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by chinchilla2020 3y ago
This entire article assumes that the surplus created by technological productivity is wasted. After working as a bartender at a high end dockside restaurant during my younger years, I believe that the upper class and leisure class is larger
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by chinchilla2020 3y ago
your time is definitely non renewable if your username is 'toomuchtodo'. (btw hackernews is a waste of all our time)
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by chinchilla2020 3y ago
The LLM does not know the world better than human could. It know how to rapidly search an encylopedia better than a human could.
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by chinchilla2020 3y ago
Divorce happens often and the rates are climbing. It makes sense to follow statistical guidelines. "Who you marry" is not in your control. People change over the years. Marriage changes your spouse, and yourself. Some people reali
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by chinchilla2020 3y ago
Using notifications as a marketing spam tool should be an instant-blacklist on any app store - equivalent to malware. These app developers are taking advantage of an unrelated function the cell phone to spam people.
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by chinchilla2020 3y ago
Good in the short term. He spun off unprofitable parts of the company. He streamlined the core business. Bad in the long term. He didn't believe in unprofitable orgs. GE did not develop new technology and fell behind the times.
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by chinchilla2020 3y ago
False. Marissa Mayer left Yahoo with over $260 million in compensation.
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by chinchilla2020 3y ago
The common theme I've noticed is that they are extremely charming and interesting people to talk to. Adam Neumann might be the best example of a CEO that was propelled into billions on charisma alone. We love the story of the heroic CE
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by chinchilla2020 3y ago
He's not from the US. Typical hackernews: "Something bad happened in the world and this is why the US is bad"
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by chinchilla2020 3y ago
micro-farming is actually more environmentally destructive and wasteful than factory farming. It's a lot harder to regulate and control 10000 peasant farms than 1 large factory farm that has proper processes in place.
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by chinchilla2020 3y ago
What is the best practice? I'm assuming something that isn't a programming language object...
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by chinchilla2020 3y ago
This looks cool. How long would it take me to learn and get proficient with something like this? I would use it for email, JIRA tickets, reading github code, using the github/gitlab UI (as a TUI). Maybe even some google sheets. As I ty
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by chinchilla2020 3y ago
AutoCAD is a great example of something that gives both options. New users tend to get really involved with the buttons, but gradually shift to full text control over years. Obviously in CAD sometimes you cannot enter coordinates and must g
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by chinchilla2020 3y ago
Tech is special because the fixed costs are extremely low compared to other industries. In manufacturing you have to make those massive interest payments on capital every month, which dwarf your labor costs by a wide margin.
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by chinchilla2020 3y ago
In practice, the maintenance side eats up far more man-hours than the R&D side. Every software project has a shelf life except for a handful of very low-level ones that have survived the ages. All projects need maintenance until they re
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by chinchilla2020 3y ago
It's just increasing the power draw. There is no concept of 'stealing power from another phase'
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by chinchilla2020 3y ago
There isn't. But residential electricians are specialists. Then there are commercial and industrial ones, etc, etc.
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by chinchilla2020 3y ago
> rarely if ever had an earth pin False > GFCI outlets are a miracle to find False I don't know where some of these people come from on hackernews.
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by chinchilla2020 3y ago
> Sometimes the key to success is to just be adequate for a really long time. If that was true I'd be successful by now
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by chinchilla2020 3y ago
Seems crazy that it survived in the internet era. Anyone can publish hundreds of pdf files for a fraction of a penny.
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by chinchilla2020 3y ago
It isn't. It's a basic wiki-style web UI. That's the whole point of things like sphinx and javadoc. All the documentation in your code is easily accessible.
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by chinchilla2020 3y ago
Reminds me of the ill-fated cavalry charges in WW2. Many older officers insisted that "the fundamentals of war are the same" despite new technology. I can imagine a modern tech leader living in those times and giving the orders to
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by chinchilla2020 3y ago
Use the internet for the tools it provides. Maps, phone book, connect to news media etc. The internet is useful when you need some specific knowledge. It is useless when you need nothing and are just browsing. Sitting there watching TikTok
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by chinchilla2020 3y ago
I disagree. I have had no moments of profound discovery or insight from surfing the internet. It has been a useful tool for finding specific knowledge and skills, but I would say that there is no "treasure" on the internet. Any tr
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by chinchilla2020 3y ago
Love this approach. It keeps everything in a 'one stop shop. There is nothing worse than having to chase a tangled graph of google sheets, word documents, readmes, confluences, and figma diagrams in order to understand a piece of code.
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by chinchilla2020 3y ago
Non-academic here with an honest question. Is there still scientific value in many of these journals? Or has it become a career-boost network similar to LinkedIn? The handful of pHds I know all work in private industry and don't publis
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by chinchilla2020 3y ago
Search has significantly declined in quality in the past two years.
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by chinchilla2020 3y ago
Their search results are declining rapidly in quality. "<SEARCH QUERY> reddit" is one of their most common searches. Their results are filled with SEO spam and bots now. At some point a competitor will emerge. The tech crowd
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by chinchilla2020 3y ago
There should be a search engine penalty for loquacious copy. I want the most succinct result possible when I search the web.
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by chinchilla2020 3y ago
The author is pontificating on some very fundamental things without considering reality. 8 Billion human beings cannot be jammed into the same exact university. It's as simple as that. Sorry for being reductive but that's the real

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