You can have the most everyday-setting movie or TV show imaginable and still have it VFX'd to hell and back compared to something shot on film 30 years ago. Not even just like Ted Lasso faking the stadiums/fields they…
It's not a particularly novel claim since at least Terminator (and even moreso Terminator 2) made it EXTREMELY mainstream. It was a topic in less-mainstream sci-fi well before that. And some more mainstream stuff like…
Calvinism is a variant of Christianity with the following tenets ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Points_of_Calvinism ): - everyone is damned and depraved - god chose some people to save, at his own whim, for no…
I generally don't agree with the original commenter here. I think many of the complaints about model regressions are the result of increased usage and increased scrutiny revealing gaps there were there all the time.…
> It's nobody gets fired for buying IBM all over again. I think that's the historical analogue. How is IBM doing compared to pre-personal-computer disruption? Initially-limited home OSes like DOS were good enough to…
For a long time nobody knew how to monetize OSS outside of a few Linux vendors. There's a crapload of new repos and Github and similar things. And a lot of it is "hobby utility" stuff like you'd find everywhere…
It also created a cargo cult though. "What can we get rid of for MVP" as a design strategy vs a way to iterate fast, for instance. Cutting things isn't a way to product cohesion, especially if you never go back to do…
> Have any of these adult children successfully moved out after saving up money while living with their parents? Even if they do, it still means they failed to save up that money without having to live with their…
Yeah the trust was gone pre-internet, pre-networked-cameras. People would've thrown doorbell cams on their front door at the same time as the deadbolt if they'd had the option. Many of the high-trust smaller societies…
What happens when the low-hanging fruit is gone? Of course the first sets of people to build something aren't buying it off the shelf... but the reward for the millionth person to be able to do the same thing from…
Wonder how many metrics are out there that we could use to compare "unions trample human rights" vs "unchecked corporations trample human rights"? Like which one more frequently monitors your time in the bathroom?
Are you claiming that privacy can never be a prerequisite for freedom and/or justice? It's trivially easy to see cases where freedom+justice+innovation can conflict with each other (it's even trivially easy to see where…
Seems like, if anything, the right action for regulators would be to enforce car manufacturers to not refuse to support existing consumer connectivity protocols... or at least not unless they can come up with something…
>For some visions of "AI", almost by definition there is nothing left in that list. >(Except some things, of course, where people want to interact with a human). And, of course, the things that the person holding the…
>To be fair, that sort of haughty sentiment is very common among developers just before the job market demonstrates how special they’re not. What examples are you thinking of? Mainly what I remember is multiple waves of…
Take all the countries in the world and split them by "the ruling class enables people to do whatever small things they want" vs "the ruling class puts its own interest above everyone else's and uses technology for…
>I’m not sure if this really is different or not. I also think there’s an enormous amount of white collar work that isn’t actually “intelligent” work. Especially in software development. There's a lot more outside of…
The pattern I observe is: "write code, write test, make things green" This is different in two ways from the classic TDD red-green-refactor suggestion: 1) they don't start with the test first, so the tests that get…
> The cost of shoring up behavior with tests ahead of a restructure has gone down because of AI. Yes. But the ease of not doing that and instead just getting a brittle set of three-quarters-baked tests is extremely…
>I'm flabbergasted that you look at the Chinese property crisis and say "only the West does irresponsible loans." No, 60% of China's economy is state-run companies and the remaining 40% need political officers. China is…
Most white-collar/knowledge-service-industry work is a weird type of work. It's fundamentally about enabling things and largely middleman-type stuff. I have a hard time imaging what "At some point the top end may be too…
> What makes this view more correct than say, "economies with marketing creates a dynamic where being competitive in production is secondary to marketing" and concluding that nothings a free market until we ban all…
The new gen of AI-boom-construction datacenters seem to be substantially different than the ones I used to go when working at companies whose software ran inside them. Those were running air-cooled rack servers, which…
> I don’t think a lot of us employees will be happy to admit that AI is turning out to be a legitimate productivity aid that is allowing individuals to accomplish more work per person. Growth companies respond to…
> Historically a good Windows computer cost $1000 and it was all it took to start programming. Gotta remember inflation here. $1K in 1995 was roughly equivalent to $2K now and wouldn't have been a particularly "good"…
