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by jongjong 2y ago
Yep I can definitely sense this. It's not ambiguous anymore. Also, a lot of corporate employees I spoke/chat with tend to portray their situation as being paid big salaries just to suffer by playing this game. As if their sufferin
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by jongjong 2y ago
Yeah pretty much. It's seems like it was the same people who were behind ESG/DEI who are now most keen to dismantle it. The 360 degrees turnaround was very noticeable. It coincided with Elon's purchase of Twitter and the star
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by jongjong 2y ago
Corporate influence on open source has served to narrow down the tools that are able to gain adoption, irrespective of their utility, often going against what users want. For example, many developers despise React.js; I once interviewed for
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by jongjong 2y ago
When my grandmother was alive, she would sometimes say things that stuck in my memory. One of the things she told me was that the only thing which really improved since she was young was medicine. She said that while a lot of technologies i
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by jongjong 2y ago
Surely they cannot sell at this price without government subsidies (direct or indirect)? This possibility paints a frightening picture of the power of government in the global marketplace. The government of any large country can selectively
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by jongjong 2y ago
It's wild to think that plants are engaged in this constant struggle to produce seeds that have an outer shell that is just strong enough not to be consistently dissolved in a bird's stomach but not so strong that they won't
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by jongjong 2y ago
Hiring is by far the most important thing IMO. You can have the best processes possible but it means nothing without good engineers. On the other hand, a company with really great engineers barely needs any processes.
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by jongjong 2y ago
The sad thing is, once a company loses its spark of engineering excellence, it's very difficult to recover. Politics take the place of excellence and this creates an environment where the talented are systematically suppressed and reje
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by jongjong 2y ago
I don't have a strong opinion about dynamically typed vs statically typed but I have a very strong opinion about interpreted vs compiled. I regret how neglected interpreted languages have become. I'm much more productive with inte
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by jongjong 2y ago
The legal system is fundamentally broken, globally. Last time I tried to start a legal action to claim damages against a big company for a very clear-cut case full of obvious fraud and deception (with plenty of evidence and many witnesses).
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by jongjong 2y ago
Agreed, I think part of it boils down to the concept of 'limited liability' itself which is a euphemism for 'the right to carry out some degree of evil without consequence.' Also, scale plays a significant part as well.
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by jongjong 2y ago
But the participants need to have money on the side. People who are trapped in 9-to-5 jobs are too busy making ends meet to engage in activities which don't tie directly into their survival.
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by jongjong 2y ago
Bitcoin is a lousy currency but I'm glad it's valuable because it shows how much of a scam the fiat system is. It's ALL a scam. ALL OF IT. What part of 'ALL' don't you people understand? When Bitcoin, a currenc
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by jongjong 2y ago
Agreed, global variables are fine up to a certain scale, especially if they're only used in the main file. They only really become a problem if you start modifying them from inside different files. The real underlying problem is '
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by jongjong 2y ago
IMO, the media frenzy on the subject was part of a corporate plot to promote certain beliefs in order to silence contrarian ideas which could trigger a conversation around corporate negligence topics such as the increase of endocrine disrup
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by jongjong 2y ago
Feels like we're going back to a period of political decentralization. History suggests that large empires tend to collapse after the rule of law loses its meaning and power. I've been predicting the rise of political gangs for a
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by jongjong 2y ago
Taylor Swift did make a few good pieces but many of her songs are too similar to each other IMO. I can acknowledge that 'Blank Space' is very good even though it's not my favorite genre of music though. That said, I think the
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by jongjong 2y ago
I'm actually quite difficult with music and I don't like most music. Yet, considering those few pieces I do like, I like pieces from a variety of styles ranging from techno to classical music. My ability to appreciate a broad set
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by jongjong 2y ago
Agreed, I think music is one of the areas which it nails though (pun intended). The size of the human input can be very small and still produce very high quality output. I mean you can produce 0 input and fully automate it and it will still
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by jongjong 2y ago
It's not just $200 tasks. For example, it's really good with producing music... Which would have cost several thousands of dollars before. E.g: suno.com I've been recording short tunes on my low-quality $50 Ukulele (which I s
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by jongjong 2y ago
I wouldn't know. My JavaScript doesn't have any bugs.
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by jongjong 2y ago
If the material which OpenAI is trained on is itself not subject to copyright protections, then other LLMs trained on OpenAI should also not be subject to any copyright restrictions. You can't have both ways... If OpenAI wants to claim
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by jongjong 2y ago
First time I was let go, I was fresh out of university. I had only been in the position for around 3 weeks. I came into the company at the worst possible time and they gave me a task which, in retrospect, was very difficult for a recent gra
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by jongjong 2y ago
It's kind of weird how AI isn't yet about robots or reasoning but merely the last phase in the evolution of search engines. An LLM is essentially an extremely user-friendly search engine without the commercial/product aspect.
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by jongjong 2y ago
Exactly. Bankers are modern-day royalty. Banks are granted special, exclusive powers by the state to issue/counterfeit the nation's currency as loans. Banking executives are anointed by decree. The idea of 'disrupting banks&#
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by jongjong 2y ago
Possible, just connect ad-viewing hours to people's social credit score.
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by jongjong 2y ago
I can't believe I'm reading this in 2025. People are repeating things which used to be true back in 2014 but don't make any sense in today's context. Even this supposedly 'shiny new' framework called Svelte is
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by jongjong 2y ago
This author has never seen failure. Well, their only glaring failure is their lack of self-awareness.
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by jongjong 2y ago
Yes, the social aspect is significant. It's not so much about innovating and strategizing as much as it is about playing politics with rich people and hope that they let you build a successful product. Let's face it, rich people m
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by jongjong 2y ago
I used to care so much 10 years ago. I didn't have to factor the state of the world or society into all my decision. I trusted society fully like I trusted air. Now I feel like the boiling frog and I only trust a handful of people. I d

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