throwawayoldie

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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
You're not wrong, but I have one nit to pick: let's not dignify what MBAs do by calling it "leadership". They're barely "management".
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
I don't love your silly theory. It sounds like you're in denial, trying to cope with the fact that not everyone thinks LLMs are the greatest thing since flush toilets.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
It's a different world than it was ten years ago. Among the ways it's different are people are far more skeptical of billionaires, Big Tech, and capitalism generally. They're willing to cut them much less slack. This is one o
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
And a Fortune 500 company has never done anything stupid.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
Quick question: if there is a paid anti-AI movement, where do I send my invoice? May as well not leave money on the table.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
Yes he's rich and influential and blah blah blah blah blah and he's also AN ENORMOUS FUCKING DORK with the intellectual depth of a half-empty bottle of salad dressing. For all his money I'd rather be me than him.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
Not to put words in the OP's mouth, but I think that was the joke.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
BRB got a book I have to lick real quick.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
I have a copy of the classic "Joy Of Cooking" in the kitchen. It was a lot cheaper, works perfectly every time, and doesn't get ruined if (when) I spill foodstuffs on it.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
As a friend of mine put it, "I don't know if UBI would take people out of the workforce, but it would probably take me out of the workforce."
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
> I think a lot of people simply don't know what to do with themselves when they don't have a job. I would be perfectly happy without a job. It's the income I'm concerned about.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
In 10 years, the management (or "leadership" if you like the taste of boot) responsible for doing the cutting will have moved on to something else, with no consequences for them.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
I suspect that for every grandpa who likes telling war stories, there are probably a hundred who get quiet and sullen when the war comes up and have to excuse themselves and go be alone for a while.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
Maybe it would help if I describe it as being in the Extremely East Bay. Like, about 3,000 miles east.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
It's good. Not that big though. But what there is, is worth seeing.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
> It's disappointing to see but it feels as if to keep a futuristic theme and to provide almost an "edutainment" environment that a museum feels as though it must implement screens to keep up with the times. And you just k
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
No, this is complaining that the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia has gotten worse over the decades.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
> Yesterday I used ChatGPT to transform a csv file. Move around a couple of columns, add a few new ones. Very large file. I'm struggling with trying to understand how using an LLM to do this seemed like a good idea in the first plac
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
People have a tendency to uncritically take techies' claims as facts. [Stares aggressively in the direction of gen AI.]
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
And the more successful of them have probably traded up to cocaine.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
preach
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
What makes the industry run, and has for decades? Adderall. What is Adderall? Amphetamines.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
He was talking about the music industry, not tech, but this reminds me of Hunter S. Thompson's quotation that the industry was "a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good me
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
"There's [a sucker] born every minute." --P. T. Barnum "And many of them have CS degrees from good universities." --Me
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
> Seems like a feature If by "feature" you mean "pathway to model collapse" meaning "disappearing up one's own asshole" then yes. And the sooner the better.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
That blew my mind. Geology is going to be a wild discipline in the far future.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
It may be a huge amount, but in the next few years it's only going to get huger.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
Someone let me know when rocks as big as cars are flying _up_ the Dolemites.
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
> There are, you know, journalistic standards, which are considered kinda "journalism 101"! Pretty sure you meant to use the past tense here: "There _were_ journalistic standards..."
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by throwawayoldie 1y ago
They killed "only" about 350 people combined, but the two fatal crashes of the Boeing 737 MAX in 2018 and 2019 were due to poor quality software: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneuvering_Characteristics_Au...

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