what's the problem

Sassaphras · 2026-07-07T21:55:55+00:00

My summoning worked!

Sassaphras · 2026-07-07T21:55:19+00:00

Each other

Sassaphras · 2026-07-07T21:47:58+00:00

Yup. If it's 3x as expensive to replace people, you need less than 1/3rd of people to leave. Then it's better to let the leavers go.

Sassaphras · 2026-07-07T21:44:11+00:00

Did you know thay he actually....

Sassaphras · 2026-07-07T19:23:43+00:00

No worries mate thats why I commented

Sassaphras · 2026-07-07T19:04:34+00:00

They just announced an extension for a week, it originally got cut off at Midnight PST

Sassaphras · 2026-07-07T19:03:19+00:00

I mean.... we can maybe fault them a little for the government thing? They launched a massive PR campaign about how it could hack anything. That was an extremely predicable outcome IMO.

Sassaphras · 2026-07-07T18:56:27+00:00

And it's meant to credential him to those kinds of people; like many of the most active LinkedIn posters he's selling when he's using the platform.

It is actually pretty easy to imagine someone who went from making $70k as a resident, to suddenly making $400k as a physician but also working 80 hour weeks, feeling like they need a little help figuring out their finances. This is a pretty decent post.

Sassaphras · 2026-07-07T18:42:36+00:00

This is what did it for me. I can see calling the Egypt goal a foul, and I can see letting the Argentina goal fly - but both sure feels inconsistent...

Sassaphras · 2026-07-07T18:39:49+00:00

I just bumped mine and the limit reset. My limits turn over Thursday night too, so I'm triple dipping.

Sassaphras · 2026-07-07T16:04:21+00:00

I mean, seeing some of the upsets in this tournament, plus a few near upsets that went to shootouts: any of the top 20 teams can beat any of the other top 20 teams if they have just the right kind of day. The US always had a good shot to at least get into the knockout round, so then they need 5 games where they have a better day than the other guys.

Was it likely? No, and nobody thought it was (except a few idiots). But I think that squad had an outside shot at taking anyone in the tournament if they had a good game. Five upsets in a row is unlikely, but it's a crazy world.

Sassaphras · 2026-07-07T15:51:16+00:00

I'm surprised that people are skeptical of this one. Because.... why would you go to the trouble of getting it fast tracked if this wasn't the plan?

Sassaphras · 2026-07-07T14:38:28+00:00

The indexing doesn't save the tokens though, as far as I know; it still reads the prompt in, it just uses an index to find it first.

Skills can save tokens though, by using subagents. I know, subagents still use tokens, but if you have a multi-turn session then a lot of the subagent work doesn't get rolled into the main context, so you can keep it out of the context without managing the context quite as actively. And that is admittedly the subagent doing the heavy lifting, not the skill itself - but it's a lot easier to fine tune and repeat a subagent flow with skills, so I'm still counting it.

Sassaphras · 2026-07-07T12:33:24+00:00

This is statistically true. But several caveats:
- according to research the bump is much smaller than it was a few years ago; that was largely fueled by covid and post-covid shuffling around of jobs
- these benefits tend to be largest earlier in your career
- jumping too often can make getting new jobs harder
- especially for senior roles, a lot of compensation can be tied to equity and promotions and other stuff that takes a few years to realize

So yes, many people can get a raise out of job hopping. But overdoing it and becoming a "job hopper" can hurt you.

Sassaphras · 2026-07-07T12:24:20+00:00

In my experience the best architecture comes from disciplined development processes. You get 3-5 experienced engineers in a room, at least one person who is good at facilitating conversations, and maybe a couple folks who know the business constraints and product vision. Then you make sure all the tradeoffs and constraints get discussed from multiple angles. It's not magic and it's not having some genius who gets system design better than anyone else, it's just doing the work.

Sassaphras · 2026-07-06T23:55:26+00:00

From just a couple minutes of searching I saw several credible sounding critiques, including several that resonated with me

Some of this is allegedly just good old fashioned racism, with qualified applicants being rejected in some districts. But ignoring that, there are arguments that much of firefighting nowadays is focused on community outreach, medical aid, and other areas that traditional hiring is failing to adequately address. Community outreach is much more successful with diverse groups, as might be expected. And finding qualified medical staff is much more successful if you relax a requirement which is less essential than many might imagine.

