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by jplusequalt 2mo ago
>and get paid well The average nurse in the southern US is paid roughly ~$30 an hour. Given their responsibilities, long shifts, and overall stress, do you think that's a fair wage? >Walking out and putting customers (or patients
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by jplusequalt 2mo ago
>So she doesn't enjoy her job and only works there because you can't make up the $15 hour difference between her working in a book store for minimum wage vs her working for $30 an hour? She loves being a nurse and couldn't
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by jplusequalt 2mo ago
>Personally, I just can’t find it in me to be that self-interested Caring about your ability to pay your bills, and support your family is "self-interested" in the same way that choosing to not drive into oncoming traffic is &q
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by jplusequalt 2mo ago
>I think you will always need a button pusher. Okay. Is that job going to provide a competitive salary, with good benefits? More importantly, is it going to be personally fulfilling? Software developers who have adopted agentic coding ar
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by jplusequalt 2mo ago
I'm sick and tired of hearing about how LLMs are somehow going to cultivate a society of "creative people full of ideas" when increasingly the people who are using it the most are accepting the LLMs ideas without question.
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by jplusequalt 2mo ago
>For the first 2-3 months i would read it, then I figured out how to really use AI/code gen and the amount created was more than I could read You serve no purpose here. The AI will soon be able to prompt itself, and it will be bette
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by jplusequalt 2mo ago
The author also has agents write their blog posts.
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by jplusequalt 2mo ago
>the social media addiction stuff stand on pretty dubious science to say the least. There are multiple studies showing that social media use leads to worse mental health in users.
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by jplusequalt 2mo ago
It's not just speculation, we have data from multiple studies at this point that suggest leaning on AI for productivity leads to skill depreciation across domain.
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by jplusequalt 2mo ago
Really? Have any data to show that software is getting "faster"?
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by jplusequalt 2mo ago
>Boats didn't go away with the demise sailing as a commercially viable mode of transport. No, but there's now more people who know how to engineer reliable ships then ever before. In 10 years, how many people will still underst
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by jplusequalt 2mo ago
>Ayn Rand Objectivism is a fucking stupid philosophy, and Ayn Rand died living off the welfare system she so vehemently despised.
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by jplusequalt 2mo ago
>The paper doesn't cover this, and so the conclusions don't have merit. Fairly weak criticism. These benefits you're mentioning don't help people pay for groceries, pay their mortgage/rent, pay for gas, etc.
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by jplusequalt 2mo ago
For that 1/3 of Americans, that's a very real statistic to be frowning over.
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by jplusequalt 2mo ago
The median worker saw a small wage growth, on the scale of ~.5% a year. However, it does says that 58% of all workers failed to keep up with the real wage growth trend we saw in the years leading up to the pandemic. >So 63% didn't.
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Sticky wage norms and the real wage cost of unexpected inflation(bfi.uchicago.edu)
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by jplusequalt 2mo ago
>What I don't understand is why communities want to block the data centers. Well maybe if you were in community with the people protesting them you'd understand their perspective.
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by jplusequalt 2mo ago
Does that water usage take into account all the water that went into training the models, including the electricity it took run the data centers the GPUs are housed in?
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by jplusequalt 2mo ago
From my research, data centers and - more importantly - the electricity required to run data centers, are consuming a lot of water. Sure you can argue that it's less than other industries, but that ignores the rapid expansion of data c
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by jplusequalt 2mo ago
It's a great introduction, and better yet, it's completely free!
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by jplusequalt 2mo ago
Essential Mathematics for Games and Interactive Applications, and Mathematics for 3D Game Programming and Computer Graphics.
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by jplusequalt 2mo ago
Linear Algebra by Jim Hefferon can be read online for free.
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by jplusequalt 2mo ago
Even it that we're true, I don't care. I'll gladly accept a paycheck to do something that inherently interests me. Great comeback, dumbass.
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by jplusequalt 2mo ago
>Yeah this has removed all the boring and annoying part of building software for me. I can focus on the problems to solve and the solutions, and iterate much faster. Debugging has never been this easy. It's crazy. It sounds like you
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by jplusequalt 2mo ago
>It is to humanity’s credit that we remain restless in the midst of all of this progress. We continue to look forward, pushing the frontier further with new treatments, new tools, and new institutions that will help future generations in
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by jplusequalt 2mo ago
>What matters is whether you understand the change being made. If you don’t, then you’re not adding much value, because the LLM can do that part better and faster than you anyway. My point is that your ability to understand what a change
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by jplusequalt 2mo ago
> * The engineer who refuses to change with the times There is plenty of software in existence where being incorrect, even once, can spell disaster. Everything about the picture being painted in the article is anathema to keeping such sy
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by jplusequalt 2mo ago
This blog conflates productivity with expertise. Are LLMs rewarding experienced developers with tons of productivity gains? Yes. Are LLMs actively degrading their expertise of understanding code? Also yes. This article has made the implicit
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by jplusequalt 2mo ago
>We need to get over the fear and stigma of getting fired. It means nothing except your boss didn’t like you. It also means (in the US) you lose access to your healthcare.
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by jplusequalt 2mo ago
>The hard part now is understanding what agents do. How can you gain a bit of confidence in their work? How can you understand them when everything changes again 6 months from now?

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