sqeaky

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by sqeaky 2y ago
Add the abuse of gig workers, expansion of the toxic tipping culture, increase in job count but reduction in pay, concentration of wealth in fewer hands. These rideshare and delivery companies are disgusting and terrible.
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by sqeaky 2y ago
Just for scale how tons of carbon are in an acre or hectare of corn, wheat, or other crop. Being able to say how many farms would need to do this to counter act our release could provide an interesting sanity check.
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by sqeaky 2y ago
This is a downside, but big flat boats floating down river don't seem like big carbon releasers, bonus points if they use solar/wind to get back up river.
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by sqeaky 2y ago
The idea proposed is so incredibly cheap, the only real cost is land and unskilled labor. This screams "government experiment" but we are doing less and less of that. If carbon credits actually become a thing, this might be a way
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by sqeaky 2y ago
"Netflix and chill" is surely a different take on "population control".
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by sqeaky 2y ago
How completely inhumane. From a strictly numerical perspective you are correct, but it is disgusting and vile. I know plenty of people without mental health issues who can't get jobs that make 20k and I know a few with degrees who can&
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by sqeaky 2y ago
I want to hang out with the humans you've been hanging out with. I know so many people who can't process basic logic or evidence that for my pandemic project a few years I did a year-long podcast about it, even made up a new word
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by sqeaky 2y ago
I think listing off a set of pros and cons for interns and LLMs misses the point, they seem like categorically different kinds of intelligence.
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by sqeaky 2y ago
Just reading the references for each of these is gold! Trout muscular control in a vortex?! The correlation between super old people and lack of birth documentation and pension fraud?!
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by sqeaky 2y ago
To expand on this consider the amount of brains that can directly query the amount of a specific neurotransmitter used between two neurons and interpret what that means. That isn't exactly the same, but a hopefully illustrative analogy
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by sqeaky 2y ago
This is likely a hallucination. You are committing a type error or perhaps succumbing to circular reasoning. No modern LLM can query, let alone understand, the values in its own weights. They are simply inputs for the vector math. If they h
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by sqeaky 2y ago
No. N/A They can't detect if a word is high or low probability because current LLMs can't detect anything. They don't reason as you or I understand it. They are really fancy word predictors and somewhere in the word pred
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by sqeaky 2y ago
You have really strong points on hiring, but the notion that you need to rewrite all your dependencies pretty weak. Nearly every modern language includes facilities for writing findings and I do believe that there are Rust to C++ binding to
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by sqeaky 2y ago
There is a huge amount of detail and nuance to digest in this one. Though the author speaks in absolutes he puts forward examples that clearly indicate they mean "Most people do ..." and that fuzziness should be more prominent bec
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by sqeaky 2y ago
> Discord is very much disliked, but the software is really good and that is why most people won't abandon it I dislike every single one of discord's design decisions, I think the software is garbage, and it is riddled with sec
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by sqeaky 2y ago
> Imagine that you take steel bars and forge a ... Like the pie these are consumable and have value unlike another to do app which can be trivially copied like all software. That and learned a much more rare skill is much cooler. > I
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by sqeaky 2y ago
Normally to determine if someone is not cruel and worth being near in general I invite them to a nice restaurant. Then I let them handle most of the interactions with the wait staff. If they are rude or jerks to people they have authority o
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by sqeaky 2y ago
I would argue that being the first open source variant of a common commercial product is an interesting differentiator. But if there's already an open source version just being another open source one isn't interesting. This is ex
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by sqeaky 2y ago
Brilliant inversion. Because software can be used without consuming it we presume there is some utility in new software distinct from prior software otherwise it would come with information explaining it was purely a "creative act&quot
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by sqeaky 2y ago
I don't think it's very productive to contribute to projects that are the victim of strategic sabotage.
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by sqeaky 2y ago
Yet places with higher minimum wages don't always have higher burger prices at McDonald's. And places with enforcement of minumum wages and no tips don't always have higher prices for food. A very real alternative to your pro
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by sqeaky 2y ago
You are arguing against the concept of "division of labor". You are a few logical layers removed, but fundamentally that is at the heart of this. It isn't just about what you think can or can't be leveraged. Reducing w
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by sqeaky 2y ago
It isn't even about feeling bad, it's that if they write it they're going to make the same mistakes again in a little bits. If someone misspells a word habitually and you think maybe it should be spelled correctly (or whateve
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by sqeaky 2y ago
I have played magic the gathering for 30 years. You better believe that if I am going to a tournament I am practicing in advance. Even if I don't learn a new specific skill it might hasten decisions I already know or show me subtle nua
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by sqeaky 2y ago
Because many people who hire think more vetting reduces the chance of bad hiring.
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by sqeaky 2y ago
> You appear to be equivocating on the definition of "terrible" Such a thing defies singular definition. Every company, person, and project will use different metrics. We might agree that someone truly awful is terrible, but mo
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by sqeaky 2y ago
If someone's running an automatic formatter on someone else's project that doesn't match that will always cause a problem.
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by sqeaky 2y ago
The most productive team I worked on just ignores this shit in code reviews. Like we will suggest stuff if the obvious formatting is wrong in a way the author probably didn't intend, but we're not going to hold up a code review on
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by sqeaky 2y ago
What really is the alternative? Just post the big bombshell thing and not express your opinion about stuff? Often it's the expressing opinion part that's more important than the actual nits.
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by sqeaky 2y ago
A lot of these are good points and need to be taken into account. But not every team persists, or even intends to persist. Not every developer is suitable for training others. I've been on Plenty of teams that formed and disbanded in 3

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