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by taurath 1y ago
They did that because they needed ad revenue to justify their growth and valuation, or at least, to make as much money as humanly possible for Mark. What will happen to Anthropic, OpenAI, etc, when the pump stops?
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by taurath 1y ago
Don't forget page positioning. There's little point from a points perspective to replying to messages further down, or even to reply to the OP - but a reply to the top comment will give you lots of attention.
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by taurath 1y ago
I can't tell whether this is intentionally or unintentionally hilarious because you add an additional conjecture with no evidence immediately afterwards. My experience would lead me to think that any accredited degree vs no degree woul
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by taurath 1y ago
At one time recently, ChatGPT popped up a message saying I could customize the tone, I noticed they had a field "what traits should ChatGPT have?". I chose "encouraging" for a little bit, but quickly found that it did a
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by taurath 1y ago
This along with the downfall of Malcolm Gladwell makes it feel like scoundrels have been being raised up in society for a long long time. How many people’s economic views are based around these guys? They were all over everything for a deca
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by taurath 1y ago
That’s just conjecture without evidence. You have a degree so you’ve never experienced being turned down for not having one.
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by taurath 1y ago
I think a lot of the “steady, boring” software jobs are in .net and Java, and people tend to spend a long time in those roles, so they get used to the structures of their codebase and the company they work at. They get used to “this is the
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by taurath 1y ago
How about “just as good, without the human misery?”. Many shops are doing that, and have no problems hiring and retaining people.
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by taurath 1y ago
This is exactly it - I have been thrown out 3x with a referral because no degree. Almost all of these were Java shops doing absolutely fuck all in terms of innovation while having an engineering team of hundreds - it seems like the majority
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by taurath 1y ago
Wanted to say thanks so much for writing this all out - I've always thought of ordering as being sort of inherently against the point of parallel streams, so its interesting to hear about the state of the art and the benefits that are
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by taurath 1y ago
You’d be surprised - parents of an entire generation basically paid for their entire schooling with a part time job. They pay less on their mortgage for a 3 bedroom house than a studio apartment. In their mind, they made it on their own, an
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by taurath 1y ago
The amount of people having sex has dropped quite a bit in the last decade. People get into sex work for money - they can’t afford rent.
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by taurath 1y ago
Shocking how similar the fates of the US and the UK are similar. I’m in my 30s and the divergence is starting to become extremely stark between people who had middle class financially supportive parents and those who didn’t. Kids who’s pare
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by taurath 2y ago
The purpose of the app is to sell ads via engagement, recommendation is at least a partial (majority?) driver of engagement, so it’s part and parcel of the purpose of the app. People want what they’re providing, companies want to sell ads,
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by taurath 2y ago
> traverse arbitrary dependency topologies Is there another way to state this? It’s very difficult for me to grok. > DAG Directed acyclic graph right?
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by taurath 2y ago
It has more to do with Obsidian vs Notion or OneNote or Google Keep I'm gonna guess
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by taurath 2y ago
We can believe in and experience different societies while ultimately participating in the meta society. In this way, it’s less a rift.
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by taurath 2y ago
Then the question becomes "why is that ranger, at the expense of the public, there, and what is the purpose of them issuing the order, and do we agree with that purpose?". Its helpful to understand the intended purpose of somethin
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by taurath 2y ago
It’s funny, because I took the suggestion and went thru the substack sign up process (which wanted email, phone number, contacts, and interests.. not exactly lightweight). The first thing they show you is a feed, a never ending scroller. I
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by taurath 2y ago
Its also chores that have an end, that you can have mastery over, that makes for only a small amount of variation compared to all of life. Then you also know that you don't need to do things as fast as possible, you can always let th
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by taurath 2y ago
In my lifetime a high functioning person with autism has gone from Asperger’s to PDD-NOS to ASD to Level 1 (some support needed) ASD. The levels are quite new. It used to be that only those with the most disability would be diagnosed. Now t
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by taurath 2y ago
“I’ll be there for you when you need it” is more than many ever get to hear. It’s not like the only thing, but there’s a big difference between those that say it and those that don’t.
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by taurath 2y ago
LLMs seem fantastic at generalizing broad thought and is not great at outliers. It sort of smooths over the knowledge curve confidently, which is a bit like in psychology where only CBT therapy is accepted, even if there are many much more
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by taurath 2y ago
I’ve found that the surfacing of tools and APIs really can help me dive into learning, but ironically usually by AI finding a tool and then me reading its documentation, as I want to understand if it has the capabilities or flexibility I ha
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by taurath 2y ago
The stats bear this out, but you can usually pivot to something better, especially if you have the skillset and drive to continuously up your skillset and find parts of industry that are in demand. It’s the companies where you learn nothing
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by taurath 2y ago
There’s not much of a source here, just “the best seems to be…” then advocating for hybrid, but like… what are you optimizing for? Side note… on mobile this site really messes up the back stack which is makes for an awful UI.
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by taurath 2y ago
There’s this sort of malaise that took over when Bourdain died which burst the idea that travel was in some way healing or reparative. It can be, but it can also widen the gap between you and the world. For me what I got out of travel was j
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by taurath 2y ago
I believe in people, but I start to think that scrolling is the Fox News or AM radio of a new generation, it just happens to be the backbone of the economy because automation is so much cheaper than people.
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by taurath 2y ago
This really gets to an acceleration of enshittification. If you can't tell its an LLM, and there's nobody to verify the information, humanity is architecting errors and mindfucks into everything. All of the markers of what is trus
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by taurath 2y ago
I'm a neurodivergent coder and have always been a "code by reference" person, so I will have API docs up even if I've done a thing 100 times. The context helps me get into the mindset of what I'm doing, and has help

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