rjurney
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Comment · 1 month ago
Local outrage over construction is the only protest people have against their wholesale replacement at work. They're totally fucked, and you know it. And you aren't. Have empathy.
Comment · 2 months ago
This was number one, I wish it still was. The founders railed against precisely the kind of aristocratic, authoritarian corruption this administration represents.
Comment · 2 months ago
It is this or wait on hold forever... triage it should be able to handle.
Comment · 7 months ago
So try Mounjaro. It works better.
Comment · 11 months ago
I've tried the Perplexity browser and... I can't figure out what it does or how it is better?
Comment · 1 year ago
One bad message in a Kafka queue and guess what? The entire queue is down because it kills your workers over and over. To fix it? You have to resize the queue to zero, which means losing requests. This KILLS me. Jay Kreps says there is no reason it can't be fixed, but it never had been and this infuriates me because it happens so often :)
Comment · 1 year ago
You need a sales / product cofounder to be CEO. Create a compelling demo of it doing amazing things, then put all your energy into finding a cofounder. Startups are a team sport and you need help with customer development.
Comment · 1 year ago
This is not a surprise to anyone that has engaged in prolonged meditation, especially across more than one day. It makes shortcuts like psychedelics look foolish. During a ten day Vipassana retreat time slowed down to such a great extent it changed my entire perception of time thereafter. The space provided by the mental quiet created by Anapana is so profound.
TLDR Anapana: Sit comfortably and monitor the sensation of the breath exiting the nose and return to it as your thoughts wander. Don't get mad when you wander, it's part of the process. Just return and try to maintain equanimity, to not react. If you get frustrated at first, you can increase your exhale slighlty to make it more noticeable.
That's about all there is to it. After you do this for a while your thoughts become less and less frequent and... you only have important, creative thoughts :) It turns out conscious thought is just a refection of a deeper process and most of it is garbage: worries, self doubt, fears.
I have just inspired myself to take up daily Anapana by writing this...
Comment · 1 year ago
Workers in denial are like lemmings, headed for the cliff... not putting myself above that. A moderate view indicates great disruption before new jobs replace the current round being lost.
Comment · 1 year ago
As a writer, this is deeply comforting. The book is total shit. It sounds like an AI, not like something a person would connect with for even a moment. Not even in the opening lines.
Comment · 1 year ago
When AI is cheap, why use juniors, regular software engineers or off-shore labor at all? AI replaces these things. Why not use the best available talent to oversee and guarantee the work of coding agents? To define requirements and translate them into maintainable code? This is the trend. It takes mastery to produce good, maintainable code from vague requirements using coding agents. This seems like value add a human will continue to provide.
I also see the blending of engineers and data scientists with product managers.
Comment · 1 year ago
When AI is cheap, why use off-shore labor at all? AI replaces it. Why not use the best available talent to oversee and guarantee the work of coding agents? To define requirements and translate them into maintainable code? This is the trend.
Comment · 1 year ago
Yes, you rarely hear specifics like this as to where new jobs will come from. Hear, hear!
Comment · 1 year ago
I am building a knowledge graph using BAML [baml-py] to extract documents [it's opinionated towards docs] and then PySpark to ETL the data into a node / edge list. GPT4o got few relations... Gemini 2.5 got so many it was nuts, all accurate but not all from the article! I had to reign it in and instruct it not to build so vast a graph. Really cool, it knows a LOT about semiconductors :)
I'm into large networks and language models. I build economic graphs and bibliometrics.