InsideOutSanta
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Comment · 46 minutes ago
I'm happy they're doing this, and it's good and admirable to see people be able to change their minds on something they once believed so strongly, but this should have happened 30 years ago.
Comment · 2 hours ago
> there are some basic things you don't understand about people.
> Academics really are naive and out of touch people
That's a hilarious juxtaposition of sentences.
Comment · 5 hours ago
I knew one or two profs like that when I was studying, but the vast majority of people in academia are just regular people with families and interests outside of academia. It's kinda disheartening to see the anti-intellectual bent this discussion has taken.
Comment · 6 hours ago
The exact opposite is true. The only consistently working, stable democracies do not have a single leader of the executive branch, e.g. Switzerland.
The CIA sponsored extensive studies on this and came to the conclusion that democracies with a strong presidential role are associated with a greater risk of failure. It's not really surprising, and it can be seen in the US right now.
Comment · 6 hours ago
It's always funny to me when people say "overeducated", as if knowing things is only good up to a point. If you know too much, you suddenly turn bad.
Comment · 18 hours ago
It's because the old bits are starting to stink a bit from age. Get those stinky bits out of here, I say! Let the AI make some new bits!
Comment · 1 day ago
Yeah, if Exchange goes down, you get a day off. If the little boutique email provider you chose goes offline, you get a day in calls with everyone yelling at you.
Comment · 1 day ago
You don't know what I carry in my car.
Comment · 1 day ago
I can't believe I have to spell this out, but when people make an analogy, they're not saying that the things they are comparing are exactly the same. I'm saying that I paid for my Claude subscription, so it should do the development work I ask it to do.
Telling people that they can write code by hand is like telling them that they can walk when their car doesn't drive, regardless of where you drive to. It's technically correct, but it is completely irrelevant.
Comment · 1 day ago
"The car I bought doesn't want to drive me to the hospital!"
"You can walk yourself you know?"
Comment · 1 day ago
> this sounds a lot to me like blowback from current or former employees
Well, yeah. They're the ones who are harmed by Andy's behavior, so obviously they're the ones speaking up. How does this disqualify anything they're saying?
Comment · 1 day ago
Yeah, I'll give him a pass on the 88 thing. Lots of Chinese people have these types of numbers for license plates, phone numbers, or bank account numbers. It has nothing to do with Nazis; they're just lucky numbers. Eight sounds like "发", which means becoming wealthy.
Comment · 1 day ago
I'm not sure that's true, at least not in this case. Andy is an actual geek. He's just also an asshole. Being a geek doesn't stop you from being an asshole.
Comment · 1 day ago
I don't even care about that. Sure, use LLMs to write code. But the way Andy talks to his employees and treats them is so disrespectful, I find it actually despicable.
Unfortunately, it's not super easy for me to migrate away from Proton, but it's the next personal tech project I'll undertake.
Comment · 1 day ago
Correct, not necessarily. But if it is, that should be considered.