froztbyte @ froztbyte @awful.systems Posts 16Comments 1,423Joined 2 yr. ago
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but, yeah, common reaction. it'd be funnier if their ideas weren't presently so fucking influential in all the wrong places. :|
what pisses me off even more is that parts of the idea behind this are actually quite cool and worthwhile! just..... the entire goddamn pitch. ew.
ran into this earlier (via techmeme, I think?), and I just want to vent
“The biggest challenge the industry is facing is actually talent shortage. There is a gap. There is an aging workforce, where all of the experts are going to retire in the next five or six years. At the same time, the next generation is not coming in, because no one wants to work in manufacturing.”
"whole industries have fucked up on actually training people for a run going on decades, but no the magic sparkles will solve the problem!!!11~"
But when these new people do enter the space, he added, they will know less than the generation that came before, because they will be more interchangeable and responsible for more (due to there being fewer of them).
I forget where I read/saw it, but sometime in the last year I encountered someone talking about "the collapse of ..." wrt things like "travel agent", which is a thing that's mostly disappeared (on account of various kinds of services enabling previously-impossible things, e.g. direct flights search, etc etc) but not been fully replaced. so now instead of popping a travel agent a loose set of plans and wants then getting back options, everyone just has to carry that burden themselves, badly
and that last paragraph reminds me of exactly that nonsense. and the weird "oh don't worry, skilled repair engineers can readily multiclass" collapse equivalence really, really, really grates
sometimes I think these motherfuckers should be made to use only machines maintained under their bullshit processes, etc. after a very small handful of years they'll come around. but as it stands now it'll probably be a very "for me not for thee" setup
venture capital has been very reluctant to unambiguously realise the losses
don't believe the broadsheets / the gravy train's a-rockin'
Technically he doesn’t have connections to Thiel directly.
minor nit: known connections. while "thielbucks laundered through 17 cutouts get used to fund useful idiots for stochastic terrorism to whip up an anti-trans panic" is a hypothetical I just pulled out of my ass for demonstration, it's also too fucking plausible in the current state of affairs
I have no idea how likely that scenario is, and just to be clear I'm not saying that anything like it did happen. more pointing towards thielbucks are in so of the bad places doing harm atm, that sort of thing. so much so that I'd be hesitant to concretely exclude anyone/anything from that without some data to back it up
(life has hella been burning mental bandwidth)
it took me until today to grok the VC double entendre
or how real states make it so that you can have citizenship of only one state, maybe two. there's nothing about it there
come on we both know it’ll be github badges or something like that
yeah shillrinivan's ideas are extremely Statisism: Sims Edition
I've also seen essentially ~0 thinking from any of them on how to treat corner cases and all that weird messy human conflict shit. but code is law! rah!
(pretty sure that if his unearned timing-fortunes ever got threatened by some coin contract gap or whatever, he'd instantly be all over getting that shit blocked)
But Hinton didn’t want Yu to see his personal humidifying chamber, so every time Yu dropped in for a chat, Hinton turned to his two students, the only other people in his three-person company, and asked them to disassemble and hide the mattress and the ironing board and the wet towels. “This is what vice presidents do,” he told them.
so insanely fucking unserious
this article came to mind for something I was looking into, and then on rereading it I just stumbled across this again:
Late one afternoon, as they looked out the window, two airplanes flew past from opposite directions, leaving contrails that crossed in the sky like a giant X right above a set of mountain peaks. Punchy with excitement, they mused about what this might mean, before remembering that Google was headquartered in a place called Mountain View. “Does that mean we should join Google?” Hinton asked. “Or does it mean we shouldn’t?”
found in the wild, The Tech Barons have a blueprint drawn in crayon
speaking of shillrinivan, anyone heard anything more about cult school after the news that no-one like bryan's shitty food packs?
wat
copyright reform can't come fucking soon enough
also often double whammies with the predation thing (finding those down on their luck who just really need something, fucking over early-career people, etc)
MAGA columnist/influencer Ashley St. Clair
ah. earlier someone linked me screenshots of the tweets and I was trying to remember where I knew the name from.
fuck, I saw their "we added a LLM weeee" post, didn't realize it was this shittily implemented. not too surprised
the rest, ugh. fuck that implementation then
even just using this anywhere with a NDA becomes an instant violation. how little do these fucking dipshits think through their actions...
this is, in a weird sense, kind of a freeing feeling
speaking from experience, yep. once you make your mind up on a gtfo intent re a bad situation, so much other shit just falls away
it’ll definitely have hard bits, but keep at it. worth it
would’ve thought that’s more a hot air balloon situation
yud, 15-year top of score chart of expert beginners
(e: s/p,/d,/ stupid phone)