fullstackchris

I'm sure they said the same thing about coal plants before any of them ever existed

+1 on implementing papers, that's one of the best you can do to improve your skills (anywhere in science or engineering actually). A warning: I remember trying to do this back in my uni / grad days and more often than not there is key information or things (perhaps even by accident) left out of the implementation descriptions. I was more in mechanical engineering so perhaps this is less common in AI oriented papers, but I still think it's a valid thing to look out for.

I just experienced this today; I was walking down the street and a teenager walking by himself abruptly made this sharp random shrieking sound to no one in particular and then kept walking along.

Could he actually have Tourette's by traditional clinical definition? Certainly. But I'm inclined to beleive that it has much more to do with this article's definition and how f***d the youth are against the whole social media scene today.

See my other comment with cntl+F / cmd+F. Based on the simple fact that despite its power, this is just another NLP model which can only do input / output, I believe the post to be mostly fabricated, or at best, an accumulation of multiple _hours_ spent deriving and compiling the best responses per each prompt.

Ilmselt sellepärast, et lihtsalt ei ole piisavalt eestikeelseid veebilehti, mida maha kraapida :)

I see posts like this and don't understand how they are made. I asked chatGPT this morning if it "remembered" something I asked in the previous prompt, and it said something to the tune of "I am simply a NLP machine learning model, I provide a decent output for good inputs, I don't have a sense of context, memory, or time."

That's why I really don't understand these contextualized multi step conversations. Especially by the fact this is a payed for substack... I'm inclined to beleive that the both the responses and or flow of conversation (or both) are partially (or more than partially) fabricated.

I also have seen and beleive this is an accurate picture of how these things go. But I'd ask, what about pseudo- social network apps like airbnb? They have a minimal social aspect, but to me app like that will have a longer possible lifetime. I guess even in airbnb's case there are competitors encroaching and stealing market share...

Really appreaciate every single reply and all the insights, advice, and guidance. You all are very much appreciated! Going to save this post and re-read what everyone has said. Lots to think about in the coming weeks and months.

No, they said we had X months of runway and then suddenly in the past week basically said to us that it was a lie and we're essentially "on call" until (if ever) the next round comes through.

Obviously I'm aware startups run out of money and fail often, but just how the whole thing was communicated to engineering team, and even worse that we're now supposed to be cog to do some consulting for XYZ corp "but then as soon as we get funding you come back to us", that really rubbed me the wrong way. I'm a member of the "founding team" at least how it was marketed to me, and it sure doesn't feel that way.

But anyway, I've given in my notice as of today, just for the peace of mind.

Wow, really appreciate you opening up and sharing all this experience.

I do consistently try to make an effort of recognizing and meditating on how blessed I am and the part of the world I grew up and in live in. Of course my feelings of "failure" have much more to do with my personal desires and goals, I'd never spite or throwaway everything else I have (roof over my head, never a worry about food, water, etc.)

Your thoughts on the MRR are similar to my concerns, some comments are saying 100% go indy, but if that income only scales linearly with time for me then yeah I am back to the drawing board in about a half year.

But again, thanks for these great insights and advice.

It's true I have a bad trait of being very critical of others, but as I've said I've always gone above and beyond to complete the tasks given to me, so I'm not sure what I could have done better... maybe I'm just trying to find excuses for what many have pointed out is just the fact of the matter of the startup landscape (high risk of failure)

> Also in a week you might wake up and find out you have cancer and you will just be sick for the rest of your life and never work on anything ever again, forget about the past, forget about the stress and feeling of being angry or unjustly treated and just be who you want to be today, and make everyone else believe it too.

this hit hard, and for me it just proves how much harder i should work on things I care about, and not what the next clown wants me to accomplish for them

chip noob here, i thought we'd already reached the theoretical limit of chip fab sizes? lots of people are talking about 3nm and smaller in this thread? can someone explain?

Also interested... seems insanely high

Point 5 is painfully misled and I'm getting real sick of seeing this trope over and over again. Just because we are witnessing some layoffs of absolutely rediculously foamed over billion dollar tech giants in no way reflects the software job market at large.

Unless, all you read all day is the same crap that everyone else reads all day, then yes, you would be led to beleive that 'the end is nigh' for software engineers.

Great site tracking all the layoffs: https://www.trueup.io/layoffs

> job stability is super important. You might have a family, a hefty savings/retirement account, etc.

These two sentances seem contradictory. If you have a large savings / retirement, don't you have a LARGER parachute / less stress looking for a job? I mean unless yeah you've gone so far on the hedonistic treadmill that you can barely afford your month to month bills.

I don't know, I've never been out of a job for more than like 2 months of actively looking, I think software developers are way to paranoid about job hunting.

