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by chinchilla2020 1y ago
helpdesk
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by chinchilla2020 1y ago
It has been a gradual change. > already maximally happened since decades ago We just laid off ~4000 employees and are replacing them with hiring in India. Your notion that it already happened decades ago is wrong.
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by chinchilla2020 1y ago
> That's a fact Great evidence. Add "full stop." to really drive the point home
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by chinchilla2020 1y ago
There is more to it than that. 1. Decide if optimization is even necessary. 2. Then optimize the slowest path
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by chinchilla2020 1y ago
another commonly misinterpreted one is the `shouting fire in a crowded theatre` quote. In it's original context it means the opposite of how people use it today.
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by chinchilla2020 1y ago
If AI can do anything, why can't I just prompt "Here is sudo access to my laptop, please do all my work for me, respond to emails, manage my household budget, and manage my meetings". I've tried everything. I have four A
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by chinchilla2020 1y ago
High karma in an internet community is not something I respect automatically. Pewdiepie and every other little online personality have tons of followers and likes. tptacek has always come across arrogant, juvenile, opinionated, and difficul
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by chinchilla2020 1y ago
As I said in another post. The article is pure rhetoric. It provides no actual numbers, measurements, or examples. It's just "AI did stuff really good for me" as the proof that AI works
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by chinchilla2020 1y ago
and builder.ai just filed for bankruptcy after a billion dollar valuation. Timely.
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by chinchilla2020 1y ago
Agreed. The article provides zero measurement, zero examples, zero numbers. It's pure conjecture with no data or experiment to back it up. Unfortunately conjecture rises to the top on hackernews. A well built study on LLM effectiveness
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by chinchilla2020 1y ago
The article provides no solid evidence that "AI is working" for the author. At the end of the day this article is nothing but another piece of conjecture on hackernews. Actually assessing the usefulness of AI would require measure
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by chinchilla2020 1y ago
The reason I remain in the "skeptical" camp is because I am experiencing the same thing you are - I keep oscillating between being impressed, then disappointed. Ultimately the thing that impresses me is that LLMs have replaced goo
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by chinchilla2020 1y ago
They sort of exist and do have women in them - but there are tons of tons of men you can meet with. Sports clubs are full of friends you can make. I'm close with alot of guys that I train with. Try tennis, or lifting, or running, or go
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by chinchilla2020 1y ago
> Large companies sometimes love to preach "intrapreneurial" spirit, encourage the individual will & ownership, all while refusing to acknowledge the constraints & impositions of corporate hierarchy, the lack of freedom
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by chinchilla2020 1y ago
I've read some literature on this decompiling and reverse engineering work. It always blows my mind that there is a community of experts in it, toiling in science. Yet the academic and learning communities do not know anything about it
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by chinchilla2020 1y ago
That's actually his personality based on my knowledge of interactions with him. He is sort of a workaholic robot.
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by chinchilla2020 1y ago
> old dorm room with paint chips on the walls > Mark Zuckerberg This guy doesn't know much about Mark Zuckerberg
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by chinchilla2020 1y ago
"A single line of code caused <BUG>" Yes, a single line of code is in the stack trace every time a bug happens. Why does every headline have to push this clickbait? All errors occur at a single line in the program - and ever
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by chinchilla2020 1y ago
> Also this push to measure everything means that anything that can’t be measured isn’t valued. Never thought I'd see an intelligent point made on hackernews, but there it is. You are absolutely correct. This really hit home for me.
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by chinchilla2020 2y ago
can't wait for the javascript error when I try to switch gears on the touchscreen of my future car!
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by chinchilla2020 2y ago
People on hackernews think tech is the whole economy.
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by chinchilla2020 2y ago
It's never going back to the level of the pandemic again. It might improve... but those days are over forever. They were hiring people as SWEs who could hardly read and write.
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by chinchilla2020 2y ago
This is definitely not true universally. The highest earners I know are self-employed or own small businesses and were 'alone' for most of their career. This includes a craftsman who owns small machine shops for boat parts, a high
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by chinchilla2020 2y ago
Technical hobbyists also have a genuine interest in technical work. Contrast this with the flood of new college graduates who have minimal interest in engineering, yet want the high salaries that tech was famous for (until recently).
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by chinchilla2020 2y ago
Top reps at Caterpillar, Komatsu, and John Deere actually do make that much. I used to work in that industry. Most people here are in tech and have no idea how heavily incentivized industrial sales is. Selling a fleet of D10 dozers to an ex
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by chinchilla2020 2y ago
fascinating how Swedes are so concerned about the small number of crimes committed by the US and want the US to withdraw. Yet they remain steadfastly silent on the crimes committed by Russia and China. Should the US withdraw from geopolitic
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by chinchilla2020 2y ago
Ok not SF. SF is a major outlier. That city is truly a homeless apocalypse
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by chinchilla2020 2y ago
It sounds like a definition/data-collection issue. What are we calling 'unsheltered' versus 'homeless'? America is full of oddballs who live #vanlife or couch surf or bounce between motels. Is that what we are calli
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by chinchilla2020 2y ago
Chelsea Manning leaded a bunch of random diplomatic cables and medical information on the families of servicemembers. How does any of that constitute a 'war crime'? Please, name the war crimes that Chelsea Manning exposed.
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by chinchilla2020 2y ago
> The armies of homeless in American cities don’t exist across the Atlantic. Are you assuming nobody here has lived or visited the EU or UK? There are tons of homeless in London, Berlin, and Paris. It is equivalent to the worst American

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