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by jongjong 4mo ago
Yes you're right. The decreasing desire to socialize is somewhat leading the change and likely driving the increase in quiet carriages. It's a feedback cycle, like a lot of things. Smartphones are probably upstream of that trend b
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You occupy a very unusual place seeing such extremes of both sides. I've only interacted with people with that level of wealth in a professional capacity. In my personal life, I know a lot of people who own multiple properties and busi
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by jongjong 4mo ago
Yeah, the latest models are really good. For implementing leetcode-type solutions, Claude Opus is smarter than essentially all engineers I've ever worked with and smarter than me as well. The one area where I beat it hands-down is tech
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by jongjong 4mo ago
Made me chuckle. I think I know what you mean about "expressing strong emotions" - This is how a lot of Europeans view Americans specifically. I think the Australian version of naivety is more about meritocratic ideas and flat soc
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by jongjong 4mo ago
Yeah I suppose this is the stuff which you only start to understand after you've been somewhere more than a few years. It also makes you appreciate certain things about where you're from which you didn't even notice and used
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by jongjong 4mo ago
It's disturbing to think that there are people getting paid huge amounts of money by governments, using taxpayer money to f around with politics of other countries... Meanwhile I've been trying to raise a $100K seed round for my s
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by jongjong 4mo ago
Yes 100%. I was born upper middle class. I have a BIT from a global top 50 University. I understood this after working in cryptocurrency sector in Germany. After I left Australia and moved to Europe, I realized after some time that 'th
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by jongjong 4mo ago
It could get really smart but I'm confident in my thesis that surplus intelligence beyond a certain level doesn't yield any real economic benefits. At scale, I can see a benefit in terms of being able to process large amounts of d
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by jongjong 4mo ago
Open source models don't need to be anywhere near as good as Claude Mythos or even Claude Sonnet to 'win'. Open source 'winning' just means that there exists at least one open source alternative to closed models whi
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Unless they send in their fully automated war drones.
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Yes, this is completely true unfortunately but not the only way. A good honest approach is just to build a few complex but essential tools so that other engineers have to keep coming back to you. It's a good way to stay relevant. You b
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by jongjong 4mo ago
It's frustrating as someone who has worked hard to produce succinct, secure software that I can't use it to prove my software's correctness but big companies with insecure code can use it to fix their tangled mess. I already
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by jongjong 4mo ago
The chemical contaminant problem is huge. The pressure to always lower food production costs has forced the industry to accept tradeoffs without considering the costs. The tradeoffs are at every step of the chain and if you ask anyone in th
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by jongjong 4mo ago
Often, they are good at taking things, keeping things, misdirecting and setting boundaries (especially communication boundaries). They are good at keeping their positions. This is a broad range of skills and to actually be a CEO, you need t
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by jongjong 4mo ago
I don't see a software jobs crisis but I see a software industry crisis. The AI slopmageddon is upon us.
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by jongjong 4mo ago
Yep, the combined intent of two people cannot be established automatically when they cannot see each other's changes or understand each other's reasoning. Figuring out the collaborative intent for conflict resolution would require
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by jongjong 4mo ago
I think gmuslera is right to point out that being the first doesn't really matter (for most people). You also need support from the right kinds of people and it's not a given that being first and eventually being 'proven righ
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by jongjong 4mo ago
Why are people still using Windows? OMG, what is wrong with people? Just use Linux. Literally any major Linux distro is superior nowadays. You don't like it, stop using it! You hate it, boycott it! Don't expect change. They care s
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by jongjong 4mo ago
The tracking is horrible. I often leave my computer for up to 30 minutes to brainstorm or think about a difficult problem. I do this even more now with AI than I did before because the nature of my work has changed and requires more foresig
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by jongjong 4mo ago
The human body is an incredibly complex machine. The doctor may be an expert with particular conditions, but at the end of the day, you are the #1 world-leading expert when it comes to your own body. You're the only one who knows what&
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by jongjong 4mo ago
It's like Oracle. They became a law firm. They only just happen to use software as an excuse to get free money from the government. The main purpose of the software is as a narrative device for making sales.
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by jongjong 4mo ago
Exactly. The software engineering domain is huge. I could code just about anything when I was 16 years old after 2 years of intensive learning... It took me an additional 10 years to learn to design software that is secure, maintainable, ef
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by jongjong 4mo ago
The problem with these kinds of discussions is that they act like experienced software engineers themselves don't bring domain expertise to software products. So AI can easily replace the domain knowledge of software engineers but not
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by jongjong 4mo ago
I'm in a similar boat. I don't like modern music. I was never a big music fan TBH though I did like a few really good pieces from my day. That said I never cared much for lyrics because I didn't find them relatable. I'm
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by jongjong 4mo ago
I got Netflix recently because I wanted my 4 year old son to have a bit of screen time. He is very active, loves to play outside, draw, paint and does a lot of different activities so I thought there's no harm in a bit of screen time..
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by jongjong 4mo ago
The stock market should be illegal too. The stock market is just a prediction market at this point. What value does it create?
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by jongjong 4mo ago
Wow. WTF does this say about Google algorithmic manipulation if an employee can predict specific search results to such a granular extent... Down to a specific artist. Google is rigged.
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I reject the the idea that these types of people are needed. It's probably that most of the people in the CIA happen to be like that because they're power-hungry and they're just selecting their kin and justifying their choic
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by jongjong 5mo ago
If your LLM were to hack into Microsoft and steal the source code from an important project and inject it into your project without you being aware of it; wouldn't that make you liable if you then published it? Unfortunately there is n
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by jongjong 5mo ago
The CI pipeline is different because for a module to end up as a dependency in the CI pipeline, it had to be explicitly selected by a person first to be included in the package file or manifest. There was intentionality and awareness that t

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