foobarxyzzy

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by foobarxyzzy 2y ago
People are losing their mind about this stuff. I have been trying to use ChatGPT and generative products meaningfully in my work for some time now and (for my work at least) I'm seeing it more and more as a gimmick no better than Eliza
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by foobarxyzzy 2y ago
To say that the EU has more regulation is not necessarily true. Let me give you an example. Suppose that i want to create a custom cellular device to control some process in the field. In the EU I pretty much just need to get a CE mark, whe
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by foobarxyzzy 2y ago
i bet this technique has been used for years by the NSA.
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by foobarxyzzy 2y ago
On balance, devs have more agency than ever before, but they choose to use it to load in every daft technology imaginable that makes their resume look good. IMO developers are less and less inclined to act like professionals that bring data
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by foobarxyzzy 2y ago
Crypto is [mostly] for crime, laundering, etc. When will the tech industry get past this?
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by foobarxyzzy 3y ago
I hope he takes them to the cleaners. I buy power tools tools quite regularly and it is almost impossible to find anything decent amongst the utter garbage with made up names. Some of these things are death traps and Amazon does not seem to
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by foobarxyzzy 3y ago
Computer scientist patronizes the little person. We really are the most arrogant profession.
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by foobarxyzzy 3y ago
if the Google employees don't like their leaders, they can leave and setup themselves.
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by foobarxyzzy 3y ago
I would also add: - stay humble. you are inherently no better than the guy who cleans the floors, even if you are paid more - your benefits package may rise very rapidly but it will hit a plateau unless you begin caring deeply about a domai
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by foobarxyzzy 3y ago
Its like Israel:Palestine, or any number of other conflicts - there is zero middle ground permitted.
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by foobarxyzzy 3y ago
i have believed for some time now that this site is kind of like the hats in Westworld - a way of reading tech peoples thoughts so that the site's VC owner can use them in some nefarious way. Anyhow, I'm coming in here to say that