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by Jensson 1y ago
Most people don't want to get harassed and attacked at the level Trump gets so there are strong incentives to not do what he did. Saying there are no reasons not to do it is just ignorant, most people prefer peace and quiet over drama.
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by Jensson 1y ago
The comment you responded talked about attacks/doxxing: > I don't want to feel like someone can just dig up something I've said or shared 5 years ago and use that against me
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by Jensson 1y ago
That men shouldn't go to women's bathrooms. Trump focused pretty hard on that sort of issue last election.
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by Jensson 1y ago
Most attacks on people are done by those who just google your name and see what comes up so some very minor privacy work helps a lot. Its a lot of work to be completely safe but its very little work to be basically safe.
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by Jensson 1y ago
> People are too obsessed with being "the best" at something, like most things in life skill is a bell-curve Most of people have dreams that revolve around beating others. If you want your indie game to succeed you have to make
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by Jensson 1y ago
Michael Samuelson benched 100kg the first time he went to the gym at 16 years old, some are literally just built differently.
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by Jensson 1y ago
The hard part is making bureaucrats identify gifted kids, not to identify them yourself. To a bureaucrat a kid that learned a lot on his own and a kid that had a lot of personal mentors to help them learn are the same thing, so both get put
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by Jensson 1y ago
Text is the ultimate interface for accurate data input, it isn't for brainstorming as you say. Speech is worse than text, since you can rearrange text but rearranging speech is really difficult.
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by Jensson 1y ago
Factories paid better. The working conditions might have been bad but factories paid so much more that people did it anyway, it isn't that you couldn't be a farmer but working in a factory made you richer.
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by Jensson 1y ago
Maybe he thinks about US farmers? But even there I am pretty sure most were not working their own lands, slaves and hired hands and so on seems to have been pretty common.
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by Jensson 1y ago
You don't need all those for most tasks modern tasks though. Sure if you wanna sew a coat or something like that, but most modern day tasks require very little of that sort of skill.
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by Jensson 1y ago
We have massively better physics simulations today than 15 years ago, so the limitations you found back then don't apply today. It might still not be enough, but 15 years is such a long time with Moore's law and we already know al
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by Jensson 1y ago
> In my experience, it's 100%. Not 95%, not 99%. Yeah, they seem to be there on high school math problems today, there aren't that many variations on them and there are billions of examples of data on them so LLM can saturate t
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by Jensson 1y ago
Yeah, if energy continued to get exponentially more plentiful like it used to then a casual trip to the moon or flying cars today wouldn't have been out of the question. People imagined a future where everyone had their own personal fu
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by Jensson 1y ago
Think that is farmer vs hunter adaption. Hunters eat big meals less often, plant eaters eat small meals often as its more work to digest plants. So humans doing both have genes for both, but maybe some humans have more of some of those.
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by Jensson 1y ago
He didn't connect the dots, so no he didn't do calculus even if he did some things related to it.
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by Jensson 1y ago
> In the empirical sciences you have to both check the argument and also test the conclusion against observations That isn't true, you just test new axioms but most stuff we do in empirical sciences don't require new axioms. Th
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by Jensson 1y ago
So landscapes are not beautiful?
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by Jensson 1y ago
I never saw a company hire grunt programmers separately though, and when you suggest that they should people also get angry at you here. So what do you want really? Do you want to have to pass the same tests as these roles, or do you want t
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by Jensson 1y ago
Most of Googles ad money comes from their own properties, so being the billboard is still the big moneymaker.
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by Jensson 1y ago
Using SSH to get the project files is not a good example of a hard to learn skill they need for the job, they should just have provided a zip on a web page or so or sent it directly to the user. So to me it seems most of the test was just &
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by Jensson 1y ago
> I sometimes wish companies were more open to accepting these roles, instead of the up or out model. But companies live or die by talent / passion density. If you try to only hire talented / passionate people, then many of the
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by Jensson 1y ago
Have you looked at enterprise business people / analysts? They would riot if you took their Microsoft products from them. Apple is much easier to get out of for society as a whole since its not nearly as integrated with deep corporate
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by Jensson 1y ago
He will counter with "There are no stupid sentences"!
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by Jensson 1y ago
> Why? Because small programs are really quick and easy to write, there was never a bottleneck making them and the demand for people to write small programs is very small. The difficulty of writing a program scales super linearly with si
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by Jensson 1y ago
> You need to care if (a) your business logic requirements are super annoyingly complex, (b) you have hard performance requirements, or (c) both. (c) is the most rare But one of the most fun things you can do is C: creative game developm
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by Jensson 1y ago
> But if CPU time is so valuable, why aren't we arguing for hand written C or even assembly code instead of the layers upon layers of abstraction in even native modern software? That is an extreme case though, I didn't mean tha
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by Jensson 1y ago
That is a myth, cpu time is time spent waiting around by your users as the cpu is taking seconds to do something that could be instant, if you have millions of users and that happens every day that quickly adds up to many years worth of tim
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by Jensson 1y ago
Earth is a lava bubble with a thin film of cool earth on top. A relatively small meteor would pop it.
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by Jensson 1y ago
How do you get to work when you stay home?

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