kypro

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by kypro 3y ago
> If it was as fast as WiFi, we’d just use WiFi for everything. Yeah, but there's no cross platform way to send files over wifi like AirDrop that I'm aware of? The reason I use Bluetooth is because I have an android phone and i
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by kypro 3y ago
Since there seems to be a lot of BT experts here, perhaps I can ask a related question – why is BT still so slow? Sometimes I want to transfer a file from a device to my phone or vice versa and it can take several minutes to transfer a file
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by kypro 3y ago
I think what you're saying is true, but a slightly broader issue around why software development is difficult more generally. What I'm touching on here is more related to how outsourced teams typically lack the ownership and motiv
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by kypro 3y ago
ChatGPT doesn't learn in real-time so in theory there should be no difference until a new model is released which has been trained on new data.
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by kypro 3y ago
Debugging is by far the most difficult thing when working with AI algorithms because the output is rarely deterministic and that makes it hard to tell the difference between actual bugs and a bad selection of hyperparameters. You're al
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by kypro 3y ago
I've seen exactly the same thing at a couple of companies I've worked at in the past too. One specifically outsourced all of their development because it was deemed to be cheaper (which it was), but after a few years without any i
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by kypro 3y ago
That's exactly the same for me. I use my inner voice when I'm reading or trying to construct sentences, but I don't think in sentences. I have to convert my thoughts to words so I'm an extremely slow and clumsy talker. I
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by kypro 3y ago
While I don't think it's the best shopping experience on the web, I've also never understood those who have claimed it's awful in recent years. I'd be interested in what it is specifically that you don't like?
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by kypro 3y ago
From your link: > It would be absurd to suggest that women’s votes will be taken away or that this would solve the political problems that vex us. While I don’t think any class of people should be disenfranchised, I have little hope that
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by kypro 3y ago
> The quality of your average tech worked has completely nosedived in the last 10-15 years. It's definitely got worse over the last ~10 years, but the pandemic era hiring from 2020-2021 took it to new level of bad at many companies.
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by kypro 3y ago
I can only speak for the UK, but the tech market is very different here. We don't really have large tech companies like in the US. Most tech work in the UK is in sectors like finance, retail, or public sector. While our economy isn&#x2
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by kypro 3y ago
Is the startup profitable? Honestly I don't think the real pain has even begun yet for unprofitable startups... From what I've seen many of them are running on borrowed time from investment rounds that happened in 2020-2021. There
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by kypro 3y ago
I'm seeing so many people doing this at the moment. "Maybe you need to reskill". "You need to work on your interview skills". "You're not applying to the right positions". Etc... You can't know w
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by kypro 3y ago
It's interesting that you think this is lower risk. Maybe that's a US thing? Typically employees are harder to cut than simply choosing not to extend contracts with consultants.
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by kypro 3y ago
> IT salaries are high mostly because the people who can do the job well can also do other jobs well True to some extent, but IT salaries are high in my opinion because until recently there was a very limited tech talent pool but huge de
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by kypro 3y ago
Fairly easily... We could do a lot of this now if we wanted. Lie detectors can kinda be used to know what someone is thinking, but requires cooperation since the subject still needs to say whether something is false / truthful. If we c
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by kypro 3y ago
What I think you'll see happen over the next 1-2 years is that as some jobs return to office the WFH roles will attract more talent, but also be lower compensated on average since some people are happy to take say a 10-20% for a fully
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by kypro 3y ago
That's a sizeable cut... So much for those hoping the tech job market would recover in 2024. So far this year we've already had another couple thousand back in the job market – a market that expanded by just 700 jobs in 2023.
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by kypro 3y ago
If you don't know how a certain algorithm works at a high level you can ask ChatGPT to explain it. For example, if you not sure what OAuth is or how to implement it that would probably be something ChatGPT could explain to you and if t
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by kypro 3y ago
It dropped 95% just last year... https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/27/samsung-earnings-q1-2023.htm...
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by kypro 3y ago
Looks like they're all unsuspended now, https://twitter.com/stevanzetti Was Elon just messing with them, or was it perhaps as I suggested and just a mistake? Will you reconsider, or are you unable to accept this as a p
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by kypro 3y ago
I would give it at least 24 hours to see if these suspensions are legit. My understanding is that X does still suspend where they detect spam, illegal activity, etc. It's possible these accounts were all linked to something that got fl
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by kypro 3y ago
The good jobs are there. And if you have a good job you can live in a nice neighbourhood that doesn't have to worry about this stuff while benefiting from all the cheap labour that comes from having lots of poor people around – cheap r
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by kypro 3y ago
This has far less to do with an AI bubble and far more to do with the fact the US has a lot of very high margin, relatively high growth international businesses. These companies are richly valued primarily because they make massive sums of
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by kypro 3y ago
Yeah exactly. When people cite the benefits of mass immigration, eg, "where are all the nurses going to come from it we don't import workers?". I'd argue what they're actually saying here is, "if we don't
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by kypro 3y ago
> Larson argues convincingly that current AI (i included LLMs because are still induction and statistics based), despite their impressive capabilities, represent a kind of technological dead end in our quest for AGI. The idea that intell
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by kypro 3y ago
Something I advocate for in the UK is that we should actively suppress wages of industries like healthcare and agricultural with cheap foreign labour, while providing access to good and affordable education so that native workers maximally
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by kypro 3y ago
> Any basic macroeconomics class covers the effects of protectionism. Yes, in the short term wages may be artificially propped up, industries may be (temporarily) saved, but you do long-term damage to the economy, and the people are bett
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by kypro 3y ago
18 years ago I was 15 and I worked on my first startup with a friend before I was even able to code. We hosted the website on the spare computer in my bedroom and within a few months had our first pay customer and we continued to grow it fr
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by kypro 3y ago
The UK has been doing the same thing and has exactly the same problems.

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