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by parpfish 2y ago
I have a similar view and am skeptical of bootcamp claims that they can get anybody a job with X weeks of training. I'm reminded of the ending of Ratatouille when the critic figures out that the motto "Anyone can cook" means
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by parpfish 2y ago
My rural community has a solar farm going in, and it is not going over well. Lots of NIMBYs that “did their own research” to conclude that solar is actually bad for the environment or uneconomical or whatever. But the real reason for thei
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by parpfish 2y ago
“Music” or just “pleasant background noise”
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by parpfish 2y ago
Unfortunately in grad school I noticed a lot of cargoculting bad presentations. People would copy people that were good scientists but bad presenters because “that’s what good scientists are doing”. Related: there’s a worry that if you make
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by parpfish 2y ago
practicing talks is great at highlighting two things: - helping you come up with natural, smooth segues between slides/ideas - making it clear if there’s any missing background/detail you need to add or reorder slides. One of the
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by parpfish 2y ago
Cambrian explosion implies that there’s a huge variety of different creatures out there, but I suspect those bots are all just wrappers around OpenAI/anthropic models. This is more like the rise of Cyanobacteria as a single early domin
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by parpfish 2y ago
Agreed. They may as well start calling the persuasive five paragraph essays we learned in school “brainwashing”. I think people just get freaked out when they remember that the psychological processes that make up their inner life have biop
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by parpfish 2y ago
i've never understood why free will fits into discussions about deterministic vs random universes. in either situation, there isn't room for free will -- if things are deterministic your decisions are made by the state of the worl
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by parpfish 2y ago
a related thing i've thought about: imagine that there was an AI that could generate infinite funny cat gifs. do you still like the gifs as much knowing that the cats are real? is it any different from people posting staged videos and
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by parpfish 2y ago
if i heard an AI ballad about heartbreak or a punk anthem about injustice, my response would be "what the fuck do you know about it?" some music can be passively listened to and is built with consumption in mind (e.g., background
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by parpfish 2y ago
I don’t judge the quality of the work based on the weather the creator was a “good person”, but rather that there’s a person at all
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by parpfish 2y ago
))<>((
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by parpfish 2y ago
i was having a discussion the otehr day about how even if AIs could create movies/albums/tv shows, I don't think I'd be interested. it wasn't obvious to me until I started thinking about AI art, but so much of the v
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by parpfish 2y ago
one of my proposals for partially fixing burnout would be to allow devs to take unpaid sabbaticals. if i could have taken 6-9mo away from my job to do my "meaningful work" and then come back, i would've much preferred that to
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by parpfish 2y ago
ideally you'd be able to doing that without a change of roles/titles and management would be able to rotate teams into different types of work periodically
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by parpfish 2y ago
there is also the user expereience of feeling like you've been rejected at scale . you're used to getting rejections from applications you send out, but getting a rejection (or even just being slow at getting an offer) makes it f
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by parpfish 2y ago
re point 1: whenever i looked at triplebyte, i didn't see a lot of companies/positions that i was interested in so I wouldn't get the benefit of removing the redundancy of interview at each. maybe they had a bunch of roles i&
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by parpfish 2y ago
i think being allowed to pivot into maintenance mode occasionally would help with burnout. being able to sit back and do a job that's a bit more tedious and focused on routine would be a nice complement to always sprinting to make some
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by parpfish 2y ago
when i got burnt out, i left for a low-pay high-meaning tech job at a nonprofit. it made things so much worse because it turns out that when you go to a low-paying job the quality of the org and coworker talent drops a LOT. this lead to a h
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by parpfish 2y ago
when i'm feeling down about the meaninglessness of my company/work, i try to find small wins wherever i can. someday you'll be stuck untangling a giant muddy ball of legacy code to help a company solve a problem that you don&
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by parpfish 2y ago
I don’t know how you can be a well adjusted adult unless somebody instills some discipline
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by parpfish 2y ago
I always cringe when people try to apply this take to something like Downs. It’s always a bunch of pandering about how they are happy and have a childlike sense of wonder
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by parpfish 2y ago
Isn’t almost everything we teach kids some form of “breaking their spirit”? The first several years of schooling are really just teaching them to sit still, listen, and do a bunch of work you hate instead of playing. That’s breaking their s
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by parpfish 2y ago
i started struggling with this years ago with the scale up of face recognition software. nobody thought there was a problem when you stuck up a wanted posted and asked a community 'do you know who this is'? but if you stick that p
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by parpfish 2y ago
not sure how converting a WHERE to a JOIN helps when you're doing adhoc queries like this to look up records: `SELECT * FROM users WHERE email LIKE 'FirstName@domain.net'`
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by parpfish 2y ago
That helps part of it, but there are still places for problems to pop up. - you need to do an adhoc query to look something up so you have to type in the key in a where clause - Or you used different sanitation methods in two different data
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by parpfish 2y ago
When I first saw a rewind demo my initial reaction was “good lord, don’t install that on my computer” I was shocked to see people excited by it
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by parpfish 2y ago
There another reason not mentioned — if your key is something like a UUID, it’s very easy to define the logic for joining and filtering based on that key. If you were using some sort of string like an email address or username, you have to
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by parpfish 2y ago
Or when you click the little eye icon to show you a password when you’re typing it in or looking at it in your password manager
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by parpfish 2y ago
Curious what the folks at RewindAI think about this debacle of a product.

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