themagician

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by themagician 3y ago
Yes, and it happens and destroys entire cities, many which never recover.
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by themagician 3y ago
It already has replaced many junior and even mid level engineers. People are getting good at refining prompts. That's the new skill. Do you have people under you? If yes, I gurantee they can be replaced by a script kiddie with some
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by themagician 3y ago
We've been telling people for years that a STEM degree is a fast track to a six figure income. And that's been mostly true. But now people are going to find out that a STEM degree is going to place them firmly in the real middle
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by themagician 3y ago
Things are different now. The reality is that probably close to 80-90% of self-described software engineers face permnanet unemployment as they will be replaced by low paid "prompt engineers", likey from India. It's already h
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by themagician 3y ago
They will merge, eventually. iOS/iPadOS is the future. Ever iteration macOS becomes more iOS like. The compute model is changing. I am now old and enjoy doing computers the "old way." I watch younger people wizzing through
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by themagician 3y ago
“Life is short and life is long, but not in that order.” https://youtu.be/SNgyEmYyQF4
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by themagician 3y ago
The funniest part about these is that if someone has stolen your identity and successfully gotten things added to your credit report then you may actually FAIL to answer correctly questions about yourself.
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by themagician 3y ago
Social media is no longer just some activity you do. For many, it has become a way of life. Their income and livelihood relies on it. Many children growing up today aspire to be popular on social media. What happens on social media has beco
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by themagician 3y ago
It does do eye tracking, but the lens itself doesn't move. All it does is increase the resolution of where you are looking, but if you are looking at an area that's out of focus it doesn't help much. In some ways I actually t
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by themagician 3y ago
Direct experience. The Vision Pro is the best headset I've ever used, but it's still bad. I suspect one reason they went with a relatively narrow FOV is to minimize the out of focus area. So the narrow FOV minimizes/masks the
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by themagician 3y ago
I think there is something that often gets overlooked with VR headsets becuase people don't even know how to describe it well and that's this: they are not sharp, edge-to-edge. The reality of current VR is that every headset has a
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by themagician 3y ago
It's closer than you realize for more jobs than you can imagine. Do you not realize just how many office jobs are simply repetitive tasks? Everywhere, for everything. Microsoft is working overtime to replace entire staffs with a new ke
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by themagician 3y ago
Epic used to charge insane fees for the Unreal Engine too. They really only changed their tune when Fortnite became so successful they could print money via skins.
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by themagician 3y ago
I haven’t done any serious admin work on Windows machines for over a decade. Few weeks ago I went to reinstall Windows on a Dell desktop… I had no idea about SecureBoot. I spent hours trying to figure out what was wrong and learning about S
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by themagician 3y ago
Pre-YouTube internet largely didn't exist anymore. Flash is gone and one-by-one the old sites fall with no usable archive. A lot of the old culture is just GONE. It is now myth or legend. The stories only exist verbally. Stile, Encyclo
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by themagician 3y ago
That's because it's just not true in any meaningful sense. What happens is that the wealth is often transformed and split between separating couples, but it mostly stays in the same class. The idea that generational wealth is lost
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by themagician 3y ago
It's all politics WAY before this level.
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by themagician 3y ago
> how unimpressively repetitive and unoriginal tasks keep being reimplemented by millions of developers worldwide This extends far beyond just developers. This is a majority of all office work, from data entry to accounting to creative w
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by themagician 3y ago
I occasionally see a post from someone I follow. 90% of what’s in my feed is either and ad or “suggested for you”.
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by themagician 3y ago
> I wonder if it's just a case of each of us having one HDD of a particular brand fail on us violently, and then finding others who were in the same boat. That is absolutely the case and anyone with enough experience could confirm i
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by themagician 3y ago
> Surprised HN is so negative towards AI (and that the positive:negative ratio to AI is about the same as it was for Crypto a few years ago!) I'm not. AI tools will have huge benefits in some industries. But the main use case that
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by themagician 3y ago
It depends. A lot of these scammers are extremely desperate. Some are forced into it. For others it's just an office job like any other. Some firms actually do both legitimate support/customer service work and scamming side by sid
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by themagician 3y ago
Does it even matter anymore? Domains have been replaced with apps and search anyway. Outside of maybe the top 100 domains, how many people are actually typing out a domain?
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by themagician 3y ago
Schools. Small studios. Shared workspaces. 55+ in particular tend to eschew notebooks.
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by themagician 3y ago
No one is talking about socialism here other than you.
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by themagician 3y ago
> Those people don't live in our society, they live in some other society that doesn't generate the kind of surplus required to enable children not to have to work. The "other" less equal children from another society
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by themagician 3y ago
> A quarter of humans on this planet live the way humans did before we invented capitalism. Yes. It seems to be necessary.
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by themagician 3y ago
Because we live in a society that requires a solid base of slavery to function. It always has. Base level resource extraction and processing (cocoa, cobalt, rubber, sulfur, et al.) is done with slaves in order to have an abundance of consum
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by themagician 3y ago
It cherry picks what to talk about based on what's funny and literally creates outrage where there otherwise would not be, for entertainment. People enjoy being outraged at this stuff. There are more slaves today than at any other time
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by themagician 3y ago
I watched Frazier as a kid and thought it was kind of funny. Rewatched as an adult and it hits different. It’s like watching a show about a psychopath. You could replace the laugh track with an internal monologue American Psycho style and i

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