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by gtowey 3mo ago
I had a biology teacher who was fond of repeating " everything is toxic, it's just a matter of dosage" And it's true, you can die from water toxicity. Water and air are ubiquitous, so we've naturally evolved defense
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by gtowey 3mo ago
In addition to these reasons, there is the economic side. They're spending money on frivolous but attainable luxury items because the traditional economic path of a house and family seems impossibly out of reach. You can save for 6 mon
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by gtowey 3mo ago
His success is like the best case study in the world of how our current economic system is solely for the benefit of a privileged few. He is obviously a liar, a conman and morally suspect. But he has mastered the art of lying in a way that
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by gtowey 3mo ago
It's fine. We can just add fertilizer -- made from petroleum extraction of course then fire up some coal power plants for artificial grow lights. Thus solving the problem once and for all.
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by gtowey 4mo ago
What a wonderful scapegoat! Technically it's all "engineer created" because the managers generally don't do technical work. I bet many managers pushed their reports to increase their usage during their 1:1 meetings based
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by gtowey 4mo ago
Now you're thinking like a silicon valley founder! Brilliant! Call the company "Lipstyk" as in the old phrase about lipstick on a pig.
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by gtowey 4mo ago
Wisdom is not appreciated in our industry. Everyone in tech with a modicum of status or power thinks they got there because they're smarter than everyone else and there is nothing of value to be learned from others. Thus, our leaders b
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by gtowey 4mo ago
I bought one of their C64 repros, it was exactly what I want, I was searching ebay for original Apple ][e at the time anyway. Why? It's going to be my kids first computer. Computers today are so absolutely hostile as they are simply at
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by gtowey 5mo ago
It's even worse than that. They're making the comparison of a solar roof to a new standard roof plus solar panels, but most people absolutely do not replace their roof when they get panels so the cost difference is more like 106k
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by gtowey 5mo ago
I agree. I'm not defending the current state of affairs by any means.
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by gtowey 5mo ago
At some point we have to get used to the idea that there are no such thing as free services. If you're not paying for something that clearly has a cost to the entity providing it, then value will be extracted from you in other ways.
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by gtowey 5mo ago
They are not. It's like a hidden curse of LLMs -- they're so good at parsing intended meaning from non-grammatically-correct language that we don't have to be very good at clear communication. Eventually all LLMs will be cont
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by gtowey 5mo ago
Just wait until you learn about system tools like perf, gdb, bpf -- the amount of low-level detailed information you can get about running processes means you'll reduce the amount of guesswork involved with troubleshooting or performan
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by gtowey 5mo ago
Because the premise that the singularity is just around the corner is far less likely than the premise that artificial intelligence is a lot harder than most people think it is and we're not that close. Especially because the companies
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by gtowey 5mo ago
"wander console" sounds like they're just web rings re-invented. In the era of forced feeds by giant corporations which consist of the things they want you to see, I've wondered if this old idea would make a comeback.
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by gtowey 6mo ago
> But they are so common, i don't know who designs them and makes me feel like 5yo. The great secret of the industry is that it's mostly run by clueless incompetents. And their only strategy is to copy from every other product
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by gtowey 6mo ago
Or they could actually charge ticket prices that cover the cost of doing business and stop treating their passengers like a it's a time-share sales pitch the whole way.
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by gtowey 6mo ago
Companies are in it to extract as much value as possible for the least spend. Inside a bigco tech company nothing get engineering time allocated unless there is a monetary ROI attached. Which is why basic usability is neglected while featur
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by gtowey 6mo ago
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. They were not "removed", they were made to be disallowed if and only if the school wanted to receive a certain kind of government funding. Some schools have enough money that
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by gtowey 6mo ago
> Why must a mistake have been made, as opposed to just changes in the market? If you're high up at a company like Meta, you likely have a compensation package worth millions a year. The question is what are they being paid for if n
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by gtowey 6mo ago
Laying off 10% of your workforce at a company this size means someone high up has been making some pretty significant mistakes. So the answer is, when an executive is held accountable for disrupting this many people's lives. When they
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by gtowey 6mo ago
Meta: look, you don't have to wear a diaper while you work, but those that do are 87% more likely to get promoted! The choice is yours!
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by gtowey 6mo ago
But those are mostly things that were possible before basic web search became nearly unusable. I don't disagree with you at all, I have found that I turn to LLMs to answer questions that I would have just searched with Google before. I
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by gtowey 6mo ago
The interface can be independent of the implementation. Under the hood git does everything you need. If learning to use it at a low level isnt appealing, then you can put an interface on top which is more ergonomic.
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by gtowey 7mo ago
The computing power we all have in our pockets is staggering. It could be tool that truly makes our lives easier, but instead it's mostly a device that is frustrating to use. Companies have decided to make it simply another conduit for
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by gtowey 7mo ago
So the takeaway isn't how good or bad I may be at communicating, it's that I was fundamentally speaking a language that was wholly orthogonal to the interests of leadership. No matter how good I became at making persuasive argumen
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by gtowey 7mo ago
I disagree. I've worked on honing my communication skills for 20 years in this industry. Every time I have failed to get the desired result, I have gone back to the drawing board to understand how I can change how I'm communicatin
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by gtowey 7mo ago
I remember that literally everything, including basic necessities like food and housing jumped 30% higher overnight and never really returned to pre COVID prices. It erased about a decade worth of wage increases for most people. I think the
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by gtowey 7mo ago
Virtue is something the virtueless prey upon. However, the takeaway is not to abandon virtue, it's to censure the virtueless. There are far more of us than there are of them.
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by gtowey 7mo ago
Easy, put the manager on the actual mission.

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