mancerayder

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by mancerayder 5d ago
Reposting something I wrote on the topic of AI reducing not increasing domain knowledge in companies: I'm seeing it at small scale around me. I view it as a Dunning Kruger enablement - AI gives confident answers and long-winded explana
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by mancerayder 6d ago
I think it helps to live in a city. The cities have their problems, they're expensive and dirty, but there are loads of older single adults, and even an introvert can sit at the same bar once a week and meet people, or go to meetups or
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by mancerayder 6d ago
This Internet experience has convinced me that intelligent people need a safe place separate from everyone else. I grew up on BBSes as a kid, a sort of hateful misfit, and learned to write, code and made friends I still know today. Local
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by mancerayder 6d ago
>It's a level of entitlement that's insane to me. If someone is hosting their own blog and use ads to help offset that, why should I be able to get their content for free AND cost them money for the traffic? It's not neces
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by mancerayder 7d ago
I can promise you ranty political one-liners about Israel (your mic drop Reddity comment) violates guidelines about bringing politics unnecessarily into the picture. I'm not insinuating you're astroturfing or shilling; I would sa
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by mancerayder 7d ago
Comments like these I'm willing to bet are because of the Reddit sub that's bringing Redditors with drop-mic comments in here. A ton of these things, usually but not always down voted. I think when they start hitting the top it&
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by mancerayder 9d ago
I'm seeing it at small scale around me. I view it as a Dunning Kruger enablement - AI gives confident answers and long-winded explanations on domains distinct from the person asking, making it hard to verify. The user of AI now feel
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by mancerayder 9d ago
I'm very senior and in a HCOL, relatively booming city. It's never been so hard to find a job despite never being so qualified. I can code, run infra, scale startups, do hands on, manage, present, I can do anything. But that&#x
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by mancerayder 9d ago
What do you use when you switch between Netflix, AppleTV, etc? Some of those platforms won't even show you HD unless it's through HDCP compliant hardware and OS, which Linux isn't. That happened with the World Cup.
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by mancerayder 9d ago
After researching a new TV (where it only needs an Apple TV, no so-called smart features for spying purposes) the three contenders were Samsung, LG and Sony Bravia (the higher end models). Samsung was the least trustworthy, having played g
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by mancerayder 11d ago
>We had the means to avoid this (strict vegan diets, ground based mass transit, dense development In other words, live a privileged person's life in an expensive city, risk malnutrition with a complicated diet, and don't ever l
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by mancerayder 12d ago
Is there some mock input one could calculate to actually verify that? That many modern Mac Pros is no small potatoes when it comes to compute power. Someone must have a pre made formula anyone can use to do closer estimates?
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by mancerayder 14d ago
>In my experience, people who make fun of AI's ability to eliminate white-collar work are exactly the same people who are white-knuckling it, hoping they can make another $300k next year to buy that Rivian. In my experience, people
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by mancerayder 16d ago
I love Brave's seemingly easy and automatic ad blocking, but turning off shields for important things like banking and government sites is a chore. I struggled with domain whitelisting (if I'm honest I gave up on it some time ago
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by mancerayder 16d ago
>Luckily, we have no load bearing AI. Is this a subtle joke?
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by mancerayder 17d ago
It seems like HN got more 'Reddit-like' in the last year or two, at least it resembles that platform in the way people use voting not as a way to encourage good argument style and punish bad (eg. ad hominem) but rather to vote wit
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by mancerayder 19d ago
Well, it's science if you consider the patient to be the subject of an experiment. But the point I was trying to make is - they don't directly measure serotonin or anything else in the brain. They can't see thoughts through
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by mancerayder 19d ago
By the way - turning off scripts allows the original to load without paywall. (Probably not using Chrome.)
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by mancerayder 20d ago
An unfortunate aspect of modern discourse and thinking is how black and white discussions can feel. Several sides of the topic can co-exist together and all be true, so (well, in my experience and reading): - Some people really benefit from
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by mancerayder 20d ago
In France it's a cross between a sin, American influence, and something that will destroy your health. Hospitals and retirement homes lack AC and excess deaths occur among the elderly population. I guess there's the unintended co
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by mancerayder 22d ago
Great. So MTA raises fares and complains about not being able to meet revenue, causing the state to have to funnel more to it. Nevermind that the economics of your argument are completely blind to the fact that the funding sources of the M
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by mancerayder 23d ago
How is that not connected to police enforcement, though? In Europe and now the US the new generations are anti-police, anti-enforcement and generally consider authority and rules to be proof of an unjust society (X group is N percent more
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by mancerayder 23d ago
A city's leadership shouldn't try to look after the city's interest? The answer to that is so obvious, you should look to explaining why it doesn't apply to the elected leadership of a nation.
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by mancerayder 24d ago
Can it integrate with a mobile keyboard if I opened it up on a phone? I'm eager to explore the directory contents quickly on the XT. :-)
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by mancerayder 25d ago
It came off as suggesting another group was being mentioned, apologies for reading into the commentary.
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by mancerayder 28d ago
How are BioNtech's trials doing? Are these two companies the ones to cure cancer (for the rich, being that these therapies require custom bio engineering).
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by mancerayder 28d ago
I'm four days a week in the office and almost all my meetings are on Zoom. It's noisy, lunch is rarely below 20 dollars (no, I don't have time nor will I cook a big pot of 4 meals Sunday night), the lights are too bright, the
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by mancerayder 1mo ago
Is there any value in really learning gimp? As in, more than just rudimentary tasks you must do. Photoshop has the artistic aspect of doing interesting things in photography editing. I am wondering if gimp is "equally fun" here
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by mancerayder 1mo ago
Americans and especially corporate culture America likes to do this all the time: The ask instead of request is an example. I just politely use the words I prefer when that happens. Our new promotes for this year. etc. I read from a lingui
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by mancerayder 1mo ago
Dufus is how it automatically maps when I say it out loud.

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