You can have the most everyday-setting movie or TV show imaginable and still have it VFX'd to hell and back compared to something shot on film 30 years ago. Not even just like Ted Lasso faking the stadiums/fields they…
It's not a particularly novel claim since at least Terminator (and even moreso Terminator 2) made it EXTREMELY mainstream. It was a topic in less-mainstream sci-fi well before that. And some more mainstream stuff like…
Calvinism is a variant of Christianity with the following tenets ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Points_of_Calvinism ): - everyone is damned and depraved - god chose some people to save, at his own whim, for no…
I generally don't agree with the original commenter here. I think many of the complaints about model regressions are the result of increased usage and increased scrutiny revealing gaps there were there all the time.…
> It's nobody gets fired for buying IBM all over again. I think that's the historical analogue. How is IBM doing compared to pre-personal-computer disruption? Initially-limited home OSes like DOS were good enough to…
For a long time nobody knew how to monetize OSS outside of a few Linux vendors. There's a crapload of new repos and Github and similar things. And a lot of it is "hobby utility" stuff like you'd find everywhere…
It also created a cargo cult though. "What can we get rid of for MVP" as a design strategy vs a way to iterate fast, for instance. Cutting things isn't a way to product cohesion, especially if you never go back to do…
> Have any of these adult children successfully moved out after saving up money while living with their parents? Even if they do, it still means they failed to save up that money without having to live with their…
Yeah the trust was gone pre-internet, pre-networked-cameras. People would've thrown doorbell cams on their front door at the same time as the deadbolt if they'd had the option. Many of the high-trust smaller societies…
What happens when the low-hanging fruit is gone? Of course the first sets of people to build something aren't buying it off the shelf... but the reward for the millionth person to be able to do the same thing from…
Wonder how many metrics are out there that we could use to compare "unions trample human rights" vs "unchecked corporations trample human rights"? Like which one more frequently monitors your time in the bathroom?
Are you claiming that privacy can never be a prerequisite for freedom and/or justice? It's trivially easy to see cases where freedom+justice+innovation can conflict with each other (it's even trivially easy to see where…
Seems like, if anything, the right action for regulators would be to enforce car manufacturers to not refuse to support existing consumer connectivity protocols... or at least not unless they can come up with something…
>For some visions of "AI", almost by definition there is nothing left in that list. >(Except some things, of course, where people want to interact with a human). And, of course, the things that the person holding the…
>To be fair, that sort of haughty sentiment is very common among developers just before the job market demonstrates how special they’re not. What examples are you thinking of? Mainly what I remember is multiple waves of…
Take all the countries in the world and split them by "the ruling class enables people to do whatever small things they want" vs "the ruling class puts its own interest above everyone else's and uses technology for…
>I’m not sure if this really is different or not. I also think there’s an enormous amount of white collar work that isn’t actually “intelligent” work. Especially in software development. There's a lot more outside of…
The pattern I observe is: "write code, write test, make things green" This is different in two ways from the classic TDD red-green-refactor suggestion: 1) they don't start with the test first, so the tests that get…
> The cost of shoring up behavior with tests ahead of a restructure has gone down because of AI. Yes. But the ease of not doing that and instead just getting a brittle set of three-quarters-baked tests is extremely…
>I'm flabbergasted that you look at the Chinese property crisis and say "only the West does irresponsible loans." No, 60% of China's economy is state-run companies and the remaining 40% need political officers. China is…
Most white-collar/knowledge-service-industry work is a weird type of work. It's fundamentally about enabling things and largely middleman-type stuff. I have a hard time imaging what "At some point the top end may be too…
> What makes this view more correct than say, "economies with marketing creates a dynamic where being competitive in production is secondary to marketing" and concluding that nothings a free market until we ban all…
The new gen of AI-boom-construction datacenters seem to be substantially different than the ones I used to go when working at companies whose software ran inside them. Those were running air-cooled rack servers, which…
> I don’t think a lot of us employees will be happy to admit that AI is turning out to be a legitimate productivity aid that is allowing individuals to accomplish more work per person. Growth companies respond to…
> Historically a good Windows computer cost $1000 and it was all it took to start programming. Gotta remember inflation here. $1K in 1995 was roughly equivalent to $2K now and wouldn't have been a particularly "good"…