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by ericmcer 9mo ago
Maybe because the lefts big issues are very "all or none". In 2021 if you said "I support trans rights in every area except trans women competing in women's sports" that would make you alt-right. You either complete
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by ericmcer 9mo ago
It is still doing the same thing, the dopamine hit is just feeling like you learned something instead of seeing something funny/shocking/etc. The idea you can gain any kind of actual experience/knowledge about a thing through
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by ericmcer 9mo ago
There almost is no hook, the hook is that the time investment for each video is so small your brain doesn't even need to think about whether it should watch or not.
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by ericmcer 9mo ago
I am really looking forward to that idea catching up with AI. Right now AI is the thing and the products it enables are secondary. Remember when our job was to hide the ugly techniques we had to use from end users?
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by ericmcer 9mo ago
It was only 3 months so I didn't put anything. In the past I took a 18 month break and played around with leaving it blank or putting side projects. It definitely doesn't help but it wasn't a killer either.
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by ericmcer 9mo ago
Ah I was seeing a parallel between: 1. Our post WW2 neocolonial activity and the current admins push to sort of blatantly get control over Venezuela and Greenland. 2. Our WW2 manufacturing and export based economy that made us wealthy. Is s
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by ericmcer 9mo ago
I feel like many are going to upvote this because they think it is an indictment on the current administration but it isn't exactly.
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by ericmcer 9mo ago
I had a really nice job hunt this time around because: - I quit my job to work on a side project in a specific space (voice AI for me). - Spent three months shipping a few things and sinking into the area. - Apply to jobs in that space, cus
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by ericmcer 9mo ago
Naww.... people have always taken the easy path and put off confronting difficult feelings and emotions. The vast majority of humanity will 100% spend hours a day swiping through computer generated content in the future. Whats the differenc
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by ericmcer 9mo ago
People just need to have like a barebones understanding of: computer hardware level, OS level, browser level and how permissions work between the three. If you have that you will never get scared by a popup in Chrome.
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by ericmcer 9mo ago
Crypto & AI can both be linked to part of a broader trend though, that we need processors capable of running compute on massive sets of data quickly. I don't think that will ever go down, whether some new tech emerges or we just co
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by ericmcer 9mo ago
That has been tricky with my partner because many times she legitimately does want me to just handle the problem for her, and then you get into the fuzzy area where it is my job to interpret what she says and her job to communicate what she
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by ericmcer 9mo ago
As a strategy for strengthening our national economy it is great, as a larger cultural/societal marker it is bleak.
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by ericmcer 9mo ago
Influencers as the future of culture is not great. Hollywood had a ton of issues but it at least had some... class? If you watch an interview with Mr. Beast or other famous influencers they are concerningly ignorant, have little self-awaren
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by ericmcer 9mo ago
If you research how something like Cursor works I don't think you would believe it is inevitable. The jump that would have to happen for it to replace engineers entirely is insurmountable. They can keep expanding contexts and coming up
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by ericmcer 9mo ago
because if you tell an LLM to generate a landing page it picks purple
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by ericmcer 9mo ago
If cooperation is a beneficial survival trait, it would have to be because helping others so they can continue creating value for the group is better for everyone than letting them die. At some point a reward system around helping weak mem
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by ericmcer 9mo ago
It is really easy to have a routine when you are single and healthy in your 20s. It stops working so well later on. If you have friends, partner, kids, parents, pets, work, health issues etc. the routine is going to be challenged. If that o
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by ericmcer 9mo ago
Really nice article, but it sort of flies in the face of all our biological imperatives. Being a good "kindee" means forgoing security, control and some safety. Constant Gratitude for just the miracle of life means forgoing the dr
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by ericmcer 9mo ago
Agree in general, it would be awesome for AI/LLM/whatever to act as an interface between devs and a highly efficient machine only coding language. All the abstractions we have built to make coding easier could be done away with. N
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by ericmcer 9mo ago
I got a new Subaru and the touchscreen is making me insane. I will avoid electronics in cars as much as possible going forward. It literally has a warning that displays every time you start the car: "Watching this screen and making sel
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by ericmcer 9mo ago
Having worked on design system teams before people can burn a lot of time and money doing overly nuanced stuff. I have been in meetings discussing removing/adding a property on a React component before. That said 3 motivated developers
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by ericmcer 9mo ago
But... A lot of stuff you rely on now was probably once distracting and unpredictable. There are a ton of subtle UX behaviors a modern computer is doing that you don't notice, but if they all disappeared and you had to use windows 95 f
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by ericmcer 9mo ago
Is there a reason you have a full on dev team and use React instead of just wordpress/squarespace? What product needs prompted building it all yourself? Also holy cow the homepage was 50mb and took 12s to load. No offense but that is k
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by ericmcer 9mo ago
I wonder if he still has a job? Running all your postgres on ec2 is like 1000X harder than looking at the dashboard for an Aurora cluster.
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by ericmcer 9mo ago
People will want what LLMs can do they just don't want "AI". I think having it pervade products in a much more subtle way is the future though. For example, if you close a youtube browser tab with a comment half written it wi
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by ericmcer 9mo ago
I thought the entire point of meditating was to realize you don't need to constantly solve problems, not to solve all of them. Very western version of meditation to view it as a tool to achieve something with.
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by ericmcer 9mo ago
Tools like Tailwind are one of the few cases where I totally believe it when the CEO says "we are cutting jobs because of AI". Sucks that anytime you ask AI to generate a site for you Tailwind will have an impact on that.
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by ericmcer 9mo ago
Wouldn't the preferred fat of a culture be spread between countries as they interacted then? Instead it has been fairly one directional with butter being adopted globally but other fats remaining niche (except Olive oil). Is that becau
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by ericmcer 9mo ago
CVD requires a bunch of events to happen in sequence, I always felt like it was a combination of risk factors + luck that make a heart attack or aneurysm happen. 1. High blood pressure damages walls of arteries and veins 2. LDL Cholesterol

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