bluefirebrand

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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
My Dad was basically a tool salesman for most of my life. He was really, really good at it. and I don't know if he ever measured anything. He just talked to people and tried his best to give people what they say they want Crazy how suc
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
So in theory if you took twitter content and then transformed it so it "summarizes" all tweets with an AI rather than posting the exact text, would that be allowed? Because that's stupid. These laws are stupid.
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
No kidding. I dunno what kind of traffic loss Wikipedia has had but SO is really dead these days If they weren't competing with AI then why is AI killing it?
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
> Everyone likes to deride idiot MBAs while also enjoying a stock market that returns on avg 8-10% per year vastly outpacing inflation in a developed, stable, wealthy country of all places Sounds great until the wheels fall off because M
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
I have been toying with the idea of building some kind of "home cloud" that hooks into all of your smart devices (at least all of the open devices that it can), allows photo backups from mobile devices, idk. Stuff like that. Somet
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
> How is this not a skill issue and why would one conclude that you need to stop learning if this is the case? It's not the skill I'm interested in learning nor is it the same skill I spent my career building My problem also is
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
This feels so insane to me, because I don't think I know anyone who plays phone games
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
> It's kind of weird. nVidia kind of has the PC market cornered, but AMD has had the last couple of generations of Xbox and Playstation I have been getting the vibes that Sony is positioning themselves to back out of videogames. I d
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
> You are not hired for your suffering, your experience, the time you spent learning everything you know OTHER THAN insofar as it helps deliver your employer value. Yes obviously. But consider: In the past my employer and I were aligned.
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
> LLMs to me are just another tool. They help me get what I wanted (an app, a game, a web site). I'm still directing. It's still my idea, with the features/look I want. My design choices still make the end project. > I
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
Software is fine as a product, it is when it becomes a service that it sucks
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
I'm assuming that was when "don't be evil" still mattered to them?
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
I don't have any trust that the people left standing will ever be motivated enough to figure out a solution that doesn't involve letting the rest of us starve or actively having us killed
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
> the truth is the worst thing would be slowing down the spread of this through the economy creating large minorities of disenfranchised. It would be far better to get to the end asap, whatever it proves to be Getting to the end asap is
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
Be snotty about it if you want but I didn't invent the term "low trust society", it's a pretty accepted term in social psychology from what I can tell And based on that, countries like India, Pakistan, Phillipines, Niger
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
> There are plenty of low-trust societies And high trust societies have spent the past two decades importing tons of H1B style workers from many of the lower trust countries
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
> Even if I wanted to review all the code written by 20+ developers to the point where I could stay I understood it, there simply wasn't enough hours in the day to do so. The difference of course being that you had 20+ developers wh
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
I do all the time because the feature exists. I would treat it like a sliding line in my tabs bar. When I'm done with a tab for now it goes to the right, and eventually everything to the right gets closed once I haven't used it
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
> coworkers that literally committed zero code for months That's awesome I would much prefer to have coworkers that literally commit zero code than the monkeys I sometimes work with who commit way too much code, or just plain comm
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
> By making decisions under the assumption that society will continue That seems completely at odds with "everyone will be replaced by AI" > Even under the reduction to absurdity of everyone's jobs being replaced in a y
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
> the people in California have lost the plot I say this constantly about many topics. Californians are a super different breed
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
I'm pretty sure those are easy to find usb adapters for it you ever do need them in the future anyways.
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
It's still a gamble, just a really bad one for you
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
I mean, yes? My favorite band started experimenting with different sounds and genres and while I still like their old stuff I don't care for their new stuff much I would love if they made more that sounded like their old stuff. Obvious
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
I don't really understand when people find more of a good game to be boring. It's ok to take a break if you're tired of the formula or whatever but I dunno To me it seems like saying "oh no, not another delicious steak t
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
Which is probably fine because the target demographic for those games probably loves bikini clad snipers
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
Basic Minecraft is basically that imo Modded Minecraft is a very different beast, depending on the mods It's pretty cool to see what modders have done with it over the years. I genuinely think Minecraft + Create is the best factory gam
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
I don't know anyone who has that kind of time, no
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
1984 was written in 1949, that feels like a reasonable prediction of Flock a lot longer than 20 years ago
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by bluefirebrand 1mo ago
I believe this, and it mirrors what I have heard from suicide attempt survivors in my personal life too. I do wonder what the story would be if we could somehow ask the people who didn't survive. Likely a purely philosophical question

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