Chris Hadley

Helping others build @UnlockStratHQ. Helping bring Oakland back with Dad. DJ. Decent cook.

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@AmeliaBarty Winning the dev experience is critical for Wispr since the iOS experience has so much friction now

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Glad you shared! I’m excited to test it out and see if it can do my holy grail of routing: “Creat ate a route to X that promotes driver happiness. Minimize traffic jams, stop lights and construction zones. Prefer scenic routes and country roads. Up to 15% additional drive time is acceptable.”

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This is impressive work. And a solid rebuttal to the hype that AI can easily replace humans for this sort of transactional work. Scheduling and email handling is one of those things that seems simple on the surface but a lot of nuance underneath. I’ve been working on a system that uses AI to detect email scams that spam filters miss. The AI is good - but not yet good enough to turn off the HITL piece. That you got there is inspiring!

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@Nowooski Big win, congrats! Encouraging to see a campaign informing voters about policy details defeat their usual reflex to vote yes based on emotional appeal. We were successful vs similar tax measure E in Oakland, but not by a 3:1 margin. Impressive work.

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This is a tough combination of skills to hire for. Been a few years but Craigslist was where I found people for a similar role.

Mentioned errands in JD and phone screen, which helped filter some poor fits; interviews focused on smarts, consciousness and judgment; paid for a fee project hours to test how well we worked together.

iME this sort of position works best with someone who is careful at first and can grow to be more agentic as they know you. A super agentic person who might really want the role can be a pain if they’re too resistant to structure.

If the role is less than full time and not likely to expand, it’s really important to get someone that works for naturally, that there are other commitments they’d like to keep.

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I’ve been impressed by Weiner’s persistence in passing good housing policies against a lot of resistance, and expected he’d have a moderate position on crime. I was surprised by how progressive it was. If I lived in SF he’d have my vote over Chan and Saikat but not as enthusiastically.

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@clairevo Vercel’s product is good, but you feel the upward pricing pressure all over the place. They might have things dialed in perfectly because I still use Vercel when I want a polished deployment environment, despite my annoyance with pricing.

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@auren skillz

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@patio11 One my aims with consulting engagements is to *not* ask clients to make a lot of decisions, the goal is to take things off their plates, not give them a new project management role.

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@Liv_Boeree Hope this doesn’t face the same fate at the hands of environmental groups as Golden Rice

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@yishan It has ever been thus lol

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Gemini is an indispensable addition to Slides.

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@jdevalk @dipakcgajjar I did read the post :) I like your ideas and shared with a colleague, we’ve been moving from traditional CMS too. The method i wrote about is similar to your section on client editing, except instead of AI as the bridge to posting changes, we use more structured automations

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@robustus Looks great! Serif fonts, clean lines, tan background... feels like a chart in The Economist. Was waiting out some recent storms and built this for traveling Tahoe from the Bay area https://t.co/JiAghJLrzS - local weather offers a lot of ops to make cool niche apps!

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@lulumeservey The team who did this hates him

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@nyanotech @gravelot142 @sdamico im a strong believer in microwave method empiricism - scientific advancement calls

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@gravelot142 @sdamico If the device was aware of the dry weight of the load, seems it could infer when this happens from weight, temp and humidity.

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Clothes drying seems a tricky sensing problem because moisture in the air wouldn’t predict dryness with precision in many cases. Different fabrics vary in moisture capacity and evaporation rate; size of what is dried and fullness of the dryer also add complexity. My intuition is sensor methods best at lower temps / longer cycles, promoting more even drying (no one wants long cycles tho!). A sprinkling of neuroticism probably would help with the fine-tuning.

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Even for less commodity products like “used intermediate-level skis, ”there is simply not a lot of un-optimized inventory out there. I’ve been helping my kids find gear online lately and have been surprised by the lack of obviously great deals. Whether it be skis, fitness equipment, or gaming computer parts, pretty much everything is priced correctly in all the obvious places.

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@jrivanob sounds like you think success is bad for California