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by Blackstrat 5mo ago
Another concern is how to weather the AI bubble. Right now, everyone going all in on "AI" reminds me of the 90s when companies like Exodus Communications, Level 3 Communications and others built out heavily only to see it all eva
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by Blackstrat 5mo ago
Yes, I'm 70 and continue to reinvent myself. After high school, I blew up my undergraduate studies because my head wasn't in the game. I took jobs in my 20s that addressed what I thought of as social weaknesses. By my late 20s,
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by Blackstrat 6mo ago
Fundamentally, if it comes from AI, I'm not interested. I would not rely on AI summaries, and certainly nothing identified as AI produced. AI is not creative in the human sense. I would never knowingly waste time reading something p
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by Blackstrat 6mo ago
Simple, politicians are short sighted and do what gets them the most votes. They’ll get more votes by virtue signaling about the poor, the environment, or whatever the hot topic of the day happens to be. And it’s incredibly easy to rati
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by Blackstrat 6mo ago
I view hobbies as something that I derive value or pleasure from. I do not approach them from the perspective of “meaningfully contributing”. IMO, that sounds more like compensation for career dissatisfaction. I’m not being critical. I
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by Blackstrat 7mo ago
Doesn't mean a thing in the grand scheme of things. Nor does having a woman, a minority, and a Canadian. Those are irrelevant. It makes some people feel good and others virtuous, but it doesn't further the mission one iota. Sh
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by Blackstrat 7mo ago
Apollo 8 actually went into orbit around the moon. This flight is more similar to Apollo 13, hopefully without the life threatening problems. The risk on this flight is far less than on Apollo 8 obviously. Still, it's more than time
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by Blackstrat 7mo ago
It's good to see NASA finally do something beyond navel gazing. Nonetheless, calling this flight historic is a stretch. Other than flying a few miles further than Apollo 13, it will actually accomplish less than Apollo 8 did 57 years
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by Blackstrat 7mo ago
Raise your prices when it comes time to clean up the mess that they will invariably make. If they don't want to pay, look elsewhere. And skip the LLMs on your next job.
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by Blackstrat 7mo ago
Anyone can get a "result". It's the quality of the result that matters. The intellectual journey of choosing the right algorithm, optimizing the code, etc. Software development should be a journey, not a goal. Once I lear
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by Blackstrat 7mo ago
I'm curious. Vibe coding seems to be all the rage on HN these days. And yet many that discuss it are unhappy. My question, seriously, is why did you go into the software development field if you were willing to surrender your autono
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by Blackstrat 7mo ago
I was retired before the current "AI boom", but Visual Studio and the like were ubiquitous. The company I worked for tested developer applicants on a whiteboard - no auto complete, no documentation, etc. If one failed the whitebo
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by Blackstrat 7mo ago
There's far less to recommend Amazon than there once was. Service quality has dropped. Their recommendation engine was better 10 years ago than it is today, e.g,. recommending an item I've already bought or items in my cart isn&#
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by Blackstrat 7mo ago
I went through 11 takeovers in my career. I survived them all, some with promotions, until the very last one. It was within a couple of weeks of my severance that I was diagnosed with the Big C. That puts everything in perspective. Nothi
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by Blackstrat 7mo ago
I took the real MBTI test in grad school as part of the professor's research. Nothing online comes close to the real test. Despite the fact that it's not viewed as positively as it once was, I found the MBTI to be rather insight
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by Blackstrat 7mo ago
But, how is that helping you? It's akin to reading other peoples reviews. Shouldn't you watch the film and do your own critical analysis? Relying on the LLM self defeating.
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by Blackstrat 7mo ago
Looking back from the vantage point of 70+ years of life, and having seen many people experience this very thing, I think the key is to get to know yourself. That sounds cliche, I know. Up until now, you have defined yourself in terms of
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by Blackstrat 7mo ago
I've been reading these threads for a while and the one thing that is clear from all of them is that the individual is CHOOSING to surrender their intellectual expectations to the AI. You don't have to make that choice. Further,
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by Blackstrat 8mo ago
Just one more reason to abandon Microsoft. If ever Linux had an opportunity to breakout on the desktop, the proliferation of "AI" and privacy intrusion from the likes of Microsoft would seem to have opened that window. Yes, it w
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by Blackstrat 8mo ago
Work and take care of your family.
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by Blackstrat 9mo ago
Awareness and ignoring are two different things. And I'm as far from a right winger as I can imagine. You on the other hand have shown your cards. No politician's word is worth a damn. Learn that and you'll be much happie
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by Blackstrat 9mo ago
As one who has spent substantially since Amazon's inception, Amazon in recent years has become an unreliable supplier in my area. Much of the product sold by Amazon is sourced from China and until recently Amazon did little to disting
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by Blackstrat 9mo ago
I would suggest that MS Excel should be replaced by VisiCalc. While MS Excel is more feature complete and capable, VisiCalc was the idea. Further, while you included products that run on the computer, you didn't include the computer
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by Blackstrat 9mo ago
Start by recognizing that creating products isn't about writing code or using "AI" to write code faster. It isn't a question of patents. It's a question of identifying a need, creating a solution, marketing it cor
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by Blackstrat 9mo ago
Just finished LFS a week ago. Great project.
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by Blackstrat 9mo ago
Second Chip War. That and Breakneck by Dan Wang do a good job of broadening one’s perspective on the global situation
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by Blackstrat 11mo ago
Didn't work out well in London. Let's hope NYC does better. Doubt it, but we can always hope.
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by Blackstrat 1y ago
Max out your 401K contributions or similar vehicle. Develop good spending habits. Don't try to keep up with those around you. Choose a career that really inspires you - not the most hyped today, or the highest paying. Choose someth
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by Blackstrat 1y ago
I don't disagree with his new perspective. OTH, the cynical side of me thinks that the power requirements for AI/Microsoft may be playing into this new position.
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by Blackstrat 1y ago
No, I don't believe this will work. It's essentially a pyramid scheme. The Fed's fractional accounting system doesn't create new money. It increases the members lending power, i.e., more debt. The St. Louis Fed used

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