JohnFen

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by JohnFen 4mo ago
A couldn't agree with the article more. Technology is increasingly being leveraged against us and is making daily life a greater pain in the butt than is necessary, and a greater pain than before the technology came around.
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
Palantir is a real threat to us all, both in the west (including here in the US) and not.
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
When it comes to income and wealth, I don't think so. There aren't enough people in the middle ground between rich and poor for that to be a meaningful stat for most things.
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
Mid 90s for me. But when that shift happened isn't very relevant. I was just pointing out when I noticed that working in an office had started to become bleak. Things have continually become more bleak ever since.
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
I haven't yet had any of those gift links work for me.
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
> The vast amount of water usage is non-consumptive This is not true in any of the datacenters in my state. Their water usage is not only extreme enough to be causing genuine hardship in the communities they're near, but they have r
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
> Maybe this is unique to people who grow up in cities? And/or generational? I grew up and live in cities, but I also know practical skills like that (fixing things, growing and preparing food, routine maintenance, etc.) I taught th
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
> having a negative connotation amongst the non-tech population. It has an equally negative connotation to a rather large portion of the tech-savvy population as well.
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
Sometimes, a meeting is exactly what is needed. Sometimes, it's the opposite of what is needed. The tricky part is being able to tell which is which. I don't think many people or companies are any good at being able to tell which
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
I was momentarily excited because I thought this was a dumbphone. Alas, it's just a smartphone with restrictions.
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
Don't use genAI to approve comments, either. Only use it to flag potentially problematic comments for human review. The harm of people temporarily seeing a problematic comment is far less than the harm of removing comments that shouldn
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
Oh, man, my sympathies. I had a great job at a company that later switched to an open office layout. I found it so intolerable that I quit a couple of months afterwards. There's exactly zero chance that I'd accept a position where
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
For me, the first noticeable encroachment of bleakness was when we stopped having offices and started having to work in cubes.
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
I honestly don't know what anybody means when they say "AGI". There are too many incompatible definitions floating around for it to be a useful term. If the term means "a human-like intelligence", then I don't
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
Any time I have a work-related verbal discussion, I follow it up with an email that both explains what I took away from that discussion and describes any commitments made by anyone participating in the conversation. I developed this habit d
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
I couldn't agree more. Release notes like that are informationally identical to a release note that just says "New release." I use release notes to help me decide whether not to update to the new release. I would prefer that
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
> Your computer is likely to be stolen and sold. Likely? How likely is it? I've never had a computer stolen, nor has anybody I personally know. So it doesn't seem to me like it's all that likely. Personally, I find whole
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by JohnFen 5mo ago
He says this is a rant, but it isn't. It's a thoughtful criticism of a common but bad practice. But I'm very sympathetic to the criticism since this has long been on my pet peeves list.
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by JohnFen 5mo ago
Could be. But you can't excuse murder by saying that other people murder more.
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by JohnFen 5mo ago
I guess they didn't harm enough people the first time?
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by JohnFen 5mo ago
> As a company, we’re committed to playing an active part and constructive role in addressing these issues. No, you're not. You're committed to shoving this stuff down our throats as much and as hard as you can get away with. Y
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by JohnFen 5mo ago
Absolutely not. From an investment perspective, it's a far riskier bet than I'm comfortable making. From a societal perspective, I am not interested in having any of my money go to Musk or his companies if I can avoid it.
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by JohnFen 5mo ago
> as long as it's used for the right reasons and that the data is kept secure Two things that we have yet to be able to even reasonably ensure.
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by JohnFen 5mo ago
I think it's even worse than that. Our industry has a strong track record of only looking at potential upsides (and pretending they're certain) and not even seeing that there may be serious downsides. It's a kind of blindness
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by JohnFen 5mo ago
In the case of genAI using a particular expression style, there is less difference between those two meanings than it may seem. If genAI picks up an expression style, it means that style is less suitable for use by humans.
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by JohnFen 5mo ago
It's so much easier for me to stay focused working from home as opposed to in the office. An office is filled with nothing but distraction, stress, interruptions, noise, etc. But I do have habits I've developed over decades of wor
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by JohnFen 5mo ago
> I just would like to know your feelings when, at some point through the reading, you realize that what you have in front has not been written by a person. I feel tricked and angry. I stop reading and won't return to that source in
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by JohnFen 5mo ago
Only if your definition of "success" consists solely of accumulating wealth. Many people use a different definition.
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by JohnFen 5mo ago
Being unfamiliar with tools you rely on comes with some downsides, it appears.
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by JohnFen 5mo ago
Under no circumstances. If it becomes impossible to get medical care without exposing my data to genAI systems, I guess it becomes impossible to get medical care in the US. > administration figures are working a pathway to regulate indep

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