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by paulcole 1y ago
> Much like fighting climate change, placing all the responsibility on the end user without changing some of the social conditions is a flawed approach, even if there are some things individuals can do to help Who is changing some of the
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by paulcole 1y ago
> I'm also fascinated by the reaction that I must be fattie fat man who wants to make excuses and wait for others to fix my problem because I questioned whether mental fortitude is enough Why is this fascinating when you both offer
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by paulcole 1y ago
> No, it is not more fun to go through live believing you have enough mental fortitude only to have context tap you on the shoulder the moment you take that first step. It is also possible to have enough mental fortitude to read beyond t
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by paulcole 1y ago
Isn’t it just a more fun way to go through life to believe that you do have enough mental fortitude, discipline, self-honesty, commitment to change, and persistence to be healthy? I just don’t get the appeal of throwing my hands up and go
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by paulcole 1y ago
What do you mean “hasn’t prepared for them”? Isn’t just living and thinking preparing for questions like this? They’re not that hard.
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by paulcole 1y ago
> > LTV is about $250 per user. How stable is this number? If it's still trending up, I wouldn't make any drastic changes.
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by paulcole 1y ago
> What is also useful to keep in mind is the tendency to recreate your primary family life in the workplace Is this research based or one of the things you believe to be true?
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by paulcole 1y ago
This is one of the very best examples of a situation where you can exercise and improve your ability to just let it go and move on with your life.
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by paulcole 1y ago
> The time has come for llm users to put up or shut up - if it’s so great, stop telling us and show and use the code it generated on its own. Why would we do this? Wouldn’t it be better to do this silently and reap the benefits?
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by paulcole 1y ago
Yeah sorry I should’ve been more clear. My absolute preference for Google replacement is Perplexity. Sometimes I’ll use ChatGPT just because I have the app open or a tab open or something and find that it’s OK enough. I have paid versions o
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by paulcole 1y ago
Get the attention of a small business (30 people or fewer) and offer to contract. Look into the process and use Deel — explain to them how to do it. This will make it easy for them to pay you in USD. Explain that the cost to them will be ro
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by paulcole 1y ago
What does “enshittification” mean?
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by paulcole 1y ago
There’s an article?
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by paulcole 1y ago
Just curious, did you put yourself in the superfluous category either time?
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by paulcole 1y ago
Love it. We’ve reached the no-true-scotsman part of the vibe coding hype speedrun.
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by paulcole 1y ago
I’ve essentially stopped using Google in favor of ChatGPT and Perplexity. It’s just excellent for answering simple questions without me having to click or search on some random webpage.
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by paulcole 1y ago
Yes, but I don't see how this is a useful insight at all. People keep all sorts of things to themselves unless asked and even when asked.
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by paulcole 1y ago
I'm not concerned at all about the long-term future. 1. On the whole the world gets better over time not worse, despite what people like to believe. At some point this may cease to be true but I am unwilling and possibly unable to infl
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by paulcole 1y ago
I don't understand this comment. He literally did tell a person this. > I discovered that his portfolio was worth more than $4M and I asked him why he was working at IBM if he was "rich". His answer was that he enjoyed wor
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by paulcole 1y ago
> If you're a curious person with average or better intelligence, working is much more preferable to being bored. If you're a curious person with average or better intelligence you'll never be bored.
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by paulcole 1y ago
Huh? Isn't that what the IBM guy in your original story was doing?
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by paulcole 1y ago
> What if there was something wonderful and curious that you could explore and someone else would actually pay you money while you were exploring that thing? The latter part of this is irrelevant if you’re rich. I have no issue with some
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by paulcole 1y ago
Huh?
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by paulcole 1y ago
If someone in the US is 3x the price does the company in question have cash flow for 5 years of advance tax payments?
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by paulcole 1y ago
I live near Ladds Addition and the free piles are the worst. 90% of it is pure crap that just sits out for weeks. People put it out to feel good about themselves. Once I saw a bunch of random wires with a label, “FREE - great for art projec
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by paulcole 1y ago
> Why Did It Make Me Feel So Terrible? Because you get too wrapped up in things that don’t really matter at all?
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by paulcole 1y ago
Was all that code written by LLMs?
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by paulcole 1y ago
> but trying to get it to generate code that I am willing to maintain and "put my name on" took longer than writing the code would have Why don’t you consider that the AI will be the one maintaining it?
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by paulcole 1y ago
It’s a Steve-Jobs-core thing. Like calling something beautiful.
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by paulcole 1y ago
What’s been your experience working as a plumber, electrician or in construction?

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