It requires no restraint if you’re not a monster.

VR is neat, but it’s mostly been a solution in search of a problem.

That’s a fair point.

Yes and no? My team is scattered around the US, so if my east coasters hit a snag early, I genuinely don’t want them in a holding pattern until I get around to it. Same for my coworkers on the west coast.

Some of the intensity of it has been that I assumed control of a team that was already severely mismanaged and had missed it’s initial deadlines by a month.

Of course that manager got promoted to an area that better suited his skills and I was asked to step in and try to right the ship. Our final deadline is today and we only have minor and cosmetic bugs left (that we know of).

We have plenty of new features to add moving forward, but with the project back on track and the foundation established, I’ll be able to set better deadlines for everyone’s work life balance.

I will probably always have some temptation to pull long hours for my team scattered around the country, but it becomes much less urgent now that we’re past our insane crunch.

Maybe it’s hopelessly naive of me and the next deadline will also become a crunch, but I have some control over those future dates, so I hope it will be less of an issue.

Really good advice, thank you.

Really helpful. Yeah, it’s already invaded my vacations and time off, but I’m working to create better boundaries moving forward. The problem is that there’s literally no one else who can answer certain questions or resolve certain problems and everything will grind to a halt if I don’t deal with it in a timely manner.

I know this is just a joke, but I’ve recently become a project manager for the first time. I’m open to tips and suggestions.

I’ve really enjoyed it and have worked hard to give my developers everything they need as soon as possible. Otherwise I try to stay out of the way and do my best to shield them from the pressure that’s being applied on me to achieve deadlines.

I’d agree that anyone can ask for project updates, but I really do work hard to balance client demands with c-suite expectations and the realistic outcomes described by my developers.

When can I get one of these voices to read an epub on my phone? I’d love to have something like that

He recorded this misstep his law blog’s flaw log.

They deserve the notoriety.

We’re seeing a general trend toward more efficient LLMs rather than smarter LLMs, so we may be near the limits of what our current models can create, but not how efficiently they can create it.

I’m very interested in these small and efficient models.

How would this handle audiobooks? I’ve not made the move to Jellyfin yet, as Plex handles all my multimedia needs for now, but I’ve been keeping an eye on Jellyfin’s development with interest.

@Mistral@lemmings.world Can you explain in more detail why 37 was lucky in Ancient Greek?

I’m not a stock expert, but given its historic lack of profitability, that value has to be primarily speculative based on its usefulness for training ai.

I would expect to see that number fall eventually.

Yes, I’m not implying capitalism is a form of government. I’m saying the form of government best suited to containing the excesses of capitalism is Democratic socialism.

This is always the goal of capitalism, no need to give it some alternative name on order to white wash the brand.

The answer is Democratic socialism. It’s our stuff they’re stealing, we can take it back.

So what’s interesting is there’s a compelling argument to be made for it being “the satan”, not Satan.

The idea being that the satan is like a prosecuting attorney. He works for the good guys and is tasked with prosecuting evil throughout the world.

The whole fallen angel narrative is derived from a vague prophecy in Ezekiel 28 about the king of Tyre.

That isn’t to say that the Bible doesn’t have plenty of room for evil forces at work in the world today, but possibly not the satan.

Just an intriguing FYI for you.

Check his law blog, he explains everything.

He seems like the spokesperson for confidently incorrect.

Musk’s greatest innovative genius is finding new ways to be annoying.

I wonder if they’d feel the same way if it was happening to them and their loved ones.