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by dimitrios1 4mo ago
Not to be a contrarian, because I agree for a lot of the industry, but there are some genuine gems out there. Few examples: Extreme Ownership really helped me be a better leader and take more accountability for my own actions Atomic Habits
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by dimitrios1 4mo ago
I am against it for one reason only, but it's very solvable, IMO, and it's the amount of space they take up. I live next to 200+ acres of solar farms. A part of me cries a little when I see so much beautiful land and trees cut dow
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by dimitrios1 5mo ago
I always viewed unions as a temporary solution to a long term problem. Fundamentally, its simply a unit or type of organization. But for some reason here in the west they have become this entrenched institution in of itself, presumably beca
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by dimitrios1 5mo ago
No other country relies on road travel to the extent of America, so I am not sure there is a good comparison to make.
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by dimitrios1 5mo ago
So whats the solution? 37 people die every day in a crash involving an alcohol impaired driver. Do we think if we inhibit the police's ability to arrest drunk drivers, the world will be a better place? People are clearly not going to s
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by dimitrios1 6mo ago
Ha! -- Allow me to introduce you to the US Diesel Truckin Nationals! Here are some dump trucks drag racing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqxpOPeImkw
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by dimitrios1 6mo ago
Even moreso . I like the Rob Pike restatement of this principle, it really makes it crystal clear: "You can't tell where a program is going to spend its time. Bottlenecks occur in surprising places, so don't try to second gue
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by dimitrios1 7mo ago
If you were to take a positive intent approach: - the warrant was for distribution of narcotics and kiddnapping. If I were to guess what a list of most dangerous warrants to execute, those two would be up there. If you note in the video, he
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by dimitrios1 7mo ago
I distinctly remember from university in one of my more senior classes designing logic gates, chaining together ands, nands, ors, nors, xors, and then working our way up to numerical processors, ALUs, and eventually latches, RAM, and CPUs.
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by dimitrios1 7mo ago
I would wager that the vast majority of people commenting here about the pitfalls of AI, especially as it relates to governance and laws, are heavy users of AI, recognize the import and value it brings, and find ways to utilize it more them
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by dimitrios1 8mo ago
We live in different realities. Opus and Sonnett practically writes the same idiomatic elixir (phoenix, mind you) code that I would have written myself, with few edits. It's scary good.
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by dimitrios1 8mo ago
will your retirement be enjoyable if everyone else around you is struggling?
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by dimitrios1 8mo ago
> The government shouldn't be able to buy data that would be unconstitutional or unlawful for them to gather themselves. Now that sounds like a good argument to make in court! How do we do it?
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by dimitrios1 8mo ago
I'm with you, I like your answer, especially the last bit. But how to get there we may disagree. The existing avenues have proven unfruitful. Regulating more has just lead to more control in the hands of the elites and those with resou
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by dimitrios1 8mo ago
Bingo -- 95% of work is people problems. The coding is the easy part. With LLMs and advanced models, even more so.
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by dimitrios1 8mo ago
You sit at a desk. You get paid in the top 1% globally You have benefits Some hope or dreams for what to do with your future, life after work, retirement. You get to work with other people, overseas. Talk to those contractors sometimes. The
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by dimitrios1 8mo ago
It doesn't have to be soul crushing. Just like people more, and have better meetings. Life is what you make it. Enjoy yourself while you can.
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by dimitrios1 9mo ago
> force regulators to step in > force > regulators That's my whole problem, personally. What we need much, much less of in this world is government force, especially during these trying times of government force and outreach (
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by dimitrios1 9mo ago
Discussing the subject without reactionary political takes is more valuable.
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by dimitrios1 11mo ago
> sound scary when presented without context It's not about it being scary, its about it being a gigantic, stupid waste of water, and for what? So that lazy executives and managers can generate their shitty emails they used to have
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by dimitrios1 1y ago
One thing I can say definitively, as someone who is definitely not an AI zealot (more of an AI pragmatist): GPT language models have reduced the barrier of running your own bare metal server. AWS salesfolk have long often used the boogeyma
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by dimitrios1 1y ago
That's more of a form of survivorship bias. Microsoft continued to maintain its lockdown on government IT and infrastructure through the decades, over the alternatives.
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by dimitrios1 1y ago
Life in the fallen world is indeed dark, and certainly was darker a mere few generations ago. The difference is we have lost the frameworks generations past used for dealing with major depressive episodes, and have opted for more "enli
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by dimitrios1 1y ago
There is a whole 'nother level of safety validation that goes beyond your everyday OWASP, or heck even what we consider "highly regulated" industry requirements that 95-99% of us devs care about. SQLite is used in some highly
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by dimitrios1 1y ago
I have noticed that it coincides with the re-election of a certain political candidate (He who must not be named). The facade of "critical and rational thinker" has all but completely fallen away and this place has revealed itself
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by dimitrios1 1y ago
By accepting the fact that sometimes (many times) you won't get the outcome you desire, in the manner of which you desire it.
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by dimitrios1 1y ago
This is the uniparty at work.
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by dimitrios1 1y ago
So then removing the subsidies shouldn't be an issue?
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by dimitrios1 1y ago
"Defund the police" was and remains wildly unpopular with almost everyone, especially minorities (as a reminder to any of those out touch reading this: there are large racial disparities in who is affected by crime, particular
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by dimitrios1 1y ago
technically, the diminutive τεκνίον would be more appropriate in this context. Teknon was more formal, and in its colloquial usage was used commonly in the stereotyped phrase "women and children", which in the ancient world was a

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