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I guess now we know why there is no social media in Star wars or star Trek

It's kind of pointless in the world where it's easy to clone your way of talking and have thousands bots talking for you. It unavoidably turns into bots talking to bots

A writers perspective: I like to pause from time to time and thank my talent and my education for training me to the point I can trully enjoy difficult classical work. And read it again and again when I miss it. Also being able to sit and write for hours is pretty incredible on its own.

Yes I have nothing to show for it. No money, no deals, no awards... And that upsets me 70% percent of the time. In a healthy way, where it just keeps me going back to the desk same time every day.

Rest of the time I really enjoy just being able to do it and being able to afford the time to do it. As one of the few in my family with degree and withouth second job.

this. I keep repeating to people to stick to very specific questions with very specific limits and expectations but no... give me 20 pages of phd level text that finds cure for cancer

I noticed on our own agentic setups that there are very few actual scenarios being executed. I suggested implementing some type of monitoring so you can replace 99% of most used workflows with normal python and activate AI calls if something new happens. until that new thing repeats few times and you translate that to code to. that has to be carreer in itself. you can turn a lot of AI apps into profitable and fast internal apps

The joke is on you, I was raised in Eastern Europe, where most of what history teachers told us was wrong

That being said. as someone who worked in a library and bookstore 90% of workbooks and technical books are identical. NotebookLM's mindmap feature is such a time saver

there are so many different names for this. and time blocking. but it really works. small reminder. it works even when, like me, someone has serious case of ADHD. but its slightly different and there are extremes on both end. where it does not work or it works to well. but it always work. what I am trying to say if you feel its not efficient you still have to feel it out until you find how it works for you in whatever form it works.

the point of all of this is: this is alpha 0.45 made to get the money needed to build AGI whatever that is

Eye tracking. as someone who trains a lot of old and non tech people is still hard to explain why are interfaces so unaware of our face asp eyes

People always push the argument into extreme but for practical example you have housing around industrial zones going 250% up and being turned into gated communities and factories cant move because of nearby high way and harbor.

So it is not socialism but common sense to call for residency zoning area reserved for workers.

In tourist zones this is normal: from Alps to Mediterranean. But if you mention big cities suddenly nobody ever heard of workers working there only landlords and retail shops.

And I am not talking across the street where you work I am talking 1h commute area around industrial zone rejecting cheap apartments and building gated communities where one foreign firm can buy all 128 houses at once.

If we can talk against concert ticket/ps5/3070ti scalping and overcharging we can talk about housing without being mocked at and called greedy lazy socialist. I just dont wanna live in a shoe box or be 3h in traffic every day.

Best time of my life was living next to the coast. I would leave train one station early and just walk 30 minutes. My social anxiety gets triggered if there is any friction in my surroundings. I know I could take a buss to the beach or go to the park but having any kind of negative experience pushes me back to my gaming station. Living in small town in Alps also had similar effect as the beach. Lots of woods where you only meet other people who want quiet walk so nothing but short hello and good day. My five years living in city center seem the same even though I move 3 times because I never left the room. Esp after 20h. My job is stressful and I just dont have patience and energy to deal with other people problems constantly.

You are wasting your breath. You know he thinks most people are lazy and earning below 200k "for a reason."

A guy won Nobel prize proving your quality of life or happiness does not improve above 75k. Thats what you need.

And in IT you dont need to do unpaid overtime or sacrifice your time with family to get to 75k. Everything above that and you are doing it on purpose cause you value money over family and personal relationships. And that is your choice. But that is not healthy and that should not be norm.

And if you need your workers to work 16h a day with unpaid overtime but they are refusing your workers are not lazy you are incompetent CEO. Or just evil level of greedy.

I am big proponent of STFU and do your job. No "we are family here". No dating people from work. Because some people really really need that next pay-check. There are people paying off their chemotherapy that have to go to work reading about this and worrying about their livelihood. Nobody deserves that. Nobody has a right to get you to worry about how are you gonna survive next mortgage payment. And over what? people acting like they are in highschool. Stuff like this boils my blood before we even get to politics. Life is hard enough. I will not burden you with my family issues and I will work as hard as I can but in return you let me do the work and worry only about what I am working on. Everything else goes under grow the f up and get a life outside company.

Great article. I agree with rereading. When I got into hardware part of networking which I am allergic to it took months of rereading until something clicked

BTW. I was surprised how sensitive this topic is at reddit. They are calling anything and everything gatekeeping. So even telling people how to retain more knowledge will get them to start screaming how you are putting pressure on people and killing the joy of reading. You get 10 downvotes instantly.

My problem with reading non-fiction books, esp while I worked in bookstore where I read book a day, is retaining knowledge. So I reinvented college syllabus like a dumbass I am.

Basically I went on to creating my own reading list of related books so I have this data cloud in my head that makes retaining what I read faster and better. I wasted months on this until I realised I am doing what universities are for in the first place and yep, after checking I found my reading list is bad version of collage syllabus that includes better books and way more current white-papers. And it is easier to shop around for better syllabus then spend months creating and reading books just to find something better later like how you skip patterns in programming while reading more and more workbook type programming books.

I know this sounds crazy now but with improving brain computer interfaces, and I know it is not as good as they say, in a couple years maybe lets say 20 someone will run Doom on that brain implant. We all know we will see this during lifetime. I mean, you can buy in a shop right now a device that helps you control your pc with your brain waves. How is that not exciting? Is it amazing to be a science nerd?

