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by fsociety 4y ago
Yes and it is sad because I see people trying to find problems for ChatGPT and say this is the future.. but the industries they are targeting have such a wide variety of concrete problems for a startup to solve.
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by fsociety 4y ago
Yes, there are theories that these things are all fundamentally monotropism. Then the criticism of the DSM is that it takes monotropic minds in the worst (read negative) environments, and buckets those into disorders like autism and ADHD. D
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by fsociety 4y ago
This ignores the rampant racist/sexist comments often made on IRC/BBS, which were a reflection of society. Anyone who spent a good amount of time in these communities know it was a problem - hence why some very small invite-only c
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by fsociety 4y ago
> I tried to join clubs and a maker space, but no time - I was working all day. This is the problem in my opinion. Not the fact that you were working all day, but generally that our work now bleeds into personal lives or leaves no time f
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by fsociety 4y ago
This. Seek help, psychotherapist is also a good option. I had similar struggles, and I stfu and sucked it up. Only many years into my career did I do this and learn about my struggles and now life is on easy mode.
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by fsociety 4y ago
I am sure there is truth to this, but from my personal experience the death marches I have seen have come from overly complex designs which try to handle all future problems but then fail miserably. Whereas evolving a simple design to be mo
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by fsociety 4y ago
Wiring is a very hard problem in vehicles. It’s why you see physical switches being switched out for a touchscreen, and some of the tech the big automakers are most excited for are, at the end of the day, just to reduce the amount of wiring
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by fsociety 4y ago
This puts the stake in the ground that coding interviews today are more about memorization than testing for understanding.
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by fsociety 4y ago
I will say entry level security positions can truly suck, and you may be treated with a lack of respect in the org. That said the pay is good, and as the demand goes up I think the positions will become better.
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by fsociety 4y ago
This is great advice and led to success for myself coming from an engineering degree with no programming courses.
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by fsociety 4y ago
In reality this is probably due to orgs not working with each other or inefficiencies (aka negligence).. but yes their threat intel systems can most definitely detect these kind of ads.
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by fsociety 4y ago
Burning yourself out sucks, but is not an equivalent experience to being laid off. Not sure how you came to this conclusion.
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by fsociety 4y ago
No one is saying you should have 100% job security, or never be let go / fired. People are saying that these mass layoffs and the way they are conducted are harmful to society and not as beneficial to the business as CEOs and investors
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by fsociety 4y ago
The work they did for BB10 was glorious, it just never saw the light of day due to Android steamrolling BlackBerry when they blocked App Store access.
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by fsociety 4y ago
I would bet that the 7900X chips are binned for higher quality Silicon though. Makes you wonder if an underpowered 7900X outperforms a 7900 and by how much.
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by fsociety 4y ago
What has Musk done so far that indicates he will make Twitter be more successful?
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by fsociety 4y ago
Features have been breaking in production, journalists have commented on “weird behaviors” in the app AKA consistency issues. I think long-term these small breakages will burn the engineering team out, in addition to the unnecessary drama t
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by fsociety 4y ago
I loved the part where you randomly blame minorities out of the blue. It reminds me of school, where I have seen classmates get visibly angry when a woman scored higher than them on exams. Clearly there was “favoritism” and that was the re
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by fsociety 4y ago
Understand how it works under the hood, and then don’t buy into the hype. ChatGPT is impressive for many reasons, but it basically consumes a bunch of data and spits out the most probable answer to a question based on that data. It is kind
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by fsociety 4y ago
The difference is… these researchers are taking on work in an attempt to make the idea reality. Whereas Theranos pretended they had a working product to convince investors to give them money and to convince companies to buy their “product”.
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by fsociety 4y ago
Ignoring the fact that Facebook/Meta also includes several other businesses, the amount of work required for their adtech alone is non-trivial and the AI play is going to be crucial for that. Plus having the global outreach requires a
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by fsociety 4y ago
Since moving to remote, I realized that I was good at hiding my lack of work in the office by socializing with folks to an excessive amount. Then occasionally, I would find a high priority - but low effort - problem to solve which would mak
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by fsociety 4y ago
Would you like to elaborate on the security and privacy aspect? Otherwise you are dunking on folks without a substantive argument.
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by fsociety 4y ago
You can set it so it shows contribution stats from private repos. Also companies with healthy attitudes to devs can allow their enterprise GitHub instance to transfer contribution stats to dev’s personal GitHub accounts.
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by fsociety 4y ago
If you are interested in cybersecurity, I thought these two books are fantastic: - Tracer in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency by Andy Greenberg https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/604
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by fsociety 4y ago
Dan's new C4-SFX case officially hit production today too, for anyone wanting to build an SFF that is future proof for tomorrow's giga-sized GPUs.
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by fsociety 4y ago
You are totally right! My point is that the industry’s culture encourages you to make your work your identity though, and no one wins for ridiculing people who were laid off (not saying you are, but other comments here are). This is a great
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by fsociety 4y ago
Imagine working at a company for 16 years only to discover you were laid off when your badge no longer works on your way to work. You can say "duh, told you so" and "well you got severance so suck it up", but it does not
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by fsociety 4y ago
No and you are likely talking to a WhatsApp dev. They added E2EE in 2016, plans announced in 2014. Backups weren’t encrypted until recently.
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by fsociety 4y ago
Sure, you make a good point if you ignore the political ideology in US vs. China and the fact that all the social media apps you just listed are banned in China.

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