throwaway42668

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by throwaway42668 2y ago
I never understood the "low code" microbubble that was being inflated. We went through that era already. We called them RAD tools, and they targeted the same sort of strange, mythical end user profile. Someone so technically capab
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by throwaway42668 2y ago
Sure, though I'd ask more open ended questions about a problem to see where they go with it. Maybe they land on using something like a debugger or wireshark or strace or whatever makes sense to dig into whatever horrible voodoo is plag
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by throwaway42668 2y ago
The "nano" questions are silly and tell you nothing useful about the candidate other than I guess their level of candor in being subordinate to obsequious lines of questioning. However, the rest of the questions are just as pointl
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by throwaway42668 2y ago
I would destroy that thing with sweat in the first 30 min.
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by throwaway42668 2y ago
They never had any meaning to begin with. Outside of ostensibly knowing how to program, the title carried with it no firmly held, measured, or maintained any baseline expertise of any kind. It's always been a hodgepodge of ad hoc crite
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by throwaway42668 2y ago
Alternatively, it might make capital available to other things. It's at least theoretically possible that all the liquidity and leverage in the top of the market could tire itself of chasing the next tulip mania. For instance, $6 Billi
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by throwaway42668 2y ago
It's okay to say it. It's a bubble. It was just the next in line to be inflated after crypto.
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by throwaway42668 2y ago
Sam Altman is not a hapless victim at the mercy of the isolating effects of his financial success. He was an opportunistic, amoral sociopath before he was rich, and the system he reaps advantage from strongly selects for hucksters of that p
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by throwaway42668 2y ago
I would have loved a control question like, "How much confidence do you have in confidence?"
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by throwaway42668 2y ago
I wouldn't even know how to answer the question as presented in the poll. Confidence in higher education to do what?
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by throwaway42668 2y ago
Just have people pair with people doing actual work. It's better signal for the candidate, for the existing team, and for the organization.
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by throwaway42668 2y ago
Now that's not really fair is it? They're also Sales, Marketing, and Channel Partner Management for OpenAI.
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by throwaway42668 2y ago
Once you're running a fleet of autonomous vehicles, whatever century that finally becomes a reality, then it makes sense to optimize out of the operation a few people who make at or near minimum wage.
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by throwaway42668 2y ago
That's not why ZIRP happened. ZIRP happened as a long-term back-channel bailout to all the banks & funds holding the downside of the housing & derivatives market collapse. It allowed the financial sector to reinflate several as
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by throwaway42668 2y ago
I spent all of ZIRP while it was happening being bothered by this. It was insanity inducing to watch huge valuations and associated piles of money chasing the most banal and/or impossibly ridiculous ventures for YEARS. I also used to t
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by throwaway42668 2y ago
FWIW… look at the portfolio pages of lots of VCs. They’re absolutely filthy with boring companies with boring products that obviously have absolutely no prayer whatsoever of being a “venture scale” business. Despite that fact, they managed
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by throwaway42668 2y ago
Get a cheap Intel ARC A310 card. I have one in my workstation along side my AMD GPU purely for streaming/encoding. It works great.
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by throwaway42668 2y ago
Yes. It has all the telltale signs of a FOMO-hype bubble across multiple asset classes that's driven by multiple organizations cynically exploiting a combination of Gell-Mann Amnesia effect and human propensity to anthropomorphize thin
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by throwaway42668 2y ago
Maybe. Dunno. Depends a lot on so many things. I mean, I'm excited about doing another startup after this one using everything I've learned about how I actually want to be spending my time and what kinds of users/customers&#x
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by throwaway42668 2y ago
Thanks. Appreciate it. I'm probably fortunate that I came to grips with that whole end of things 20 years prior to work-induced burnout. I can probably safely credit the experiences for both the relative ease with which I went down the
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by throwaway42668 2y ago
I'm a VC-backed founder who's definitely burned out. I know for certain what caused it, and I know for certain when it became unrecoverable, and I know for certain that I charged ahead deeper into it anyway because I had little ot
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by throwaway42668 2y ago
> And people _love_ this sort of structure because it means that something other than actual competence can be the deciding factor. It's different competence. Not incompetence. It's being competent at identifying marks to exp
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by throwaway42668 2y ago
Let them go. Provide a respectable severance, since it's the company's fault they were hired in the first place. One of the most cost effective and humane things you can do is extend their health benefits out further than their mo
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by throwaway42668 2y ago
This is what they actually mean by AI will be in everything. Just a relentless campaign of appropriating names that used to have meanings.
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by throwaway42668 2y ago
> "At Toradex we build Torizon OS, which is a container-based embedded system." That sounded interesting. Then I read the article only to find a very, very loose definition of "embedded".
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by throwaway42668 2y ago
I meant that as a founder I can't stomach reading startup and "startup life" content. There are more valuable lessons about building and operating a business in reading Mark Twain than there are in reading Marc Andreessen. So
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by throwaway42668 2y ago
Practically anything that has absolutely nothing to do with startups or the startup-industrial-complex. As a venture-backed founder, that’s what I read.
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by throwaway42668 2y ago
Ugh. Increasingly what bothers me about stuff like this is that we’re endlessly organizing more and more and more of our economic activity around marketing and advertising, and it chokes off the air-supply for so many other business models,
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by throwaway42668 2y ago
Perpetual benefit of the doubt given for every implication as though it’s happening in a vacuum is how humanity keeps putting megalomaniacs and sociopaths into positions of power and influence. It’s really a shame.
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by throwaway42668 2y ago
Have there been any of our climate change projections that have proven too aggressive? Because most of them, this one, seem to always end up being too conservative.

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