ffwacom

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by ffwacom 3y ago
The world is not a friendly place and some people do want to use ai against you and your interests. If the model is open source it makes this harder.
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by ffwacom 3y ago
How did you manage/avoid burnout over 35 years in the industry?
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by ffwacom 4y ago
Great take
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by ffwacom 4y ago
Lgtm
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by ffwacom 4y ago
what about the money printing
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by ffwacom 4y ago
Yeah great idea we will be safe once the government starts dictating progress gotta stay safe.
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by ffwacom 4y ago
His DSLs fail because he doesn't know how to use DSLs. There must be one for each level of abstraction for each little problem, all built on top of a single host language so that they can be intermingled and COMPOSED.
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by ffwacom 4y ago
The money printing and lockdowns curbed many ambitions I once had. Inflation in particular is so incredibly destructive and an inexcusable injustice, it might be a psychological effect you are experiencing.
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by ffwacom 4y ago
For years I used to prepend site:reddit.com or site:news.ycombinator.com to Google searches but these are tapped out now as the communities have fully reverted to the mean along with heavy censorship. Currently it’s all through networks lik
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by ffwacom 4y ago
You see, if you squint hard enough it’s actually all just lisp…
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by ffwacom 4y ago
Get a job and do it in your spare time like every other struggling artist who eventually made it.
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by ffwacom 4y ago
This makes so much sense
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by ffwacom 4y ago
Fair enough, it must be inevitable and the algorithm is irrelevant.
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by ffwacom 4y ago
Yeah, is the top only fans girl really 10x or whatever more valuable than the penultimate only fans girl? Same for the arts. Same for most market segments whose products are artfully differentiated to prevent the customer from commoditising
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by ffwacom 4y ago
Can the algorithms be changed to prevent Pareto outcomes from occurring? Most content is arbitrary anyway so no real cultural value discovery is occurring with these algorithms IMO, just chance and feedback loops.
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by ffwacom 4y ago
Well the old installed the fed and regulated the housing market. Will probably take violence to fix.
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by ffwacom 4y ago
My dad was an electrician his whole life, retired at 65 still going out to job sites.
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by ffwacom 4y ago
I blame: the currency and inflationary environment
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by ffwacom 4y ago
Pathetic
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by ffwacom 4y ago
No, nothing I’ve tried in the last 16 years of professional life has worked, other than legitimately good opportunities which do not inspire procrastination.
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by ffwacom 4y ago
It's more up to Elon as the man in the arena, rather than Maciej Cegłowski who would be the timid soul in this case.
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by ffwacom 4y ago
Hair of the dog, i.e. start drinking again. Hangovers are mild withdrawal effects so you can’t get rid of them without drinking or using a GABA drug like diazepam.
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by ffwacom 4y ago
Fucking hell, read a book.
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by ffwacom 4y ago
You’re a spiritual being having a human experience :) reconnect with your higher and hidden nature from which you have become separated.
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by ffwacom 4y ago
Yep, it’s a grift to shill to non-technical management. AI will do what low code promised to do.
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by ffwacom 4y ago
Sounds like the team sucks, run.
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by ffwacom 4y ago
Yeah, just conveniently they were ‘dark’, so can’t be substantiated.
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by ffwacom 4y ago
The vast vast majority was to Democrats though. Unbelievable pilpul.
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by ffwacom 4y ago
The grifter ones hate talking to tech people.
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by ffwacom 4y ago
This is the same as the people on 4chan waiting for the mass vaccine die-off, with the chant ‘2 more weeks’.

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