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Consistent users of ~~product~~ AI find it favorable. Color me shocked.

I'm much more curious about the results of 80k people who don't use AI regularly.

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Hi, I'm Peter, and I have 5 years of experience as a software engineer, spanning both frontend and backend. For the past year and a half, I've been working as a Founding Engineer; primarily building distributed systems in Rust. Building software that positively contributes to society is a passion of mine, and I'm always happy to meet new people too. Even if it isn't related to work, feel free to reach out!

  Location: San Francisco
  Remote: Happy to work remotely or hybrid/onsite in the Bay Area 
  Willing to relocate: Not at this time
  Technologies: Rust, JavaScript, React, Python, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure, GCP
  Résumé/CV: https://petermulard.me/static/media/resume.64febd55.pdf
  Website:  https://petermulard.me

Hi, I'm Peter, and I have 4 years of experience as a software engineer, spanning both frontend and backend. For the past year, I've been working as a Founding Engineer; primarily building distributed systems in Rust. I'd love to continue creating backend systems with Rust (and am giving high priority to these roles) but am open to other tech stacks as well. Building software that positively contributes to society is a passion of mine, and I'm always happy to meet new people too. Even if it isn't related to work, feel free to reach out!

  Location: San Francisco
  Remote: Happy to work remotely or hybrid in the Bay Area 
  Willing to relocate: Not at this time
  Technologies: Rust, JavaScript, React, Python, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure, GCP
  Résumé/CV: https://petermulard.me/static/media/resume.64febd55.pdf
  Website:  https://petermulard.me

Hi, I'm Peter, and I have 4 years of experience as a software engineer, spanning both frontend and backend. For the past year, I've been working as a Founding Engineer; primarily building distributed systems in Rust. I'd love to continue creating backend systems with Rust (and am giving high priority to these roles) but am open to other tech stacks as well. Building software that positively contributes to society is a passion of mine, and I'm always happy to meet new people too. Even if it isn't related to work, feel free to reach out!

Really well done, this is so fun to play with.

Ask someone in Turkey or Venezuela, who's had their currency devalue 50%+ overnight, which one is more important.

The FDA has no place in a free market. If people trust a company which poisons their food, they should be punished for misplacing their trust. Both the scammer and the scammed deserve a share of the punishment. Life naturally punishes the scammed already and teaches them a lesson at the same time... Without the help of the FDA... How good is that?!

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I'd much rather pool our money into a commission that does this for the population than spend every waking moment personally auditing companies for breaking the rules. Oh, and I have to set them too. No thanks.

There are plenty of factory/labor jobs that don’t require people to wreck their bodies. Many of them provide workstations where people have the option to sit/stand or they are walking around most of the time. Occasionally bending over, not too much heavily lifting. Many of my ex coworkers who did these jobs were in fantastic shape. It’s disingenuous to pick out an extreme example.

I used to have a mavic mini, that is, up until it disconnected 500 ft from me, never to return again. I tried chasing it down to where I believed it was, but I was never able to reconnect. There is a return to home feature, where the drone is supposed to fly back to its launch spot, in case something like this happens, but that never happened.

Well I contacted DJI to see if they would replace it, due to clearly a software error on their side, and they basically told me to pound sand. I sent them a video recording of the drone’s final moments (it synced to my phone), and they wanted me to pay for their “free data analysis” because the drone was out of warranty; even though I had only flown it a handful of times. (This is data I know they can see, along with the rest of the flight data).

They ended up offering me a 40% coupon, which is just a joke, and I told them I will keep publicly shaming them unless they can offer a replacement. (So here I am). They also randomly called me at 11am on a workday, twice in a row, and didn’t leave a message; about a week after my emails with cs. Just a really weird experience. Highly don’t recommend DJI.

I keep thinking about what a people’s mega-PAC could look like, but I get stumped every time. The US is designed for corporations to easily be the best way of organizing people together, due to the incentives (make profit).

We need to figure out a way to organize people together in different ways, so they can get a seat at the table. The closest I can come up with are unions, but they struggle enough just to exist. Non profits and charities work (they make money), but they are corporation adjacent.

Hopefully technology can make this possible. Imagine a people’s PAC, where participants pool $10 a month to fund it.

Ok let me rephrase this - the people I referenced aren’t good - they’re amazing. They have the credentials (Juilliard, S.I. Newhouse, etc.) and the work experience (lead role on broadway, ESPN and sports illustrated) and it’s still a massive struggle in their industries.

Compare that to being a warm body at a landscaping job, where the bar is “I showed up to work today” and it’s not even a comparison.

It’s the laws of supply and demand. Simple as that. Everyone wants to be a movie star.

I disagree with your premise - just because someone doesn’t make money on their work doesn’t mean it’s not good. We live in a capitalistic society, where the laws of supply and demand rule.

You’re able to make good money in carpentry by simply showing up, because there aren’t many carpenters left. Just like my cousin is able to do the same with landscaping. It’s all work fewer people are doing.

Other friends of mine, some of the most talented and hardworking people I know, have tried their stints on broadway, television, journalism, etc. and are struggling massively. Is it because they aren’t good? Of course not. It’s because there are 1,000 people lined up behind them who are just as good. And there’s another 1,000 behind that group who aren’t quite as good but are willing to do it for poverty wages.

Bitcoin and Ethereum, at a minimum, are decentralized digital gold. They are hedges against fiat currencies, which have their own set of problems and risks.

I’ve been in the camp of chatGPT being just a layer on top of google search - but I like your idea way more. A structured prompt language is a really interesting perspective.

I’ve been dealing with a herniated disc for almost a year now. It’s completely changed how I view my body, and it’s made me forever grateful for my health - along with complete respect for those dealing with chronic medical issues. For the first few months I could barely get out of bed. Nine months later and I can only walk a mile or two a day. Unfortunately, I was laid off right before it happened and haven’t been table to get surgery. Talk about bad luck. This experience has accentuated how horrible the American healthcare system is to me. Even if I wanted take another turn in the service industry until I get back into engineering, I can’t, because I need my body fixed first.