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I think you misunderstood.

I'm not talking about switching to cold contacting companies as a job hunting strategy. I'm saying if you get a suspicious outreach from a rando on linked in on behalf of a company THEN you only continue if you can reach out to the same person via official company channels.

My takeaway from this is that I should use the same defense as when someone calls you "from you bank". When they reach out directly, go to the real company's site to apply and contact a real recruiter. If you can't validate that the business is legit before, then assume malfeasance.

It's my understanding that creatine doesn't directly make you stronger, instead it gives your muscles the ability to work a bit longer. This means you can do more strength training per session which is the part which makes you stronger.

Are we really expecting small town residents to have sophisticated enough prediction powers to know if a bigco company might target their town for a data center build? What's the cost of a false negative vs. a false positive for them? Better safe than sorry applies in spades here.

In my work we are constantly giving people chances to take on more responsibility,

In my experience, this means one of two things:

You're asking people who already have too much to do, to add even more to their plate.

Or

You're throwing the projects which are doomed to failure and nobody else will touch at them.

In basically every job I've ever had this has been the case. There is nothing like being given a shit sandwich and being told it's delicious ice cream.

You have alighted onto an interesting topic: “bail out”. I believe a closely related word on the semiotic chain is “retreat”.

Huh? That's a different meaning of "bail out". In this context its meaning is closer to "rescue" and not retreat.

You think that building out space infrastructure is a less hard problem to solve than bribing a few local governments to get some building permits?

Even funnier is that first picture shows the bottom panel overlapping the baseboard in a way that is impossible in real life.

There is an alternative explanation for this behavior which says that there is a wave and a particle at all times. The wave and particle interact with each other and influence how they move and propogate. It says that we see the interference pattern because the wave does indeed travel through both slits, but the particle only travels through one. It was dismissed by physicists led mainly by Neils Bohr because the alternative theory didn't seem to handle some edge cases gracefully, but new techniques have made this again an interesting area of exploration. Personally, I hope it's true because it means that quantum physics will have an explanation that feels intuitive in the sense that it will follow rules that are similar to physical phenomenon we are familiar with at the macro scale.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Broglie%E2%80%93Bohm_theory

I'm not a lawyer either, but what you're referring to is called parallel construction, and it's not legal. Basically it comes down to 4th Amendment protection against unreasonable search. You can't use methods that violate the 4th Amendment to discover someone has done something wrong, then launch an investigation which uncovers evidence in the traditional sense. The whole process is poisoned because with the illegal means, they would have never had a reason to investigate. You can't just go fishing for criminals or else we are basically all considered guilty by default. The problem of course is that this does happen, and the prosecutors just lie, ommitting the source of the original evidence.

Search partition pruning in distributed databases is one concrete application I'm aware of.

Hashtables optimized for really large item counts; it can be a useful fast pre-check for item existence.

It's because those things not only take more time, it's that the number of people who are really good at it are few and far between. That gives those employees leverage.

Employers are trying to turn all workers everywhere in every industry into completely fungible atomatons. This maximises the candidate pool and drives wages to a minimum. Employees who demand humane working conditions can be canned and replaced with someone more desperate.

In their ideal world we would basically bring back feudalism.

We are going to go back to human-only networks for filtering the garbage into a trusted set of recommendations. Maybe where the only music you can trust are local artists you can see live. Or where the books you read are from a friend-of-a-friend who knows the author. Maybe the world of tomorrow looks more like the world we left behind.

That's like saying the addictiveness of heroin has no bearing on its health implications. It is the literally the most important aspect to consider. Without addictiveness, it wouldn't have such a large impact.

I had a biology teacher who was fond of repeating " everything is toxic, it's just a matter of dosage"

And it's true, you can die from water toxicity.

Water and air are ubiquitous, so we've naturally evolved defenses against overdosing.

Sugar has always been rare and valuable as a food source. In fact most organisms existence revolves around collecting enough chemical energy. It's only in the last 100 years that sugar has become cheap enough for many humans that overdosing is now a problem, and we have little in the way of evolved defenses that keep us from overconsumption.

Sugar addiction is real.

In addition to these reasons, there is the economic side. They're spending money on frivolous but attainable luxury items because the traditional economic path of a house and family seems impossibly out of reach.

