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What We're Fighting For(wheresyoured.at)
2 points by adamc 2y ago|1 comments
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by adamc 2y ago
It's a screed, and yet, one that resonates. I try to avoid using MS Word because I find it unpleasant; these days, I often write in text editors, which at least don't provide an AI "critique". Imagine if every time you p
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by adamc 2y ago
Well, but: Humans learn to do things well that don't have clear-cut reward functions. Picasso didn't become Picasso because of simple incentives. So, I question the hypothesis.
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by adamc 2y ago
That can happen in Scala as well because of shared binaries, as is reported in this thread.
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by adamc 2y ago
The "Wait" vs. "Hmm" discussion in the paper does not suggest we know how they work. If we knew , we wouldn't have to try things and measure to figure out the best prompt.
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by adamc 2y ago
I found it interesting but the "Wait" vs. "Hmm" bit just made me think we don't really understand our own models here. I mean, sure, it's great that they measured and found something better, but it's kind
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by adamc 2y ago
No, that isn't true at all. Workers are often exploited even though they can leave (legally) at any time because their economic circumstances have made them desperate. They take side gigs that they hope will earn them enough to make
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by adamc 2y ago
I doubt very much that teaching on Udemy is the best way to learn, because you don't get the kinds of questions and experiences that challenge your understanding in the way you do teaching in-person. Or, maybe what it's the best w
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by adamc 2y ago
That's a reasonable argument. It's the same reason people write tech books, for the most part. But it also results in a market full of courses that people aren't that invested in, since even a fairly poor class can make you l
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by adamc 2y ago
Food delivery, is, on the face of it, a service that makes little economic sense. It's expensive to do and faces big timeliness challenges given that cold food is less appealing. Trying to do it at an affordable price means exploiting
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by adamc 2y ago
The tech industry seems attracted to exploitation.
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by adamc 2y ago
Yeah, but if you look at the numbers, it isn't any good as a side-hustle, either. The vast majority of courses don't make enough money for the effort invested to even qualify as break-even. I think online courses are a challenge.
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by adamc 2y ago
If that's all you want, is compiling it all into go really better than just having a portable bash?
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by adamc 2y ago
Right, but wouldn't an app built around creating a container with all the dependencies make more sense?
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by adamc 2y ago
The things he cites are mostly middle-class entitlements. That's where a lot of social security and medicare spending goes.
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by adamc 2y ago
That isn't welfare. Most of those are middle-class entitlements. And defense is the second highest category: https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder... Calling Social Security "welfare&qu
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by adamc 2y ago
This is just wrong, on many levels. If you look where tax revenues go, it's mostly defense (military industrial complex) and middle-class entitlements.
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by adamc 2y ago
Yep. I left without even really trying to make it work. Academia has its good points, but the path to success is very grind-y.
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by adamc 2y ago
I think the economics drive the same way for all companies.
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by adamc 2y ago
To put it another way, it is an implicit cost of using AWS: You have to have contingency plans to cope with discontinued services, and you need to be able to realistically execute those plans. I think it is just another reason that AWS isn&
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by adamc 2y ago
That makes sense, but are most of those newer opportunities more straight engineering and not software engineering?
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by adamc 2y ago
Bureaucracy is real. There are often ways of surmounting that, but that takes yet another, different set of skills.
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by adamc 2y ago
There will always be more to find out, but there are a ton of counter-examples to your claims. Engineering related to radio was huge in the 1920s and 1930s and is... not today. A lot of key problems got solved and the focus turned to other
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by adamc 2y ago
Yeah. I lost my house in a divorce, and it was quite a shock when I looked at the "new" pricing. Not sure that can last.
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by adamc 2y ago
Yep. When we bought our first house (mid-1990s), interest rates were over 7%. The future is hard to know, but demographic changes are going to move a lot of money out of the stock market (because retiring boomers and soon gen-xers will want
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by adamc 2y ago
I went from being an anthropologist (post doc) to being a programmer. I'd done a lot of Monte Carlo simulation as part of my thesis, and new programming was a possibility. In my case, we were wandering through a University library for
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by adamc 2y ago
This is the right mindset. It makes your customers trust you.
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by adamc 2y ago
It's worth giving Mulholland Drive a look. And the Elephant Man and The Straight Story are nothing like Blue Velvet.
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by adamc 2y ago
We were using svn before Git and easy cloning (and then PRs) has solved a LOT of problems. There are definitely still some things left to improve, though.
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by adamc 2y ago
I'm with Ebert, I hated it. Not because it wasn't effective. It was convincing, but such a bad experience I'll never watch it again.

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