All a matter of time... the same exact sentiment was once said for flat screen TVs, laptops, cell phones, etc.

Somehow I'm not surprised that I had to come this far down to find a reference to Planted. Nowadays if one doesn't know the meme term involved (in this case plant based meats directly means BeYoNd MeAt), there are no other examples that come to mind.

In fact, however, there are _plenty_ of plant-based companies doing just fine (like Planted). I'm a fan of nearly all of their products and have watched their growth over the past few years, which has been nothing short of incredible.

I wouldn't worry about plant-based "meats", as the tech improves and we bring another 2+ billion onto the planet, they'll find their market share more and more.

I believe a minimalistic server framework (Flask) is an unfair comparison to what the author is complaining about, namely packages that need to integrate into an entire front end framework and ecosystem (React Native). Handling requests (Flask's primary use case) is but a small fraction, and addition to, all of the other things you need to implement and consider on devices that would run React Native.

Examples: camera roll and / or camera integration, contact listing, deep linking _into_ the app, linking _out of_ the app, foreground or background push notification display (and subsequent routing on press), the list goes on and on. IMO, native development, even if you choose to go Kotlin / Swift path instead of react native, is extremely complex.

To be brutally honest, I too can fire up a linux box or container, install flask, and have my simple REST server up in a matter of minutes. The same cannot be said for all the example native features listed above.

Ah, the author has found the infamous (in my opinion, much much worse than average) state of React Native packages and libraries. For some reason it seems especially React Native packages have a horrible bug rate, low maintenance frequency, and worse... (as an example of what I've seen more than once now, critical bugs are introduced in between minor version changes!) Perhaps it's the ecosystem itself (needing to have native code AND javascript code for BOTH iOS and Android), or the pace of React Native changes itself, but I'm not sure.

Anyway, wholeheartedly agree with the author that one should audit and research packages very carefully before deciding to add them to your codebase. And in React Native, small, "do one thing and do it right" packages would be an unbelievable breath of fresh air.

yes exactly, who in their right mind would assign a UUID as a session token?!?! i mean, good point, wow, this article proves exactly why UUID shouldn't be used for such... then proceeds to show basically a method that is currently used by many... sigh

I used to listen to NPR news now EVERY morning, mulled over nearly every post on /r/worldnews and then I slowly realized it's mostly fluff and media outlets trying to squeeze discussion out of things that a really just a one and done event. Nowadays, there is just so much drama and noise surrounding every single thing that happens in the world. It's of no value actually. So I've quit news consumption altogether as well, it's super liberating.

This is like the Tim Ferriss approach: if some news is really that huge, you'll hear about it from a friend or coworker eventually. And if it's news like globalthermonuclear war, you won't benefit from hearing about it 5 minutes earlier anyway ;)

I disagree with this general sentiment. I don't think absolutely 0 social media is feasible or even wise this day in age. How are you going to keep up with family, friends, and so on? (In my case, family and friends span multiple states, countries, and continents!) You would at the very least need a phone - ok, that's maybe not "social media" in the sense this article talks about, but it's still tech at the end of the day. You'd anyway likely need an app like WhatsApp or Telegram to keep track of everybody and everything - and those technically ARE considered social media right?

Like all things, "social media" is good only with strict moderation and balance. The real problem is that people let their usage get out of hand.

Seems quite interesting, just tried to go through the onboarding for my LLC but I see I need more than 75K in linked accounts, which I do not have :)

Anyway, just applied!

> The Internet is also very fragile. It has many moving parts and drives the politics of our world today. For this reason, it will die, and it will die very soon.

Hah, another doomsdayer to add to the bucket which has been growing since basically the internet came into existance.

Until we have just one datapoint from another civilization or planet (just one!) every single statement surrounding Fermi paradox stuff can't be proven, for example:

- Life has to go through "hard steps" to get to civilization

- (I really hate this one at a personal level for multiple reasons) assuming alien civilizations will use Dyson spheres

- There exists some sort of 'great filter' that prevents civilizations from expanding

For each of these, we have absolutely no data to compare to in order to support or refute these statesments.

Writing a book about NFTs (IMO a fraud based market in the first place) with it being full of lies is, as the author said, hardly a crime. It's just unethical.

Amazon isn't going to read every letter of every book that it sells, so it's hardly their fault either.

Yes, for now. But what will these models look like in something like 5-10 more years?

> it lets you avoid up to about $50/month of digitalocean bills.

Wish I'd know about this AWS free tier, because that sounds a lot like my monthly digital ocean bill :')

> You can even extract drinking water from the air inside your house in all but the driest of locations.

That's some Fremen-level tech right there!