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Yeah the whole idea of public mass social media has basically failed thus far. Maybe someone will create some enlightened LLM based algorithm that solves the engagement optimization problem but what we have now has proven to be pretty disas
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Maybe if you have 5+ years experience at FAANG or something. I have 5+ years experience at a no name place and can’t even get an interview anywhere. Maybe my resume is shit but I’ve tried many different versions with no luck in the last 4-5
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I asked ChatGPT to be a CEO and decide if everyone should work in office 5 days a week: “ Final Thought (as a CEO): I wouldn’t force a full return unless data showed a clear business case. Culture, performance, and employee sentiment would
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They’d probably try to be more subtle about it.
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We have the worst possible people in government for the financial environment the US is in. Not only are we already in a bad place with government spending/debt given the new world of high interest rates. We’re just going to blow many
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E was what notable bleeding heart… Ronald Reagan chose during his time in office. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Reform_and_Contr...
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“We’re incompetent and can’t achieve our goals by following the same laws and due process previous administrations used so we’re just going to perform as many random acts of evil and right violations to the people we can grab and hope that
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Immigration courts are already separate from the rest of the legal system so the implication here is wrong. Going too slow for you? Hire more immigration judges, which are executive employees not full article 3 judges. Voters across the pol
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I think the only explanation is that the endless lies coming out of his mouth allowed many uninformed people to build their own Trump in their heads out of all the possible lies they liked the most. They then simultaneously believed everyth
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That’s part of it, you can certainly optimize your profile for better chances but the medium is the message. Most things that women find attractive in men are not things that are easily highlighted via a few photos and a bio unless you’re i
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> I have never met a romantic partner anywhere but through an app. And I’ve never met a romantic partner on a dating app. If you’re suited to app dating good for you but most men aren’t going to appear as attractive through the app as th
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This lawless administration has already admitted to putting innocent men in a torture prison. Our felon president was convicted of more serious crimes than anyone they sent to El Salvador to rot. The only word to describe these actions is e
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The average person spends less than 5 minutes a month consuming news content and assumes important information will just fall into their lap. People in general are just not paying all that much attention. Trump’s secret sauce is exploiting
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Like if the president had posted that “now is a great time to buy DJT” 15 minutes before announcing the pause?
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This is basic economics that the administration refuses to understand. Trade allows you to consume beyond your nation’s manpower and resource constraints. And it’s even stupider when you’re putting tariffs on raw materials like Canadian lum
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This is the key point. Even if tariffs did everything Trump claims they will (they will not) no one is investing billions to build factories in America for tariffs that will not be there in a few years. Turns out that governing based on the
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The best models are not GitHub’s support bot (Microsoft isn’t even creating their own models) or Google’s AI summary. If you haven’t used Claude 3.7 extended thinking to write code or ChatGPT Deep Research to investigate a topic you are not
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People are really over indexing on current AI capabilities. We’re barely 2 years on from ChatGPT’s initial release and we’ve gone from “this thing can put words together in a semi-coherent way” to “this thing produces undergrad level resear
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Back in my day we copied and pasted random stack overflow answers until something worked like real junior devs
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My previously mostly sane center right family members have all been spouting Russian talking points after the blow up in the Oval Office. I think the information environment of most Americans that do not actively seek out true information i
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If possible you need to refactor before getting to that point. Claude has done a good job refactoring, though I’ve had to tell it to give me a refactor plan upfront in case the conversation limit gets hit. Then in a new chat I tell it which
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This is the key point, most of the waste comes from contractors who can navigate the insane contracting process and the fact that we’ve brain drained the federal government to the point that the Feds just take whatever contractors say as go
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I imagine the calculation was “people are not buying new iPhones because they can’t get TikTok on their new phone”
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And where is the United States government directing any of this? Nowhere. Even your own source says “Despite the censorship documented in this report, Meta allows a significant amount of pro-Palestinian expression and denunciations of Israe
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> None of those threaten US national security - that's what the supporters of this ban are claiming is at stake. US social media companies nuke topics that the US doesn't like, that's not news. Read the last paragraph of m
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> Why is it bad when China (supposedly) creates propaganda on tiktok but it’s good when the US creates propaganda on facebook? Because this imaginary world where the US somehow equally controls Facebook on the level that China directly i
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This is exactly it. If China allowed fully uncensored American social media to operate in China I’d had zero issue letting them do the same in the US. But the CCP wants to have their cake and eat it too. Fully repressive social media lock d
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TikTok has repeatedly shown to nuke political topics on TikTok that China doesn’t like. Videos about Tiananmen Square, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tibet all get black holed by the algorithm. https://www.theguardian.com/technology
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Nothing blew my mind like watching my first girlfriend reset her password every single time she wanted to log into anything because she never remembered a single password. God hope she never gets logged out of her email.
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I haven’t had an issue with it but I’ve heard other people do depending on the speed they’re walking. I actually find walking to help intensify my focus for coding if I’m deep in the flow of a problem. I find reading PRs while walking to ac
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