forgetfulness

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by forgetfulness 13d ago
> On the one hand, I think this is an accurate depiction of the future. There is no meritocracy here. Some people have access to the best AIs and can speak a sentence and get great results, and the rest of us don't have access and s
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by forgetfulness 4mo ago
I simply don't believe that there is an infinite demand for the kinds of things that can be done by generating text. How many insurance policies does anyone need to contract, how much legal advice does anyone need to hear, how many mov
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by forgetfulness 4mo ago
For some reason programmers start thinking that we'll transition away from a whole world of societies built around the concept of individual ownership, i.e. your landlord charging you rent, company owners owning the company and the res
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by forgetfulness 4mo ago
It's hard to imagine how making insurance sales cheaper for the brokers, churning out astrology apps faster, AI boyfriend bots or running ad campaigns with fewer and lower paid designers is going to drive 10% GDP growth in developed an
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by forgetfulness 4mo ago
Also what constitutes ownership here? Couldn't some Enterprising Individuals open 100 shell companies, pool together resources and form the Legalize Asbestos Consortium, the Consortium buys a plot of land and then each stakeholder of t
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by forgetfulness 5mo ago
Also a lot of middle managers. Many organizations enthusiastically adopting AI are doing so because they want to appeal to the authority of the bots and bludgeon colleagues with it.
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by forgetfulness 6mo ago
LLMs are very easy to pick up, the point of them for their makers is to commoditize skill and knowledge, you can't be left behind in learning to use them, AI providers don't have economic incentives to make them into anything othe
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by forgetfulness 6mo ago
Right, bridging the gap of knowledge by getting closer to that of the clerical workers of the company, because pure software knowledge is no longer as valuable. That will probably make your salary closer to theirs, and that'll be a pre
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by forgetfulness 6mo ago
Lots of organizations don't want to accept that their velocity issues are quality issues. It's often a view held by an old guard that was there when the business experienced growth by adding features, while not having to bear any
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by forgetfulness 6mo ago
My uncle leads IT support teams, the org is measuring AI use in writing reports and tickets. The org has very poorly structured and obsolete processes (he's trying to straighten them up as he goes), AI will probably amplify the lack of
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by forgetfulness 8mo ago
I'm behind the times! That's what it used to be until Windows XP, the last Windows version I used on a daily basis was Windows 2000 up to 2005.
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by forgetfulness 8mo ago
It brings up the Task Manager, that lets you forcibly stop processes, and this is a way for the (NY State) Government to take control of your printer, the analogy isn't bad.
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by forgetfulness 8mo ago
Plenty of people will tell you that they enjoy solving business problems . Well, I'll have to take their word for it that they're passionate about maximizing shareholder value by improving key performance indicators, I know I per
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by forgetfulness 9mo ago
Many countries were also "biased" against Apartheid South Africa, the bias was disapproval of apartheid, much like the one enacted on the West Bank and Gaza.
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by forgetfulness 9mo ago
It used to lack non-destructive editing ("adjustment layers" in Photoshop parlance) until recently, it's a core foundation of editing workflows for designers and photographers, it lets you layer transformations of over immuta
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by forgetfulness 9mo ago
It was going to be the future of Software Engineering in the 2000s, Software Architects laying out boxes for Software Bricklayers to implement as dictated, code generation tools were going to make programming trivial. For trivial CRUD apps,
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by forgetfulness 9mo ago
https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
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by forgetfulness 9mo ago
Google PMs must not be incentivized to launch new products the way they were, renaming and relaunching the chat app was a regular occurrence.
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by forgetfulness 9mo ago
The game's campaign being what it was made it so people never warmed up to it, the big hero-focused storylines and then mishandling of said characters (Kerrigan's abortive humanization and then rushed redemption, the Protoss being
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by forgetfulness 9mo ago
The man left prior to Apple facing, and losing, a class action lawsuit over his favored keyboard design. Screens also died left and right in designs approved by him, and his next great innovation would be the Touch Bar. It was a precipitous
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by forgetfulness 9mo ago
I can’t find it either. It may have been him, washing machines are the kind of alternating current appliances that he avoided in preparation for living in space HN was so enamored with him when his deal was about hacking eating into being m
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by forgetfulness 9mo ago
The author wants to buy a whole new computer every year or two max, instead of upgrading components That’s an impressive, so to speak, level of consumerism, reminds me of a self-professed minimalist that made the rounds here years ago, he p
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by forgetfulness 10mo ago
Reputation will only become more important as AI generated content permeates society, the name behind what you’ll read, watch or listen will be a bigger factor in whether anyone would commit minutes to hours to consuming what could be slop.
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by forgetfulness 10mo ago
I’m more inclined to believe that no jobs (as in trades, professions) will go, but programming will be the most automated, along with design and illustration. Why? To this day still they’re the showcase of what LLMs “can” do for (to) a line
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by forgetfulness 10mo ago
They SEOd their way into being a top search result by showing crawlers both questions and answers, but when you visited the answer would be paywalled Stack Overflow’s moderation is overbearing and all, but that’s nowhere near at the same le
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by forgetfulness 10mo ago
What really obliterated Scala’s momentum was PySpark overtaking Scala Spark coming from Python’s foothold in Data Science, columnar data warehouses carving out a big chunk of the batch processing pie as well, and then the Akka licensing cha
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by forgetfulness 10mo ago
That could still be democratic in principle if it weren’t for lobbyists If legislative processes are so drawn out and complex that no more than a handful of ordinary citizens could keep track of them, the advantage that paid lobbyists have
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by forgetfulness 10mo ago
The biggest downsides of working with people, like ambiguity when asking and imprecision when receiving an answer, but without the upsides like sharing food or gossiping about people you both know Oh and the errors can compound dozens of ti
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by forgetfulness 10mo ago
I don’t know how we’ll fix it Just taking what people argue for on its own merits breaks down when your capacity to read whole essays or comments chains is so easily overwhelmed by the speed at which people put out AI slop How do you even k
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by forgetfulness 10mo ago
Hackers never had a very cohesive and consistent ideology or moral framework, we heard non stop of the exploits of people funded as part of Cold War military pork projects that got the plug pulled eventually, but some antipathy and mistrust

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