You can save for 6 months to buy a car mod for 1500, but when local median house price is $1,000,000 they may feel like it's pointless to even attempt being a home owner.

His success is like the best case study in the world of how our current economic system is solely for the benefit of a privileged few.

He is obviously a liar, a conman and morally suspect. But he has mastered the art of lying in a way that people want to believe. So much so that he can separate fools from their money to the tune of billions.

When you can do that, every economic institution on the planet wants a piece. It's a firehouse of ill gotten cash, and those supporting his staggering rise to power are there to grab a bit of filthy lucre for themselves. It's a wealth transfer than comes along maybe only a few times in a generation.

Everyone knows he's a complete fraud even as they enable him to pull off all these stunts.

It's fine. We can just add fertilizer -- made from petroleum extraction of course then fire up some coal power plants for artificial grow lights.

Thus solving the problem once and for all.

What a wonderful scapegoat! Technically it's all "engineer created" because the managers generally don't do technical work. I bet many managers pushed their reports to increase their usage during their 1:1 meetings based on data from the leaderboard. If management had any sense that it was a bad metric, they had ample time to get ahead of it and take it down and provide appropriate guidance. Instead, predictably, they waited until it was a full on disaster and a crisis before acting.

Now you're thinking like a silicon valley founder! Brilliant! Call the company "Lipstyk" as in the old phrase about lipstick on a pig.

Wisdom is not appreciated in our industry. Everyone in tech with a modicum of status or power thinks they got there because they're smarter than everyone else and there is nothing of value to be learned from others. Thus, our leaders blunder in to the same mistakes everyone else is making over and over again. We never learn.

I bought one of their C64 repros, it was exactly what I want, I was searching ebay for original Apple ][e at the time anyway.

Why? It's going to be my kids first computer.

Computers today are so absolutely hostile as they are simply attention-sucking sale-terminals. They spend all their time popping up unwanted notifications which are just advertising.

And the interface of modern devices is actually horrible for learning. Some stuff may be intuitive, but the biggest issue is that every slight movement, accidental tap or gesture is linked to something so for kids it's too easy to do something that exits the current program or bring up some sidebar. It's impossible even for me to connect "what did I just do?" with the sudden change in context. It makes it really hard to connect cause and effect. And don't even get me started on how dangerous apps like YouTube are for kids. The recommendation algo seems to surface click-farm scam content in no time. Or weird dopamine traps.

So my kids will start with a device that isn't constantly trying to sell things, they will learn to understand simple systems which has deterministic behavior.

It's even worse than that. They're making the comparison of a solar roof to a new standard roof plus solar panels, but most people absolutely do not replace their roof when they get panels so the cost difference is more like 106k vs 30k.

I agree. I'm not defending the current state of affairs by any means.

At some point we have to get used to the idea that there are no such thing as free services. If you're not paying for something that clearly has a cost to the entity providing it, then value will be extracted from you in other ways.

They are not.

It's like a hidden curse of LLMs -- they're so good at parsing intended meaning from non-grammatically-correct language that we don't have to be very good at clear communication.

Eventually all LLMs will be controlled by humans uttering terse gutteral grunts. We will all become neanderthals, with machines that deliver our every whim.

Just wait until you learn about system tools like perf, gdb, bpf -- the amount of low-level detailed information you can get about running processes means you'll reduce the amount of guesswork involved with troubleshooting or performance optimization to a minimum.

Because the premise that the singularity is just around the corner is far less likely than the premise that artificial intelligence is a lot harder than most people think it is and we're not that close.

Especially because the companies telling us the first premise is true are the companies which need investors to prop up their business.

I mean, it is possible the first premise is true, but the absolutely bonkers credulity in it really mystifies me. It is an incredibly unlikely thing to be true and we should be demanding quite extraordinary evidence to back it up. But based on some neat tricks by current LLMs, some people are all in.

"wander console" sounds like they're just web rings re-invented. In the era of forced feeds by giant corporations which consist of the things they want you to see, I've wondered if this old idea would make a comeback. Human curated content from trusted people seems like the only way forward.

But they are so common, i don't know who designs them and makes me feel like 5yo.

The great secret of the industry is that it's mostly run by clueless incompetents. And their only strategy is to copy from every other product because they don't have original ideas or enough conviction to lead in a new direction. They just want to show up, punch thier timecard and go home, so we get the laziest suite of product implementation possible.