scarabic

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨at what point in life it's too late to go back to school?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, it can happen. The anecdote sounds ludicrous to me: gatekeeping someone with that much experience over checking a box like that. But the good news is, if you’re in that situation you will know it, and can then act appropriately. If one is not in such an obvious situation, I think what I said is still good baseline general advice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  This is pretty much the only metric that matters. There is absolutely plenty of room to improve on human drivers! One crash per 500k miles sounds extremely low to me. But if the cars are not better than humans, they should not be on the road.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨at what point in life it's too late to go back to school?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Did she do it for the joy of learning? Or personal growth and satisfaction? Or was it for career enhancement?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨at what point in life it's too late to go back to school?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s not one specific age you’re going to find is The Answer to this.

  When you are young and still developing and have lots of time to find your path, it’s worth making the long term investment of some general schooling to maximize your own growth and development, and prairie yourself for a broad set of possible futures.

  However, as your career progresses, it becomes less valuable to invest in general schooling, but specific training for your specific career can still be valuable.

  There’s no cutoff point where all this flips. If you are 5 years into your career and still aren’t certain of what you want to do, an MBA may still be valuable. It will expose you to a range of skills and possible roles and give you some good general foundation for things like leadership roles, or starting your own business.

  If you are 20 years into your career and want to rank up to earn more money, an MBA is probably more expensive than it is worth. At that point, your experience is much more valuable than shy degree. Sure, you might look better in a job interview with MBA on your resume, but getting an MBA is expensive and whatever small advantage it gives your resume will probably not pay for the cost of the MBA.

  You need to figure out where you are in this journey. Do you still feel that you are exploring and looking for your niche? Schooling might help. Are you on a specific path and hoping to power up? Schooling may not help.

  I am 20 years in. I took a class for $300 last year that was highly specific to my role and only required two days. That was worth it. Spending $40k on an MBA will not be worth it for me. I could be 38 or 54 years old, age isn’t really the point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After viral interview, Palantir launches neurodivergent fellowship⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  They say it’s not a DEI initiative; they just want to get this talent onboard for their business.

  Ironically, that’s exactly what DEI initiatives were all about: recognizing that if we let white bros excluded all others from the workplace, like they have in prior decades, we will shut out the majority of the world’s talent, and we should do whatever it takes to make sure everyone can join, work, and truly focus without watching their back all the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does everyone put celery in soup stock?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think at some point you may need to admit that this post is essentially “I don’t like this thing, why does everyone else?” This is subjective and cultural, not logical. You don’t have anything objective against celery, you just think it ”tastes horrid.” You’re entitled to that opinion. But I don’t understand why you seem to struggle so much with the idea that others don’t share it. Personally I think garlic is absolute magic, but I can 100% accept that others may not like it the same way, and some may be violently repelled by it. 🤷‍♂️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can we stop bots on the fediverse?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Unjust go back to the things that forum admins have done forever: block whole IP continents you don’t see meaningful engagement from but see a ton of bots from. Make new accounts jump through a bunch of hoops. Don’t allow new users to create content for a while, and then make them earn that right over time. Shadow ban the crap you can identify so they waste their strength. Reap inactive accounts periodically. And so on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does the private equity bubble compare to the AI bubble if at all?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I acknowledge your point about alternate use, but we also need to look at a datacenter we may or may not need as a “power consumption plant.” These jackasses just keep loading and loading up the grid, looking to make a private dollar on public infrastructure. It’s wasteful and not necessarily a baseline good thing ^TM even if AI goes flop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Earth needs more energy. Atlanta’s Super Soaker creator may have a solution.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah fostering waste heat into useful energy sounds very very much like “making entropy go down.” We know we can make entropy go down in one spot by increasing it even more in others. But for them to do that here. They’d be turning high entropy into low entropy PLUS more high entropy, which sounds circularly self-fueling or essentially perpetual option. Most of our electrical generation capabilities use heat at some point to boil water, but what makes that work is water’s phase change behavior, accessible temperature for that phase exchange, and water’s ubiquity.

  If they can pull this off: amazing. But it sounds very much like a quixotic adventure for a legendary inventor’s final days. Someone call me when they have something applicable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone who has knowledge of or works in any areas adjacent to any of these could provide some kind of insight. Fuck me for wanting some grownup conversation about why businesses do the things they do, instead of a circle jerk of hating on mustache-twirling villains.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As predicted, a one-dimensional answer.

  Let’s say they want more money: they do have a healthy software subscriptions business. How can they get more by becoming the world’s tiniest streaming service? And won’t that cannibalize their subscriptions business as the experience gets shittier and shittier?

  Some actual “whys” within this would be things like (made up, but for example)

  1. the subscriptions business is dying - less than 1% of users ever buy a pass and efforts to increase that failed for (another reason here)

  2. streaming services are dumping cash into viewer acquisition because a war is on for dominance in that space and Pled is capitalizing on that

  3. Plex has high overlap with gamers and are making good money on midroll gaming ads during these streams

  4. Plex has legal concerns about facilitating piracy - this is the real reason why sync is shit and they killed watch together. They are desperately trying to pivot out of their old business before they get sued - OR all this streaming nonsense gives them a kind of fig leaf over that somehow

  See, issues can be complex and interesting. Just calling them greedy is neither. How is this the greedy play, even?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate headlines like this. I’d love to hear the REASONS WHY Plex are doing all of this. But no, it’s just “4 ways in which Plex now sucks” which we all know already.

  Before someone says “the reason is money” we need to ask: do the developers of Jellyfin not use money?

