taurath

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by taurath 4mo ago
It’s like a ghost story that everyone has decided is real. Lets hope our vibe government and vibe society and vibe president don’t get prompt injected
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by taurath 4mo ago
Doesn't this "silent degredation" prevent any actual evaluation of the model? If the model fails at something, this allows anyone to claim that it failed due to degradation.
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by taurath 4mo ago
Only chumps believe them when they say there’s not a choice. I haven’t seen a single manager take a pay cut for doing a layoff after their decisions.
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by taurath 4mo ago
YTD Kospi is +173%, after the sell-off, compared to +10% for the Nasdaq. Not exactly... worrying territory there. But yeah, I'm sorry this whole circular financing bubble with AI should crash. As someone who's in community with pe
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by taurath 4mo ago
Or a different sort of Internet appears. free and open internet is polluted with commercialization and greed, eventually cleaner spaces will be created with stronger restrictions like geo, social trust chains, and cost of posting going up s
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by taurath 4mo ago
It’s often telling what sort of thing is deserving of moderation. The timing is well documented as being extremely favorable to Musk and Altman and indeed directly benefits them. Suspicion is not only warranted it should be demanded.
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by taurath 4mo ago
I find it to be genuinely more likely some level of corruption, and while my insinuation may be overly specific or illustrative, I still hold to it as an ironic statement meant to speak the truth. In this age of AI marketing taking over the
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by taurath 4mo ago
Or just maybe it’s heavily economic. Yea there are many people with lots of money who are anxious about being rendered unneeded, but can we talk for a minute about all the people trying really hard to save who are needing to rent at market
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by taurath 5mo ago
> I'll never again perceive model progress If the hype train keeps going for another year, Sam and co will have to resort to direct gaslighting like saying the model is improving but nobody can feel it anymore, oh and I need 10 tril
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by taurath 5mo ago
I wonder how much it’s due to the fact that homes are such an incredibly expensive endeavor compared to other things. I could see significant economies of scale in most of the materials and parts, but perhaps there has been a steady increas
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by taurath 5mo ago
I reject the typology. Engineers are expected to do a lot of things, those things are different in different environments, and judgement is usually a key consideration. Pidgeonholing someone as a “type” of engineer can help with shallow com
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by taurath 5mo ago
> Tech companies are now more focused than at any time in the past two decades Citation needed. In fact, I find the utter opposite - the pivots are happening hard and fast, planning is taking a major back seat, and it’s a ship with speed
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by taurath 5mo ago
Some people's brains don't work the way that people who set up interviews think. If they require memorizing, they don't end up hiring those people (except strangely in upper management, where utterly different signals are loo
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by taurath 5mo ago
> what it means to live a virtuous life and about ethics and morality and so forth > I don't have any answers (and I'm not looking for them, really, just musing) I'm not sure why, but even in my general pessimism it ha
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by taurath 5mo ago
Plenty of places for whom the solution is worth far and away more money than the hourly to build it.
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by taurath 5mo ago
The best thing to convince you to not use AI for writing is to watch a friend who used to be a writer utterly lose their voice while having no idea how they come across. They have started losing longtime friends and relationships because t
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by taurath 5mo ago
And you'll have your nice library and can read whenever you want from the comfort of your own home, and while most people will pirate shit libraries can be great for making things accessible without a $60/month mobile charge, espe
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by taurath 5mo ago
I can’t help but think that what AI is best at is convincing management that things it creates are full featured which reads to their brains as mature
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by taurath 5mo ago
We already know them but everyone is busy throwing them in the trash. It’s all gas and no breaks or handling right now.
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by taurath 5mo ago
“For free”. Truly no point in helping you understand a point of view so far removed from your own.
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by taurath 5mo ago
> There's always a viable alternative Tell that to my insurance provider, the only insurance provider I am allowed to choose by my employer. Or my doctor's office, the only doctors office that treats my ailment that my insuranc
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by taurath 5mo ago
He has functionally nobody to stop him whatever he decides to do now, minus maybe Trump only because he has a bigger megaphone. Corporate “governance” is the biggest joke ever - this is middle school logic.
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by taurath 5mo ago
Both “sides” of the billionaire coin are what’s wrong with the world more than just about anything else.
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by taurath 5mo ago
I find my mind goes straight to settled if my phone and all configurable electronics are in a completely separate room. Its like I give up seeking more stimulation. An off topic addendum - those are 2 very nice places to be. Maybe someday.
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by taurath 5mo ago
Do you really think that upper management wants feedback that the stupid fucking ideas they have are boneheaded? The point of middle management is to absorb it so it doesn't reach the children at the top and make them feel bad
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by taurath 5mo ago
This seems utterly delusional regarding the state of software engineering. In fact, you could almost build a mapping of billion dollar companies who's entire business model actively works against each one of them.
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by taurath 5mo ago
Equal? No, no no no. Upper management is making PoCs that promise to solve longstanding multi year learnings of tradeoffs and solution balancing, and setting goals based on that. We are heading to a cliff and everyone is going to learn what
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by taurath 5mo ago
For people who are just technology consumers they don’t see what could be offered, only what is. This is so frustrating when one understands how railroaded everyone is into maximizing platform ad revenue while holding the reasons people go
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by taurath 5mo ago
I’d love to see a follow to that radiologist evaluation, where it failed so miserably on the thing it was supposed to be the best at that now there’s a shortage of radiologists.
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by taurath 5mo ago
I was able to get 2 offers last year after a 4 year break (distributed systems), but it was difficult to get thru front doors, references make a bigger difference nowadays. I took a position 1 level down from previous to pay the bills. Am n

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