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by asdfman123 1mo ago
Dismissive, uninformed, and in denial is not an attractive combination of traits to have.
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by asdfman123 1mo ago
I was in denial for a long time too. Now I see it everywhere, among very smart people, too. They say "AI just hallucinates" or "your fear is overblown" or they have a general sour grapes attitude towards it. But I don&#x
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by asdfman123 1mo ago
The problem is that in an AI powered future, there is no elite class. In every regime in history, elites have been a threat to state power, but needed to keep things running. If the state can run itself, you don't need elites anymore.
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by asdfman123 1mo ago
I feel like this is a rational response. Personally, while I'm becoming increasingly convinced there's going to be a wave of SWE layoffs, another part of me doesn't grasp it yet. I don't feel it. I was an AI skeptic for
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by asdfman123 1mo ago
High intensity by far gives you the best gains for the time you put in, but there's only so much you can do without overtraining. The way to really maximize your potential is to do high intensity 30 mins 3x/wk and then intersperse
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by asdfman123 1mo ago
I'd bet money he's talking about... men's issues
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by asdfman123 1mo ago
You probably spent all that time training your cardiovascular base, which takes a long time to do. Then, you capped them off with anaerobic gains that were only possible with that prior work. For optimum gain you should mix moderate exercis
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by asdfman123 1mo ago
The proper Latin term for someone throwing away your big box of cables is cabula rasa .
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by asdfman123 1mo ago
There's no need to worry about how much CO2 these systems can either capture or accidentally leak. I estimate they use less CO2 than is released when burning a tenth of a gallon of gas. Not significant carbon sequestration, and an insi
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by asdfman123 1mo ago
It's because you have to be fearless as the challenger. As the established player you have more to lose.
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by asdfman123 1mo ago
That's still a topic of active debate
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by asdfman123 1mo ago
I'm going to steal your idea. What ziploc baggie size have you found is best for cables?
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by asdfman123 1mo ago
My problem is I can skip all those steps and 8 separate meetings by applying a little common sense to software design. Unfortunately, orgs often treat devs like this as indulgent or wasting time. They need it to be done the inefficient way
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by asdfman123 1mo ago
That's true, but greater efficiency isn't going to sell more software if the users don't know they need it. At some level in your management chain there's someone who cares about selling more software above all else, and
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by asdfman123 1mo ago
Much of Hacker News seems to be incapable of understanding the average user doesn't care about memory use at all, beyond a few extreme examples. You don't need to argue with me about it: I'm not the average user. But they rea
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by asdfman123 1mo ago
Not many people in their 50s are trying new technology. No, what usually happens is a distrusted corporation just keeps sweetening the pot until the users come crawling back. I distrust Meta but if I'm being honest, if their tools were
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by asdfman123 1mo ago
No, after seeing how powerful AI is at my job, I definitely want AI to help plan dates, book flights, generate spreadsheets, do all the things. The only problem is, like someone else pointed out, that I don't trust Meta.
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by asdfman123 2mo ago
Focusing on how other people designed it might be good to generate momentum for political activism purposes but it's not good for your own personal self improvement. And if you're getting mad about the world and not doing a signif
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by asdfman123 2mo ago
Meet a lot of Gen Zers. Far too many of them are.
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by asdfman123 2mo ago
It's so weird. I used to consider myself a fringe internet addict in the 2000s but now everyone is like me. Like many of you, I deal with stuff like depression, anxiety, ADHD. Back in the 2000s it felt like I was the only weirdo out th
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by asdfman123 2mo ago
If you're interested in what helped me overcome the worst aspects of my internet addiction, I learned to reframe it. I wasn't overcome with addiction, but I was CHOOSING to take a break. There are good reasons to read the news, th
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by asdfman123 2mo ago
Yep, that's been my experience of it. Fun note though, my work these days often involves telling AI to solve a problem and me asking it why it wants to do something a certain way. It often has to patiently explain something like why
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by asdfman123 2mo ago
I invite you to do your own research. I'm not going to argue for every uncontroversial claim. If you believe it's controversial, see my first sentence.
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by asdfman123 2mo ago
*Bane voice*
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by asdfman123 2mo ago
But the AI transition is different than old technological changes in that you don't really have to learn anything. You don't have to memorize keywords and new concepts like you'd have to for, say, a new JavaScript framework
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by asdfman123 2mo ago
I don't want to
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by asdfman123 2mo ago
And right now the fuel for fascism seems to be coming from the newly minted billionaires who own or profit off of the data centers.
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by asdfman123 2mo ago
Yes, I could. But to be serious, there's endless evidence that it's going on, and if you don't believe it I'm not the one with my head in the sand. (That's a common English idiom meaning "not paying attention,&
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by asdfman123 2mo ago
Actually, I find it's helpful to privately admit that you do negative things because they DO have some positive side effects. Everything is a tradeoff. Maybe anger helps draw attention to you. Maybe it garners some form of sympathy. Ma
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by asdfman123 2mo ago
It's just not true that "neurochemistry prefers" one state over the other. Neurochemistry rewards you based on how you've trained yourself. We used to gain status by being good hunters and warriors, and now we're tr

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