BoxFour

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by BoxFour 1y ago
Sure, but these are all true of middle-class employees as well: 1) Many middle-class families rent and their landlords aren’t necessarily any more understanding. 2) Not to be too political, but many middle-class employees don’t enjoy a fr
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by BoxFour 1y ago
Most of the examples you gave seem focused on life outside of work aside from the last one, so I’m curious which of them you’d say don’t also apply to lower-income jobs. There are lots of ways for middle-class people to “fail” too outside
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by BoxFour 1y ago
I'm not of the "LLMs will replace all software developers within a year" mindset, but this critique feels a bit overstated. The challenge of navigating rapidly changing or poorly documented code isn’t new: It’s been a constan
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by BoxFour 1y ago
Which of the seven OP referred to are OpenAI or Anthropic?
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by BoxFour 1y ago
People are overlooking the fact that Twitter’s situation wasn’t exactly great even before it was taken private. If it's in a stronger financial position today, it's almost entirely because of the merger with xAI.
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by BoxFour 1y ago
> Only seeing growth when Musk does something stupid, and most of the new users not sticking around are strong signals it doesn’t have long-term value. Bluesky is the rebound social network. One thing that often gets overlooked is that T
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by BoxFour 1y ago
> pragma pointer_safety strong" which would force the compiler to only accept the use of smart pointers You’d possibly just be trading one problem for another though - ask anyone who’s had to debug a shared ownership issue.
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by BoxFour 1y ago
> I don't think it's too late for someone to fork both C++ and Clang and make something that's actually a good synthesis of the old and the new. People have tried variants of this already: Carbon, for example. I don’t thin
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by BoxFour 1y ago
This is an odd thing to say given the events of the past few days and even last couple years: “Nor 1960's America, where Mr. Oswald could buy a rifle and 4X scope by mail order, then get a job in a convenient book depository” Your broa
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by BoxFour 1y ago
Social media has proven to be quite an effective tool for mobilizing protests and beyond. I get how the short-sighted might see it as a tactical move to "cripple logistics" by banning social media. But, the reason I call it short-
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by BoxFour 1y ago
Equities markets are largely driven by institutional investors, save for some notable exceptions ("meme stocks"). Unless the theory is that institutional investors are doing the same, it's not that surprising.
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by BoxFour 1y ago
> I still think complaining about "hallucination" is a pretty big "tell". The conversation around LLMs is so polarized. Either they’re dismissed as entirely useless, or they’re framed as an imminent replacement for so
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by BoxFour 1y ago
> The others are very frenetic I think the pace is because a lot of the episodes revolve around play and games - and any sort of play with children does tend to be a bit frenetic. There’s a good number of episodes that aren’t that, inclu
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by BoxFour 1y ago
I’m on board with the overall point, though I’d actually flip the logic in this section: > Once a senior answers, the junior then takes responsibility for making sure that question doesn't need to be answered there again. That might
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by BoxFour 1y ago
This strikes me as a somewhat unfair characterization of many of these communities. In my experience, a much more common issue is that the people who do have answers end up ignoring the group and it becomes pointless. It rarely becomes a so
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by BoxFour 1y ago
That point might hold more weight if we were talking about someone decades younger, but he’s 80 and hasn’t exactly lived a healthful life. As far as I know, no one’s managed to beat father time yet. Transitions of power in movements built a
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by BoxFour 1y ago
when you start talking about a business for serving “the few”, you’ve already removed the incentive for most entrepreneurs (unless those “few” are the extremely wealthy and you can charge them exorbitantly).
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by BoxFour 1y ago
Even if you manage to sidestep the issues with payment processors mentioned elsewhere, you don’t end up as a “popular platform that just happens to take a principled stance and also hosts some controversial material.” Instead, you become th
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by BoxFour 1y ago
If I were a VC or PE firm, this is exactly where I’d be putting a lot of money in the next year or two. Right now there’s a lot of fear given the stance of the current administration, which makes it pretty ripe for smart money willing to pl
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by BoxFour 1y ago
Even in a place as dense as manhattan (where I live), it’s very common to spend 30 minutes on your commute still between walking to/from the subway and waiting for the train. Without sounding too harsh, a 20-minute walk really shouldn’
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by BoxFour 1y ago
> I’m very torn at the moment if he was an incredible coach or just rode the wave or Brady talent. Honestly, it’s hard to imagine they’d have been anywhere near that successful if the answer wasn't just "both." You see ple
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by BoxFour 1y ago
> Mmm, could we define sales job? On the business front, the meetups are used to promote our (indie) conferences. The meetup groups don't mind when I ask them to buy a ticket. They can just say no and we're not pushy about it.
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by BoxFour 1y ago
Smart people can be deceived too. Without devolving the conversation into semantics, Garry Kasparov is also someone we would consider to be “smart” by many definitions.
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by BoxFour 1y ago
No, I claimed that interest in them isn’t declining in young men. You’re not proving interest in them has. You’re engaging in outcomes-based thinking, which is entirely irrelevant to this argument about inputs. The argument is that men los
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by BoxFour 1y ago
Ignore comparing to women for a second: The OP suggested that men were focused on their appearance at the cost of traditional “male focuses” like wealth. Is your argument that men stopped focusing on their income because they started focusi
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by BoxFour 1y ago
What was said: > we are seeing a lot of young men optimising purely for physical attractiveness at the cost of success in fields we might traditionally identify with male success (career, wealth, sporting excellence, etc) That doesn’t re
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by BoxFour 1y ago
Which brings us back to the original issue: > we are seeing a lot of young men optimising purely for physical attractiveness at the cost of success in fields we might traditionally identify with male success (career, wealth, sporting exc
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by BoxFour 1y ago
There’s a lot of incorrect assumptions packed into one sentence, but one point in particular stands out: > we are seeing a lot of young men optimising purely for physical attractiveness at the cost of success in fields we might tradition
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by BoxFour 1y ago
New Yorker here: Glad this exists. My sense is that most actual residents of the city feel similarly.
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by BoxFour 1y ago
Articles from The Atlantic tend to leave me feeling it was time well spent. I ended up subscribing after realizing that and haven't regretted it. I also subscribe to WSJ and The New Yorker, though I go back and forth frequently on whet

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