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by jmfldn 4y ago
Actually I do. I work in sectors I believe do good so I'm lucky. I'm proud personally of the products I build. My concern is more a big picture dread around where the general drift seems to be around key technologies in the realm
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by jmfldn 4y ago
"If it centralizes power, it’s bad. If it decentralizes power, it’s good. Build technology that is inextricable from its narrative. Build technology that will give us freedom, not enslavement." I agree with this but technology alo
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by jmfldn 4y ago
I think we're on the same page, I see things very similarly! What sort of product are you working on, or would you work in future, if you don't mind me asking?
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by jmfldn 4y ago
"The scary part is that all this technology that is integrated kinda just promotes more consumerism. Advertising and marketing are a huge point to this technology. It's scary to think that we just give children ( not just teenager
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by jmfldn 4y ago
I'm not sure I think everything is going downhill. More that the type of tech we are developing, extrapolating from our current standpoint points in some scary directions. Eg. Authoritarian control and loss of freedoms.
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Ask HN: Are we building a tech dystopia?
148 points by jmfldn 4y ago|146 comments
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Lawyers could have chips implanted in their brain in bid to cut legal costs(standard.co.uk)
1 points by jmfldn 4y ago|0 comments
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by jmfldn 4y ago
I literally just made a greeting card with DALL-E. Generated the image I wanted and had the card printed and posted to the recepient for no more than buying a pre-exisiting card. Advantage here is that this image concept, which was very tai
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by jmfldn 4y ago
Sorry to hear. I think you're doing the right thing in trying to see if you can cope with lower stimulation gradually. Try lower stimulation hobbies, reading novels, going for long walks etc. Maybe you'll find that you can somewha
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by jmfldn 4y ago
Microservices - which are related to what we're talking about - have so many benefits when done right. Teams can deploy independently and interactions between teams just become about API contracts or data relationships if we're ta
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by jmfldn 4y ago
This tells us little about AGI. It might seem like it does but this is an incredibly narrow specific set of technologies. They work together to produce some startling results (with many limitations) but this is just another narrow applicati
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Peter Thiel on the dangers of progress(unherd.com)
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by jmfldn 4y ago
I use focus mode on my Android phone all the time. Only have phone, messages (not whats app) and a few things I need for work. Basically turns it into a dumb phone. I do deactivate it sometimes and sneak a peak at a website but it seems (am
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by jmfldn 4y ago
Everything is biased. I quite like The Economist but it's liberal, "markets first", stance is just as much an ideology as anything The Guardian espouses. Its trick is to make itself seem above the fray, offering a god's
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by jmfldn 4y ago
A related talk by my favorite Buddhist teacher, Ajahn Sona, on 'Right Mindfulness'. https://youtu.be/JOcoynQCmZ0 Highly recommend his channel by the way.
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by jmfldn 5y ago
Year in industry means students spending a year in industry as part of their degree. We do it and it works well. You need a company culture that supports it though. This is normal practice in several other professions. The point isn't
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by jmfldn 5y ago
To the OP, this is a great post, I endorse it as a tech lead / senior dev myself. Your experience is not unusual, it seems that many tech companies are terrible at onboarding not only juniors but devs in general. It seems almost like a
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by jmfldn 5y ago
This is a good problem to have. Having a curious mind and taking pleasure in learning and growing, for me at least, is the highest pleasure. I'm into computer science, piano, European history, politics, Buddhism and a few other things.
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by jmfldn 5y ago
"Any more my priority is to take regular breaks, meditate, create space for myself to find compassion and love for the people around me, and overall just try and be a positive calming force in the company" This is great, and very
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by jmfldn 5y ago
It's a question of the strength of the respective poles then. The Western pole of US / EU and its postwar institutions of the UN, IMF, NATO etc were pretty hegemonic I'd argue. Wasn't the war in Iraq and Afghanistan pred
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by jmfldn 5y ago
Perhaps it won't turn out dire but I think things will change a lot at the very least.
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by jmfldn 5y ago
I disagree. This is Russia we're talking about. The whole post-war western security policy was, in no small part based around Russia / USSR. Russia declaring war in Europe is a MAJOR event in European history whatever the outcome
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by jmfldn 5y ago
That's all true for many younger people no doubt. However, as a history graduate it wasn't like I lacked the context. It was more that the necessary preconditions seemed absent in the present era. With regards to a wider global co
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by jmfldn 5y ago
I'm not scared but I'm alarmed that this is even a remote possibility. A few months ago the sheer idea that we would see an old school invasion by a major power in Europe would have seemed impossible to me. I never contemplated th
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by jmfldn 5y ago
There is nothing left to experience any void, as that experience would be something. Noone can experience death, only the moments leading to it. I feel pretty comfortable with that. On the other hand, if there is life after death then perha
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by jmfldn 5y ago
Ha yes! Worldle enterprise edition. Needs to be microservice-based, obv. A word finder service, a word checker service and a few others for good measure. Reactive architecture, probably Kafka based, for resilience. Also GDPR compliant, CI&#
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by jmfldn 5y ago
Absolutely not. My job title is "engineer" but compared to what my dad does, mechanical engineering, it's much more an art with bits of actual engineering and mathematical rigour sprinkled on top. I honestly think I should be
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by jmfldn 5y ago
Photos sync automatically from camera to Dropbox Camera Uploads folder. I move them every now and then into a Dropbox/Photos folder (not syncd to local machine as it's too big) after organising them into month folders. These same
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by jmfldn 5y ago
The point about broken windows having been debunked for crime is a non-argument when applied to programming. He's comparing apples and bananas. Someone just happened to use a term for two things that are only kinda related. I don'
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by jmfldn 5y ago
This for me is key, these sorts of problems cannot just be solved on an individual level. They are systemic. "Individual abstinence is “not the solution, for the same reason that wearing a gas mask for two days a week outside isn’t the

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