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by volkk 3y ago
not to beat the constant drum of anti-capitalism, but this is the effect that we get when every company is for-profit and massive growth. curiosity doesn't have a direct path to profit, and so most people are stuck working on moving me
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Ask HN: How do you motivate teammates that aren't as involved?
1 points by volkk 3y ago|3 comments
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by volkk 3y ago
right. was going to ask the same thing. i'm okay with it being a relative niche. that is to say, writers, economists, artists, etc with a lean towards tech. i'm completely fine with Nostr not becoming the worldwide phenom so that
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by volkk 3y ago
> that can be disrupted by a twitter hackathon. hindsight is 20/20. you shouldn't necessarily be deterred by building something that a large company can also build. there have been plenty of examples that contradict this point
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by volkk 3y ago
> 2. Too many devices using Bluetooth/wifi located in the same desk space. that might have a lot to do with it, but its 2023, like cmon. I should be able to use more than 3 devices without horrible lag.
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by volkk 3y ago
nope, no kexts
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by volkk 3y ago
i have this issue with my logitech mx master 3s. horrible lag on bluetooth, completely resolved with the dongle. there's definitely something worth fixing here.
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by volkk 3y ago
genuine question -- as opposed to what when it comes to wanting to launch something quickly from zero
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by volkk 4y ago
its definitely the darker timeline. i do think its unrealistic unless there are certain ways to protect themselves from uprisings/revolutions. unless they build a castle in the sky hovering in LEO or AGI builds sentries, that will be u
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by volkk 4y ago
it sounds like your concept of the fear isn't AI comes and destroys us all like a lot of people fear, but rather huge corporate walls only increasing the disparity between the weak and the powerful, hoarding this stuff to themselves. I
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by volkk 4y ago
completely false. i know someone whose house is in a foot of water and is suffering immensely. not even close to "oh no big deal the water will be gone soon, lets go to the movies"
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by volkk 4y ago
i'm not sure what you call the situation where someone just says something with 0 basis but wants to sound like they are making some kind of critical point. it's akin to journalism where they ask a question in the title, and becau
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by volkk 4y ago
no worries, humor is fine. human here. the poster above is actually a robot replying to you to make sure you understand the absolute explicitness of the zero days of which you had worked there. most humans here understood this, but the robo
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by volkk 4y ago
> Because following it through imagine the energy savings if Firefox users switched to Chrome i've read everywhere that Firefox at this point is far more energy efficient than Chrome...is that not true?
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by volkk 4y ago
question for ya -- i've been thinking about going back into IC actually. i'm sort of in a weird position where i am bored to death being an EM, but also appreciate some of the problems i get to think about and try to solve that i
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by volkk 4y ago
> I think "manager as supervisor" is frankly dead. sorta. as someone who is an EM, so i guess take the bias with a grain of salt, the difference between a really good EM, and someone who warms a seat is astounding. the really
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by volkk 4y ago
i think you know the answer to this haha. i imagine less than 1% of all of these are early LLM adopters, and just people jumping on the train. no shade though, i want to do the same. exciting times.
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by volkk 4y ago
you can replace ultra wealthy with powerful. same point stands. the only things that become regulated heavily are things that can affect the people that live at the top, whether its the obscenely rich, or the despots in various countries.
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by volkk 4y ago
i dont know what the hell you're talking about
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by volkk 4y ago
> You can't buy tons of weapon technology, nuclear materials, aerosolized compounds, pesticides. These are all highly regulated and illegal pieces of technology for the better. ha, the big difference is that this whole list can actu
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by volkk 4y ago
i have these exact concerns. the concept of on overload of information that means very little that will get me to stop caring/reading literally anything on the internet at a certain point
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by volkk 4y ago
sir, you've dropped your top hat
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by volkk 4y ago
i sort of get your point, but in a way that's kind of what blogs/reddit posts, writing samples published anywhere, short of a paid publication, are. its just that GPT does it a lot more efficiently compared to your slow manual bra
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by volkk 4y ago
so...it would take actual generations for people to get out of being utterly broke since in your world, you'd have to save up as a poor person to actually open up a business or do anything worthwhile. sounds so fun, sign me up. i want
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by volkk 4y ago
sure, at that point its semantics. but clear expectations and ownership of tasks/granular aspects of your jobs helps everyone be happier
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by volkk 4y ago
i accuse you of elitism because you support the tactics which only elitists would be proud of. most normal humans who need to get to work and don't make a lot of money don't think this way. the issue doesn't lay with people w
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by volkk 4y ago
nothing illegal is currently happening with SUVs. whereas the other thing IS illegal. full stop. so the appropriate response would have to be something short of an ingenious campaign or tactics to gut the car lobbying industry in the USA. p
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by volkk 4y ago
facebook links to sad photos linked to political agendas don't belong here. while this is sad, this type of content isn't what HN is for
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by volkk 4y ago
getting punched in the face is an appropriate response for deflating someone's tire and causing them to miss work or something. actions have consequences. by the way, even if i were the person doing activism, i would assume risk and as
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by volkk 4y ago
> minor inconvenience to deal with sometimes if you're parked on the street in a city, you now need to deal with getting a pump or getting it towed which the latter is hundreds of dollars. which isn't a minor inconvenience. and

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