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You should take this as a sign, and shoot for SWE jobs - given your interest. What you do at work today doesn't mean you can't switch to a related ladder.
Sometimes it’s nice for hobbies to remain hobbies
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Sometimes it’s nice for hobbies to remain hobbies
I believed this, which is what made me avoid computer science in college; I wanted to avoid ruining my favorite hobby. After a few years post graduation, where I wasn't sure what I wanted to do and I floundered to find a career, I decided to give software development a try, and risk ruining my favorite hobby. Definitely the best decision I could have made. Now people pay me a lot of money to do the thing I love to do…
Sure, of course. Sometimes it works out to follow your passion into a career. I was objecting to the apparent premise that that’s _always_ what you should do.
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Sometimes it’s nice for hobbies to remain hobbies
I believed this, which is what made me avoid computer science in college; I wanted to avoid ruining my favorite hobby. After a few years post graduation, where I wasn't sure what I wanted to do and I floundered to find a career, I decided to give software development a try, and risk ruining my favorite hobby. Definitely the best decision I could have made. Now people pay me a lot of money to do the thing I love to do…
My first software job I enjoyed. My 2nd/current job I enjoy everything except the actual work. Too much beuracracy, but it hasn't ruined my love for the craft yet. Oh well, I'm building some other skills I didn't know I had in me.
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#135I've noticed a lot of people are converging on this idea of using AI to analyze your own data, the same way the companies do it to your data and serve you super targeted content. Recently, I was inspired to do this on my entire browsing history, after reading https://labs.rs/en/browsing-histories/ I also did the same from ChatGPT/Claude conversation history. The most terrifying thing I did was having an LLM look at m…
> Instead of optimizing for engagement and ad revenue, these systems are optimized for user utility. Are they, or instead they will help keeping you in your comfort cage? Comfort cage is better than engagement cage ofc, but maybe we should step out of it once in a while. > During the RSS reader era, I was exposed to a lot of curated tech and design content and it helped me really develop taste and knowledge in these…
> Are they, or instead they will help keeping you in your comfort cage?
I’ve been paying close attention to what YouTube shorts/tiktok do. They don’t just show you the same genre or topic or even set of topics. They are constantly in an explore-exploit pattern. Constantly trying to figure out the next thing that’ll keep your attention, show you a bunch of that content, then on to the next thing. Each interest cluster builds towards a peak then tapers off.
So it’s not like if you see baking videos it’ll keep you in that comfort zone forever.
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#136As someone with a family background of more left leaning Catholics (which I think are more common in the US northeast), it's interesting that it decided that you are conservative based on Catholicism.
To be fair, it actually said: > Fiscally conservative / civil-libertarian with traditionalist social leaning And justified it with: > Bogleheads & MMM frugality + Catholic/First Things pieces, EFF privacy, skepticism of Big Tech censorship First Things in its current incarnation is all about religious social conservatism. If someone is Catholic and reads First Things articles, "conservative" is a pretty safe bet. How…
First things is also pretty high brow. If you’re interested in poetry, classics, etc it had a lot to offer.
I’m sure any profiler would be very confused by my reading history, but I really, really like poetry and Plato. So New Yorker, Atlantic, First Things, N+1.
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#137I've noticed a lot of people are converging on this idea of using AI to analyze your own data, the same way the companies do it to your data and serve you super targeted content. Recently, I was inspired to do this on my entire browsing history, after reading https://labs.rs/en/browsing-histories/ I also did the same from ChatGPT/Claude conversation history. The most terrifying thing I did was having an LLM look at m…
> Instead of optimizing for engagement and ad revenue, these systems are optimized for user utility. Are they, or instead they will help keeping you in your comfort cage? Comfort cage is better than engagement cage ofc, but maybe we should step out of it once in a while. > During the RSS reader era, I was exposed to a lot of curated tech and design content and it helped me really develop taste and knowledge in these…
YT Music is a good algorithm for exploring music. You click a song and the playlist after that song is a mix of similar music and music you like to hear. There's also a button which lets you decide if you want to discover different music or something fresher based on your taste.
Twitter is an example of being entirely in the comfort cage - it links you with people who you agree with, even going out of the way to create these bubbles.
Meta seems to end up with a rage cage. If you criticize say, videos on how to become a billionaire, it would show more billionaire videos.
HN used to be the default. A forum where everyone is in the same cage. People criticize HN culture and thoughts, but sometimes it's just people being shown a side of the world they're not used to.
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#138A while back I made a little script (for fun/curiosity) that would do this for HN profiles. It’d use their submission and comment history to infer a profile including similar stuff like location, political leaning, career, age, sex, etc. Main motivation was seeing some surprising takes in various comment threads and being curious about where it might have came from. Obviously no idea how accurate the profiles were, b…
Someone recently did this to predict what would hit the HN front page based on article content + profiles of users.
link please? if you can find it
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#139I've noticed a lot of people are converging on this idea of using AI to analyze your own data, the same way the companies do it to your data and serve you super targeted content. Recently, I was inspired to do this on my entire browsing history, after reading https://labs.rs/en/browsing-histories/ I also did the same from ChatGPT/Claude conversation history. The most terrifying thing I did was having an LLM look at m…
>During the RSS reader era, I was exposed to a lot of curated tech and design content and it helped me really develop taste and knowledge in these areas.
Man, you helped me realize how much the RSS era helped me out. I followed so many different sources of articles and had them roughly prioritized by my interest in them. It was really helpful reading thousands of articles and developing better and better mental models of how technology works while I was in high school. A lot has changed, but many of the mental models are still pretty accurate and handy for branching off and diving in deeper where I'm interested.
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#140I did something similar when pocket was announcement: https://github.com/ArturSkowronski/moltres-pocket-analyzer
I wanted a tool that clean the data, tag them and bring a way to analyze them easily with a Notebooks and migrate.
I had a lot of "feels" getting through this :)