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Mniot

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  • The theory is that the new hire gets better over time

    It always amazes me how few people get this. Have they only ever made terrible hires?

    The way that a company makes big profits is by hiring fresh graduates and giving them a cushy life while they grow into good SWEs. By the time you're paying $200k for a senior software engineer, they're generating far more than that in value. And you only had to invest a couple years and some chump change.

    But now businesses only think in the short-term and so paying $10k for a month of giving Anthropic access to our code base sounds like a bargain.

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  • Executives are mostly irrelevant as long as they’re not forcing the whole company into the bullshit.

    I'm seeing a lot of this, though. Like, I'm not technically required to use AI, but the VP will send me a message noting that I've only used 2k tokens this month and maybe I could get more done if I was using more...?

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  • More as an alternative to a search engine.

    In my ideal world, StackOverflow would be a public good with a lot of funding and no ads/sponsorship.

    Since that's not the case, and everything is hopelessly polluted with ads and SEO, LLMs are momentarily a useful tool for getting results. Their info might be only 3/4 correct, but my search results are also trash. Who knows what people will do in a year when the LLMs have been eating each others slop and are also being stuffed with ads by their owners.

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  • Coding junkie is where you sneak away from your friends and code a few lines in the bathroom

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  • We're talking here about garbage code that we don't want. If the choice is "let me commit bad code that causes problems or else I will quit using computers"... is this a dilemma for you?

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  • It does seem silly, but it's perfectly aligned with the marketing hype that the AI companies are producing.

  • Jerry Seinfeld says KKK is ‘actually a little better’ than Free Palestine movement

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  • Not really that weird? Basically every organization does this or is immediately unsuccessful. The only exception is companies under a government that's stable enough to carry water for them.

    This doesn't mean that the organizations are a net benefit.

  • Jerry Seinfeld says KKK is ‘actually a little better’ than Free Palestine movement

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  • The nature of language is to change over time. Help yourself to internalize that and a lot of these things may become less stressful.

    Your attempt to use a non-inflammatory example doesn't really work: "literally" has meant "exaggeratedly" for at least the past 200 years (likely more, it's just been used extensively with that meaning for 200y).

    If you try to demand that language have strict meaning, it's just not going to work. Watch:

    girls

    What's the definition of "girl"? Do they need to be prepubescent? Pre-postpubescent? Or are you using it in the (gasp, shock) sloppy sense of "a girl or a woman"? You've fallen into the exact same pitfall that you were complaining about.

    The resolution isn't to claim that all words have an absolute meaning, but to understand that human language is fluid and extraordinarily context-sensitive.

  • Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype: The obstacles to scaling up humanoids that nobody is talking about

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  • The disconnect is coming here:

    I just don’t see the line where any of that is impossible. It seems inevitable

    I agree with you that robots building robots is not impossible. I disagree with you that it's therefore inevitable. I strongly disagree with you that it's therefore inevitable in the immediate future.

  • It was almost mint condition

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  • This is a confusing meme, because in the skit the parrot is dead when bought. It had been nailed to its perch to make it look alive and the seller told a series of funny lies. The bulk of the joke is how unreliable the pet shop clerk is.

    In contrast, Twitter was obviously in bad shape (that's why Musk was making a buy offer in the first place), the board was not interested in selling until he made a wildly over-value offer, and Musk immediately tried to back out of the sale and had to be forced to comply with the deal he'd made.

  • "Leopard is only chewing on my face a little before spitting me out. VOTE LEOPARD!"

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  • She's bad for supporting him in the first place. But once you're in the concentration camp I feel like it's tougher to expect people to have a spine. Kinda like in 1984. Maybe if she begs Trump to kill her kids, she'll be spared.

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  • OK, cool. That definitely helps things.

    I think where we're disagreeing is that I think in a capitalist society the promise of money will inevitably corrupt the government (because it's made of people). Maybe it can be avoided if the government performs additional regulatory action to stop anyone from getting too wealthy, but that sounds like beyond the limits that you want to set for government.

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  • Without force

    Whoah, whoah. Why'd you rule that out?

    Your business plan: quality goods at reasonable prices. My business plan: hire some goons to kill you and take your stuff.

    Historically, this has a lot of precedence.

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  • In an unfettered marketplace, what stops a dominant player from introducing fetters?

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  • When I read your message, I get the impression that you think of "The Government" as this independent actor. I see it as a system that is primarily controlled by wealthy people. Either directly or through their funding advertisements (including astroturfing/bot-farms) to promote what they want.

    So the larger companies do get government assistance... because they are the government. And this isn't some kind of weird coincidence. It's fundamental to capitalism's operation. You can't have a system that's based on capital and then have it be unbiased towards entities who have vastly more capital!

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  • Their "real" job was some standard cog-in-the-machine engineering work, which is why they got laid off. Just another number.

    Most open-source work happens outside of corporate planning and so it's invisible to the company. When the reality is, it would absolutely be worth it to Intel to pay a 40/w salary just to maintain this little bit of code. The value is there, but the humans running the company would never be able to get over the hurdle of "he's not working very hard so he doesn't deserve the money."

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  • socialized capitalism

    I think I understand your complaint, but I'd say "free market" rather than "capitalism". But regardless of what we call it, it doesn't actually exist unless you have a more powerful external system regulating it.

    Start with a truly free-market capitalist system. One company manages to temporarily pull ahead (through luck and skill). The rational thing for the company to do isn't "make better products" (that's hard) but "destroy competing companies" (much easier). And the end-product would be that the company becomes a government so it can force consumers to pay.

    So I'd argue that socialized capitalism (which I'm picturing as a socialist system that permits certain specific free markets and handles the fallout of business failures) is what you actually want.

  • Then they will ask why nobody wants to use their payment cards

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  • Because (like genAI) crypto-coin people as a general population will not shut up and it gets annoying to keep hearing the same spiel. And it's an insulting one, about how everyone not on the Bitcoin train is a stupid loser and we'll be kissing their ass and wishing we were them when the whole thing really rockets off. Sometimes that part isn't entirely explicit, but I hear it in almost every pro-Bitcoin rant.

  • If You Needed to Pass an Exam to Vote

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  • I don't have a problem with rich people choosing not to vote.