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by callc 2y ago
Let’s do both. Pressure your gov representatives to deal with the Googles/Apples of the world locking down computing, stifling competition. And also do what you can as an engineer. We have the knowledge about what technologies are dem
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by callc 2y ago
This. While I don’t make my own extensions or bookmarklets, I chose to develop for the web because of its openness and how it’s not owned by a singular entity. I do not want to be at the mercy of Apple or Google with their distribution chan
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by callc 2y ago
> what existential reasons do we have to behave well? Fundamentally we’re built for small group survival, so playing nice and sharing resources increases your odds for survival. That’s why we care about others, in an evolutionary perspec
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by callc 2y ago
This sort of mindset is devoid of morals and honor. Don’t fall into the this mindset trap. Like when Trump said he is “smart” for evading taxes during the presidential debates (IIRC the first ones, not recent ones). It’s absolutely despicab
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by callc 2y ago
> Regardless of what you think of his intellectual capacity, he has a proven track record of organizing people to produce exceptional outcomes ! And? Getting people whipped up into a frenzy through fear, us vs them mentality, narcissism,
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by callc 2y ago
> Offer more compensation. > Too much stress? I bet if you paid people so much money that they could work for 10 years and then either retire to a lower paying job, or retire entirely, people would deal with it. I highly doubt that so
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by callc 2y ago
In about 1 year can agents automatically bring back the pre-LLM / pre-AI internet? Thanks :) - my agent
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by callc 2y ago
At least Google employees will sign petitions and do things that follow a moral code. OpenAI is sneaky slimey and headed by a psycho narcissist. Makes Pichia looks like a saint. Ethically, it’s the same. But if someone was pointing a gun at
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by callc 2y ago
Too late the 0.1% took all the cookies and didn’t learn how to share as children
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by callc 2y ago
> When an employer pays a salary they are buying out your entire professional capacity. Nah. I’ve got free time with a full time job. I’ll do what I damn well please with it. “Salary = ownership over worker” is the most authoritarian wor
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by callc 2y ago
That’s a good point against unionization for government employees. But anti-union is against the right to assemble, and any law requiring an individual to work goes against some very basic freedoms (self-determination, slavery?) Let’s not m
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by callc 2y ago
Any amount of $$$ earned by CCP will not be easily passed down to citizens. I’d be interested if there’s any objective measure of how much a countries money is passed down back to its citizens or hoarded by people in power. Is there any suc
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by callc 2y ago
I solved the first 100 problems a long time ago before learning the best practices we learn as professional engineers. It’s alien code now.
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by callc 2y ago
This is why we need our governments to protect the people. It is exuberantly clear that some companies will treat their workers with the minimum amount of decency up to the point of illegality, or past that if they can get away with it. How
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by callc 2y ago
I’m happy that your org seems respectful and humane. That’s incredibly rare nowadays.
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by callc 2y ago
Routers are much simpler to use when you connect to them with an Ethernet cable. Not all abstractions and simplified services are good in all situations. I really wish the 9mm headphone jack wasn’t being replaced with just Bluetooth. 9mm ha
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by callc 2y ago
If US regulation prohibits China from training LLMs? How? If you mean trying to stop GPUs getting to China, US already has tried that with specific GPU models, but China still gets them. Seems hard/impossible to do. Even if US and CCP
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by callc 2y ago
> I also doubt that it was a profit motive. One of the most profitable companies in the world trying to build more of a moat of incompatibilities with the rest of the non-apple world with no profit or ulterior motive? /s Once a for-
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by callc 2y ago
I don’t. I highly suggest everyone else does their darnedest not too either. Don’t do it in your own software. Refuse and push back against it at $dayJob. I realize that my small contribution as a privacy and data-respecting SWE is extremel
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by callc 2y ago
Thank you for summarizing my feeling so succinctly. The simplicity makes me think that law-makers can understand it.
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by callc 2y ago
Not to me. I’d rather have human created music, even when it is background music and I’m doing a primary activity that needs focus. In other contexts, where the stakes are even lower, such as elevator music or on-hold call music AI gen musi
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by callc 2y ago
> This is planning issue, if you correctly size tickets you aren’t going to end up in messy situations as often. I think the underlying issue is what is an appropriate “unit of work”. Parent commenter may want to ship a complete/ent
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by callc 2y ago
> I have greybeard coworkers that dissed the technology as a fad 3 years ago. Now they are scrambling to catch up. They have to do this while sustaining a family with pets and kids and mortgages and full time senior jobs. I want to criti
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by callc 2y ago
Sure, attempting to find one or a handful of bad actors to blame may not yield a sufficient result that could convince the public that justice was served appropriately. Yet, the complexity of how to blame should not absolve the crime. How s
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by callc 2y ago
Thanks OskarS Tech is a very powerful tool that can automate the most mundane tasks and also automate harm like mass surveillance and erosion of ownership rights of your devices. The sheer ability to create new markets and replace inefficie
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by callc 2y ago
Amazing tech != socially good Of course, as knowledgeable people in tech we can look at the last few years of AI improvements as technically remarkable. pen2l is talking about social impact. I hope our trade can collectively become adults
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by callc 2y ago
Corporations are apparently people too! They should be taxed like any other flesh and blood human! I really want gov around the world to take back governance to be solely for the benefit of people. None of this greedy corruption lobbyist st
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by callc 2y ago
I’m sick of dealing with managers and bad leaders, and want to get back to coding and building cool stuff. Is there any solution for this? Co-op? Contract work? Consultancy? Union? Flat org structure? Self employment? Start a company with a
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by callc 2y ago
Heavily agree on the “going to and from the office” I was just thinking about this recently as $company executives are sociopathically dangling RTO in our faces. The worst part is the commute by car. I’m totally for WFH, but give me an offi
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by callc 2y ago
Humorous yet concerning that our governments act like children.

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