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by _vertigo 7mo ago
Rhetorical question: why do non-insiders still bet in these markets? Surely, after all of the focus on insiders, people will begin to realize that betting without insider knowledge is a fool’s gambit..
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by _vertigo 7mo ago
> No schema changes. No new indexes. No query rewrites. Just telling Dapper the correct parameter type.
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by _vertigo 7mo ago
This was my exact thought process reading this. The business side of my company does not care or want to wait for complex solutions that sound cool to engineers. If anything, we have the opposite problem: convincing business stakeholders wh
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by _vertigo 7mo ago
We’re beyond parody or fiction at this point. This wouldn’t be out of place in Snow Crash
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by _vertigo 9mo ago
This is just a rant with zero actual content or insight. Maybe using an LLM would have made it more legible.
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by _vertigo 9mo ago
He produces value by refining a raw resource. I don’t want to go to the flea market on my Sunday morning, maybe I’ll pay his markup.
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by _vertigo 9mo ago
> Code is not an asset it's a liability, and code that no one has reviewed is even more of a liability. Code that solves problems and makes you money is by definition an asset. Whether or not the code in question does those things r
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by _vertigo 9mo ago
I’m American and I don’t like Trump. If Italy did bomb San Francisco and you asked me what I thought of that, I’d say I disapproved. If China invaded overnight and absconded with Trump, I’d say I disapproved even though I don’t like him.
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by _vertigo 9mo ago
If you invent a person and assume their identity, that's still a false identity. > I always grew up with the assumption that everything on the internet is most likely fake. How you interact with the internet is not really relevant t
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by _vertigo 9mo ago
Every action is self-interested if you squint enough
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by _vertigo 9mo ago
There is a difference between hiding your identity for the purpose of privacy and for the purpose of deception. There’s a difference between writing anonymously and assuming a false identity.
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by _vertigo 10mo ago
That’s stupid. We can have a law that protects users from bullshit like this. Lacking technical savvy should not mean you forfeit the right to your data.
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by _vertigo 10mo ago
Lies, damned lies, and statistics
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by _vertigo 11mo ago
Some guy writes a whimsical blog post about wanting to work at a company that takes pride in their work and the top comment criticizes the blog post because they didn’t specify explicitly in their 300 word post that the company has to not b
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by _vertigo 11mo ago
Yes, obviously, everyone knows that. When all you have to file is a 1040, reading one of the instructions documents is fine. When you have to use several forms it start to add up.
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by _vertigo 11mo ago
Please. Are you implying we need AI to the same degree we need clean water? Your chemicals in river analogy only works if there were also a giant company straight out of “The Lorax” siphoning off all of the water in the river.. and further,
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by _vertigo 1y ago
Honestly, AI could have written this.
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by _vertigo 1y ago
Well, that’s helpful to know so that other people can know to ignore what you write on this
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by _vertigo 1y ago
So your take is that if they are therapists, it’s a conflict of interest, and if they aren’t therapists, they’re not qualified to make the assessment?
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by _vertigo 1y ago
I think that depends on whether your definition of “doomerism” is the same as theirs.
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by _vertigo 2y ago
All of your examples are tools that incrementally improve upon what came before and, importantly, still require the user to have an understanding of and experience with the underlying skill. The risk being posed here is that AI may not land
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by _vertigo 2y ago
I am a much better "engineer" for having taken the advanced classes, but more to the point, I was a much better programmer for having taken the advanced classes. The total amount of code I had written in my first two years of univ
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by _vertigo 3y ago
Yep, that's all true. Like I said, bungled at the level of fine details, pretty questionable if it was a good decision, but largely effective at actually getting people to come in. People do work noticeably shorter days, a handful of p
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by _vertigo 3y ago
Amazon's approach to RTO seemed broadly effective at getting workers into the office even though it was largely bungled at level of fine details. 1. Track badging 2. Enforce RTO via chain-of-command. SVPs, VPs, and directors have aggre
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by _vertigo 3y ago
A toaster in 1950 would probably be closer to $250. Also, I don't like this counterargument because it holds that we should expect to be no better at creating high quality appliances today than in 1950 despite 73 years of advances in e
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by _vertigo 3y ago
I think you should spend some time reflecting on this take and whether it makes sense for a (presumably competent) adult to have posted it.
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by _vertigo 3y ago
I thought it was fun to click on all of the little squares. I like the interactivity.
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by _vertigo 3y ago
That seems to be contradicted by the article
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by _vertigo 3y ago
Not if you want to use the sun’s energy for power
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by _vertigo 3y ago
While not contending directly for the same stock, homeowners are very interested in matters that influence rental prices, albeit in less direct way, as you say. Try proposing to build affordable housing in a neighborhood and you’ll find you

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