I honestly think that these AI companies really messed up their futures by adopting a token model. They should have gone the route of IBM and offered consultant services.
I use it every day, sometimes for hours. Once I embraced that fact that my family goes to bed before I do, I use it watch all of my "nerdy" shows at night. During the day it's been really great for having a large desktop that I can see throughout the house. For gaming, I use the geforce now service and a playstation controller. It's been quite fun!
This is exactly how it happens at my house. I purposely stick to to the $20-$40 boxes for this reason. Over $100, that's not a toy anymore for me. That price range becomes a collectors figurine.
I keep reading comments that claim GenAI's positive traits, but this usually amounts to some toy PoC that very eerily mirrors work found in code bootcamps. You want an app that has logins and comments and upvotes? GenAI is going to look amazing setting up a non-relational db to your node backend.
I've had this conversation a couple of times now. If AI can just scan a video and provide bullet points, what's the point of the video at all? Same with UI/UX in general. Without real users, then it starts to feel meaningless.
Some media is cool because you know it was really difficult to put it together or obtain the footage. I think of Tom Cruise and his stunts in Mission Impossible as an example. They add to the spectacle because you know someone actually did this and it was difficult, expensive, and dangerous. (Implying a once in a lifetime moment.) But yeah, AI offers ways to make this visual infinitely repeatable.
Anyone else see these types of announcement posts, and it's like they already have thousands of users? Where do y'all learn about these projects so early?
I have read many comments on this thread pointing towards other calendar libraries. I appreciate projects like this because I believe it's healthy for our industry to rethink "solved" issues. You put a cool spin on this topic and I hope that it taught you lots while building it.
Not that I believe the OP's statements, but I think the idea is that 'inclusive' cultures live at the intersection of many circles rather than their union.
I used Ramda for 3+ years. I like somethings but overall wouldn't pick it up again. FP in general makes it really easy for people to write inefficient passes over data. In addition, debugging or code reviewing ramdajs code can be painful as you often have several layers of call stack with meaningless (curryN, pipe, map, pick) functions. I say meaningless because when your whole app uses ramda, you find it very difficult to know what is being map'd or curry'd.
The thing I hate about all of these GoG approaches is the wastefulness of the translation of data + style into visual representations. For example, if you have a dashboard with 8+ charts visible, the scaffolding of the charting library starts to weigh down the system in both performance and memory usage. VegaLite, especially, seems to make a copy of the data being passed in. Looking at the examples of ObservablePlot, I can see more wasteful processing in the form of dataset.map(d => d.property) sprinkled in several places.
Ex-googler here. I hated the promotion process with a passion. 20 pages of "evidence" which is usually just links to green/blue docs, CLs, and just flowery puff language to argue your case. My org skipped the promo committee process at the start of the pandemic when I was up for it. When we had teammate that changed teams join us for a virtual meet up to tell us _he_ got promo in his org. I quit the next week.
From my experience the ones pushing for these ideas are the fresh grad PMs trying to do something big for "perf". The whole platform feels like Waymo, driverless.
I am forever in awe of the engineers that can work with the low-level bits and make things like this happen. I'm a deer in the headlights whenever I see addrs and `eax 0xDAFAC000...`
This is why I don't interview at FB. I always told people the interviews I've had with FB just seems ridiculously off. Your story kind of corroborates that.
I'm really glad someone can articulate what I've bee thinking for a long time. It started when I realized that bitcoin was being used to fuel dark markets then again when I saw that anyone was able to make a coin and pre-mine thousands before sharing with others struck with FOMO.