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by dentemple 5mo ago
CEO replaces engineering team with AI. CEO learns why this was a bad idea. --- It sucks that there were a bunch of people downstream who were negatively affected by this, but this was an entirely foreseeable problem on his company's pa
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by dentemple 6mo ago
"What <placeholder> taught me about B2B Sales." All of the things listed that he learned could've also been learned from reading the work produced by, y'know, other Software Engineers. I learned all of those princi
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by dentemple 7mo ago
This is proof that you don't need vision to create a thing of beauty.
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by dentemple 8mo ago
As someone who, indeed, went in unprepared to just to see what happens, I was also left wanting in knowing what exactly I was looking at. It all just looked arbitrarily random to me. As I've heard it said regarding art, part of the app
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by dentemple 9mo ago
Even then, he goes through the typical heroic arc of: 1) Starting the story by Resisting the Call to adventure -- in a way that reveals strong character motivation (a strong desire to live) 2) He suffers a series of trials that slowly push
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by dentemple 9mo ago
Also a counterpoint, but from the other side (from British Speculative fiction): Terry Pratchett's Discworld series These books, written by a British author, are full of characters with strong wants who are roused into situation-defyin
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by dentemple 9mo ago
It is certainly a privilege being an American right now and not having to worry about: 1) A rapidly growing economic crisis due to aggressive and inchorent foreign policy decisions 2) The new force of Gestapo murdering and harming citizens
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by dentemple 10mo ago
The Monroe Doctrine was about preventing colonial powers from enacting NEW efforts to reach into the Americas, not about getting rid of previous control. "The occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the r
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by dentemple 10mo ago
Mine gave me a brutal double-roast: "You were one of only two people in 2017 to post a story about Mastodon and gave it a single point. You essentially predicted the platform’s entire future relevance in one brutally honest data point.
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by dentemple 10mo ago
I have ADHD, and I drink 2-3 cups' worth of coffee every day. I'm basically a vampire now.
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by dentemple 10mo ago
Don't worry, once the Wall Street tap runs dry, the U.S. government will be more than happy to step in and bail out the AI corps. at the taxpayer's expense.
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by dentemple 10mo ago
> At one side, people are unhappy about AI, at the other side, who of those same people will stop using ChatGPT to write their work e-mails and assignments for them. As Newsweek points out*, the people most unhappy about AI are the ones
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by dentemple 11mo ago
It is a language, just not a turing complete one. Pidgen is a type of language, too, but you wouldn't be writing Shakespeare in it. There's nothing to be pedantic about HTML here, and it just seems so absolutely pointless to me th
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by dentemple 11mo ago
I DON'T see this as transparency. There is ZERO mention of the burrito in the post-mortem document itself. 0/10, get it right the first time, folks. (/s)
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by dentemple 11mo ago
We're in a Live Fast Die Young karma world. If you can't get a TikTok ready with 2 minutes of the post modem drop, you might as well quit and become a barista instead.
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by dentemple 11mo ago
You, too, are practicing and advocating for a philosophy here. Also, the lack of objectivity in the universe doesn't necessarily mean that nihilism is the ONLY way to go. Existentialism, for example, doesn't accept an objective re
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by dentemple 1y ago
They already censored the not-porn (but still NSFW) photos. I don't think it would've made as much of a difference censoring the porn photos as well, especially when trying to convince people that they're not just creating
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by dentemple 1y ago
> After a “small number of clicks” the researchers encountered pornographic content ranging from women flashing to penetrative sex. I (40m) don't think I've ever seen literal flashing or literal porn on TikTok, and my algorit
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by dentemple 1y ago
I was once brought in to a Fortune500 company to teach basic ENTRY LEVEL web development to a room full of supposedly "highly educated" H-1B Software Engineers. Much of my presentation included things that most of my unemployed Am
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by dentemple 1y ago
It's because they're using AI for the interviews, too.
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by dentemple 1y ago
It was 3 people who were replaced for the making of a list. The number 50 was what Doctorow presumed was the entirety of the department that could potentially have been replaced by AI, of which the making of this list had been only one of t
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by dentemple 1y ago
Okay, but my boss still demands I give him a metric. I'm not allowed to tell him, "Just trust me bro" when I'm asked how much our security has improved over the past sprint. I'm supposed to give hard numbers, and th
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by dentemple 1y ago
The closest I can think of right now is the "Before & After" category from Wheel of Fortune. It relies on there being a single word that ends one phrase and begins another. But that doesn't bring into the idea of this wor
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by dentemple 1y ago
Yeah, I agree with the OP here. After all this time, being able to change the chat colors at this point has some real We-reached-the-bottom-of-the-backlog energy, and they're just now implementing the ideas that weren't consider
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by dentemple 1y ago
I have deuteranomaly, and the hallucination worked for me, and it did appear like a crazy saturated blue-green ring around the shrinking red circle. I suspect, however, that those of us with deuteranomaly probably see a different blue-green
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by dentemple 1y ago
At the very least, one should be a regular user of a platform prior to marketing on that platform. Every platform has nuance to it, and if you don't understand that nuance, then you're better off paying someone else to do it on yo
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by dentemple 1y ago
The numbers don't paint a rosy picture, as the article author points out. The current administration tends to be much more brazen with their lies.
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by dentemple 1y ago
Even today, with modern information available to us, people still woefully underestimate what it would take to live in a true wilderness.
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by dentemple 1y ago
I, for one, am happy that I'm no longer managing state across hundreds of independent jQuery values and making raw XHR calls to jsonp endpoints.
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by dentemple 1y ago
Sure, if all you're doing is buying the latest Call of Duty iteration/clone. But imagine spending $30 on a story-driven video game and just skipping the story . That's almost as bad as buying a book and never reading it . (

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