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awinter-py
·5 дней назад·discuss
who among us hasn't reasonably skipped [paying] it since customers are part of the simulation anyway
awinter-py
·5 дней назад·discuss
I mean who among us hasn't seen an opportunity to profit while locking him into a dependent relationship where I control the supply chain
awinter-py
·6 дней назад·discuss
need a countdown for when it gets there
awinter-py
·13 дней назад·discuss
ah you're just saying that 'usual work hours' isn't defined in the statute and doesn't seem to be capped at 40 for salaried workers? fair

their jury duty hour cap statute uses similar language:

> hours normally and customarily worked by the person during a day

https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Laws/MCL?objectName=mcl-600-1...

Maybe it's established in case law that this is 40 for a salaried worker? (I'm not a michigan employment lawyer). I wonder if a draft of this proposed hardcoding it at 40 and they had a reason not to?
awinter-py
·13 дней назад·discuss
a major function of the law is to mediate between groups that have unequal power

as a collective, employees out-vote employers and can obtain this kind of concession through the law but not in an individual contract negotiation

(mancur olson notwithstanding)

taken to its logical extreme your argument would forbid all group negotiations, I'd think?
awinter-py
·21 день назад·discuss
fwiw the US judiciary agrees with you https://www.uscourts.gov/file/62983/download

> The judiciary opposes measures that shift the costs of providing access to PACER to litigants filing cases in federal courts, unduly hindering access to justice

That's their response to the open courts act of 2021, which would have made pacer free.

As a user of both courtlistener and pacer, I mostly believe freelaw can deliver a better cheaper equivalent than what exists, even including the submission systems. (With the caveat that I have used state court e-file systems but only briefly touched the federal ones).

If pacer revenue is paying the filing clerks, I probably feel differently; clerks are necessary components of the system who cannot be replaced by technology today.
awinter-py
·21 день назад·discuss
this is right if pacer is expensive to operate for a real reason

but 1) it has high revenue which 2) is required to go to expenses, which 3) it may not be going to expenses

(per freelaw project, at least https://free.law/2016/11/14/pacer-revenue/)

courtlistener is providing a much better service at no cost to the public through donations; it's reasonable to say 'govt is required to feed new data to courtlistener and friends', gov doesn't have to operate pacer anymore, everyone is happy
awinter-py
·21 день назад·discuss
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awinter-py
·21 день назад·discuss
yes I am concerned about my downside puts
awinter-py
·21 день назад·discuss
I like how it tests whether I know 170k words by requiring me to click on 170k words 3 times each
awinter-py
·22 дня назад·discuss
see also sonochemistry https://www.organic-chemistry.org/topics/sonochemistry.shtm
awinter-py
·23 дня назад·discuss
tldr cut and cover?
awinter-py
·24 дня назад·discuss
odds of a given street being labeled on gmaps for android still feels like 50/50 unless you get the zoom exactly right
awinter-py
·27 дней назад·discuss
It's not everyone, but thoughtful managers do think beyond themselves.

They know they will outlast some of their reports, so they're incentivized to build memory and maintainability at the levels below them.

And good managers get promoted, i.e. leave the team but stay in the company, so there's a reputational incentive to leave things in a good place for whoever comes after you. (Though this is only true at good orgs -- at bad orgs, the next person will get fully blamed for a bad handoff).

The best leaders have values that transcend their bank account, and understand their legacy depends on being able to transition effectively.

Your career and relationships transcend any single gig, and there is a dignity that people recognize in departing well, and even in making the best of a bad job. Campground rule, leave things better than you found them.
awinter-py
·27 дней назад·discuss
See previous kleppmann post https://martin.kleppmann.com/2025/12/08/ai-formal-verificati..., and yes, obviously anything that you can put in the typesystem or the linter, you should weigh doing so.

Hopefully we get more ergonomic ways to do this? Like of the tools listed in the post, dafny + iris are the closest to being industrial I think. And amzn S3 has a history of TLA use in-house I think. But we probably haven't seen the typescript in this space yet, a zero cost abstraction that drops into existing tools, and people genuinely prefer it to the old way.

(And custom linters are also still pretty bad to write. Like golangci-lint is a painful codebase, haven't tried semgrep but the rules engine seemed intimidating. I've yet to use an AST API that I liked)
awinter-py
·27 дней назад·discuss
^ this

been exploring clickhouse and while it is definitely not a general purpose DB, for time-series shaped data that can survive some insert latency, the automatic partition-based TTL is very nice and, at least so far, requires zero attention to maintain

which I guess is solved by `pg_partman` at the bottom of the post
awinter-py
·2 месяца назад·discuss
yeah 'anthropic employee to appear on panel'
awinter-py
·3 месяца назад·discuss
this is no surprise to anyone who has read dougal dixon's 'man after man'
awinter-py
·3 месяца назад·discuss
yeah -- have been playing with this as well, ai's spatial reasoning is not quite there yet but with precise construction instructions it can often do the job

for shapes that are hard to print with a traditional slicer, LLMs are also surprisingly good at generating gcode with fullcontrolxyz if you're specific
awinter-py
·3 месяца назад·discuss
is this a straight-up advantage, or is the trade-off lower connectivity?