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by foobar_______ 1mo ago
Social media, often owned and perpetuated by Meta, has poisoned the world. It is not redeemable at this point.
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by foobar_______ 1mo ago
what does this mean? can you explain? legit question not rhetorical
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by foobar_______ 2mo ago
Hard to believe numbers. I don't mean that as a critique, but literally I am so impressed. Even if the model is a few percent lower for performance but is 80+% cheaper than competitors and is a US company hosted on US based hyperscaler
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by foobar_______ 2mo ago
Agreed. The 24 hour news and social media with our brightest phds learning to drain all attention from you have broken and radicalized our society.
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by foobar_______ 2mo ago
Thank you. I agree. I hope this is the new learned sentiment for Meta employees. Smart? Check. Money-obsessed and soulless? Check.
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by foobar_______ 3mo ago
Preach. I think I left a nearly identical comment yesterday in another thread. "well, the other companies do it too so they're not that bad" is absurdity. "that got shit on my couch, but he didn't shit in my mouth s
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by foobar_______ 3mo ago
The marketing has really, really worked for so many developers that will proudly and unironically proclaim that Anthropic are the 'Good Guys'.
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by foobar_______ 4mo ago
I am not sure about all your talk about Nazis and such - seems a bit much. But I do agree with the general premise. Instead of Meta being seen as a signal for being a high-quality engineer, I hope the signal being sent is more like: engin
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by foobar_______ 4mo ago
Painful levels of irony. These people sit at their computer all day scheming and coding ways to grab any new bits of data they can with the intent of capturing everything they can about the user's friends, location, wealth, hobbies, et
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by foobar_______ 4mo ago
I never thought about it as obedience to authority, but ya maybe that is it. I still kind it would fall under the greed bucket where they are willing to submit to their corporate kings if it means they get more RSUs and the new car and the
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by foobar_______ 4mo ago
Thanks for the answer. Hmm, that is what I expected, but that's totally logical but a shame that people who have any amount of self-reflection on their work's impact are the first targeted for layoffs.
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by foobar_______ 4mo ago
Serious question - I know this will come off as inflammatory but I am genuinely curious. Do you ever talk to coworkers about the addictive, polarizing nature of Meta recommendation feed algorithms? There is pretty solid research around teen
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by foobar_______ 4mo ago
Thank you for the "real speak" section. Accurate and hilarious.
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by foobar_______ 5mo ago
Agreed. they are better at the PR game. Some developers are grasping at straws looking for ways to not feel guilty and justify their usage of LLMs is from the "good guys". Anthropic is currently filling this role but eventually pe
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by foobar_______ 5mo ago
Preach. The hypocrisy is startling. I think people started at these companies maybe years ago with "good intentions" and are willing to turn a blind eye. But now, given just how glaring clear it is, I don't think it is really
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by foobar_______ 5mo ago
This very closely resembles my philosophy. I too downplay vegan/veggie because I don't want to cause a stir.
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by foobar_______ 5mo ago
well said. Thanks for this comment. I am trying to be more like this.
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by foobar_______ 5mo ago
Same. I was hoping for this. As much as social media frustrates me, the content can be great at times. I want an aggregation tool where I have strict control on the output. Give me the content minus the addictive never ending scroll with in
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by foobar_______ 6mo ago
why don't they have donate pages or venmo QR codes at the concert? I am serious. I don't want more stuff. I don't need tshirts. I don't need trinkets. I legitimately love music and want to support, but it is so difficult
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by foobar_______ 7mo ago
Agreed. You can quit. That is always an option. "Gotta pay the bills" is definitely valid for some small subset of the us population but that certainly doesn't apply to software engineers in a hub like the bay or seattle. The
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by foobar_______ 7mo ago
I like your take. I see this same thing playing out across many parts of the world. Dont hate the player hate the game It is about incentives and rules of the "game" that drive things. Sure, there are a few evil people but the vas
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by foobar_______ 7mo ago
Fatten up that wallet with 500K a year and tech stock RSUs and people pretty quickly forget about their morals. Seriously, they tell themselves the same story: "ah this is just temporary. I can make big money for a couple years then ge
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by foobar_______ 7mo ago
I dream of the day when people wake up to see TikTok and Instagram are as bad or worse than smoking.
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by foobar_______ 7mo ago
Agreed. Great summary. Postmodernism and everyone tearing down all systems to their roots is fun... until you have no structure left.
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by foobar_______ 7mo ago
Maybe? I really don't know. I don't want to believe it but the data and just looking around in public and seeing the scroll addition seems to indicate otherwise?
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by foobar_______ 8mo ago
How did you get into this? How would you recommend transitioning from FTE to this life?
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by foobar_______ 1y ago
I don't know how everyone doesn't see this. I pray. I hope. One day people look at you in complete repulsion and dumbfounded that we gave anyone, let kids unfettered access to social media. Absurdity.
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by foobar_______ 1y ago
I really appreciate this comment. Now in my 30s, I was not even aware of EA or Rationalist groups in my 20s but your description of a person high on the smell of their own farts and putting logic as king was me. The world is so chaotic that
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by foobar_______ 2y ago
It has been clear from the beginning that Meta's supposed desire for an open source AI, is just a coping mechanism for the fact that got beat out of the gate. This is an attempt to commoditize AI and reduce OpenAI/Google/Whoe
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by foobar_______ 2y ago
Exactly. I barely know who this actress is. To me, it sounds like the tens of thousands of other white american voices. How is the remotely too similar?

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