John23832

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by John23832 10mo ago
That is a lossy process though. The total number of people fired is never the total number rehired. And at the time of a bubble pop, we would have gone through multiple rounds of firings.
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by John23832 10mo ago
People are being removed from their livelihood. Equivocating about what YOU comfortably would prefer to call it is wasted effort that I don't care to engage in.
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by John23832 10mo ago
I think this is so sad and a symptom of a world where nobody wants to accept responsibility anymore. Even the responsibility to say "no". We see this "no no's" in VC investing, job hunting, and now your anecdote, m
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by John23832 10mo ago
I think the interesting thing to think about its that we _already_ fired people in the name of AI (because AI was supposed to be this huge efficiency gain). When the bubble pops, do you fire _even more_ people? What does that look like give
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by John23832 10mo ago
Have you NOT seen someone destroy their life with internet addiction and social media?
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by John23832 10mo ago
> Work out a zero knowledge way to verify age, and implement it. It won't be easy, but it also won't require breaking the rules of mathematics as per most of the governmental requests to 'safely' backdoor encryption.
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by John23832 10mo ago
That's the point.
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by John23832 11mo ago
> Record profits reported by tech companies says the opposite. Money are there, but no will to spend them on people. And you buy things/services from these major tech companies, but in return they buy nothing from you. The circular
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by John23832 11mo ago
Lol same. Left a great tech company where was doing well to pursue the startup life. "If I work hard, I will make it". Startup failed, and the same prior opportunity hasn't come around. Such is life.
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by John23832 11mo ago
Don’t think hard about the fake internet points.
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by John23832 11mo ago
I often see big money put behind software projects, but the money then makes stake holders feel entitled to get in the way .
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by John23832 11mo ago
This reminds me of a supabase testcontainers idea I explored.
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by John23832 11mo ago
OpenAI bought 40% of all wafers. So yes.
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by John23832 11mo ago
In trying to avoid the “paperclip problem” we created the “ram problem”
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by John23832 11mo ago
Lie and learn.
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by John23832 11mo ago
An interesting fact is that "the border" technically extends 100 miles from any actual border. Guess how many major metros are in that area. https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/your-rights-bord...
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by John23832 11mo ago
There's the argument that Systemd is an operating system unto itself.
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by John23832 11mo ago
You're trying to be reductionist, but I'll bite. That is a living situation which would reduce the risk of going of and starting a startup. That person would not have to worry about working and splitting effort and could totally i
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by John23832 11mo ago
That's orthogonal to the idea of the piece. Success can come from working hard at something. Whether you're comfortable working hard at something depends on the risk of doing so. Lebron James works hard, spends all day getting bet
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by John23832 11mo ago
While not a book/paper/article, this is good implementation practice: https://fly.io/dist-sys/
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by John23832 11mo ago
While I wouldn't piss on him to put him out, the Trump administration is not the nucleus of anti-chinese sentiment. It happened way before him. He's just loud and hamfisted about it. Canada specifically, as a major supplier to US
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by John23832 11mo ago
Ah. Gotcha.
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by John23832 11mo ago
> So, like compulsory jury duty and the draft, this would be directly against the 13th Amendment. I'm pretty sure my Federal grand jury duty was compelled.
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by John23832 11mo ago
> I cannot judge his research output at Meta but he failed pretty bad at the LLM race. Since so many other organizations succeeded at creating open source models of far higher quality at much lower cost, it would be instructive to unders
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by John23832 11mo ago
Personalization != using appropriate common language to express what is happening to the user.
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by John23832 11mo ago
There's no good or evil here. Have attention to quality. Do whatever it is that you're doing well.
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by John23832 11mo ago
Then jog it? That's not a negative.
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by John23832 11mo ago
> Valve is basically the only one that didn’t… Lol Valve is taking a cut of a ridiculous amount of video game sales while releasing no games. I like some of their work on the linux support side, but they have sold out as much as Apple ha
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by John23832 11mo ago
Eh, please find me a 120 TB NVMe.
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by John23832 11mo ago
>And nobody is forced to work, like being at a startup that has some liquidity hiccups, sometimes you take a delayed paycheck. Other times you find other work. No, ATC's are actually forced to work by statute and contract. It's

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