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by picafrost 1y ago
To be honest, I have never understood the TODO "industry." Do people really have so many things to do, and is it really that difficult to keep track of them all? I do not know if it's just me but I feel completely alienated b
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by picafrost 1y ago
My organization isn't a pure tech company so not much has changed. Management acknowledges AI's velocity but maintains a healthy skepticism of throwing "AI" into everything as a panacea. Writing the code has rarely been
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by picafrost 1y ago
Claiming that we shouldn't accept bait and switch as normal is denying the fundamental reality of the "hypergrowth" SaaS business model. The beatings will _always_ continue until the bottom-line improves. Price transparency f
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by picafrost 1y ago
Nobody will remember the extra hours you put in except your family and friends.
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by picafrost 1y ago
This makes me wonder if AI usage will end up part of job position listings, similar to remote days, if it is not already. How much AI agent will you be able to use/be subjected to? Are people looking for this already when job searching
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by picafrost 1y ago
Sit on the other side of the hiring process and observe the impact of your hiring decisions enough times and you'll see why. I don't care (that much) about your projects because they don't tell me if you'll drop into my
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by picafrost 2y ago
It's true that Europe has its own problems. There are problems everywhere, at every level, from small towns to continents to the planet as a whole. This post is about the erratic actions of the current US administration. My comment is
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by picafrost 2y ago
Very sad to see what is happening to the US. Sadder still to see it celebrated and defended by a large portion of the country. From over here in Europe, the apparent lack of accountability in the US right now is unbelievable. Where are the
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by picafrost 2y ago
Great news and best of luck during this period of high tensions.
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by picafrost 2y ago
I agree. Artists wonder why more people don't express themselves with art. Writers wonder why more people don't let it all out with words. Car mechanics wonder why people don't fix their own cars. It's not surprising tha
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by picafrost 2y ago
I have only anecdotal data from non-technical friends and family. I’m referring to average people who may not be average users because they’re barely using LLMs in the first place, if at all. They have maybe tried ChatGPT a few times to g
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by picafrost 2y ago
Do users pay for LLMs? I haven't seen much concrete data indicating that they do. I don't think the casual utility gains of LLMs have gotten average people so much value that they're paying $20/mo+ for it. Certainly not
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by picafrost 2y ago
Unfortunately I think it's just statistics killing browser diversity, not conspiracy or collusion. The math doesn't care about our freedom of choice. Tech savvy users making alternative choices on their web experience are an extre
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by picafrost 2y ago
I am reminded of a brief quip in Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age where a character comments on remembering a time before "AI" had been correctly rebranded to "PI": pseudo-intelligence. The valuation-perception-dri
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by picafrost 2y ago
I highly recommend "It's Quieter in the Twilight" (2022), a documentary about the team maintaining these spacecraft as the end of their mission draws nearer. It adds a tremendous amount of context to articles like this. The e
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by picafrost 2y ago
Ukraine probably does not. Is Russia willing to risk the possibility of US/EU troops ending up on the other side of the trenches? Probably we’ll never know now, and maybe that’s better. But is it better that Russia knows maybe three ye
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by picafrost 2y ago
It’s a war of attrition now, which is a war of will and logistics. Can anything be done differently? I don’t know, but I don’t think so. Isn’t victory under these circumstances making the war so costly that your opponent must find a way out
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by picafrost 2y ago
The US funded wars in Afghanistan and Iraq for 20 years with no idea what the next move was, no tangible end in sight, and stakes far lower. The so-called threat of weapons of mass destruction was enough to swiftly defeat Iraq's army,
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by picafrost 2y ago
As one platform chases profits and loses its soul, another resurrects to welcome the nostalgic refugees. The eternal cycle of digital migration continues.
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by picafrost 2y ago
I find it utterly bizarre that some Americans seem to be under the delusion that the US ceasing its military support for Ukraine will somehow save lives. It is the same kind of delusion that causes President Trump to list off the US preside
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The Collective Power of Ants(nautil.us)
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by picafrost 2y ago
Recently I've been asking myself, what do web browsers and the web look like in twenty years? I've been applying this to all "free" software (e.g., VSCode) released by the large tech companies who ultimately are incentiv
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Friday Squid Blogging (2006)(schneier.com)
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by picafrost 2y ago
> It should be done in secret? No? > How did they manage to create CERN? I have no clue. It appears that was 70 years ago. > maybe there was no reddit like people commenting back then? Huh? The EU is often criticized for its lack o
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by picafrost 2y ago
This is classic EU. An announcement of an effort to collect collaborators to discuss doing something that they might do in the future.
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by picafrost 2y ago
I've been using vim for 20+ years and it's been fantastically stable software for me. I have never cared about what version I am using because I've never needed to. An exception to this is that I'm now accustomed to usin
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by picafrost 2y ago
BBC's 'Mammals' [0] spends a portion of one of its episodes discussing the plight of howler monkeys in Costa Rica. [1] These monkeys die frequently to electrocution as urbanization continues. The power lines look like reasona
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by picafrost 2y ago
Energy companies are reporting that the cost situation for renewables is terrible. The thin margins continue to get thinner. They cannot justify pursuing new green projects to shareholders. We will hear a lot more about carbon capture in th
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by picafrost 2y ago
So much of our life is consumed by work. Seeing your lifespan laid bare like this, there's a perverse instinct to optimize what remains. Have to be more productive, more efficient. But it's a bit like seeing you're bleeding o
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by picafrost 2y ago
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