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by jgilias 1y ago
Well, if it comes to that. German is not _really_ a single language. It’s a dialect continuum consisting of sometimes barely mutually intelligible variants. And yes, if you continue following that continuum, you get to the languages you men
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by jgilias 1y ago
Curious, what are the practical concerns? The place looks fantastic to me! I really miss more bold architectural and city planning experiments. Like, I get it, if it’s a flop, it’s a pretty expensive one. But still, it feels like the design
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by jgilias 1y ago
Came to see if someone’s brain parsed it that way too!
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by jgilias 2y ago
I feel you. Having a chat function is the last thing I want in my banking app lol.
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by jgilias 2y ago
That’s because WeChat has really taken off in China. So there are companies in different markets trying to replicate that. And, well, from business perspective it does make sense. If you manage to pull it off, the reward is massive.
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by jgilias 2y ago
That’s mental. Why have a resume in the first place then? Any info in the resume introduces “bias”. Well, actually, even wanting to hire the best candidate for a job is already a bias of its own. So why not just have a lottery instead of a
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by jgilias 2y ago
It’s not like the “candidate” is doing that on their own. They’re most likely part of some branch of the military with a chain of command, a bunch of reports to fill, etc. So doing that in a pre-approved way is not unimaginable. Because, if
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by jgilias 2y ago
I don’t think that’s going to work for long. A typical defender/attacker dynamic at play.
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by jgilias 2y ago
No, that’s not the higher level story here. The higher level story is that the US is currently led by irresponsible imbeciles.
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by jgilias 2y ago
The unemployment rate is near historic lows. Apparently there’s plenty of jobs going round. Not that that’s going to last if actual economic headwinds hit the economy.
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by jgilias 2y ago
This is very different from “lay-diagnosing” every introvert kid as autistic and every jittery kid as having ADHD. There’s _a lot_ of reliable material from his direct actions over the years to accounts from people who’ve worked or dealed o
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by jgilias 2y ago
Malignant Narcissism https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/24/trump-nyt-ad...
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by jgilias 2y ago
A lot of people rather change their beliefs than ever admit they’ve been wrong.
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by jgilias 2y ago
Most Americans just don’t care that much about international affairs.
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by jgilias 2y ago
Malignant Narcissism https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/24/trump-nyt-ad...
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by jgilias 2y ago
That’s why I said “to a lesser extent”. It’s _possible_ to survive as a high level EU country politician without being fluent in a second language, but it’s definitely suboptimal. So it still serves as a forcing function.
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by jgilias 2y ago
I don’t feel like there will be one worth talking about though if the current direction persists. If you don’t care about things like freedom, democracy, free press, the rule of law, free markets, then China seems like a much better overlor
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by jgilias 2y ago
To me it seems like Americans are currently actively dismantling their sphere of influence.
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by jgilias 2y ago
I have a pet theory on why that is. In EU to become a Brussels career bureaucrat you need to be able to speak a couple of languages fluently. This serves as a kind of a filter. Whatever they are, dumb they most certainly are not. To a lesse
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by jgilias 2y ago
Yes, the Cold War never ended. And it seems like Russia is winning now.
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by jgilias 2y ago
Social media is not journalism. It’s an algorithm driven click-bait echo chamber full of 5s long “hot takes”. Anyone who builds their model of the world primarily from social media without grounding it in actual journalism is doing themselv
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by jgilias 2y ago
Just try it then. I upvoted it because it aligns with my own findings working on real projects. Especially the bits about needing to “ground” the LLM in appropriate context, and being mindful of the sliding context window.
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by jgilias 2y ago
I feel like this is the big question now. How to find the correct balance that lets you preserve and improve your skills. I haven’t yet found the answer, but I feel like it should be in being very deliberate about what you let the agent do,
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by jgilias 2y ago
> During refactoring, it failed to recognize the existing dependency injection chain Not sure if this is an argument against atheism or foxholes.
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by jgilias 2y ago
They do. Until people who have this information decide to stop sharing it with you.
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by jgilias 2y ago
I see what you mean. The way I approach this is that I think of it as a very (very, very) elaborate auto-complete. Something that takes some text, and continues with the most likely continuation. Which is what it basically is, right? But th
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by jgilias 2y ago
Sure, but what choice do you have as an individual? Try and adjust to the new reality and maybe get RIFed anyway, or not adjust to it and get RIFed with 90% certainty. Power looms won.
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by jgilias 2y ago
We’re all already betting one way or another.
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by jgilias 2y ago
Can you give some examples where “architect, no coders” is here already? Asking, because I’d rather try and adjust to the new world, than pretend it’s not happening!
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by jgilias 2y ago
Maybe. But that future is definitely not yet here. Generating a couple of files though is here. And that compounds. So people who’re still typing those files by hand… yeah.

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