matrix87

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by matrix87 5mo ago
> management clearly have no idea how to tell which people are actually working they probably do, it's just a matter of incentives, i.e. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his no
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by matrix87 5mo ago
I think it increases the amount of enjoyment, there's less semantic language specific stuff to deal with and you can spend more time on the core task. I think from my perspective at least, claude code / codex + improved informatio
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by matrix87 5mo ago
I don't think it's purposeful from a company leadership perspective. Imo what I've seen happen is it's just empire building. Say you're a billionaire CEO and you have a bunch of money to spend on accomplishing some
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by matrix87 5mo ago
I think the point is to push people out primarily. This gives them a narrative for doing that by asking for something which isn't doable. Then middle management applies the expectation unevenly to people below them based off of politic
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by matrix87 5mo ago
I feel the exact same way, it helps speed up development a lot (and eliminates a lot of really annoying grunt work). But I see people I work with doing shit with it that doesn't make any sense, e.g. writing 50k lines of code for a &quo
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by matrix87 5mo ago
you can use AI to get a faster explanation for what's happening in a big codebase, it makes the timelines on developing features much lower from my experience am I losing out on something by not having to spend hours clicking through r
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by matrix87 5mo ago
> when ambiguous, assume intent is malicious, ignorant, or amoral. If you're in a toxic environment, this is what it's like . It's a culture problem, not an individual problem. Here are some examples, going to get anecdot
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by matrix87 10mo ago
I remember back in the 2000s - 2012ish it used to actually mean something, if someone had autism then they were actually disabled and it was obvious. 90% of the "conversation" around autism today is a bunch of handwavey bullshit.
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by matrix87 1y ago
Pixels usually offer better black friday deals, you can get 100-200 off (at least when I got my 8)
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by matrix87 1y ago
> but my USB-C port is failing I'm having the same issue with my pixel 8 (along with the screen randomly turning green out of nowhere, so I have to "ground" the display to get it to work again) In general the 8 feels a lot
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by matrix87 1y ago
The US is just one giant corporate playground that companies force people to move to for the regulatory climate. It isn't meant for raising a family. People will either be transplants or neo-feudal serfs working in kitchens. The whole
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by matrix87 1y ago
> unless by "democratic" you mean the literal Greek etymology of the word So like, what it says in the dictionary? As in, I'm using the word as it's actually defined? Is conveniently redefining words to fit your argum
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by matrix87 1y ago
> An alternative interpretation, which we advance in this analysis, is that populism enables the expression (and execution) of authoritarian impulses within a democratic system. If this interpretation holds, then merely addressing econom
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by matrix87 1y ago
> What if the choice of the majority of the people is anti-democratic? Isn't the majority choice a priori democratic? Unless you're saying the majority is saying "let's throw away voting and go back to monarchy".
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by matrix87 1y ago
> All this to say I’m awfully scared now of the risk of my interactions with women being used in the future as a false narrative to cancel me. Maybe just keep a war chest and slam them with a bunch of lawsuits if they get annoying. Or at
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by matrix87 1y ago
I'm convinced there's no way around this mob-like behavior. So much of our standing in society depends on things where there is no due process The only way around this is to just keep stuff compartmentalized (work vs non-work, soc
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by matrix87 1y ago
there is no due process in most situations, courts are the exception and not the rule the only fix I can think of is having a "don't shit where you eat" attitude and just keeping everything cleanly compartmentalized
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by matrix87 1y ago
I wonder at what point people decide marriage isn't worth it and the increase in risk (because of no fault and annoying cultural climate) is priced in I'm already there personally, it just looks like a rip off
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by matrix87 1y ago
> Also it is still so surreal to me to see prestigious publications like the New Yorker talking about 4chan They have to acknowledge the internet, even if it's more plebian in nature, because that's where shit happens now. Th
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How Did Two Elite Students Fall for the Zizians Cult?(thecut.com)
5 points by matrix87 1y ago|2 comments
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by matrix87 1y ago
Why is it always a googler writing these articles? Okay, you got laid off, but it's news because the company was google?
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by matrix87 2y ago
> Most thinkers and ideologues that represent what is rotten in modern society have to thank Hegel. You just need to jump through a few more hoops to get to the self-consciousness and then you'll see, it all makes sense in hindsight
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by matrix87 2y ago
"Moreover, when this non-conceptual, substantial knowledge professes to have sunk the idiosyncrasy of the self in essential being, and to philosophize in a true and holy manner, it hides the truth from itself: by spurning measure and
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by matrix87 2y ago
> The average philosopher has zero incentive for constructing grand theories I mean, considering Hegel's grand theory indirectly lead to the deaths of tens of millions in the 20th century, maybe that's not a bad thing?
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by matrix87 2y ago
> The academics believe the music helps swamp the brain’s ability to present counter-arguments, making the message more persuasive to the listener. Deploying strong narratives to accompany a particular message, including characters and r
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by matrix87 2y ago
I feel like these calls to unionize aren't trying to improve working conditions for tech workers, they're just trying to find ways to politically capture tech companies That's why, you know, most of the people who call to uni
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by matrix87 2y ago
You can't really use statistics to determine for me what's an issue to me. It's pretty subjective. That's not reactionaryism, that's me as a voter doing a cost benefit analysis. Which frankly is the only rational wa
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by matrix87 2y ago
> What are your solutions to these issues? I don't see issues, I see "issues". What people have done to solve them is a bigger issue for me than what they're trying to solve. E.g. affirmative action, another cute euph
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by matrix87 2y ago
Oh I should've said "ideologues" instead of "ideologes". Namely, the people who keep hammering this shit in newspapers But to address your points > human rights of LGBT people Most of the contention here is aroun
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by matrix87 2y ago
> At the end of the day I expect the quality of discourse to dip I expect it to stay exactly the same It was already like this before, it's just afaik the pillars weren't publicly acknowledged What were the previous pillars? So

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