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by gregjor 2y ago
In a year or two Graham Hancock can visit the site and speculate about how a mysterious ancient civilization must have built that pyramid.
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by gregjor 2y ago
The Uniqlo stores in Thailand have RFID self-checkout. It seems amazing, accurate and efficient. No AI, no army of poorly-paid people in developing countries watching with cameras. Boring tech perfectly deployed to improve the customer expe
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by gregjor 2y ago
You could have asked ChatGPT (or Google) to explain that to you.
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by gregjor 2y ago
Zitron doesn't offer much that you have to believe . His article links to numerous facts and reports. The physics of GPUs and data centers don't rely on one's beliefs. The amounts of money spent on AI versus the non-existent
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by gregjor 2y ago
I don't know what the commenter who posted about chemo and amputation actually thinks or believes. But I hesitate to call them "nuts" or to lecture them about how they have a wrong opinion. And I would not expand their person
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by gregjor 2y ago
> My sentence does not judge the person, it criticises the belief. An opinion or belief can't "be" insensitive. A person may intend to say something insensitive, another person may interpret an opinion as insensitive (as y
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by gregjor 2y ago
Until ChatGPT and related get inevitably enshittified with ads and other crap, gamed and polluted, as Google search has.
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by gregjor 2y ago
Can you point to or describe any of those? The silly apps and the LLM-based non-silly versions? Almost unanimously CEOs/CTOs report no big gains in business value or measured productivity due to LLM adoption. The majority opinion seems
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by gregjor 2y ago
More realistic to make plans for dying, than to fantasize about living forever.
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by gregjor 2y ago
> To believe that the loss of a limb is so severe that death is preferable is absurd and insensitive. No. Denigrating someone expressing their personal opinion seems absurd. Since the commenter did not impose their opinions on other peop
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by gregjor 2y ago
https://archive.is/2024.12.03-123121/https://www.bloomberg.c...
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by gregjor 2y ago
Good luck. Several of my clients have tried the same thing, using an LLM to build an MVP or something simple. In every case they’ve had to hire programmers and either start over or spend more money getting the AI-generated code to work than
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by gregjor 2y ago
If you mean Google search, that had an immediate and obvious value from the day it went live. I didn’t call Google or anything else useless. I suggested defining and measuring expected benefits, costs, and risks. I would suggest that for an
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by gregjor 2y ago
Good summary of airport gate management/leadership books. I question the need for a "leadership" caste in the first place. Once an organization creates such a caste it will fill up with professional "leaders" who ha
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by gregjor 2y ago
Unless you can define and measure expected business value and risk, walk away and let someone else spend money and take the risk on a mostly hype- and FOMO-driven fad. If LLMs ever actually deliver real business value we'll all have ti
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by gregjor 2y ago
I get it. I freelance for small companies that don't have all of that nonsense, usually working directly for the owner or a stakeholder who can make decisions. I gave up with the technical arguments a long time ago, too much effort try
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by gregjor 2y ago
I have never needed a photo for a CV, across four decades. I think American employers consider that bad taste, or possibly a discrimination lawsuit trap. I associate photos on CVs and business cards with real estate professionals, junior st
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by gregjor 2y ago
I understand, but you might want to ask why you find coding so taxing on your mental health. Maybe coding per se doesn't cause the problem, but the rest of the job or work environment. I don't get the same pleasure from writing
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by gregjor 2y ago
Given the definition of "sentience" in the book the article reviews -- the ability to experience things that feel good or bad -- I think the author's conclusion gives a good ethical starting point: > When in doubt about th
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by gregjor 2y ago
40+ years programming, a couple of episodes of burnout. I tried managing but didn't like it. Got into freelancing that at least allows me to travel and live anywhere I want. I can't say I love writing code, or doing system admin,
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by gregjor 2y ago
Underpaid according to what? Do you have other offers that pay better? Do you know that other people doing the same work at the startup get paid significantly more? Presumably you accepted an offer but now think you should get paid more. Ba
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by gregjor 2y ago
Requires a very narrow definition of “country.” Quite a few countries have disappeared in my lifetime. South Korea comprises half of a former country that disappeared in the 20th century. On India’s border the former sovereign country of Ti
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by gregjor 2y ago
Turning it off and talking to a stranger.
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by gregjor 2y ago
Humans will not go to Mars and live in cities built by androids. All of that is fantasy and hype. If we had the technology required to colonize Mars, or even the moon, we could fix the problems we've created on this planet. We could co
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by gregjor 2y ago
You mistake a few faked demos of remote-controlled mannequins for actual working android robots. The point of the Tesla robots comes down to pumping the stock, not colonizing Mars. Watch videos of state of the art actual robots and try to d
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by gregjor 2y ago
I have always used print debugging, since way before web dev existed. I resort to an actual debugger only occasionally. Some IDEs do have integrated JS runtimes, so you can use a debugger in the IDE. However since JS runs on browsers and de
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by gregjor 2y ago
Your comment seems like shilling, coming from a new HN account, but I will assume your sincerity. > I don't think it's a wrong approach. Cool. You can use whatever job hunting strategy and tools you like. > Do you not have a
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by gregjor 2y ago
You really have to overlook a lot of lies, broken promises, hype, fluff, ignoring and breaking laws, taking credit for the work of others, and what looks like fraud, intimidation, and bribery. https://elonmusk.today/ Sadly,
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by gregjor 2y ago
If you feel shame because of random opinions and articles on the internet, I’d address that before worrying about “print” vs. a real debugger. I pretty much only use print debugging. I know how to use a real debugger but adding print/c
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by gregjor 2y ago
I agree about no social media. And no news. I agree about privacy, reducing ads, and aggressively filtering and blocking spam email. Minimalism for its own sake can turn into a fetish, or virtue signaling, with the main reward coming from t

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