@dys_morphia Get a good view on the flight?

@dys_morphia Give me a shout if you're in Portland OR, I'd love to take you out to lunch (or other more convenient meal)!

@dys_morphia Battery lockin is the worst. Very high on my list of things I want to see government regulation applied to. We fixed this with cell phones, surely we can also fix it with power tools!!

@dys_morphia Plus, so many problems are dead simple to fix! I had several squeaky doors and my dad showed me that a few drops of mineral oil on the hinge pins makes the problem go away for a long time, for instance.

The hardest part is usually just figuring out the fix in the first place. But that's also fun, some of the time.

@dys_morphia House DIY is extremely satisfying, I highly recommend it.

As a bonus, you get to justify the purchase of fun tools, which make future DIY even easier!

@dys_morphia I love my electric leaf blower, and I've never come close to running the battery down while using it. Fantastic tool, highly recommend.

@dys_morphia I did this last year and was surprised at how easy it was. Whole thing just kinda falls together after you get the screen cut to the correct size.

@danluu Do you think there's an opportunity to use a third party LLM to scan all the available reviews for a product across multiple platforms, filter out the obvious BS, and look for features a particular user might care about?

I've definitely used them to find and summarize reviews on non-text platforms like youtube and have been pleased with the results.

@benjojo 😂

@dys_morphia What's the number?

@dys_morphia The most relevant instance of this that I can think of is watching election cycle debates, conventions, or rallies. I can't see the purpose in engaging with those when they're entirely for show and they definitely aren't going to change your mind about anything you care about.

@dys_morphia

2) Would I be interested in this information if it was two weeks out of date? That is to say, if I was waking up from a two week coma, would I consider it important to re-read all two weeks of stuff that I missed? If it falls into irrelevance that quickly, why should I pursue it today?

@dys_morphia

I have a few useful heuristics that I like to employ:

1) Is the information I'm seeking going to change my behavior? If not, why am I pursuing it? If <latest political scandal> isn't going to change how I vote or volunteer, what value is there in knowing about it?

I have a few useful heuristics that I like to employ:

1) Is the information I'm seeking going to change my behavior? If not, why am I pursuing it? If <latest political scandal> isn't going to change how I vote or volunteer, what value is there in knowing about it?

@dys_morphia I'd also argue that you're not obligated to "be informed", especially when the information you're neglecting has a half life of 2 or 3 days.

It's okay to only check in on the world outside your personal experience once a month. You won't miss anything truly important.

In fact, you'll likely have a better grasp on the true nature of things than those that obsess over minute-by-minute minutiae.

@ifixcoinops Ah yes, email.

@sawaba @dalias @hal_pomeranz If productivity and value are so hard to measure, how is it then that you are able to so confidently claim that "most people could stop showing up to work and there would be zero impact"?

What is the source of your unique insight?

@hal_pomeranz @sawaba @dalias

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@sawaba @dalias @hal_pomeranz Essentially, anyone claiming that a majority of jobs are not needed needs to also explain why the entities hellbent on maximizing profits continue to employ all these people. Why have *none of them* woken up and realized they could fire half their employees without any impact on their bottom line?

@sawaba @dalias @hal_pomeranz If the majority of workers aren't necessary, why isn't ownership aggressively culling their workforce? By far the biggest expense of most corporations is their payroll, shouldn't they be hugely incentivized to reduce it, especially if they could drop it by >50%?

And yet, we only ever see companies perform layoffs when they're under duress. And even then, the layoffs are very rarely so extreme as to eliminate half the employees.