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by oraphalous 1mo ago
Learn to code wasn't just about careers though. It was also about individual empowerment. Everything goes through computers, and having the power to understand that domain increases agency. For a lot of people, they have no need to s
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by oraphalous 6mo ago
Great comment... and I feel after reading it, you're probably a pretty great person to work with. Acknowledging the pain / difficulty of a task, but inspiring folks, and giving them the opportunity to perservere is rare to find
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by oraphalous 6mo ago
> Yes, starting with tests without market fit can also be fatal. But calling anything done without tests is just a slower poison. I think we are pretty close to agreement here. I'd be interested in what you have experienced in the r
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by oraphalous 6mo ago
I think maybe - this conversation is more about giving some more acknowledgement to the other side of this issue. It's not that I disagree with you essentially - or particularly with respect to your analysis of your specific examples.
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by oraphalous 6mo ago
> I did not actually call the author insane... If you think this distinction really matters wrt the point I'm trying to make, then it's time for you and I to bug out conversationally. Sometimes two individuals have such differ
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by oraphalous 6mo ago
Did anyone here actually look at the product they were actually building? It's an AI agent bug discovery product. Their whole culture is probably driven at a fundamental philosophical level about the problems of bug discovery. As he
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by oraphalous 6mo ago
Hard disagree. It's both. Choosing one way or the other comes with potential risks and rewards to the business and it's up to business leadership to choose what risks they want to take. Your job as an engineer - if you are not
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by oraphalous 6mo ago
>He did not edit He edited his reply to me multiple times... which is what made me suspect an edit to the original comment. But whatever, I'm happy to acknowledge his original intent even if he did state it more harshly. >What w
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by oraphalous 6mo ago
Again - that's a business decision that needs to be made in the context of that business. The fact that testing was forbidden isn't in itself good or bad. It depends on that business context. THe post says nothing about how tha
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by oraphalous 6mo ago
Did you edit the wording of your original comment slightly to emphasise the "actively disallowing them" in every situation? Anyway... if that is what you meant, then ok. It's less awful a statement than what I felt I origin
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by oraphalous 7mo ago
What corner is there left to be backed into when the the US is trying to assassinate you?
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by oraphalous 7mo ago
I've heard analysis that a significant proportion of middle east water and food supply - in the form of desalination plants, and cargo through the Strait of Hormuz - is within reach of Iran's capabilities. The logic is that you
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by oraphalous 7mo ago
The prediction that there will be greater demand for specialist frontend and backend engineers is the one that surprises me. How do folks think about it? I've been assuming the opposite - that demand for specialists will decline beca
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by oraphalous 8mo ago
But it's a loss if it's forced into risky investments that aren't productive.
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by oraphalous 8mo ago
Maybe a societal foundation of: magic man in the sky - wasn't so great a foundation after all?
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by oraphalous 9mo ago
That's interesting - but I guess we need to understand better what innovation counts as a good example of Chinese incipient superiority. If China is leap frogging the west technologically, then it can still only be a very recent fact.
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by oraphalous 9mo ago
I think the west is in for a rude shock when it finally realises how fast China is developing technologically. I was there a few months ago in Guangzhou, it was stunning to see how many EVs were on the road. You can tell too - because they
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by oraphalous 10mo ago
I bought the book - looks good! Would be keen to know which magazines they were originally published in. I feel you should include those references in the book (forgive me if I've missed them.)
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by oraphalous 2y ago
I don't even understand why it's everyone elses problem to opt-out. Eventually - for how many of these AI companies would a person have to track down their opt-out processes just to protect their work from AI? That's crazy.
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by oraphalous 2y ago
How does an average joe evaluate the claim that their content moderation was bad? Cause folks on the left seem very upset that it's being replaced by notes, and folks on the right seem very glad that it's going. How do I judge t
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by oraphalous 2y ago
I too would like to hear some examples. On the one hand you have gurus claiming that AI agents are going to all make all SaaS redundant, on the other claiming that AI isn't going to take my coding job, but I need to adapt my workflows
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by oraphalous 2y ago
Pro tip - shrink your window to a tiny box and the dvds really bounce like crazy.
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by oraphalous 2y ago
The whole world seems dedicated to the goal of extracting value rather than creating it.
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by oraphalous 2y ago
Our men are running from the battlefield! Shameful display! --- Good times...
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by oraphalous 2y ago
> If you think there are others, please exhibit one. If everyone like you attempts to rail road the imaginative process at the beginning of hypothesis formation, then we'll never get to the point of being able to exhibit one, should
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by oraphalous 2y ago
...and no incentives for publishing negative results, or doing replication work... Still these people are criminals and clearly need to be treated as such. To say there are larger problems doesn't at all diminish the need to deal with
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by oraphalous 2y ago
There is one thing I wanted out of VR... TO BE TRANSPORTED... That's what all the initial hype was about. You go in VR, and you supposedly get this feeling of presence that blows your mind. Instead the whole thing seems to have gone
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by oraphalous 2y ago
Reminds me a quite a bit of the plot line from Liu Cixin's The Dark Forest. When aliens are set to wipe out humanity in 400 years, the idea of a small number of elites escaping in generation ships is so abhorrent to the masses that wo
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The end of non-compete agreements is a tech job earthquake(computerworld.com)
12 points by oraphalous 2y ago|1 comments
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by oraphalous 2y ago
I got a epix 2 pro which has their new heart rate tech. It tracks my sleep very reliably.

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