blindhippo

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by blindhippo 2mo ago
The Supreme Intelligence has entered the chat... My brain has been stuck on that same thought for decades - wouldn't it be great to have a wholly objective, impartial, and independent governing mechanism to limit the influence of power
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by blindhippo 3mo ago
Dunno about you but I work for a "business" (large company, you've heard of it) and the concept of "High Performer" is synonymous with "best politician". Sure, a lot of theater goes into things, especially
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by blindhippo 3mo ago
In many cases - yes, they have gotten that bad. It's pure fantasy that we live in a free market - there are a handful of companies that own nearly everything, there is very little customer choice or power to "speak with your money
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by blindhippo 7mo ago
I've been using these tools for nearly a year and half on a daily basis. They've become an integral part of my tool box for solving problems. But writing code was never much more than 35-40% of my job while working for companies&#
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by blindhippo 9mo ago
Might work for you, but if I multi task too much, the quality of my output drops significantly. Where I work, that does not fly. I cannot trust any agent to handle anything without babysitting them to avoid going off the rails - but perhaps
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by blindhippo 9mo ago
If anything, the AI bubble is reinforcing to me (and hopefully many more people) that the "markets" are anything but rational. None of the investments going on have followed any semblance of fundamentals - it's all pure insti
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by blindhippo 9mo ago
Thing is, context management is NOT obvious to most users of these tools. I use agentic coding tools on a daily basis now and still struggle with keeping context focused and useful, usually relying on patterns such as memory banks and task
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by blindhippo 10mo ago
I don't care what kind or style of job - if the balance of power in any labour relationship is overwhelmingly on the employer side, collective action is the only way labour can regain a modicum of negotiating power. To think that the s
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by blindhippo 1y ago
The reports of time saved are so cooked it's not funny. Just part of the overall AI grift going on - the actual productivity gains will shake out in the next couple years, just gotta live through the current "game changer" an
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by blindhippo 1y ago
Humans (accountants) are non-deterministic, so unsure if an LLM would be better or worse if we threw more effort at the problem. But in general, I tend to side with the "lets leave the math to purpose built models/applications&quo
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by blindhippo 2y ago
"Let's knock down social media's walled gardens..." Links to pay wall trying to get me to pay for some subscription service I've never heard of and would never want to sign up for sight unseen. mmmhmmm
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by blindhippo 2y ago
It could be argued that the emergence of the web and search engines in particular has established this as a common pattern long before AI was around. I'm not convinced that AI represents a dramatic change to this behavior, though the p
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by blindhippo 2y ago
Same things I use it for as well - crap like "update this class to use JDK21" or "re-implement this client to use AWS SDKv2" or whatever. And it works maybe... 80% of the way and I spend all my time fixing the remaining
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by blindhippo 2y ago
I'd suggest this is a sign that most "education" or "work" is basically pointless busy work with no recognizable value. Perpetuating a broken system isn't an argument about the threat of AI. It's just high
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by blindhippo 2y ago
I think this is overestimating the impact of LLMs. Fact is, even if they are capable of fully replicating and even replacing actual human thought, at best they regurgitate what has come before. They are, effectively, a tutor (as another com
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by blindhippo 2y ago
Lazy management, ones that focus on "metrics" and "numbers" rather than actual engagement with their teams/business lines. I'm only 20% joking here...
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by blindhippo 2y ago
Same here - seen it happen most strongly once the company switched from a growth (OrderProductSales optimization) approach to one that maximizes cashflow. Basically a switch from explore to exploit mindset - which cynically can be directly
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by blindhippo 3y ago
Honestly, it's just easier to block/drop Facebook entirely and actually talk to the people I want to talk to directly. Sure I miss out on some things, but I still have friends and family and I still talk to them. I won't make
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by blindhippo 3y ago
If that's the root reason, then there is zero reason that footage is open to consumption by the manufacturer (and made generally available to Tesla employees). That is owner data, not company data and it should be stored in a cryptogra
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by blindhippo 3y ago
It's already there, except the ads are baked into most content as "sponsored videos". They make it easy to skip over the ads (seriously, just fast forward 20-60 seconds depending on the video). For better or worse, the vast m
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by blindhippo 3y ago
What's the alternative here? Just offer the service with minimal ads and just hope people decide to sign up for the ad-free version - a value proposition that makes little sense since the ads are minimal? They aren't bullying anyo
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by blindhippo 3y ago
I gave up trying to use a mouse on OSX years ago (the acceleration curve causes physical pain for me) and leaned into what Apple did right: trackpads. I got an apple trackpad for my desk setup, and otherwise use the built in trackpad on the
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by blindhippo 3y ago
I think this is a problem with any highly specialized or technical topic. I vaguely recollected what wayland was, but I didn't know why I would care about it and ended up doing similar googling before realizing this news will not matte
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by blindhippo 3y ago
Sorry, was mostly just agreeing with you and adding that gender based nonsense is endemic everywhere. It's alienating me across the whole media spectrum.
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by blindhippo 3y ago
But when you meet that person who is totally into it, they are gonna be iced out the wazoo in custom made bling.
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by blindhippo 3y ago
While I personally would agree with your distinction, I do thing your example demonstrates a relative bias. For most of us, yeah, there is a difference between adding chocolate syrup to ice cream and a buying a 10kUSD piece of jewelry just
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by blindhippo 3y ago
Try any other bit of social media. Some how my instagram feed (whenever I actually go to use it) is now full of silly "haha my husband is stupid he can't find anything without me" nonsense, or "lol, my wife can't dr
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by blindhippo 3y ago
Yikes, that's quite the binary distinction... Surely there is room between those subjective descriptions of people for "hey, I like this thing even though it's irrational, ok?" Let people live their lives and you do you.
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by blindhippo 3y ago
And yet these countries still focus on taxing income only, meanwhile a massive mountain of growing untouchable wealth is sitting there, owned by the older generation who supposedly need to be supported with the income generated by the young
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by blindhippo 3y ago
I think the nuance here is if you tailor ALL interviews for a specific job based on each candidate to the point where the interviews are no longer directly comparable, that could constitute a hiring practice that would run afoul of some law

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