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by jongjong 1y ago
IMO the real problem is that the monetary system creates asymmetries which create monopolies, which force everyone to participate in 'the economy' through rigid, inefficient, bureaucratic structures. People are literally not allow
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by jongjong 1y ago
In my country (Australia), the cheapest I can get is like $250k USD equivalent... But that's a shack in the middle of the desert in some tiny ghost town. Even in a normal small town, houses are like $350k USD minimum. In capital cities
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by jongjong 1y ago
Interesting. Makes one think.
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by jongjong 1y ago
But it's much cheaper to compute than inference, and also you only have to compute once for any content and reuse multiple times.
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by jongjong 1y ago
Kind of crazy to think that there are almost half as many buildings as people and yet me and my wife can't even afford the deposit to buy a single one on a mortgage after 10 years of saving, hustling hard, taught myself to code, got a
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by jongjong 1y ago
The notation used in Euler’s totient function reminds me why I chose to study software engineering instead of maths. The same notation can be used to mean 3 different things. Illogical. It baffles me why mathematicians made the language of
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by jongjong 1y ago
Interesting. All developers I know who tinkered around with embeddings and vector similarity scoring were instantly hooked. The efficiency of computing the embeddings once and then reusing as many times as needed, comparing the vectors with
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by jongjong 1y ago
We are quite literally baking the planet. First with Bitcoin mining now with AI data centers. I pray that at least the AI datacenters will be allowed to be put to good use instead of BS jobs.
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by jongjong 1y ago
Great point. I chuckle at the fact that 'addressing the root cause' is what naturopaths and 'holistic medicine' practitioners are selling themselves on... Claiming that modern medicine is focused on selling drugs to mask
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by jongjong 1y ago
True, it is a more natural progression to parallelize on the backend as isolating different requests has multiple benefits besides scalability; e.g. security and maintainability. Also, we have more control over the backend environment so it
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by jongjong 1y ago
As a developer who worked in Crypto sector, I was never a big fan of Bitcoin though I recognize its value as the pioneer of an important movement and philosophy. I found out about Bitcoin when it was $100 a coin and as a developer I had the
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by jongjong 1y ago
Some code should be single core; like for example, a frontend UI for a web application... You don't want to be hoarding all of the user's CPU capacity with your frontend. But I do like implementing my backends as multi-core by def
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by jongjong 1y ago
Damn. Didn't think of that. Seems I have a very naive definition of 'profit'. It's crazy how all these small subtleties in definitions of various terms can create something so abominable in the aggregate. Makes one want
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by jongjong 1y ago
But you can't fake profits that way (without cooking the books); you can only fake revenue. That's why profits matter. Though I guess with high velocity of money circulating in tight loops, everyone involved can feel rich. 1 milli
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by jongjong 1y ago
Resonates. IMO, if it pays a fixed salary, that's one thing. Makes sense. But as some means of gaining power over others; or for kickbacks, it's pathetic.
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by jongjong 1y ago
I don't care about privacy. IMO, it's a distraction to draw attention away from a far more significant topic; algorithm-based media monopolization... And ironically, while we have such high degree of media monopolization, privacy
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by jongjong 1y ago
I shudder at the thought of "striving to become a Reddit moderator." So much effort to achieve such a petty political goal. What sort of person does this? I cannot comprehend people who would spend their life doing that... Out of
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by jongjong 1y ago
It's interesting because my management philosophy when delegating work has been to always start by telling people what my intent is, so that they don't get too caught up in a specific approach. Many problems require out-of-the-box
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by jongjong 1y ago
Well that's not the contrapositive of my statement. Also, one case is not exhaustive either. It's possible to go down. My point is about moving up.
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by jongjong 1y ago
As a software engineer, I'm constantly exposed to system complexity. My experience is that even systems which seem relatively simple from the outside can be extremely complex. Beyond a certain level of complexity, it becomes very diffi
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by jongjong 1y ago
I always assume malice until otherwise proven and I let my enemies believe that I'm well-intentioned towards them.
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by jongjong 1y ago
I can't because one of those is a low-code/no-code platform which I've used to build and run my 6th startup with a co-founder who relies on me... And it works very well. I mentally cannot abandon a project that works better t
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by jongjong 1y ago
I've been talking about the limited bandwidth of investors as a major problem with capital allocation for some time so it's good to see this idea acknowledged in this context. This problem will only get bigger and more obvious wit
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by jongjong 1y ago
I appreciate the comment. You're right, things have been worse for certain people. I'm definitely not 'elite' even though I've been a software engineer for 15 years, I was very unfortunate. Just imagine doing everyt
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by jongjong 1y ago
Haha yeah I was thinking it just sounds capricious.
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by jongjong 1y ago
The article makes a very astute point. If you don't engage in politics, those who do will call the shots and lead the company down the wrong path. Also, in my experience, it's generally true that the people who don't like eng
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by jongjong 1y ago
I also work in AI as a software engineer. I feel bad about what's happening but I'm just getting by and AI is ultimately a threat to my career too. My younger truck driver cousin is doing much better than me financially. He didn&#
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by jongjong 1y ago
Along these lines, I do think that most human problems don't require that much intelligence to solve. There are patterns which are counter-productive and best left unidentified if your goal is to create economic value. My PoV is that c
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by jongjong 1y ago
I feel like there is powerful social conditioning in our society which prevents people who didn't succeed early from succeeding later. It's not about their work. At the end of the day, nobody can succeed in society without the sta
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by jongjong 1y ago
Yes. It's a great irony. It's so simple that anyone could have written that and yet it feels like less than 1% of people write code like that in practice.

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