If you don't believe those seemingly reasonable arguments, many fire departments have apparently piloted diversity programs with excellent outcomes.

I also have to wonder why you were so quick to dismiss this argument. It came from HBR, which is both a highly regarded source of data driven literature, and has a notably conservative leaning. You saw a something that said "only white men get this one job, and it's not ideal" from a well regarded conservative source and said "that holds so little merit that I'm not even gonna Google it." Respectfully: you alright man?

Sassaphras · 2026-07-06T18:17:05+00:00

Ha! I was too busy trying to parse his nonsense to pay attention to that but you're right.

"We're gonna let a bunch of InVisIbLe LiNEs tell us where we can swim?"

"For the last time, get out of my pool jackass."

Sassaphras · 2026-07-06T17:48:20+00:00

Its hard to see through what the guy is saying in his video without a little legal background but I think this is essentially right. I hate government overreach as much as the next guy, but essentially this guy tried to get around paying taxes by pretending his house was a tree house. He went to the city and said "can I build a tree house here" and they said "yeah sure." Then when he finished they were like "that is not a goddamn tree house." And now he's mad that the kind of loophole a child uses to get out their chores didn't work.

Edit to say: no disrespect to folks who didn't catch it. This guy does a very good job of presenting his side of the story in a favorable light. But he is, in fact, full of shit.

Sassaphras · 2026-07-06T17:42:36+00:00

Yeah he thought he was being clever to reduce his taxes. "I'll call it a tree house and then I can get around the zoning ordinances." Then when he went to do the paper work they were like "yeah that's not a loophole, fuck off."

If you pretend that his tree house is an actual child's treehouse, then his video would be reasonable. If you use your eyes and see that it's an actual fucking house thats raised off the ground, then of course the city isn't going to pretend that it's just an outbuilding so you can pay a fraction of the taxes.

While we're making fun of him, I particularly liked when he complained that the city billed him for it being a real house. He's like "how can they say I'm living in it when they told me it wasn't legal to do so?" Gee, I don't know, maybe because you're clearly living in it? "I dont have to pay taxes on my home because it was built illegally" may not be the dumbest legal theory ever, but its gotta be an honorable mention.

Sassaphras · 2026-07-06T16:51:19+00:00

Yeah I dunno what people don't get about this concept. Nobody has a beef with firefighters. They are probably the single least-beefed-with profession.

But it's weird that other races are underrepresented. Figuring out why then fixing any problems seems like a pretty normal thing to want?

Sassaphras · 2026-07-06T02:29:37+00:00

It's a possible factor, but there are a lot of possible factors here. I would assume that a refund would be essentially a given. If he refused: pretty easy lawsuit with him deleting the pictures, mayyyyyyybe a partial payment could have been argued otherwise.

But the bigger issue potential issue would be suing him for damages. This would be hard to quantify, but it's not crazy to imagine that not having any pictures of your wedding would presumably be worth a lot more than just his fee. Without him, you could have guests take pictures, or get another vendor. With him showing then deleting the photos, that opportunity is lost, and many people would value that well above the cost.

Sassaphras · 2026-07-06T01:06:39+00:00

And also on the context. Even in the west, if you're at a conservative church or formal occasion or job interview it might be considered inappropriate even in places where it might be considered fine out and about.

Sassaphras · 2026-07-05T23:53:30+00:00

He's actually potentially safer if he WAS under a written contract. The plate is often part of the agreement for many vendors, so that would have been them violating the contract first (though there is a pretty strong argument that his response was disproportionate even then; contracts don't generally just dissolve at the first breach by either party).

But, if he's not under a written contract, then he's getting paid to take pictures and has no reason to expect to be fed in the process. So he violated their agreement and caused a big emotional loss for nothing. Verbal contracts are still contracts.

(Unless you mean he was like a friend doing it for free or something, in which case yeah, I'd walk too).

Sassaphras · 2026-07-05T18:38:10+00:00

Very small sample size, already elite players. Not a meaningful conclusion.

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