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by whatever1 1mo ago
We don’t need my hypotheticals. We saw how well the American bootcamps filled the market with completely trash talent when the market demanded a big number of SDEs. So no, money cannot generate infinite specialized talent overnight as you n
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by whatever1 1mo ago
Money does not fix the supply problem the parent comment pointed out (at least for fields that need multi year training). Let’s say that tomorrow we need 1M nuclear physicists. How can money help? You still need to wait for the talent pipel
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by whatever1 1mo ago
It’s a bunch of LLM developed scripts for Linux. Free is too expensive.
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by whatever1 1mo ago
Typically screen time is very scattered through the day. You cannot read a book in 30” increments.
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by whatever1 2mo ago
Also if any of the local governors / entrepreneurs cross a line they just disappear to focus on reading. Some of them might reappear after a decade having thoroughly understood the textbooks. For example Jack Ma reappeared after his su
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by whatever1 2mo ago
Twitter is dead. After the layoffs it required multiple bailouts and pivots to its business. Not even sure what X is about today. Layoffs pushed over the cliff the company. Both due to engineering (content is now trash), and product (lost m
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by whatever1 2mo ago
Deal. See you here 2031. If the site is still up.
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by whatever1 2mo ago
Wait two years until we have sufficient churn of senior talent in the teams. Then all of the services will have outages daily. Only the seniors who know their systems are keeping the lights on today by keeping bs commits out. Once they burn
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by whatever1 2mo ago
Oh you have not played backgammon. You cannot imagine the sheer amount of man-hours we have invested as a species to moving checkers on a piece of wood.
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by whatever1 2mo ago
Let’s take this argument to the extreme. Why reading mein kampf is healthier than looking at random funny videos? Both are addictive. The one is more dangerous than the other, demonstrably. Don’t get me started on religious books.
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by whatever1 2mo ago
I get the TikTok addiction, but before that it was fb, before that was the tv, before that the newspaper/magazines, before that the books, before that table games etc I don’t know it seems that regardless of the technology the brain ne
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by whatever1 2mo ago
I am done with time, extra seconds, missing days, time zones, daylight savings, relativity. Distance from the big bang from now on.
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by whatever1 2mo ago
The top performers I have worked with will challenge dumb processes, because they can zoom out. Sometimes these dumb processes are there for a reason and you just have to follow them, no questions asked. Example: military. They literally ge
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by whatever1 2mo ago
This reflects humans. If you need reliability for a clearly defined set of problems you don’t hire a superstar. They will keep poking at the problem, drive it to directions you did not intend to and ultimately they will be worse at the task
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by whatever1 2mo ago
You will not believe the amounts of ram I will buy once the whole thing crashes. Like my raspberry pi clone will be running on a terabyte of ram.
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by whatever1 2mo ago
I mean we kinda know the frontier models are multi trillion parameter models. The only open weights that are close to the frontier are that size too
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by whatever1 2mo ago
Being a parent teaches you how to stop procrastinating and use every second you have available. You are at your most productive era (work items per minute spent). The bad news is that the day still has 24 hours, and that means that your car
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by whatever1 2mo ago
Universal health coverage will asymptotically reach infinity costs (same as private health insurance). This is the harsh reality. No system (private or public) can save all of the lives. We are debating who will make the decision of who get
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by whatever1 2mo ago
When you develop a new feature that you have barely tested, is your first step to open a public api ?
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by whatever1 2mo ago
This is what the copyright laws dictate no ?
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by whatever1 2mo ago
iOS is a dominant OS with billions of users. In the US it has the majority market share of the smartphone market. So whether Apple likes it or not, now their OS is a platform and has different responsibilities compared to your hobby OS that
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by whatever1 2mo ago
Maybe some sort of 1 year lead time would be a reasonable trade off ? Like let Apple first do the move, flesh out the issues and overall viability and then require them to open the api ?
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by whatever1 2mo ago
Apple never hid the fact that their apps work better on their devices. They have access to APIs that third parties do not have. I don’t think it’s a bad thing necessarily.
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by whatever1 2mo ago
Math professors at my alma mater were instructed to remove references to “inequalities” to increase their chances of getting funded. The <= and >= type of inequalities.
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by whatever1 2mo ago
It was always easy to come up with new molecules/drugs/materials. The thing that changed is the scale that it can happen with the new ml-based approaches. What hasn’t changed is finding ones that are manufacturable/synthesiza
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by whatever1 2mo ago
Government is monitoring everyone.
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by whatever1 2mo ago
This is nice and fair only when you have infinitely many small producers. In reality you have two huge players who can cut production at will and set prices based on the least efficient small fish in the pond. Enjoy your free market
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by whatever1 2mo ago
We also spend so many resources for producing books, movies etc. People are like that spending on useless things.
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by whatever1 2mo ago
We are both correct. Or wrong? I am confused now.
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by whatever1 2mo ago
I am always right. In some universe.

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