  Before someone says “enshittification,” we need to ask: does this mean Jellyfin will soon have the same problems?

  We all seem to love Jellyfin so I think we need to understand the actual reason why, or this will just continue happening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isint lemmy more popular?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Because Reddit exists.

  Reddit itself didn’t truly take off to massive scale until some other players were out of the way. It was the underdog for a long time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone should write a Reddit client that automatically hides the top two comments and all their children, because they’re inevitably stupid jokes that add nothing.

  Oh right. No one can make new Reddit clients anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing Proton Sheets⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve managed entirely on Google Sheets for years now. And I was a really big fan of Excel. It was never viable for me to rely on Windows to be everywhere I need to be, and the functionality gap closed steadily over the years to the point where the benefits of it being on the web now overwhelm the feature gap. Being free helps too, especially as Excel has gone through various pricing and bundling contortions over the years. Someone might tell me here that it’s now completely free but can I really be blamed for tuning out Microsoft years ago?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who shops at small businesses?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of these are under threat too. There are online lawyer and doctor offerings now. Maybe not numbers, but there are certainly tech companies trying to own the plumbing referral business (like Thumbtack) and they suck a great deal of the profit margin out of it. Nothing is safe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who shops at small businesses?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some local retail makes sense, and some does not. For example, my life would really suffer if the hardware store down the street closed up. I like being able to get a paint match home in under 30 minutes. And sometimes I spend half an hour looking for the exact bolt I need, checking it against the other part it’s going to screw into: you just can’t do all that on Amazon and the big box motherfuckers are further away and far less convenient.

  Once I messed up and superglued a wrench into my palm. I couldn’t wait for fucking Prime Overnight. I went down to the hardware store and asked if they stocked ca glue debonder. They didn’t, but the store manager got out some acetone and sat there with me, slowly pouring it on as I peeled the wrench out. He wouldn’t even take my money at the end. You just get that kind of service from Lowe’s or Amazon. I now buy every single thing I possibly can there, to help ensure they stay around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who shops at small businesses?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Local hardware store stands apart as an indispensable local retail utility and I buy everything I possibly can there, because I like having a local hardware store and occasionally really need one. I buy all the household cleaning products I can there, because they sell them, I need them, and I’m incredibly happy to pay whatever extra 40 cents they cost over having Amazon pack up a box of dish pods into its own cardboard box and truck it out to my house,

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We turn the HVAC "up" whether we want it colder or warmer.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of people in the world only have one kind of HVAC, heat or cooling, but not both.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who shops at small businesses?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do you even visit them? I’d say if you use them for product discovery but then give all your sales to online merchants, you are an absolute enemy of small businesses, whatever you think you feel about them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending trillions on AI data centers will pay off at today's infrastructure costs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Trillions of dollars worth of compute mining dogecoin

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending trillions on AI data centers will pay off at today's infrastructure costs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish i knew more about the guts of LLMs because I keep thinking it must be easier to optimize them than to put data centers into space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It will come with an optional $400 fork that does nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game designed to save dying Aboriginal language wins global awards⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The concept of a global language is compatible with linguistic diversity. The Elves, Orcs, and Dwarves all have their own languages, but they also speak the same Common Tongue.

  Our world just doesn’t have a common tongue. It has a handful of very colonially dominant languages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game designed to save dying Aboriginal language wins global awards⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the utilitarian point of view. Even though I often take this POV on many subjects, it would be totalitarian to apply it to cultural matters. Should we adopt one world cuisine that is the easiest to work with? Should we settle everyone on one musical scale and religion, too? It would be a lot more efficient and would facilitate global interaction better.

  Only problem: it would erase who we are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game designed to save dying Aboriginal language wins global awards⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just guessing what they meant but I took it as the difference between:

  1. saving = getting enough people to keep speaking it that it remains a living language

  2. preserving = documenting it for posterity so that it is not utterly forgotten for all time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MKBHD's Panels wallpaper app is shutting down⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can only imagine with his audience size what his team looks like right now. I’m sure they aren’t content with standard YT revenue and are always looking for ways to turn his massive fame into more dollars. They cover a lot of silly expensive high end shit like Rivians and Apple Vision. It’s not crazy to think that they could milk the rich fools for a buck. Believe it or not there are people who think to themselves “Hm, interesting. $50? Okay, that’s nothing, I’ll check it out.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Devs gripe about having AI shoved down their throats⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We are pushing our product managers to communicate their requirements with live prototypes rather than PRDs and mockups. It forces them to actually think their ideas through, and even allows them to get some hallway feedback before even bothering an eng. This might help with #5. But I’ve never had sympathy for engineers who think all the process around them is net negative, because nothings ever stopped engineers from striking out on their own, without all that, and making great businesses. If your PM and VPs are bringing you down, go it alone. If you can’t pull that together into a paycheck then maybe it’s not all as useless as some say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Devs gripe about having AI shoved down their throats⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From what I see, the current is beginning to turn a little toward valuing senior e mg inners more than ever, because they can deal with the downsides of AI. Junior devs, on the other hand, cannot, and their simpler coding work is also more easily replaced by AI. So we’ll see fewer junior dev jobs, but seniors might do fine. I’m not sure that’s good news for the profession as a whole, but its been an extremely long gold rush into software and online services so some correction isn’t going to be the end of the trade.

  Oh and yes senior devs are still hounded to use AI, because it will get them further, faster. And there are no more junior devs to help.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we have a healthy life only with fruits or fruits and plants combined alone, and if not why?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not as a rule, no.