phyzix5761

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by phyzix5761 2mo ago
Yeah, I currently live in one of those countries where businesses only post on facebook. I do fine without it. If I need something I google it and it shows up on google maps. I only see what I want to see instead of being inundated with unw
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by phyzix5761 2mo ago
As someone who doesn't use social media please explain. Is it not possible for people to just delete the apps and stop using them? Is the addiction so strong at this point that people don't have the willpower to stop?
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by phyzix5761 2mo ago
Debit card usage is also used for data brokering.
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by phyzix5761 2mo ago
Large companies provide people with jobs and fund many suppliers with their transactions/operations. Walmart and Amazon are the two biggest employers in the US.
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by phyzix5761 2mo ago
I'm still waiting to see how LLMs have made the world a better place because it honestly feels like its done the opposite.
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by phyzix5761 2mo ago
When code gets complex its much harder to treat each request as greenfield. You would need to rebuild dozens of features into the new page every time.
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by phyzix5761 2mo ago
They're opitimizing for high token usage so they can charge more money.
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by phyzix5761 2mo ago
Keystroke dynamics are a type of behavioral biometric identification system.
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by phyzix5761 2mo ago
FaceMash is a very primitive example of mass surveillance and data gathering: use people's pictures without their consent, collect the social rankings in a database somewhere.
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by phyzix5761 2mo ago
I hope people can see Meta is funding the other side in order to get Child Safety laws passed so they can have an out when children use their parent's device and Meta spies on them. Child Safety laws are just mass surveillance in disgu
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by phyzix5761 2mo ago
Software will get slower as we do things beyond the current hardware capabilities which is always the case as hardware improves.
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by phyzix5761 2mo ago
The separation of teams happened before the BFF pattern came into existence so all frontend engineers became specialists in frameworks like React. Unless you can do it with React, FE's won't touch a BFF or anything else for that m
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by phyzix5761 2mo ago
People choose to believe what they desire and all desire eventually leads to disappointment and dissatisfaction. So, no, even if you could choose to convince yourself of whatever you want you're still not going to be happy. Also, peopl
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by phyzix5761 2mo ago
I've learned that the more intelligent you are the more models you know and the more trust you place in them being actual reality vs just being models. This leads to overconfidence in things being a certain way so when life calls for f
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by phyzix5761 2mo ago
Once backend and frontend became two separate teams frontend people didn't want to keep asking backend to make logic changes for state, so frontend took things into their own hands. The mistake was making it two separate teams.
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by phyzix5761 2mo ago
And? I'm talking about all the other things encompassing AI and Machine Learning.
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by phyzix5761 2mo ago
AI is great. AI is a huge field encompassing many things that are not LLMs.
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by phyzix5761 2mo ago
This was at the tail end of Covid where a lot of in-person workers were out of a job.
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by phyzix5761 2mo ago
Have some compassion man. Hindsight is 20/20. I'm sure when we're both old, people are gonna call us out for things we should have done that would have prevented the world from becoming X, Y, or Z. At the end of the day most
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by phyzix5761 2mo ago
All they have to do is create a new child company with the same tech (new name new trust) and give the glasses away for free if capturing the data is more valuable than the hardware sales. People don't have the time or energy to resear
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by phyzix5761 2mo ago
People are morally complex than that. Lots of people have no idea what they're invested in and many people work for companies like Meta and Amazon because they have no other work options.
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by phyzix5761 2mo ago
A lot of people's retirement accounts have Meta in their portfolio and they employ around 80k people. Maybe something better we can hope for is a change in management. A new CEO for sure.
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by phyzix5761 2mo ago
Its even less than that. Elon Musk's $900 billion net worth would only give each American a one time payment of $2647. Jeff Bezos' $270 billion net worth would only provide each of us $794.
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by phyzix5761 2mo ago
If you can afford $10 an hour you can have "people" too by that definition.
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by phyzix5761 2mo ago
What net worth threshold do you consider wealthy?
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by phyzix5761 2mo ago
Its important to know that McDonalds in other countries still schedules 10+ workers at a time. The wages are just too expensive in the US to justify that kind of schedule but in countries like the Philippines, where the average livable wage
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by phyzix5761 2mo ago
You could do that as well with lisp by passing around lambdas to functions but that adds unnecessary syntax.
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by phyzix5761 2mo ago
Hundreds of developers? Have you ever written professional software? There is no way a coordinated effort across hundreds of engineers is going to be efficient enough to do a port like this. Also, with most legacy software you can't po
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by phyzix5761 2mo ago
So every city you travel to you need to look up the baseline location? I'd rather houses and streets have numbers so I can determine how to get there just by looking at street signs.
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by phyzix5761 2mo ago
GDPR popups remind me of the spam popups of the 90s.

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