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by madrox 5mo ago
You, too, can do these things. I welcome you to. I will be happy to say I am wrong. Unions have real potential for creating change. I personally have no interest in joining a union for other reasons, but I am not opposed to them either. But
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by madrox 5mo ago
If you think it's so doable, I welcome you to do it. I will be happy to say I am wrong if you pull it off. However, if congress has not even banned a seven day work week I don't see how they will reduce it to four because, of all
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by madrox 5mo ago
This is a great question and I encourage you to learn the history of it, because it's fascinating. It’s rooted in labor movements and industrialization.
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by madrox 5mo ago
Unless you are exempt. Guess what profession tends to be considered exempt? If you are a SWE, you don't get paid overtime for working that incident on the weekend or going over 40 hours in a week. The only reason you work five days a w
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by madrox 5mo ago
Amusingly, there is literally not even a 7 day work week ban for companies in the US. You can require employees work every day. Employers are just required to pay employees overtime under various conditions beyond 40 hours / five days
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by madrox 5mo ago
Have you not seen people who work longer and harder get more promotions? That has been my experience.
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by madrox 5mo ago
Interestingly, software engineers are usually considered exempt in the US, meaning they can be required to work more than 40 hours a week without overtime pay if employers choose to. Unless you're imagining congress do something. I wan
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by madrox 5mo ago
The four day work week is a prisoner's dilemma. If everyone did it, then we'd all get a payoff, but if someone defects to a longer work week they tend to get ahead at work. Thus we all do it and thus we all lose. It's funny h
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by madrox 5mo ago
It's difficult to put my finger on it, but there is something about Google's AI UX that I deeply dislike. It has nothing to do with the quality of the response, which seems fine, but... The header and input bars are too big. The m
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by madrox 5mo ago
This really doesn't capture the core element of early 2000s LAN parties. You spent hours debugging basic networking issues. There was that one guy who was less interested in gaming than convincing you to use his DHCP server on his Open
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by madrox 5mo ago
During COVID, I was working on an esports startup site that was a mix of social media karma + betting. The idea was you had more karma and your posts got more reach the more right you were. We experimented with extending this to non-esports
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by madrox 5mo ago
For better or worse, I think the future has to be showing warnings on images with no C2PA-like watermarking like we do for insecure web sites. Media can be signed by authors. If the Associated Press sign an image, I can feel more confidence
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by madrox 5mo ago
I don't say this in a "what a brilliant tactician he is" sense. I think AI in general caught him off guard and he was upset they didn't let him run OpenAI. I'm sure his lawyers told him he wasn't likely to win,
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by madrox 5mo ago
It seems like the real sour grapes are over the fact they wouldn't let him run OpenAI. If he cared about a payday, ironically, he probably would have had more success because he would have brought this suit sooner.
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by madrox 5mo ago
I think this depends on point of view. I do think much of this comes down to sour grapes that they didn't let Elon control OpenAI, and this is the wedge he chose to retaliate. Would he have sour grapes if he didn't want to win the
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by madrox 5mo ago
I wonder if Elon ever expected to win, or even cared about winning. It's been obvious for a while that OpenAI becoming for-profit historically wasn't really an issue for him, despite what he says in public these days. I imagine th
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by madrox 5mo ago
ABC is a strange place. I'll never forget working at Disney around 2008ish and attending a meeting with an ABC exec. They said to my boss, "I know you don't want to believe this because you're so close to it, but the int
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by madrox 5mo ago
I saw this first hand at a company, and I think this is what happens when you combine FOMO with an utter lack of industry best practices. No one knows where they are going, but are convinced they are not getting there fast enough. What&#x27
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by madrox 5mo ago
I would argue the last 20 years of app development is what made people dumb. During the "don't make me think" era of software design, if you wanted to make software you got really good at identifying the use case and using de
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by madrox 5mo ago
I find it odd that the negative posts the author deputizes are pretty downvoted. The Reddit thread in particular has the reply calling the commenter out having significantly more upvotes. The twitter post in the screenshot has no engagement
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by madrox 5mo ago
My point is that maybe tourism is a nightmare, but it drives a lot of the economy...something Louisiana can't take for granted. Every king cake I've ever had was in Shreveport, but you and I both know tourists won't be flying
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by madrox 5mo ago
This is difficult to determine given how they implement. I would liken them to a professional services organization, where most of the magic is in their implementation for you, and you have to presume their implementation includes a lot of
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by madrox 5mo ago
I supervised a Sierra rollout a while back. Their performance was impressive and the price was great. I suspect both will not be true in time. Their implementation is rather cumbersome, requiring implementation fees and AI configuration tha
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by madrox 5mo ago
My roots are in Louisiana, and this makes me incredibly sad. It is such a unique place that has no like, and drives all tourism in the state. Where will tourists celebrate Mardi Gras after it's gone? Baton Rouge? Sadder, still, to know
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by madrox 6mo ago
We already have a centrally curated trust model in https. Browsers only treat connections as "secure" if they chain up to a root CA in their trust store. You can operate outside that system, but users will see warnings and frictio
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by madrox 6mo ago
The comments that aren't directly discussing the technical achievement here are bemoaning the destruction to society that AI generated images can cause, which is a fair criticism. I'm genuinely curious what you think the greater h
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by madrox 6mo ago
You're implying social platforms aren't bad actors ;) In seriousness, social platforms attributing images properly is a whole frontier we haven't even begun to explore, but we need to get there.
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by madrox 6mo ago
When I was in AP classes in high school, you were required to have a TI-89 calculator. If you couldn't afford one, there were assistance programs. You were not allowed to use a TI-92, which was the next step up. It had built-in solvers
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by madrox 6mo ago
I remember a TI-89 being mandatory for my AP math classes (calculus and statistics). It was utterly essential for solving problems in a reasonable amount of time. There were programs available to assist families who couldn't afford one
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by madrox 6mo ago
This seems like a great time to mention C2PA, a specification for positively affirming image sources. OpenAI participates in this, and if I load an image I had AI generate in a C2PA Viewer it shows ChatGPT as the source. Bad actors can stri

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