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Re: Social Animus

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Post by dreambuffer »

nozzlegear wrote: post #52
dreambuffer wrote: post #15

This post resonates with my situation very much, although I have not made even a tiny fraction of the contributions this person has. I think if a person like this is struggling to find work, but the donkeys who code my government's dysfunctional websites are all fully employed, it suggests the software industry is in very big trouble. That being said, and speaking from my own experience, one can develop ego problems…

> I managed to escape those toxic thought patterns by practising empathy as a deliberate activity, and forcing myself to give love and grace to others until it felt natural. > but the donkeys who code my government's dysfunctional websites are all fully employed The juxtaposition of these two statements is amusing.

I never said I was better than them, but I can acknowledge that some people are. Even then, only in the domain of software, not in terms of human value.

Re: Social Animus

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Post by andai »

elitepleb wrote: post #31

this plead somehow hits all the wrong notes and reinforces why they're in this situation to begin with, i still hope the author finds their footing, but it won't come without some soul searching

Can you explain for me, another tone deaf person?

Re: Social Animus

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Post by ChiperSoft »

kelnos wrote: post #42
dreambuffer wrote: post #15

This post resonates with my situation very much, although I have not made even a tiny fraction of the contributions this person has. I think if a person like this is struggling to find work, but the donkeys who code my government's dysfunctional websites are all fully employed, it suggests the software industry is in very big trouble. That being said, and speaking from my own experience, one can develop ego problems…

This isn't an ego problem (though I think she may additionally have an ego problem). The author has espoused techno-fascist views (something she avoids actually mentioning in this post), and that seems to be the real reason why many people are uncomfortable working with her.

I just took that as a given for someone who loves 4chan so much

Re: Social Animus

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Post by ChiperSoft »

bbor wrote: post #35
troosevelt wrote: post #2

I feel like it is a very great privilege to be able to post this to Hacker News, soliciting donations. I was out of work for the longest time (thankfully, I finally found some). I too have disadvantages, I have a few mental disorders which make living not the easiest and the world is not made for people who are different in any way. I've contributed to HN in the past, have plenty of stuff on Github but I do not have…

I feel like it is a very great privilege to be able to post this to Hacker News, soliciting donations. Just curious -- are you implying that this is exempted from the rules because the poster is famous? I'm not familiar with any HN rule that forbids "soliciting donations", but also it's been a minute since I looked them up.

As a culture, HN strongly dislikes people who post their own stuff outside of ShowHN. Justine herself acknowledges in the post that she is able get away with things on the site that the majority are not allowed.

Re: Social Animus

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Post by andai »

jawns wrote: post #32

I've read this type of writing before, and I associate it strongly with manic episodes and autistic hyper fixation. It veers from topic to topic with abrupt transitions, developing tenuous threads to support perceived grievances and slights, and every once in a while goes fully off the hinges. There are delusions of grandeur -- "One of the issues I have is that I'm so popular on Hacker News that people there don't cr…

I don't know about you but if the government started demanding several times my yearly income, I'd probably not be in a great place either.

Re: Social Animus

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Post by andai »

> The State of AI in the Cloud 2025 said that llamafile was being used by a third of organizations, which made it more productionized than ollama, llama.cpp, TensorFlow, and even the Anthropic SDK.

This is surprising to me. I always thought it was a niche thing. But I guess if the performance gains are significant (and it sounds like it), then companies can save real money by using llamafile.

Re: Social Animus

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Post by andai »

So basically, the right rejects her for being trans and the left rejects her for being too right. Yeah, that's rough.

How about we actually treat people like persons? What happened to that idea?

Re: Social Animus

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Post by nozzlegear »

dreambuffer wrote: post #91
nozzlegear wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I managed to escape those toxic thought patterns by practising empathy as a deliberate activity, and forcing myself to give love and grace to others until it felt natural. > but the donkeys who code my government's dysfunctional websites are all fully employed The juxtaposition of these two statements is amusing.

I never said I was better than them, but I can acknowledge that some people are. Even then, only in the domain of software, not in terms of human value.

Sorry, to be clear: I'm not calling you out or judging you. It just made me chuckle.

Re: Social Animus

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Post by troosevelt »

andai wrote: post #92
elitepleb wrote: post #31

this plead somehow hits all the wrong notes and reinforces why they're in this situation to begin with, i still hope the author finds their footing, but it won't come without some soul searching

Can you explain for me, another tone deaf person?

It doesn't take responsibility. The defining theme seems to be their political views. She says the reason she was uninvited from a talk is not at all the given reason (political) that the reason she directly links to is. She's either dishonest or just unaware. The fact that she posted this here and won't respond to anything tells me she knows that it is indeed her past and political views that are harming her reputation but she either won't reject them or cannot because she holds them.

She's asking for money to fly private and live in a nice neighborhood in one of the more expensive places in the world. She has a massive ego, saying that donating to her does more for open source than anything else. She cites issue after issue she's had with people including governments saying she hasn't paid taxes. Sometimes when nobody likes you it is because something you are doing, and this post doesn't do any soul-searching. None of this registers to you?

I almost don't want to post this because I've posted twice here and I don't wan to come off as a Justine-hater, but I truly don't get how you don't read this in th epost.

Re: Social Animus

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Post by ozozozd »

I wasn’t patient enough to read the whole thing. But I know Justine to be of extraordinary technical prowess.

I can imagine that someone with that level of talent can be extremely socially unfit - whether intentionally or unintentionally I am unaware. At some point I may have been that way (hoping I am no longer that way, hopefully I was that way with the talent as opposed to without), and I’ve met others who are.

What strikes me as weird is how no manager/leader is able to utilize this absolute treasure of technical ability. I think that makes someone a true leader and/or a capitalist. Anyone can hire average skill who needs the money and is capable of faking sincerity.

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