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This is my one and only gripe with "gen z".

Phone calls take 1% of the time to communicate complex ideas, I dont have to write documentation level explanations and I can hear your responses / tone and dynamically adjust to fit the conversation.

My feelings on this are especially prevalent at work, I understand more in an informal setting.

We have < 25's working in sales who HATE phone calls... it will be interesting to see how they make it in the future. The current "senior" sales reps go to the pub or play golf with clients & suppliers every now and then. I guess only the metrics will tell.

That being said if I have to text anyone > 40 I basically cry because they cant express any level of emotion over text and their over use punctuation I interpret as blunt.

God getting old is hard work (im only a > 25 < 30 something).

I feel my like CV justifies this, an exert being "enables directors to make short term decisions" (every "point" has something like this).

This is why I'm abit confused as to why I haven't go a responses :(

No.

They could do infrastructure, kind off, not code - no chance (I like them as a person but they depend on me to teach them how to code)

Hire "younglings" (star-wars) is my remit.

This isn't true.

I've got one person under me and have done for 3-5 years.

Most have enjoyed working under me (so I understand it), most resignations have been for bigger opportunities / bigger cities / bigger money (1 out of 4, and TBH I missed they wanted more money - this was my fault).

My current "report" seems very happy (though I expect them to leave soon, not for money but they are far more interested in another industry and tech challenges that come with it).

Ive put "tech lead" because I developed + orchestrated everything (code, severs, "internal services" (AutoDesk (AutoCAD, Revit), MS Office, ETC).

You think that's to much?

Technically my job title is "Director of IT" but I dont go to enough board meetings to justify that title.

I love that the control is "cringe", you must of had a blast scraping and rating posts!

I don't know if "I took my clothes off and started a new job." is even cringe as much as its an unintended?

I dont do alot of linkedin - do people actually post things like that?

https://imgur.com/a/zJuIKbQ

political press photographers aren't hired for originality!

Yes they almost definitely are, what else would they be hired for? You wouldn't watch the same news everyday (even if it feels that way)

the number of training epochs has dropped dramatically

So? Lets imagine a documented nurodiverse person (lets use a photographic memory) "snapsohts" a famous "works" and then sits in a room, after 5 years training, to produce "some work" are they free of copyright claims? Have you not seen the nurodiverse person who draws the entire New York sky line from 1 helicopter ride?

Your approach seems non-sensical, 1 epoch - 10,000 epochs, it doesn't matter - its still a copy / derivative work (which may exempt it, fair enough).

Personally I think all current AI work is just copyright on steroids, DALL-E outputs Shutterstock logos given the right input and Githubs co-poilt is just a lawsuit waiting to happen (implying anyone has the funds to actually sue Microsoft these days, the T&C's of Github must be incredibly broad).

What framework are you operating under? Every single "moral framework" is valid. Its dense to think otherwise, even "proof of money+taxes".

The only proper response to this is read a philosophy book until you find one that sticks with you +2 years after you read it.

Love how they condensed the first SQL query example onto one line and then gave their example over multiple, deliberately making the SQL hard to read and obscure.

What about N-N relations? How hard has doing LEFT / INNER / OUTTER JOIN become - is learning SQL really to much for the modern dev (Somewhat sincerely asking)?

There are very few people who can relate to your problems, though HN is probably the best place to find people who can.

How casually you say "6 figures in AI for big tech" - you are in the 1% of tech people, its going to be hard to "fit in" no matter where you are.

Bay Area, London, Asia (as broad as that is) - anywhere with a major stock exchange will see you right.

Its all about how much you publish / tweet (and get "fan boys") and who you work with.

Its a lonely world, I cant imagine Einstein worrying to much about it - though maybe he did.

The market gets what the market wants.

Unless you believe there's some sinister cabal out there conspiring to hurt 18-25 years with porn, you'll just have to accept what's out there is what people pay to see.

The big hardcore porn scenes aren't cheap they are deliberate and calculated.

depicts unrealistic sex between adults

Doesn't depict the kind of sex you like to watch or partake in but "Middle America" isn't the only view point (no offence if your not American).

There's plenty of bars / clubs / spaces / apps for "kinksters" and the more adventurous. "kink" came before porn and will exist long after it.

Its unfortunate hardcore porn rises to the homepage of these porn sites but its simple economics "ew that's gross, lemme just click it real quick" and there's the advertising space sold - its just "the algorithm" at it again.

Maybe you should make an account and let "the algorithm" do its thing.

Productivity porn 4 years ago

"im not productive" === "im not happy / socially isolated and my self esteem is low" this statement probably holds true for 99% who "relate" to this shite.

Stop lying to yourself, more work wont make you happy - It didnt the first time.

There is no easy fix, disabling social media wont fix it. Most gains of that nature are short lived.

For real results its long term work on yourself and changes to your environment (I'm just getting started on my journey of solving this dont take it from me, talk to people > 10 years old than you or read a philosophy book > 500 years old)

Productivity porn 4 years ago

18 hours a day? Telsa ran on 4 hours sleep, stop slacking.

Putting you on PIP for this attitude, not very "big org" mindset.

By technical level I meant that the security chip only allows admin users to change the security level to one that allows booting linux, and in order to create admin users, you need to accept the EULA

Hmm, again a "theory" - its a software limit not a hardware one. If I could pwn apples root account that statement would not hold true (I dont write exploits against Apple, I dont know what's "state of the art").

My initial comment was to point out the fact "at a technical level" is a silly comment, at a "technical level" there is likely to always be > 0 vulnerabilities so you are wrong (hence current Apple root access on Iphones through "jail breaking")

Also note that this thread is talking about laptops, not phones.

Ironically Iphone is probably harder than a laptop, I moved the goal posts against myself (see latest M1/M2 kernel upstream work as evidence of that) - which I appreciate is annoying, so sorry for that!

and focus instead on the 5-10% of the application that’s hyper specific to your industry / vehicle / customer. Just like our friends in SaaS.

Ah so the thing that actually takes 90-95% of the time? "Twillo" is no good to me if I dont integrate it properly.

I struggle to see what you've built here other than gym[0] with a largely useless API (Come on, ML training doesn't suck because of lack of HTTP API's), sure its hyper focused on automating vehicle but thats something that's existed for a while - atleast for drones [1].

Shoving sensors on random devices doesn't work that easy, you know that - I dont need a PHD to tell you that. Farmers likely aren't building prod grade ML data sets (except those SWE who gave up FAANG after making $BANK)

What's the real value prop? Why shouldn't I remake the environment in Gym and just cut you out? Gym doesn't require reams of code for environments, same as you.

[0] https://www.gymlibrary.ml [1] https://microsoft.github.io/AirSim/ (2017)

"On a technical level..."

Sorry, what? Does buying a device from Apple contractually oblige me to turn on the phone and agree to the EULA on "first run"? What about second hand markets?

What if I was smart / tooled up enough to replace the Iphone flash storage with my own OS (without running "first run")?

At what "technical level" would what your saying make any sense? Because it seems far more like a "contractual condition of purchase" (I appear to have made that term up) issue vs a "technical" issue to me.