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by slashdev 6mo ago
So you've decided it's more ethical it not be born or live at all. Obviously the only reason beef cattle exist at all is because we eat them. It doesn't seem such a clear cut ethical decision to me. Certainly there are some f
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by slashdev 6mo ago
There are lots of bets on Polymarket about when certain politicians cease to be the leader of the country. Trump, Netanyahu, Putin, Mojtaba Khamenei, Zelensky, etc. If they die, those markets are resolved in a predictable way. Death pools a
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by slashdev 6mo ago
The register is a satirical publication.
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by slashdev 7mo ago
I have this at the bottom of my AGENTS.md: You will also add a markdown file to the changelog directory named with the current date and time `date -u +"%Y-%m-%dT%H-%M-%SZ"`, record the prompt, and a brief summary of what changes y
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by slashdev 7mo ago
Respectfully: deal with it. That ship has sailed, you're the one who has to adapt to the usage of the word in the world, not the world to you.
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by slashdev 7mo ago
While I have written elsewhere[1] that I think AI is causing a bubble right now, AI is also the biggest technological change to the world since the Internet. I'm a software engineer, and I don't write code anymore. I'm still
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by slashdev 7mo ago
You might not have enough money to drain the order book. And there's always a chance things go wrong, even with inside information. It would be unwise to go all in.
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by slashdev 7mo ago
It also works for people willing to take time off (PTO or otherwise). We do lose some people who aren't willing to do the trial, but that's considered acceptable. People who do the work trial and accept an offer are much more like
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by slashdev 7mo ago
At work we do both. If you pass the somewhat artificial interviews we invite you for a trial week of 3-5 days working with the actual team on actual real work (a somewhat contained feature or problem). Lets us evaluate people in real condit
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by slashdev 7mo ago
It's not as easy to build a business as just copying someone (otherwise we'd have all been doing that long before LLMs). I expect the software market will change from lots of big kitchen sink included systems and services to many
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by slashdev 7mo ago
It's not all like that, but yeah there's a lot of artificialness to interviews and there always has been.
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by slashdev 7mo ago
If you believe that, it could be true. On the other hand there are lots of companies hiring still, so you could also keep working as a software engineer, if that's what you're good at. The job has changed a lot though, it's n
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by slashdev 7mo ago
I think you haven’t been paying attention to the market then over the last couple years. Despite getting hammered recently, it is still up 100% from 2023 lows.
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by slashdev 7mo ago
Going off what I could find easily from Google + ChatGPT [1]: But arguing about the details is kind of missing the point. Microsoft's value is also inflated by the AI bubble and can't be used as a point of reference. [1] https:&#
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by slashdev 7mo ago
I think you’re wrong. Time will tell.
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by slashdev 7mo ago
I bet the same thing happens when the AI bubble pops. "but this time is different, it's not a bubble, there's real value there" Economists use the term “bubble” to describe an asset price that has risen above the level j
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by slashdev 7mo ago
AI isn't the problem here. Once something goes on the internet it lives forever (or should be treated as such). So has it always been. If something is expungable it probably shouldn't be public record. Otherwise it should be open
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by slashdev 8mo ago
As an engineer of the software variety, logically heat dissipation would seem like a difficult problem. But SpaceX has lots of real engineers who are very smart. I’m certain they ran the math on it. Which is more than you or I have done. If
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by slashdev 8mo ago
This sounds awful, silver down 30%, gold down 11%, but it just brings them back to the 50 day moving average. It doesn't even break the bull trend. Next week we'll find out if this was a buy on dip opportunity or if it marks a mul
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by slashdev 8mo ago
In Vancouver, Canada natural gas was completely phased out as of the beginning of 2025 in most new construction.
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by slashdev 9mo ago
The article mentions epidemiological studies showing that people living or working near farmland where paraquat is used have a higher incidence of Parkinson's. Don't be so quick to dismiss it, there could be a link.
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by slashdev 10mo ago
I see your point, but to qualify for the great filter it has to prevent not only us, but most civilizations from continuing as technological civilizations. I don't see it. Maybe at worst it's a temporary setback, not a permanent o
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by slashdev 10mo ago
You were downvoted for some reason I can't fathom, but I agree with you. It's not an extinction level event (not for humans anyway, it may well be for many other species.) It's not a candidate for the great filter. There will
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by slashdev 10mo ago
I agree, it's worth doing everything we can. But it's also clear, it won't be enough. Emissions are not only still increasing, they likely won't stop increasing in my lifetime (in the next 50 years.) We must adapt. The e
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by slashdev 10mo ago
The same as everyone else’s options. Adapt. There’s no stopping this train.
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by slashdev 10mo ago
It would be like standardizing a captcha, you make a single target to defeat. Whether it is easy or hard is irrelevant.
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by slashdev 10mo ago
You'd need a similar law around posting AI photos/videos without disclosure. Which maybe is where we're heading. It still won't prevent it, but it would prevent large players from doing it.
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by slashdev 10mo ago
If there was a standardized identifier, there would be software dedicated to just removing it. I don't see how it would defeat the cat and mouse game.
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by slashdev 10mo ago
Why do you blame Trump for the shutdown? Isn't it caused by Congress basically failing to agree on a funding continuation? (I think it's been ages since they could actually go further and agree on a budget). Government shutdowns a
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by slashdev 11mo ago
Disagreeing with this: > Or you could end up getting margin called That's not how puts work. The premium you shelled out when you bought them is your maximum loss. You won't get margin called if you paid cash. Unlike shorts the

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