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by jordanb 1y ago
"Wow this AI both writes and reads email? That's about 90 percent of my job and -- I presume -- 90 percent of what happens around here!"
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Also strange that this executive is worried about how the business continues to function after the people are gone. That's not the McKinsey Way!
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Maybe they could send them to Harvard Business School?
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There's this crazy tendency to LARP as counsel for the defence whenever a big tech company gets bad press.
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It's really amazing how I quoted a repair shop owner saying the problem is parts availability and got two responses basically saying "nuh uh." I have a more recent personal experience. My parents refrigerator went out. The re
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I remember reading an article about the last TV repair shop in Chicago many years ago in the Chicago Reader. This would have been in the early 2010s. The reporter asked the owner why TV repair was dying: were TVs getting too complicated? He
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I don't know Rust so I can't comment on it.
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I found that learning Ada was a good way to learn how to write good C++ code, because both languages are at the same level of abstraction but Ada is clean and opinionated. The best a example is RAII. This is a pattern in C++ that you have
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This is basically excuses being made by C people for use of a language that wasn't designed for and isn't suitable for safety critical software. "We didn't even need that feature!" Ada's compile time verificati
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It should be increasingly clear at this point that they intend to never be out of power again.
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You can see this in Venus. No water and no plate tectonics. Instead you get heat buildup under the crust until there's a cataclysmic overturn event.
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Credit cards were originally an offline payment method. The merchant would create a receipt that included a contact paper imprint of the card (which is why the card has raised lettering) and would present it to the bank for reimbursement.
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Corporations and especially Silicon Valley were pushing hard for Trump because they were furious about Lena Khan. Don't let them pretend that they are innocent in all of this. They're all polishing their jackboots right now.
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"Safety" is how it was originally billed: your kids can call you if they get in trouble. They also created apps that let parents spy on where there kids were.
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The Trump peace plan calls for a resumption of aid contingent on the Palestinians accepting the deal. Please understand that this is a war crime. You can not use starvation of civilians as a weapon or as leverage against combatants.
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During the MCAS scandal I saw a report that the software developers who wrote it were offshored and being paid something like $13/hr. While there weren't actually coding flaws in MCAS in that it did what the spec said, I've m
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The Management Consulting to Prison Pipeline.
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Next plane crash he'll fix with a sharpie.
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I remember when they moved to Chicago the argument was to be closer to their Airline customers. They wanted to shift from a focus on building planes to a focus on selling planes. Now they can't even sell planes so their new focus is
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One thing I've realized it that the Democratic party is a machine. It rewards loyalty and waiting your turn. It punishes getting out of line and challenging incumbents. Parts of the Republican party are too of course (hence Grassley) b
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It's not even that they think it's a hoax. They don't care what happens to our world because half of them are dispensationalsts and the rest just think: après moi, le déluge.
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The history of AI since the 1960s is slow and incremental improvement where the public loses interest for a decade or so, then notices the last decade of improvement when someone released a glitzy demo, followed by an investment frenzy with
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Interestingly I read a history of the French Army mutinies in WWI. One thing that came out of that is lower commanders had a duty to question orders from superiors if they didn't think the goals were achievable. Previously any hint a
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I've known quite a few people in the military and "efficient" is a word they never use to describe it.
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I'm pretty sure the networks sued over DVRs but they lost because they had already lost against VCRs in the 1980s (skipping ads is just a form of time-shifting).
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No doubt in ten years chatgpt will mostly be telling you things it was paid to say.
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If someone is transferring from SF to NYC they wouldn't have to advertise the position. I think the OP is referring to transferring people into the country on L1.
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Yeah kinda hard to see companies being more aggressive than they already are about outsourcing. I know companies that fired their entire tech org from the CTO down and moved it to India.
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> He proceeded to talk forgiveness and leaned heavily into Christian teachings Fortunately for both neither will be expected to follow those teachings in any way.
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I remember reading Huey Long's book. The oil companies were threatening to leave Louisiana. He asked them "you going to take the oil with you?"

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