skeeter2020

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by skeeter2020 3mo ago
>> I took the pay and bought the computer This was such a common experience for devs in these days! Even very experienced devs like Andy Hertzfeld talk about building software in exchange for hardware. We would have just spent the mon
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by skeeter2020 3mo ago
not when by your own rules it's legally ruled "not theft".
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by skeeter2020 3mo ago
thye could describe in detail how the LLM did this. That would explain how much - if any - human in the loop was involved, was it comprimised credentials, did it find new exploits or use known ones, etc. Evidence would mean details, not a s
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by skeeter2020 3mo ago
ChatGPT is way above typical CPM, maybe $60-$100. That puts it in the same category as premium YT verticals. If they can sell enough at this price point it would make a big impact, but I'm super-doubtful they can do that; campaigns are
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by skeeter2020 3mo ago
ChatGPT ads are sold as being super-well positioned based on the detailed context of the chat session but I have seen very little evidence of this, or perhaps their ad inventory is so small they can't find anything relevant to display
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by skeeter2020 3mo ago
that doesn't feel tone deaf to me, and is a legit strategy to kick-start deeper happiness and satisfaction. I a huge component of money-related unhappiness to me appears to be context, i.e. people who need more.
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by skeeter2020 3mo ago
It's funny when popular blog writers get criticised for turning blog posts into books (usually while leaving the original posts accessible) when I feel this is way more honest than doing exactly what you say. Resilient Management by La
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by skeeter2020 3mo ago
Relational DBs have been around a very long time, and I suspect the processing/transfer time was not the bottleneck, while data access was, so redundant data with the standard relational model wasn't the primary concern.
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by skeeter2020 3mo ago
maybe this is a good thing though, where someone with a huge, legitimate contribution and legacy gets to cash in on their status, vs. the typical influencer.
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by skeeter2020 3mo ago
true - my first reaction was this seems like a weird milestone, as people like Vint Cerf don't really retire and stop, just change how & where they contribute. This seems like a nothing story pushed by TC and Google PR, more than a
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by skeeter2020 3mo ago
we're going to need a lot of very tiny syringes and band-aids!
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by skeeter2020 3mo ago
No doubt there's great programmers with philosophy backgrounds, just like I've worked with many from chemistry, physics and music. The conversation here though, is a bunch of pompous arguing over minutiae and correctness, trying t
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by skeeter2020 3mo ago
Russ: "Anyway, next thing you know, we IPO, stock triples in a day and AOL gobbles us up. All of a sudden, I'm 22 years young and I'm worth 1.2 billion. Now a couple decades later, I'm worth 1.4. You do the math." R
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by skeeter2020 3mo ago
>> 150M at 5B revenue is not great: that's 3% margin! and yet everybody - including Microsoft - is in a big rush to sell us AI services, which could look an awful lot like a historical utility business. 3% will be a dream return
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by skeeter2020 3mo ago
>> receive 2–5 support tickets per week. I read every one of them. I don't think reading 5 tickets a week is the flex you think it is. Now if you responded with lettermail to every one, that would be impressive.
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by skeeter2020 3mo ago
We have a larger family and Costco combined with access to a decent grocery store that's within walking distance is great: get deals on larger quantity staples and milk, eggs and bread several times a week.
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by skeeter2020 3mo ago
Walmart does this too, and it's one of the worst experiences/value-propositions I've ever experienced. It might be better in the US but in Canada it's expensive, poor quality and painful: pick three.
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by skeeter2020 3mo ago
What about the price-quality aspect? Costco blows Amazon away here IME. Plus there's the fact that someone can become an employee of Costco out of high school and spend their entire career there, with decent wages and benefits. That&#x
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by skeeter2020 3mo ago
so Step 1: Be Bobby Fischer? super helpful for us mortals...
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by skeeter2020 3mo ago
except that was never used against the powerful and wealthy, just the same poor who pay the price today.
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by skeeter2020 3mo ago
Maybe - or is this closer to the naked theft we saw out of the collapse of the Soviet Union? That's still playing out...
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by skeeter2020 3mo ago
I'm not typically a fan of government intervention in markets but Canada's marketing boards do stop this sort of concentration, so while we have higher average prices we do not get massive swings in prices, nor the physical condit
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by skeeter2020 3mo ago
I first read this in 2001 on an outhouse door while treking in Tasmania: ODE TO THE WOMBAT As you pound along the track Eyes wide open and ears pinned back You may have noticed those queer square turds And thought, if not expressed in words
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by skeeter2020 3mo ago
almost like it's by design!
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by skeeter2020 3mo ago
"Google was a different company n years ago" where n is how long they've been there + ~6 to 12 months
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by skeeter2020 3mo ago
I think it's fine if a person (1) recognizes and appreciates the situation, and (2) can make it work without starving to death. There are a million examples of luxury in the first world and we're ignorant of most of them.
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by skeeter2020 3mo ago
Post covid many bike companies were in big financial trouble so new bikes cost less than used, but that's mostly resolved or the companies are just plain failing, so definitely look for a newish (aka few years old) used bike and you&#x
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by skeeter2020 3mo ago
commented directly above this before seeing it. I've always been bike-crazy but over the past ~year ridden A LOT including my first solo international bikepacking trip. My plan is to do something new in the fall but first enjoy a (to
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by skeeter2020 3mo ago
I quit last August for similar reasons, and lest everyone here think it's all amazing ICs vs. clueless managers, I was at the director level of a midsize company caught between the developers I deeply cared for and agentic madness push
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by skeeter2020 3mo ago
most people are paid as full time salary employees, aka 35-40 hours/week. You may feel that you personally do way more work than everyone else (80%+ plus of people do) but you don't get to define what "the actual amount of wo

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