K0balt

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by K0balt 1y ago
I prefer trades as a backup to a profession, for sure. A trade can give you the runway to put yourself through school or to ramp up your capabilities in other ways, leading to a better long term plan. Getting old Is a bitch, to be sure.
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by K0balt 1y ago
This is a great example, really. If I’m bored I sometimes freelance as a field repair technician for service contractors. It’s typically opening up a machine I’ve never seen, and finding the combination of mechanical, electronic, and/o
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by K0balt 1y ago
If a carpenter can’t read a book and understand how to make a structure without metal fasteners, they are not competent in that field. And working with raw logs is also not much of a challenge. I’m not an especially good carpenter, and I ca
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by K0balt 1y ago
It’s all about the degree of independence. There are a lot of places that you can’t find work as a data scientist, and. Being a data scientist does little to directly solve problems your family might encounter if your career gets eaten by A
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by K0balt 1y ago
What I’ve seen that drives my ideas on this are: I believe a professional skill is an important educational goal, and insofar as a person is capable and interested they will more likely thrive with a professional skill. But: professional sk
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by K0balt 1y ago
For sure. I believe that a a person should work towards working more with their mind than their back, long term. A lot of professions are good vehicles towards that goal. But being able to do what you need to, and being able to make ends me
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by K0balt 1y ago
lol. Probably. I’ve never, ever done that on an Internet forum. Casting stones, and what not.
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by K0balt 1y ago
You are describing being an automotive repair shop owner. A mechanic may work on cars, or they may work on generators, pumps, valves, augers, or any number of other kinds of industrial machinery that services a vast field of critical infras
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by K0balt 1y ago
True, but it still, generally, requires a whole lot of other societal components to be in place and functioning in order to generate most of its value. It tends to service the tyranny of needs in a very tangential way, or serves those need
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by K0balt 1y ago
While I agree with the sentiment, population density tends to make regularization more important. In a smaller community, social proofs are highly effective. Less so as people become more commodified.
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by K0balt 1y ago
What? I’m not advocating for forgoing education. On the contrary. I advocate for deeper, broader education and life experience. Not quite sure where you get that? OTOH we’d be better off living in well built wood huts than in the condition
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by K0balt 1y ago
A lot of work gets done outside of that framework, and licensing in many places is not all that onerous. It depends on the location and the field, and there is a difference between the commitment level of learning a trade as a backup and pe
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by K0balt 1y ago
Yeah, the costs just aren’t that high. I’d say that adding a trade to my children’s accomplishments probably in total added about 3-5k to the cost of their education. In some cases, the educational component of the trade actually earned the
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by K0balt 1y ago
Yes, this is becoming more and more relevant. There are a lot of things that need fixed besides cars though.
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by K0balt 1y ago
If earnings are the main point of your life, that makes perfect sense.
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by K0balt 1y ago
Sort of?, if you are sufficiently well rounded and can implement solutions from start to finish. It’s sort of Art adjacent, or entrepreneur adjacent. Still, I’d encourage strongly to learn carpentry, as in the rough construction level carpe
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by K0balt 1y ago
Yeah, it would be impractical to do them all lol, but you can get set up either by high school graduation or within two years afterward. So you go to college , if desired, at 19 or 20. As far as the “track” available in high school, I’ve f
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by K0balt 1y ago
That makes sense, a sort of replacement cpu architecture.
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by K0balt 1y ago
To me this is a validation of my parenting approach. My mantra for teens has been learn a trade, and then a profession if you want to. A trade being any job you can do with your own tools and is universally useful to people. So carpentry, p
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by K0balt 1y ago
It sounds like the writer has a good idea on how to extract a lot more value from the subject for students, but I think we might be missing the value of tools like prolog in the LLM era. It seems to me that tool use of prolog for logic and
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by K0balt 1y ago
Perhaps she talks to some people and learns something about their (self reported) life? I would imagine this is how these types of intuitions are formed?
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by K0balt 1y ago
Thanks for the info!
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by K0balt 1y ago
Wow. I got a c64 as soon as I could get one, a huge upgrade from my Ohio scientific C28P. But I had no idea it could run CP/M? I totally would have been all over that. Is there a port to the 6502, or did they run a computer in a cart
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by K0balt 1y ago
Well, I’m hoping not to be on one of their flight, does that count? What we need is people refusing to refuel them or service their aircraft.
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by K0balt 1y ago
Yes, please?
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by K0balt 1y ago
A million years ago, stack overflow was something special. It’s still useful for figuring out things you really should have known but don’t, though LLMs are much better, since you can actually ask them questions rather than just try to sear
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by K0balt 1y ago
Ironicness
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by K0balt 1y ago
Analogy is a great word proxy for thought proxy. Yeah, I’m pretty sure analogy would have been fine there, I think maybe it fell off the edge of my vocabulary for a moment? Not really sure, but I really can’t think of any reason why “though
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by K0balt 1y ago
A decent thought-proxy for this : powered flight. An aircraft can approach powered flight without achieving it. With a given amount of thrust or aerodynamic characteristics, the aircraft will weigh dynamic_weight=(static_weight - x) where x
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by K0balt 1y ago
I think the key feature of AI driven exploitation of cognitive flaws for the purpose of influencing people is the ability to remove any trace of hesitation or empathy from the process. Ai can adhere to the letter of ethical behaviour but re

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