What makes things worse is the most strict security measures in the industry and we always were afraid of fire at this scale when outside parties have to enter pods. And all the checkups after. I dont envy people that worked that and next shift

it is scary to break that chain as Anki is not a problem if used regularly. but when you first start there is a lot of work setting up and going through all the cards and not just the one you need. more you use it longer it takes to get back in. like entire weekend long. it is number one reason people dont use card system even when it is known it is best study method.

A lot of books are empty calories and even good ones can became if you dont internalize it. I reread books over time and every time I get something different out of it but if I force to read something just to cross it of the list I usually forget I read it in couple months

I started turning books into cloze flash cards. it forces me to pay attention and I can read in small chunks. If book is really really good I would retype it. If its really really good it becomes memory palace. But this is my passion and of course everyone cant do that. So try audiobooks and take long walks. Also it is really healthy to avoid screens 60 minutes before sleep and reading paper is nice way to do that.

What keeps me going is the deep knowledge that at the end of the day I will be happy I did it.

Same with running. Of course I hate the idea of getting up early or going out in the evening esp in bad weather. And of course first mile is horrible, horrible experience. But what keeps me running is this certainty and knowledge that it will get better ( as oxygen high kicks in and muscles stretch and body warms up ) and that I never and I really truly mean ever regretted I went for a run. Absolutely ever.

So my only job is to remove friction, get multiple types of clothes ready and near the door, not over do it and create bad experience and show up. Even if I have to lie to myself, put on running clothes and grab MP3 player and say I am just going for a walk. I know I just have to do that first mile.

It is same with my work. Of course it is hard at first. And scary. And I end up scanning job sites during breaks. But even when I create something, even something I don't like or even when project fails, I am still proud and happy I did it. Always. So I just have to show up and survive first 30 minutes.

There are still temptations you have to map out and avoid, and there are always bad days you have to be ready for. And every job has parts you don't like.

At the end of the day I do feel better than when I work anywhere else. I am not 9 to 5 kind a person. I am too anxious for that and I always end up doing free unappreciated overtime to make sure project gets done. So it is even financially better to work for myself.

I have been doing math in python for a year and this explains so much. I feel so stupid now. Thank you for this from self thought dev.

I honestly tried now when I am back in college because I just thought its a bad habit from old times when we learned pascal and basic from help files. But no after trying all the labs I could I started building my labs and just focusing on portfolio.

It's ok to call me stupid but I can't stop thinking about this: it makes sense regardless of what kind of alien intelligent life we are talking about that they will discover fire before solar panels. and we did almost destroyed the global climate with coal. so it always made sense to me that climate change is the first global obstacle that either entire species has to deal with or perish so climate or extreme environmental change is great filter or probably one of great filters.

There are two types of naive thinking one is we are children of god and god would never kill all of us and we are deeply rational beings when things get critical we will snap out of it and get things done. I believe in gospel of doubt and that there will be no miracles here. Environmentalists are already abandoning their field and reskilling not only because of lack of funding but lack of public attention and change.

I understand why would you think that but you underestimate how little data cases can have and just getting basic sketch of race, gender and average facial features that you can use in the field and modify as new information gets available is big deal. But I can see movies presenting this as magic device with 100% exact face. I see big benefit in increasing speed of dna sample analysis and reducing price even more.

No game is David's Michelangelo in talent or effect.

When people say we need entertainment they are thinking in a sense of dessert like of course you deserve a dessert sometimes. But that is not how we got 67% obesity rates.

And now with companies aggressively stealing attention and average person spending 5 hours a day on entertainment while reading one book a year you do feel little guilty for creating one more app to steal you attention and sell you microtransactions.

but this pressure is a positive thing as now when we make games in free time or talk about games we focus on more artsy indie stuff. it is weird how quickly most of my friends dropping Call of Duty or Halo after decade of obsessing. this pressure will create more artistic games.

I have seen at Youtube how 5 people can approve content and team lead but management from marketing and branding had admin privileges and would overrule our decision. I can point to a couple YouTubers that Youtube loves but Google management demonetize regularly every time they say something against Youtube. (Phillip DeFranco is a good example.)

The problem in Facebook is that more management has access and they are weird and politically motivated or just snobs.

Stupid question, slightly off-topic but why every web app needs to be ready to scale and serve a billion users? I don't mean this in the pessimistic way of "be real you are not next Facebook". My question is what do you think all that money is for, one you are asking for from VCs? Facebook was not ready for a million users in the beginning. You need old stable and safe tech that will not crash your demo or provide horrible user experience to important first-generation users. Every time alpha breaks catastrophically is because somebody ambitiously tried something not well documented or understood. People understand MySQL. why would you add extra time and cost to your original first budget? to prove what? I understand it makes job less "job" and more fun but is it truly worth experimenting while you are fighting for survival? If I put all the dead startups in my cv it would be 50 pages long

I love increasing size so book overlaps other page elements. It makes it more 3D

You are on to something. Learning is incompatible with instant gratification mass consumer society. I was just at udemy event and online learning is shifting from gamification to social activity. And there is new research behind this that studied decade of online learning services and students at universities and private companies.

In short personal small projects and big group projects good. Campaign learning and just reading PDFs bad.

But big shock is that group learning with clear goal is so effective it dwarfs every other method. One graph showed like 5 to 1 better retention then gamified or solo learning.