popularonion

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by popularonion 7d ago
I completely agree, but I think it’s just a convenient narrative for Big AI to push for regulation and salt the earth against competitors. “Local AI isn’t freedom, it’s an extinction event”
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by popularonion 10d ago
> Reading a stop sign and deciding whether to stop is a City-Streets function, and that’s FSD. Basic Autopilot is built as a highway lane-keeping system, and it does not respond to stop signs. So a driver-assist car verified engaged as i
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by popularonion 15d ago
This has been my hunch for a while about all the discourse of "OpenAI/Anthropic subscription pricing is unsustainable!!" We understand theoretically they're taking our data, but yeah, that data is vital to the entire bus
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by popularonion 29d ago
> As you can see, on average, SLMs are as good if not better than LLMs in 81.2% of the cases, with the LLMs having a significant advantage only in areas like engineering, life sciences, transportation and computer sciences. So what I’m r
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by popularonion 1mo ago
Games industry is a special case, more adjacent to the design industry. I worked at a few Fortune 500 companies and interviewed a lot of candidates for both simple CRUD and harder systems programming work. Side projects, GitHub stuff, or ev
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by popularonion 6mo ago
From many years of first hand experience: - QA is always the first thing companies outsource, with predictable results - Companies either go the route or “separate QA org with separate management chain” or “have QA engineers report to dev m
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by popularonion 7mo ago
Destination Thailand Visa is comically easy to get if you have ~$20K in savings
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by popularonion 7mo ago
Discord culture is the definition of riff raff
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by popularonion 9mo ago
The thing is a healthy community, by definition, isn’t going to allow a struggling loner to join them
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by popularonion 11mo ago
I used to feel that way but I’m completely over it, especially going through the experience of registering a few domains for side projects recently. There are just too many already squatted. The only other market based solution I can think
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by popularonion 11mo ago
It makes complete sense and it would be for the best, therefore it will never happen
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by popularonion 1y ago
The participants in the train study were essentially given a "job" to talk to strangers, which completely changes the mental framing. People generally try to follow through on a job they promised to do. They'll try to make th
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by popularonion 1y ago
Eh, I got my comp sci degree in the 2000s and for the most part we learned barely enough to pass the exams. Colleges weren't exactly churning out an army of disciplined professionals well versed in low level programming. Most of us end
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by popularonion 1y ago
I’ve followed this issue for a long time, the thing is at the end of the day the average American just doesn’t care very much what happens to tech workers. There’s an underlying attitude of “serves those entitled nerds right” on both the po
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by popularonion 1y ago
Every company I’ve seen that maintains a separate QA org chart, inevitably offshores the entire QA org to India or China, with predictable results. In 2025 I think the only thing that makes sense is having SDETs embedded in development team
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by popularonion 1y ago
Suburbs and commuter towns desperately need Robotaxi - there’s literally no other option. Public transit isn’t coming, Waymo isn’t coming, Uber and Lyft are shrinking Even a US city of 100,000 people, it can be really tough or impossible to
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by popularonion 1y ago
I’ve been using Tesla FSD since the original beta rollout. Collision avoidance has never been a real problem. Phantom braking has gotten a lot better, though still not 100.0% fixed. Most of the problems I have now are things like lane selec
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by popularonion 1y ago
Never seen it in the US, but it was fairly common when I was on vacation in Europe
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by popularonion 1y ago
In the English speaking world, the biggest and most important dating app by far is Instagram. Match Group should be considered an adult entertainment business, like the old Craigslist personals. Actually, I just checked the market cap of
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by popularonion 1y ago
I’m not sure outsourcing every function of education to SaaS products like we’ve been doing the last 25 years ever made the system more productive
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by popularonion 1y ago
TLDR > It is also revitalizing an unsuccessful experiment the company began in 2016: offering bespoke local activities, or what it calls “experiences.” The next stage, launch date unspecified, involves making your profile on Airbnb so ro
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by popularonion 1y ago
Eh, back when I got my first software engineer job at $BIGCORP 20 years ago, I was almost always the only one in the room younger than 40. Not being a web dev was the key, of course.
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by popularonion 1y ago
The Coming Psychological Black Death (2023) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0K0sI5XiP4
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by popularonion 1y ago
The post says they use pandoc for parsing, that’s a very good trade for being able to cut Node completely out of your project
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by popularonion 1y ago
> slopper new 2025 slang just dropped
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by popularonion 1y ago
Not sure why this is downvoted. People forget or weren’t around for the early 2000s when companies were absolutely preoccupied with code copyright and terrified of lawsuits. That loosened up only slightly during the GitHub/StackOverflo
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by popularonion 1y ago
The problem is society doesn’t allow normal people to enforce boundaries or consequences against those “aggressive angry people” in any meaningful way.
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by popularonion 2y ago
If only Snapchat didn’t lose cultural relevance, how different things could have been
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by popularonion 2y ago
I was born in 1985, we got dialup around 1996 I think? I did teach myself programming in the 90s, after my friend loaned me his floppy disk with all his QBASIC stuff. Then dabbled in PHP, MySQL, etc. We had one computer programming class i
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by popularonion 2y ago
I got put into some “smart kid” activities in grade school, but as a poor kid with zero advice from parents, I really had no idea what to do with it. No one told me that math is really 90% about writing proofs, all those homework problems I

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