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by wijwp 8mo ago
> I buy people lunch and sit on the curb eating with them and attempting to understand them. I clearly don't have the same people on the street as you do. You should not be just sitting down and having lunch with people who are havi
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by wijwp 9mo ago
Because you need effort + the ability to create value, not one or the other. Some people have one but not the other and seek out help to bridge the gap.
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by wijwp 9mo ago
You're also presumably not a $400m+ company, which makes it more intestesting.
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by wijwp 11mo ago
> People are so caught up in the 3I/ATLAS stuff, for example. Should we beam a message to it? What should we think of it? It's a circus. Is it really a circus? Seems almost everyone who knows what they're talking about say
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by wijwp 11mo ago
They'd have to get through The Great Filter, so maybe they'd have avoided or have moved beyond some of our evolutionary downfalls.
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by wijwp 11mo ago
I wonder if OP has some kind of color blindness that makes his examples make more sense? I am able to parse the status quo example way better than his ideas. My theory is helped by his use of a yellow background on black text, which is horr
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by wijwp 1y ago
You can't just look at units sold, you have to look at net units sold because the version of the product existed. For example, if 5.9 million of those 6 million people would have bought the larger iPhone model anyway, then you didn&#x2
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by wijwp 1y ago
To be fair, AI isn't going to give us more time outside work. It'll just increase expectations from leadership.
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by wijwp 1y ago
> Passing a whiteboard interview doesn’t mean you are going to be a great fit for the job. It just means you can code. Did anyone say to only do a whiteboard interview?
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by wijwp 1y ago
It's so difficult though that it shouldn't even be in the same conversation as someone who has so far not been able to get to a healthy weight. It's telling a beginner that it's possible to do an expert level skill, with
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by wijwp 1y ago
That's not true. I tried getting unlimited data like 7-8 years ago and they said I needed a business account to get it.
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by wijwp 1y ago
Cleanup doesn't get me a raise or promoted. In a world with constant threats of layoffs, cleanup may even be penalized depending on what's rewarded. "Clean up your shit" doesn't work when my job is on the line. It n
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by wijwp 1y ago
That's why "problem" is in quotes. It's a self-inflicted and purposeful problem that trades a unified perception of Android through flagship devices for broad reach.
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by wijwp 1y ago
That's pretty reductive. Having enough money to buy "almost whatever" allows for real happiness to happen. Money doesn't buy happiness, but it opens the door for it. Family, friends, love, hobbies. - Financial hardships
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by wijwp 1y ago
> Not to sound like a tin-foil hat but odds of achieving something like this increase by the day. Where do you get this? The limitations of LLMs are becoming more clear by the day. Improvements are slowing down. Major improvements come f
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by wijwp 1y ago
Well at least now I've got you up to 2 teams being acceptable :)
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by wijwp 1y ago
> and a list of videos Are we just going to gloss over this like the list of videos is random? haha
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by wijwp 1y ago
Data? SMS limits? Am I misremembering the timeline of real access to SMS and data? I feel like most of the 00s most people had limited of both without spending a lot of money.
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by wijwp 1y ago
> I'm not sure why people are expecting a language model to be great at chess. Because the conversation is about AGI, and how far away we are from AGI.
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by wijwp 1y ago
"Ask for a non-trivial code or work sample, something they have written." I haven't written non-proprietary code in a decade.
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by wijwp 1y ago
> However, I suspect its secret is that it's really a show for parents with young children that just happens to hold the attention of kids. That's how a lot of successful children's movies/shows work in a way. Have yo
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by wijwp 1y ago
> I didn't even know that things like mentorship exist. If you don't know about mentorship programs that already exist and fills at least most of the gap you're talking about, how would you find the ERG?
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by wijwp 1y ago
There are plenty of allyship opportunities at big companies. Or at least, there were. I don't really know the status of some companies after the current political environment started changing things. Focusing on "White Allies&quot
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by wijwp 1y ago
> Why are you invalidating their experience What experience are you talking about? What resources are lacking that don't address those experiences?
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by wijwp 1y ago
Well, most other groups have had a rough go at it throughout recent history, and often have to approach the workplace differently because it takes a long time to reverse some of our previous mistakes. We considered many black folks property
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by wijwp 1y ago
> Support, networking, mentorship I get plenty of that elsewhere. Do you have issues finding support, networking events, and mentorship programs? ERGs specifically tend to group those generic, open-to-all programs together and add anothe
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by wijwp 1y ago
As a white man who used to work for G: > There was a ERG for literally every single race except White people. "Just join one of the others" was what they told me. What would an ERG for white people even do? What would you want