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by hdndjsbbs 26d ago
The junior engineers at my job have a terrible problem of writing AI "proposals" to problems. The proposals are all extremely detailed and verbose to a thought-terminating extent. It takes a lot of effort and self-control to parse
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by hdndjsbbs 1mo ago
The goal of modern fast food restaurants is to eliminate dining rooms. They're moving towards walk-up windows and drive thru only where I live. Having a dining room attracts "undesirable" people who hang out inside and use yo
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by hdndjsbbs 1mo ago
If compensation for software devs was in line with other profession there wouldn't be bootcamps. The problem is it's an easy job that gets paid a ton of money
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by hdndjsbbs 1mo ago
Let's say some racial ones (including hard-r n-word) and some ableist ones? Guy also talked about jerking off a lot and joked about rape.
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by hdndjsbbs 1mo ago
Yeah it's an awful place to work unless you're a far-right bro. My old director used to use slurs and vape in the office. The founder hires pro gamers with no technical expertise because he thinks they're cool.
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by hdndjsbbs 1mo ago
The bigger problem, for me, is that knowledge work has become stupid. If you want to write code by hand and do a good job, you will be ruthlessly replaced by your boss churning out "good enough" LLM code. The CEO at my company tri
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by hdndjsbbs 2mo ago
The problem is anyone can point to examples of good CEOs and bad CEOs. John Sculley and Rory Read also got paid a ton of money. It's not clear what you need to know a priori to actually pick a good CEO.
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by hdndjsbbs 3mo ago
Agreed, I can't even remember to wear my prescription eyeglasses that help me see and not get a headache. No chance I'm going to wear worse, heavier, more expensive glasses so I can take pictures and have AI talk to me 24/7.
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by hdndjsbbs 3mo ago
Job sites don't want downtime. Companies aren't going to futz around with a bin of spare replacement glasses if they freeze or the battery dies every four hours.
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by hdndjsbbs 3mo ago
Net neutrality is about a natural monopoly - there can only be so many cell towers, satellites and fibre optic cables. This limits the number of ISPs. By contrast there is no natural limit to how many AI companies there can be. I would pref
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by hdndjsbbs 3mo ago
Did your 30s coincide with the COVID pandemic? I've had a similar experience the last 6 years, and it feels like a combination of aging (I'm 35) and Long COVID. I am trying to get out of the software industry altogether because si
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by hdndjsbbs 3mo ago
"room temperature espresso" was the first thing I thought of - espresso is meant to be drunk hot, right away. If you let a good shot cool off and compare it to a bad shot you're not going to notice the difference as much beca
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by hdndjsbbs 3mo ago
This is just the authors explanation to explain how to encode where a card ends up. The cards don't actually have barcodes, they have a binary-encoded number where a 0 indicates the left pile and 1 indicates the right pile during a spe
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by hdndjsbbs 3mo ago
200W is pretty good FTP for an "untrained" cyclist. FTP is the maximum you can sustain for a single hour, but you're not going to do multiple back-to-back. Obviously the peloton crowd is biased towards people who will have be
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by hdndjsbbs 3mo ago
Being the rockstar doing all the technical work can also be performative. I'm currently working on a CTO team that is supposed to "disrupt" a big org. There's a lot of emphasis on demoing and sketching things out a mile
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by hdndjsbbs 3mo ago
Why does anyone participate in VC funds or PE at all then?
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by hdndjsbbs 3mo ago
Why the fuck not? This is such a stupid perspective, "we shouldn't make things better because I imagined a way it could be bad".
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by hdndjsbbs 3mo ago
The people who have private investments in SpaceX pre-IPO definitely have access to investments I don't have access to.
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by hdndjsbbs 3mo ago
This is what financial capitalism and "democratizing finance" has meant in practice. Rich people have access to different types of investments, and by the time those trickle down to common investors the juice has all been squeezed
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by hdndjsbbs 3mo ago
Extremely verbose and unpleasant to read.
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by hdndjsbbs 4mo ago
Oh no, a sci-fi series making a character a woman? Like that famous train wreck Battlestar Galactica?
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by hdndjsbbs 4mo ago
The government needs money to buy products from the market. If the government controlled the means of production, they wouldn't need money because they would just make things themselves. In a hybrid scenario where there is still a mark
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by hdndjsbbs 4mo ago
I like the New Deal! My point is that the realpolitik of the court being subservient to the other two "coequal" branches goes back almost 100 years. Marbury v Madison established judicial review in 1803 but there is no enforcement
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by hdndjsbbs 4mo ago
Yeah, in my experience the people who want niche stuff are willing to work with you and have a "high touch" experience. Where the people who want entry-level stuff want turn-key, sane defaults. The annoying thing is people with lo
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by hdndjsbbs 4mo ago
TFA says he's using it for storyboarding. This doesn't seem like a huge deal, but film is a visual medium! The closer your pre-viz and storyboarding looks to reality, the more you're going to tend to stick to it when you&#x
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by hdndjsbbs 4mo ago
Even if there's no door charge, you know that this is part of an ongoing effort to eliminate any place where the "wrong people" might congregate. Eliminating third spaces for youth and poor/homeless people. It's lik
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by hdndjsbbs 4mo ago
I run a niche retail store and there are two sides to this. Most of our business is selling low-price, entry-level products. There's a 80-20 distribution of people getting into the hobby versus people upgrading after a couple years. Co
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by hdndjsbbs 4mo ago
The myth of the Supreme Court having any check on executive power was disproven by the "switch in time to save 9", where Owen Roberts agreed to stop obstructing The New Deal so FDR wouldn't implement court-packing and term li
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by hdndjsbbs 4mo ago
If the government guaranteed basic human needs are met for every person (food, shelter, healthcare) there would be less of a need for giant pools of public money (pensions, insurance) sloshing around. Mass index fund investment is basically
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by hdndjsbbs 4mo ago
I had a customer do something similar with a thousand-dollar product. They had signed for delivery and provided no evidence, but banks always side with the customer.

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