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by gdbsjjdn 1y ago
They've kind of played themselves making "genius engineers" their competitive advantage. Anyone can hire those engineers!
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by gdbsjjdn 1y ago
I work in Customer Success so I have to screenshare with a decent number of engineers working for customers - startups and BigCos. The number of them who just blindly put shit into an AI prompt is incredible. I don't know if they were
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by gdbsjjdn 1y ago
Plane with holes in wings returns to base, encourages engineers to reinforce wings to prevent holes.
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by gdbsjjdn 1y ago
I love "the process was quite friendly" coupled with "two of the connectors broke when I looked at them and one costs hundreds of dollars to replace".
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by gdbsjjdn 1y ago
Let me fix that for you: all that juice to exploit human's cognitive biases and trick them into paying engineers and founders ungodly sums of money. I don't think any rational person outside of the hype cycle thinks LLM s are emul
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by gdbsjjdn 1y ago
If you don't consider any expenses "cuttable" you're not downsizing. Especially taking expensive vacations? I travel a couple times a year domestically by driving and it's very manageable.
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by gdbsjjdn 1y ago
Besides the cancellation aspect, I think he's very "of a time". He wrote a lot of "strong female characters" that in retrospect all kind of look identical, and get into... suspicious situations. His quippy dialogue
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by gdbsjjdn 1y ago
As something of an Alien fangirl 3 and 4 are more failures from a production standpoint than from a creative one. If you look at all the rejected pitches for Alien 3 there's a lot of interesting ideas which were never explored and a lo
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by gdbsjjdn 1y ago
My dream job was a specialty retail store - not low effort or tons of money, but hopefully something that could grow into a lifestyle business. Imagine something like a bicycle shop. Trust me when I say I have worked my ass off. The only sm
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by gdbsjjdn 1y ago
It pains me to be on the side of "gamers" but I would rather support spoiled gamers than modern LLM bros.
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by gdbsjjdn 1y ago
What kind of business? Most of the dream ones people envision are capital-intensive and failure-prone (speaking as someone who started a capital intensive business that failed)
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by gdbsjjdn 1y ago
If you want to leave tech you should save up for 4-5 years of expenses to accomodate for under-employment, downsize your lifestyle to fit a household income under 80k, and then reskill in another field. I have tried to move away incremental
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by gdbsjjdn 1y ago
From personal experience, there's over a dozen fly-in communities in the Northwest Territories. No roads, the only way to reach them is snowmobiling in the winter or taking a plane from Yellowknife. My understanding is that Northern Qu