seanp2k2

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by seanp2k2 4d ago
It won’t be the first or hundredth society to falter due to the hubris of leaders. At this point it’s just a race to see if AI or climate disaster gets us first, with the former accelerating the latter.
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by seanp2k2 23d ago
for all values of spherical cows in a vacuum
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by seanp2k2 29d ago
I've been meaning to do some data mining on how much PM2.5 differs with even a few hundred feet of elevation. I have a theory that even around Silicon Valley, living even up a little bit in the foothills would have you breathing massiv
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by seanp2k2 1mo ago
I've worked in and around datacenters for a few decades now and I've seen pretty much everything fail, but power supplies in particular do so at a higher rate than I expected. I've had one literally start smoking in my home o
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by seanp2k2 1mo ago
There also seems to have been a major shift in strategy from AMD / Intel / Apple / NVidia due to this, as I was used to CPU / GPU / chipset upgrades coming out more regularly with double-digit percentage improvement
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by seanp2k2 1mo ago
AngularJS aka Angular v1 was the worst thing I've ever worked with in my career, other than all the BigCo apps I've had to touch that were using it. Macromedia made ActionScript in 1998 and we still somehow haven't standardiz
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by seanp2k2 1mo ago
Leave it to PHP oldheads to continue to make dummy simple stuff that works well for decades. It's amusing to watch everyone reinvent everything every decade while the actual responsiveness of the UI that humans must interact with doesn
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by seanp2k2 1mo ago
We need Wayland over Websockets.
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by seanp2k2 1mo ago
Everything old is new again: "The SSE mechanism was first specified by Ian Hickson as part of the "WHATWG Web Applications 1.0" proposal starting in 2004.[3] In September 2006, the Opera web browser implemented the experiment
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by seanp2k2 1mo ago
This, and it's murky because a good chunk of that used directly by ICE will move over to power generation to power EVs -- it's not as if we're anywhere close to 100% renewable power even just for EVs here. There's a good
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by seanp2k2 1mo ago
Because it'll get declined after a few attempts once it's past the limit, then your account would likely get marked for fraud. Try it and report back, but repeated method of payment failures get accounts suspended pretty reliably
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by seanp2k2 1mo ago
This. Without a massive cultural shake-up and turnover of upper management, why would expect them to behave any differently when they've been rewarded so heavily for this behavior in the past? Meta is ultimately an advertising and data
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by seanp2k2 3mo ago
Maybe they’ll use AI to help build it in record time, then the AI the first one powers will be used to shorten the timeline even further on nth projects /s
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by seanp2k2 4mo ago
Who else right now is making competing models that are roughly as capable? Now factor in hardware availability / future delivery contracts and capital requirements for building datacenters and running new training. If you're tryin
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by seanp2k2 4mo ago
>The more AI causes productivity increases, the less and less number of workers will be needed. This will heat up the job market even more and bring salaries down. >Net effect of this productivity increase: less consumption by the mas
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by seanp2k2 4mo ago
And yet the job everyone loves to hate, the humble "burger flipper", continues to resist automation yet command minimum wage labor rates. This future of either being a CEO of a company consisting primarily of AI agents building so
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by seanp2k2 4mo ago
>The bottleneck has moved from producing a thing that works to knowing that the thing was the right thing to build I would argue that that's been the case for quite some time before AI. As an example, what innovative amazing world-c
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by seanp2k2 4mo ago
Another term for it is "accountability laundering" https://fortune.com/2026/03/05/mobile-world-congress-account... It's the norm at Big Tech these days. Directors and VPs take all the glory if
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by seanp2k2 5mo ago
...or something that runs CGI commands. Bash scripts are like the glue of the internet, and many of them are poorly-written. Tons of stuff still runs on PHP or relies on little Python cron jobs behind the scenes. A lot of the way this stuff
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by seanp2k2 5mo ago
Depends on what you have access to / what's misconfigured.
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by seanp2k2 5mo ago
They scraped everything on Stackoverflow, likely IRC logs from Freenode, and every book written in the modern era courtesy of Sci-Hub / Library Genesis / Anna's Archive / Z Library. RIP Aaron Swartz, they're generat
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by seanp2k2 5mo ago
jQuery is still useful too. May you never work in heathcare / government / defense where you need to support legacy browsers far past their expiration date.
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by seanp2k2 5mo ago
You have to be very good at pretending to land director and above roles, though.
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by seanp2k2 5mo ago
Possibly nothing, possibly you'd get blacklisted and they'd share that with other companies in ways in which you'd never know or have any recourse https://fortune.com/2025/03/27/meta-block-list-
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by seanp2k2 5mo ago
As if you would ever be afforded an audience in the first place.
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by seanp2k2 5mo ago
And thanks to a secret interpretation of Section 702 by FISA courts, so can the FBI https://www.cato.org/blog/fisa-reauthorization-fear-mongerin... https://www.fbi.gov/video-repository/think-before
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by seanp2k2 5mo ago
You already do and your consent is part of your employment. Check your employee handbook, search for things like "data privacy" and understand how https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ30.pdf applies in the mod
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by seanp2k2 5mo ago
Most companies just don't have a reason to look through the computer they're letting you use to do your job. Don't give them a reason. Maximizing shareholder value by observing you doing job in the pursuit of replacing you wi
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by seanp2k2 5mo ago
>I will give a company the right to try to reproduce my output. But my very likeness and modus operandi? No. You don't need to "give" them anything -- they already have everything they need due to basically anything you do
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by seanp2k2 6mo ago
But at the moment it’s so exciting to see if we’re headed more for a Waterworld-esque dystopia or something more similar to Neuromancer / The Matrix. I guess it’ll depend on the rates at which the global economy collapses as a result o

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