ethbr0

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by ethbr0 3y ago
The wrinkle is zero-context internet, where there's little ability to tell what respect someone is due, which leads to people who aren't due it assuming they should get it (because they also don't know what others complaining
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by ethbr0 3y ago
That's the opposite! :) Which I guess speaks to how consumerist the US as a society is (said as an American). The closest I can come up with is "Those who can, do." (Usually seen with "... Those who can't, teach.&qu
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by ethbr0 3y ago
I would absolutely say that having the means to complain does not inherently give you the right to complain. Right is earned through investment. A creator invests a substantial amount of time and effort into something. A complainer can
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by ethbr0 3y ago
> competing with all the remote workers around, many of whom don't need as high a salary now their housing costs have drastically reduced. That's not a bad thing. We've been playing Paris and sucking economic activity to
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Because anything with potentially exponential growth is dangerous.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Autonomous systems should be regulated. But we should start on the data side and not the compute/action side. The current worst excesses stem from a lack of transparency and access into data backing a given system. Meaningful data pr
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by ethbr0 3y ago
I'd assume there are also plenty of non-foreign actors pissed off about their jobs. They wouldn't call it work if it wasn't work.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
At the end of the day, it's power that stratifies life experience. Wealth is just the most obvious summary of power in capitalist societies. Controlling the means of production (or, say, housing) is also power. Historically, the worst
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by ethbr0 3y ago
This is on r/antiwork... which isn't a particularly objective source when it comes to employers.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
>> As trees grew in the cleared lands near roadsides, kudzu rose with them. It appeared not to stop because there were no grazers to eat it back. But, in fact, it rarely penetrates deeply into a forest; it climbs well only in sunny a
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Can we also observe how ridiculous it is to be arguing over whether or not similar Twitter content is first-party astroturf... about generative AI ? That's a bit like debating whether a gold miner is proficient at alchemy -- if the pr
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by ethbr0 3y ago
The difference is that Gates pays his PR company a lot more than Stallman does his.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Free filing would by definition be both, as people using it would be unlikely to have separate tax prep services. Ergo, imagine there's a checkbox option that would apply to 25% of free filers to save them money. How would the IRS free
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by ethbr0 3y ago
The difference is that if the IRS provided the only filing solution AND adjudicated taxes, there'd be no adversarial tension. Right now, the IRS is forced to establish some sort of data interchange format and adjudicate incoming tax fi
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by ethbr0 3y ago
There's a monopoly to a first-order approximation. Apparently TurboTax has ~70% market share for tax preparation software, and TurboTax + H&R Block have ~95% market share. [0] But even that's still a heck of a lot more competi
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by ethbr0 3y ago
The only thing worse than a private monopoly is a public one.
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by ethbr0 3y ago
IMHO, your job as a higher level engineer is to: 1. Quickly understand the problem and details 2. Come up with a plan to solve the MOST IMPORTANT problem(s) 3. Work through the plan with the implementation team, to identify any g
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by ethbr0 3y ago
What project management system do you use? Part of the value of those is supposed to be locking in choices for some period, that allows for actual work to get done. And what period of time did this happen over? I've seen staff engineer
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Person A: "What city could we pick to distance ourselves from money laundering?" Person B: "Miami!"
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A new life for London's lost rivers(bbc.com)
1 points by ethbr0 3y ago|0 comments
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by ethbr0 3y ago
It's a little more formalized and generalized observation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law#Derivation But yeah! There's a lot of common sense that, with some mathematical formalization, yields
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Ref Amdahl's Law: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law
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by ethbr0 3y ago
One of my favorite things about generative art is digging into what it got right and what it got wrong. So far, the public ones are often like a first-year student's impression of X -- it nails some aspects (symmetry, color palette, or
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Agreed. VB.NET does have some weirdly useful built in functionality, that isn't in C#. From memory, date and string stuff?
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by ethbr0 3y ago
The way I'd put it is: learning C# would teach you everything learning VB.NET would, and more, in a programmer-standard way. So given they're approximately the same level of syntactical difficulty to learn (for equivalent amounts
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Does anyone have a good technical-context breakdown for how Midjourney does what it does? Not my focus, but would love to read through something that connects "This is how it breaks down input/example images, identifies relevant h
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by ethbr0 3y ago
I honestly was trying to find information on the health effects of popular "don't kill grass" dog urine pills. ... and by the bottom of the "article" was learning how computers worked. The only thing I can imagine i
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by ethbr0 3y ago
Editorialized title, because the blatant GPTness (and drifting attention span!) of the content was so egregious.
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Our Internet of Crap Future(nahf.org)
3 points by ethbr0 3y ago|5 comments
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Parent was observing that the Catholic Church was an exception to GP's point that the written word stiffened and froze monotheistic religious practice, as it blended oral and written transmission. I was observing that the modern Cathol

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