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by aristofun 10mo ago
Thanks for elaborating! Btw, what model is currently cheap yet accurate enough for you?
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> Siddhartha Gautama? Or Confucius? Genghis Khan? Julius Caesar? Valid question. Mentioned people are not as nearly influential. Buddha is close though. But there were many enlightened men before and after him. There were many other empe
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by aristofun 10mo ago
Galileo, copernicus, descartes were all christians, also newton. Some of them were in conflict with the church. Never with christ or god. If you’re ignorant and uneducated enough to not see the difference between the 2 then there is no poin
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by aristofun 10mo ago
All those horrors are not unique to human nature unfortunately, nor to the religion. Same or worth things were done in the name of any deity you can think of. It’s not something that he brought to this world. But what he brought was powerfu
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by aristofun 10mo ago
Tell me honestly. Would you rather live today in a pagan war oriented society (and likely die or be enslaved in the next clan war) without all the technological achievements of the last centuries than in the society where you have all the o
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by aristofun 10mo ago
Jesus was a real person, it’s a historical fact, not disputed by any worthwhile historians. If 25 december is not an accurate birthday it’s okay, im happy with moving the celebration to other day if new findings arise. I wasn’t saying that
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Even if one is a hardcore atheist and thinks that Jesus was only a weird jewish rabbi, not the god, one should celebrate the birthday of the most influential and awesome man in the history of mankind. Merely out of respect to all his legacy
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by aristofun 10mo ago
Ho ho ho!
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by aristofun 10mo ago
> If you are okay with just being a ticket taker who us not aiming for a promotion I think your extreme example does not refute any of my points and I agree with you. "good manager" is not a guarantee for a good career, it&#x27
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by aristofun 10mo ago
I don't bemoan actually, I'm just calling out things for what they are. I too learned to play the game and adapt the way it works for me.
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I apologize if I misunderstood it. It sounded to me like the opposite.
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> These things are not mutually exclusive. You can do a great job and learn how to communicate a job well done. Absolutely! Nothing wrong with communicating your work and networking. It's better to do that than don't, it'
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by aristofun 10mo ago
yes, there are much more bad managers than good ones, also human brain is naturally wired to notice problems and warnings, rather than good news
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by aristofun 10mo ago
> hop to another job if you want more money I wonder on what planet are you working? Virtually everyone I know in IT bumped their salary only after switching the companies, never I've seen anyone who raised their salary with compara
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by aristofun 10mo ago
> Gravity doesn’t care whether you like it or not when you land after jumping out of a 70 story building With one key difference - it's not a gravity. It's just currently popular and dominating style in IT corporate culture. Ma
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> I’m not smarter than anyone else, I learned how to network, talk the talk and play the game. Congratulations that you learned how to game the system. Fair enough. That doesn't mean you should brag about it or celebrate that terrib
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by aristofun 10mo ago
The general sentiment of being aware about your career and decisions is true. But this reminds me of what I hate about modern corporate “culture” the most. And what is broken about it the most. Im speaking about the rat race. Tge fact, that
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by aristofun 10mo ago
If just one book can rewire your thinking, I feel very sorry for you :) Virtually every book that survived the test of time has some gem worth finding. For example the bible is a perfect source of ethical and moral ideas and problems, wheth
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It’s just a nice looking model author made up. One of many possible.
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I think the big part of why HN is so cool and hard to game is that real people are behind it that show up every day to make it work. Not robots (literally and metaphorically). No corporate bullshit, no scaling strategies, no ai gimmicks and
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by aristofun 10mo ago
What do you use for OCR, I wonder if it's LLM isn't that too expensive (or flaky if cheap) to be scalable?
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by aristofun 10mo ago
The thing with system design is that all typical problems has been already solved, there are already battle tested patterns and practices for virtually any problem you can face until you're ~ at the scale of Google. You don't need
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by aristofun 10mo ago
I don't know what others are complaining about here, it loads for me as fast as this HN, but looks nicer.
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the most boring and thought-killing book I've ever tried to read
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by aristofun 10mo ago
> I disagree on this How can you disagree with the fact? Some specific examples (like the one you mentioned, _adjacent_ to accounting per se) don't disprove the main point that 100% accuracy is fundamentally impossible with LLMs, wh
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It is already quite automated to my knowledge. And it is a very poor fit for moderm LLM based AI. Because accuracy. No mistakes or hallucinations allowed.
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Goooshhh, just f.. give me a watch that a) last at least a month b) visible in a daylight Also accurate Hr activity and sleep tracking wouldn’t hurt. That’s it. Nobody gives a single bit about your fancy ai-blockhain-voodoo features. How b
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by aristofun 11mo ago
Accept the brutal truth - developer is never the customer the whole infra is optimized for. Nobody (including other developers) gives a single f. how easy or hard your life is. This is where every big corporation ends up inevitably.
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Of course it’s not black and white. But the more concious control you have over some problem - the more it is your own laziness or stupidity rather than an illness that needs to be treated by professionals. Generally speaking.
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You are not depressed because you don’t care about your work. You don’t care about your work because you’re depressed. Same with everything else. Your brain will show you opposite rationalizations if you’re really depressed. This doesn’t me

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