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I agree about what happened, but I think the timescale is different. Railroads were the tools of robber-barons even in the 1800s. Electricity was captured by the major electric com…

Translation is an art form that is rapidly becoming lost, not because AI is doing it, but because there are too many translators who have apparently been trained (or likely, were n…

The problem isn't that WFO-preferenced people don't exist, it's that it aligns with the narratives of the extroverted management (who approve their own PTO) that it's better, and p…

Or, as any respectable farmer does it, it's though heavy subsidies and crop insurance fraud!

Yes and no. There were really 2 sides to the original 'tech' industry: military and consumer. The military side was always about profit, because it was just an extension of the alr…

Exactly. It's insane how we've come to just accept corporate profit as a valid reason for allowing people to die, or for shifting responsibility for the outcome away from the corpo…

The article isn't only about AI, and neither was my comment.

Is discussing offshoring that takes away American jobs and has driven much poverty in the heartland equally political and unacceptable, or is it just the political discussions you …

Everyone makes decisions in life and lives with the consequences. Your question, as it's stated now, is simply "should we have free will?" I never made any statement about which ac…

I don't know where you got the idea my comment is about AI from.

That's only okay if they're a politician or business exec, right? It's fine to hold those murderers up as role models, apparently.

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Because we see what's coming? Because we watched our careers go from being in service of an industry of tinkerers and designers, to being in service of the worst people attempting …

These are bad examples. Warranty status is tied to hardware* serials. It's not like there are third-party Framework sellers. Sending a recall notice via email doesn't require name,…

Perhaps I'm uncommon in that I make diagrams and even sometimes pseudo-code (mostly in the form of mapping out function names, because they serve as a proxy for program flow paths)…

It's funny, because I would consider myself a tinkerer (and I have a large backlog of pre-LLM programs), but the coding itself isn't the main thing that brings me joy, it's the pha…

This is a false dichotomy. University impact on careers in the 1980s was materially different than now, and that is still "modern education". Opposing the AI impact on universities…

> If all laws were prosecuted to the exact letter of the law we would not need juries. The DA will prosecute any case that they feel has enough evidence to secure a conviction, as …

The bail jumping charge was actually dropped in the end, so weed possession was the only charge.

We (meaning the US) won't ever fix this ourselves, because we systematically refuse to hold businesses to any kind of standards. Make it illegal to discriminate based on degree sta…

Yep, there were multiple dog whistles in this article, including framing the very intentional attack on science funding by Trump, as a tool for political leverage against universit…

That is either a logistics issue, or a mismatch in what is being purchased. It doesn't specify that they're the same GPUs. Given the way the author structures the article, I'm susp…

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Yes, but that's not something universities can solve. Universities predate capitalism (despite the author's absurd assertion that they were founded to serve the interests of busine…

I'm fairly certain that you do in fact have a duct that moves aqua (water) into your house, bro. And gravity-feed systems are the best way to move large amounts of water. That's ev…