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I doubt it would happen. But I imagine even if it did, the more secretive organisations and people become, the more there will be to earn to be the one sharing, which should ensure a certain balance. A prisoner dilemma that works in society favor for once.

Being a true passive investor is much harder than most people think. We are flooded with stories of "amazing opportunities" and "systemic risks".

I wonder if they were looking for a way to back out without losing face or if those changes were genuinely enough.

I get that it is a classic but arguing that understanding less words and examples in a book makes the message stronger is a tough sell.

I said the examples are brutally outdated, not the message. The book is filled with acronyms and names I didn’t know because they are 60 years old.

I’d rather read a 2023 version if I could.

Agree, but sometimes looking for recent books with the same underlying message is better than going through the classic.

I read the mythical man month recently and the examples often involving OS/360 development are brutally outdated. I couldn't relate and I had to force myself to finish.

First way to shoot myself in the foot: not using it.

Too often, I ruled out Postgres as a solution to a certain problem before even trying and jumped to more specialized solutions or moved the problem to the application layer.

It took me years to stop underestimating what this awesome software can do.

If it is loaded in the sense that they will keep their beliefs despite the vast amount of data proving that not only it exists but it is happening, I am fine with that.

The other big difference is that methane stays only around 12 years in the atmosphere compared to centuries for CO2.

I have the same questions.

Hopefully gpt-level progress over existing tech :)

15 min is too much for me to stay motivated, especially with all the other things I have to deal with, but I have been using that 5min routine in the morning to wake up my body https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef6LwAaB3_E

It worked well. I have done it for the past 6 months.

I am curious how much video-to-text content represent compared to pure text. I have no idea.

It helps with the tedious tasks but great programmers are great because of the way they approach and solve problems, not because they write code faster.

On a sidenote: You shouldn't take anything said in the "all in podcast" more seriously than a political discussion overheard a saturday night in a bar. Be careful with the halo effect.

I wonder if the department of justice is going to launch the same enthusiastic corruption investigations they used to massively fine foreign competitors of American companies. \s

I did

But their product survived and they ended up being wildly successful.

In a lot of projects, early optimization hurt the development speed and maintainability, sometimes killing the product.

It is easier to see performance bottlenecks once a product is wildly used than adding optimizations everywhere we suspect it might become a problem later.

I don't know, I cannot think of a lot of jobs that would be completely uninteresting to me. What would they be?

Even if the job doesn't have a technical angle that interests you, you can always talk about the human aspect of things: frustration with their management / the funny things that happened to them / stories they heard from their customers / something in their job they are passionate about / how they feel about their job / the things they have learnt while working in their domain.

I think I am using those conversations to try to imagine what my life might have been if software engineer didn't exist. It is pretty much the only thing I was really good at. I am insecure about how much harder my life might have been without it.

> No it's not, no one cares about your job.

While I agree with the sentiment of this article, I strongly disagree that no one cares. As a curious person, I often have a ton of questions about someone's occupation. For me, it is fun to hear people talk about their job.

I just don't like asking about occupation early-on in the conversation because it sometimes feel like socially categorizing people.

And funding North Korea.

Thank you Jeremy, it is an amazing course!

I wish I had an extension allowing me to upvote/downvote websites and showing the karma ratio of the website when I navigate to one of their article.

It might not change anything but at least I would feel that I was able to sanction the website for their misleading title.

Yes

To be fair, the joycon was drifting only once in a while (which is super annoying when you play platform games). I am not sure it was worth their time to try to reproduce for too long.

They replaced for free a joycon of a 5 year old product, and we are talking about a portable device with which i played intensively, traveled with, dropped, eat on it, splashed water, left in the sun, played at the beach in the sand etc…

As far as I am concerned, they didn’t have to go that extra mile but they did.

Replaced, they could not reproduce the problem.

I don't know how it is in Europe, but in North America, their repair service is top-notch.

2 months ago I sent them a joycon of my 5 year old switch because it started to drift.

I simply filed a form on their website and dropped the joycon at a UPS store. Two weeks later, I received a new joycon by mail. I didn't pay for anything, not even UPS shipping.

Maybe the IAs that destroyed civilizations were just misaligned and didn't desire to survive after the achievement of their goal? Maybe all around the universe, millions of IAs have just killed everyone and stop their execution with the return message: World peace achieved.

I get that feeling when I try to imagine if I would prefer an AI to drive my car. Rationally, I know it would probably be safer, but at the same time I would still feel safer driving it myself.

I imagine it is a mix of an illusion of control and "it won't happen to me because I drive better than the average driver".

From an utilitarian point of view, AI only have to create less problems that humans.

When I see physicians like Lynn Webster prescribing insane doses of Oxycontin for any injury, ignoring the warnings of the people dealing with the disastrous results and finally making up excuses for the death of his patients, I am pretty sure a lot of families would have preferred to take their chance with IA.

But of course, a fully utilitarian society would probably be a nightmare.

I agree that companies will probably just do more but my point was that managers are not safer than other jobs. It is linked to the jobs they manage and a large part of their day to day can also be automated.