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by steveBK123 2mo ago
If you are an old like me, I don't think you can use current acceptance rates. They are artificially low compared to old rates because kids just send so many applications out now. 20 years ago UofM had a 50% acceptance rate, from some
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by steveBK123 2mo ago
we are on k9 now?
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by steveBK123 2mo ago
yeah but now you need 1GB of ram to run the weather apps so..
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by steveBK123 2mo ago
A device thats worse than the phone you already have, which is dead the second you stop paying your monthly OpenAI sub, and is useless if you decide you prefer other LLM provider. Where do we sign up? Voice is almost always the worst, most
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by steveBK123 2mo ago
It’s no accident that the schmoozer media/real estate/car dealer/mining/energy guys in US wield more power than their wealth relative to SV VC bros would seem to merit.
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by steveBK123 2mo ago
And many start with a personality disorder already so it only compounds
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by steveBK123 2mo ago
I don’t even think most of it is deeply philosophical. They just got uberrich and now worry more about the concerns of the uberrich than the concerns they had when they were normies. Rule of law, functioning government providing services, f
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by steveBK123 2mo ago
Yeah it's kind of comical the framing is that a device needs to be "revived" after four years. As SWEs we should probably all be a bit embarrassed for our trade, even in the alleged golden era of LLM induced productivity. I
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by steveBK123 2mo ago
Yes. These services allow mass employment of people who are more on the margin of society without any of the protections around minimum wage, working hours, benefits, etc because they are "independent contractors". Uber alone sup
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by steveBK123 2mo ago
Right, it's not the first time we've built upon a permanent underclass, but it feels like a quiet reversion that doesn't get a lot of attention. Arguably migrant workers working the harvests on farms is similar and bridges th
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by steveBK123 2mo ago
I do worry that the “app / gig economy” independent contractors with weak i9 verification is basically trying to import the developing-world inequality permanent underclass service sector here.
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This compares to ~$200M in dividends they were paying while a public company
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by steveBK123 2mo ago
That willingness is predicated on being at war with much weaker powers / enduring FAR lower casualty rates than Vietnam / Korea / world wars. The entire 25+ year GWOT era has resulted in 7k American military personnel dying.
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by steveBK123 2mo ago
Right I think its only an interesting argument in separating existential vs non-existential threats to the country. So it means we aren't fighting in Iran the way we would in defending a hypothetical invasion of the lower 48 states, gr
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by steveBK123 2mo ago
Hey look on the bright side - every time we cut CDC staff by 25% or kick a 100K people off SNAP, we can afford a few more weeks of missiles.
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by steveBK123 2mo ago
Thats a particular type of insane that might have been fun to take the offer
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by steveBK123 2mo ago
One thing I've taken away in my career, interviewing every 3-5 years is that difficulty of interview & difficulty of job are uncorrelated. Often they are inversely correlated. Possible reasons.. Sometimes a team is growing so fa
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by steveBK123 2mo ago
Good luck making my record player dial into the DRM server
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by steveBK123 2mo ago
This stuff is turning me into a physical media pre-2010s truther more and more by the day
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by steveBK123 2mo ago
> don’t necessarily agree with Jeff Johnson’s conclusion that major software upgrades are impossible on an annual schedule. Call me an old man, but I'm no longer sure that annual major OS upgrades are even desirable. Adding feature
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by steveBK123 2mo ago
Replacing “okay” with “safe” also fails https://imgur.com/a/PgCzK1H Kind of unbelievable 4 years into this hype cycle we still have basic issues like answering the inverse of users question
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by steveBK123 2mo ago
Right and someone in a hurry quickly checking their phone may read the affirmative response as an OK. It's worse on mobile with large text in my example - https://imgur.com/a/wvNspMT Imagine your parents asking ab
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by steveBK123 2mo ago
The longer I work and the higher I go, the less I believe that we have a meritocracy. Directionally, yes.. but the higher you go the more nepotistic the world really is. And that's putting aside starting conditions which are already
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It's also very non-deterministic. Not a 100% failure rate, seems to go up&down with time, and varies depending on plant/animal combination
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by steveBK123 2mo ago
I think a lot has to do with both luck and power quality as well. When I got a new apartment ~10 years ago I filled it with LED bulbs. Mostly Philips hue, but also some generic stuff on Lutron controls. Had 0 failures for 7-8 years. One s
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by steveBK123 2mo ago
Steve Job's mantra was that what you say No to is even more important than what you say Yes to. Arguably dragging their heels on Apple Intelligence was an inadvertent form of this. Or years of working on a car but never releasing it.
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by steveBK123 2mo ago
If you asked your wife "is it ok if I did X" and she said "YES, its not ok to do that.." would that be normal behavior?
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> but they might also encourage you to do it in such a way that you fail spectacularly. A skill one must develop is identifying no-win-scenario tasks that can be avoided. POCs are often such tasks. A teammate and I got roped into some P
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by steveBK123 2mo ago
Yes, at some point the world needs to accept that these tools are very good, to a limit, for specific human augmentation uses (coding, text manipulation) and stop pretending the TAM is "replace all white collar work across the globe&qu
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by steveBK123 2mo ago
I also see this failure mode where it inverts the question and answer the affirmative to the inverted question (therefore the opposite of correct answer). If you read too quickly or are on a mobile device, the clarifying information may be

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