cbozeman

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by cbozeman 2y ago
Hetzner's reliable... until they aren't. Since they don't do any sort of monitoring on their bare metal servers at all, at least insofar as I can tell having been a customer of theirs for ten years, you don't know there&
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by cbozeman 2y ago
The age-old dilemma... Less money and greater meaning, or more money and mind-numbing tedium. I sympathize with you because on January 1st I nearly doubled my salary, but the job leaves me rather unfulfilled. I'm left substituting my h
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by cbozeman 2y ago
Ah, an idealist! God bless you, my friend. We need more people like you. I understand what you mean in regards to your efforts and labor are always wasted working for someone else. I can't tell you how many times I've done weeks,
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by cbozeman 2y ago
LOL, Steve. This is painfully accurate. It's like I'm sitting in a meeting.
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by cbozeman 2y ago
> Greenfield rewrites of a multi-decade old app It depends on what you mean by "multi-decade old app". Excel is a multi-decade old app. Windows is a multi-decade old app. They're both still being actively developed with a
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by cbozeman 2y ago
> It also feels like the social acceptability of trans people has moved backwards. (Just my perception, or has that actually shifted?) You're not wrong, it certainly has. I think this is more of it having become a cause célèbre than
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by cbozeman 2y ago
Jordan Neely killed himself, like what happens in a lot of these cases. People think they can act any way they want in public and then are shocked when someone bigger, stronger, meaner, and tougher comes along and makes them obey the rules
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by cbozeman 2y ago
Half of the people I know in finance don't actually have finance degrees. Hell, half the people I know in tech don't have computer science / engineering / software engineering degrees. It makes total sense why he was hir
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by cbozeman 2y ago
What about this makes you feel ashamed to work at a startup?
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by cbozeman 2y ago
Nope. There were plenty of people who saw the Internet as a pathetic waste of time and a flash in the pan. AI is here to stay. AI has never gone anywhere. AI has been a mainstay of computer science since the beginning. We're just now g
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by cbozeman 2y ago
Every fictional work that's ever existed that deals with "lying to protect us" shows how it always goes off the rails eventually, and that's always mirrored in reality. There's a great one on Apple TV+ right now cal
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by cbozeman 2y ago
This is exactly why AI will remain neutered. There are uncomfortable questions to which we simply do not have the answers yet, and deciding we don't want to talk about those questions and we don't want our AI to talk about those q
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by cbozeman 2y ago
It's shockingly bad because of how they want it to behave. They don't want it to bullshit, they don't want it to say rowdy things, and they want it stay "on brand". Well too bad. These things are all modeled after h
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by cbozeman 2y ago
> an arduous screening process to acquire and deploy compute That right there is more unlikely than crypto becoming a credible threat to the banking establishment. If you want to see a lot of dead bodies of rich people in the street, tel
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by cbozeman 2y ago
It's not insane, it depends on what you value. If you value societal order above all else, then you want extremely horrific punishments for crimes, you want near-absolute certainty that you'll be punished for criminal acts, and yo
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by cbozeman 2y ago
That's a bummer. We need nuclear, badly.
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by cbozeman 2y ago
https://www.forbes.com/global/2008/1124/103.html 112 reactors. A gigawatt each. Over 10 years ago.
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by cbozeman 2y ago
https://www.global.toshiba/ww/products-solutions/nuclearener... Two Toshiba 4S reactors at the 50 MW version can cost about $3,000,000,000. Two of those produces 100 MW. They don't require refueling for aroun
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by cbozeman 2y ago
My cousin says the same thing... 25 year IT veteran. Early adopter for almost all new tech. He says his 1000-whatever Lumia phone was one of the best phones he ever owned. I know it ran Windows Phone OS, and I remember playing with it a bit
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by cbozeman 2y ago
> MS killed the whole division shortly after Satya Nadella took over and was sorting out the mess left by Steve Ballmer. These have always been the real crimes in my mind. Ballmer wasn't an idea guy, he was a top-tier salesman &#x2F
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by cbozeman 2y ago
And it's also a pile of shit compared to an iPhone or a Galaxy S device. There's your real issue right there. People are already paying $1199 for new phones. According to this article: https://www.vox.com/technolog
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by cbozeman 2y ago
It's not the proximity to money, it's the real estate tied to doing that job. If you want to be the receptionist at Goldman Sachs at their headquarters at 200 West Street, New York, NY 10282, then you're looking at paying $61
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by cbozeman 2y ago
Options traders are paid well. It's still unproductive. You're just shifting around a bunch of numbers temporarily to make a bunch of money for someone and lose a bunch for someone else. Lots of shit we do is well-paid and unprodu
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by cbozeman 2y ago
If your college or university accepts money from the government, in public spaces on that campus, like say... anywhere outdoors, for instance, out on the quad, where this happened, that is considered a protected area for speech.
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by cbozeman 2y ago
Made fun of a post-doc lab instructor that was under the lab director's purview. I shit you not. He got upset that someone was - verbally - making fun of this guy. He was a goofy as fuck guy, so I see why 18-22 year olds would do that.
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by cbozeman 2y ago
Everyone you listed don't kill people. Very few people consider Batman, Superman, or Spider-Man to be objectively wrong. They consider them to be objectively right, and it's because they're enforcing the law when the police a
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by cbozeman 2y ago
If we actually lived in a "just" system, when people are executed for murdering a single individual, which many people have been, we would certainly execute people for things like, say, losing billions of dollars in pensions for t
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by cbozeman 2y ago
Trusting the system that's directly under attack to be honest about the effectiveness and popularity of the attacker of the system... You know in the legends of Robin Hood, Prince John and the Sheriff of Nottingham also downplay the th
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by cbozeman 2y ago
I didn't have it quite as bad as you, but I did go to war once with my alma mater regarding a particularly small lab director and part-time instructor who had a Napoleon complex going on. He was directly and obviously infringing on stu
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by cbozeman 2y ago
That would be a counter-counterexample, wouldn't it?

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