purplethinking

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by purplethinking 2y ago
And the only better experience than that is that all software is pain
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by purplethinking 2y ago
I mean, you label ADL as a Nazi party. Then you label Musk as Nazi by association. But if you actually look at ADL they are not Nazis. Here's an interesting things I saw just today: https://x.com/derJamesJackson/st
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by purplethinking 2y ago
No, are doing whataboutism and ignoring how horrible China is?
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by purplethinking 2y ago
Ah yes, buy cars from an actual brutal dictatorship.
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by purplethinking 2y ago
Fine, time AND energy. HN is entertainment. SR feels like work. When I have an hour at night on average to yourself, I don't want to spend it studying. I've tried taking breaks at work to do it, but you need those mini breaks at w
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by purplethinking 2y ago
I used it for language learning and CS among other things. The thing is, life gets busy. Suddenly you have a kid or two. Spaced Repetition falls into the same category of things that people in their 20s do because they have too much time, l
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by purplethinking 2y ago
I've done the whole spaced repetition and Anki thing, realized that if it's boring, you won't learn as well, and you won't stick with it in the long term, once you miss a week and suddenly you have 863 reps to get throug
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by purplethinking 2y ago
An interesting thought experiment what would happen if we treated people as corporations. I guess we'd have to raise income taxes quite a bit to make ends meet, as most people spend everything they make.
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by purplethinking 2y ago
Too much competition is bad for innovation since it leaves no room for exploration.
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by purplethinking 2y ago
Yes, of course. But it's also inevitable and overall good. If we stagnate then we are headed towards certain doom via climate change, nuclear war, an asteroid, a vulcano eruption leading to cooling and crop failure or a pandemic. If we
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by purplethinking 2y ago
Teachers in most countries are, at best, mid-wits with no practical or real world experience. I know teachers who barely passed math in high school who are now match teachers. It's like a basketball teacher who went to "Basketball
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by purplethinking 2y ago
The fact that you believe the ultra rich conspire to control and abuse the uneducated shows that you are part of that group of average people parents want their kids to stay away from.
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by purplethinking 2y ago
> they ingest far less data True in terms of text, but not if you include video, audio, touch etc. Sure, one could argue that there is much less information content in video than their raw bytes, but even so, we spend many years building
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by purplethinking 2y ago
No no, the guy is definitely sending the company back 50 years, to a time when free speech actually meant something, and when a single party didn't control 90% of all media outlets, social media, institutions and controlling policy at
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by purplethinking 2y ago
Wow
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by purplethinking 2y ago
Must be the worst in Universities where there is no reality check in the form of having to make a profit (well, maybe decades later when the reputation craters). I can't imagine trying to be a white man in the humanities today, you&#x2
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by purplethinking 2y ago
A few small holes will not sink the aircraft carrier, but eventually there will be enough holes. See Disney.
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by purplethinking 2y ago
I can tell you that my change in political leanings, from a pretty far left stance to a center-right is based on personal experience. What you see happen in reality far outweighs what people claim online.
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by purplethinking 2y ago
DEI has not been only for show, I know for a fact that being "diverse" has been a huge benefit in job search for the past 15 years. If you're a "woman of color" in tech you've been basically guaranteed a job, n
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by purplethinking 2y ago
There's also a difference between saying you work at $FAMOUSCOMPANY and knowing it's true, it gives you a kind of confidence that you don't have if you say "I'm the CEO of my own startup" or something like that
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by purplethinking 2y ago
You mean, what will happen when we get to Episode 5: The Deep State Strikes Back?
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by purplethinking 2y ago
I took 1.5 years off to work on an open source project (also because I was struggling with health issues), and the hardest thing was describing what you're doing to other people. I thought I was "above" social status, that it
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by purplethinking 2y ago
But why did you need to distance yourself from others? Or was that just a consequence from your other lifestyle choices?
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by purplethinking 2y ago
Almost at that point myself. Thinking about doing another year or two to save up an additional buffer, and make sure we're not right before another 2008-like event before I pull the plug. Start my own company, maybe make some money, ma
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by purplethinking 2y ago
Well, you seem to have your head screwed on right, but here's my big disconnect: I get that you don't trust what Elon says, he's been wildly optimistic and sometimes misleading. But what does that have to do with objective re
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by purplethinking 2y ago
Have a look at V13.2 and tell me they "underdelivered". This is the most advanced AI driving system in the world. It's essentially DriveGPT, trained on absolutely massive amounts of training data on the largest GPU super clus
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by purplethinking 2y ago
Omar is a fanboy yes, but AIDRIVR and DirtyTesla have been openly criticizing FSD for years and show all the problems openly, now waxing lyric over the latest version. Omar, while sometimes cherrypicking videos, has reportedly had 1 safety
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by purplethinking 2y ago
Tesla is a distant first. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYlQjINzO_o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoZhER_-nhg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeNKYRWGgBc
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by purplethinking 2y ago
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by purplethinking 2y ago
That escalated quickly! I think biology has probably shaped us to worry about different things. As you say, I think it's probably that women look for a mate that can provide a good environment for raising kids. There's also the st

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