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twolf910616 | 1 year ago | on: Panic at the Job Market

How do you know you're not the midwit? To me it seems quite reasonable that author is the one over complicating everything, and in reality coding interviews are just not that bad.

[edit: they're not that bad in the sense that hiring is a inherently lossy process of projecting something incredibly complicated, like skills, personality, motivation, and situation into a 45 minute interview where only 1 or 2 dimension can be measured. If you increase the time/cost and do hire fast fire fast, then fine, you can get a better interview process, but it's not free. Other industries use stamps and certs to do that sorting, also not cost free. Coding interviews, yes we all hate it, but it's all a tradeoff.]

yuy910616 | 1 year ago | on: Wegovy and Ozempic (semaglutide) associated with reduction in alcohol addiction

Tangentially, I wonder how people mentally model "too-good-to-be-true"?

"Everything is a tradeoff" is almost a core belief for me, but in the same time, in technology, the "too-good-to-be-true" events does turn out to be real every once a while (I'm using technology here as a general concept).

I do understand GLP-1 does have some downsides, like cost, or in my own experience, nausea. But the tradeoff seems negligible compare to the upside. Part of me feels like that there is some hidden trade-off somewhere that we're not discovering, but part of me also wonders if it's a once in while technology jump, where it is just better.

Anyway, I guess I'm just a bit wary to throw away the "everything is a tradeoff" mental model that has worked quite well for me.

yuy910616 | 1 year ago | on: MGM says FTC can't probe ransomware attack as Lina Khan was a guest at the time

If you read their case, it sure seems compelling. It seems like Lina Khan had to write down her CC on a piece of paper, questioned how they will store her info, and a week later promptly launch a CID once she went back to DC.

The whole thing is quite funny. If I had that power, I would probably launch an investigation too. In the same time, kudos to the lawyers.

yuy910616 | 2 years ago | on: Nextdoor's Heisensubscribe (and Other Dark Patterns)

Here is what you can do (from someone who tried many times to block their emails), write to [email protected] and request that all your data be deleted.

As someone who recently had to implement delete requests at a startup, I can tell you that this process usually exists and is handle by a different team. It's much quicker.

yuy910616 | 2 years ago | on: Being “rockstars”: when software was a talents/creatives industry

These industries just have a different mechanism, here is an example: the worlds 10,000th best tennis player probably makes $0 dollar from tennis, and the world's top 0.1% of pharmacists make maybe twice as much as the 50th percentile.

Some industries you either are the top 0.01% and make millions; in some industries being average means a decent living.

Software has long transitioned from one end of that spectrum to something more towards the middle. Super star developers simply aren't productive enough for the demand of software

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