canadaduane

@canadaduane@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you even find companies to work with ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This advice seems off-base to me. There is value in LinkedIn connections. But you have to make the connections outside of LinkedIn. Then it amplifies the value of those connections–you can discover that so-and-so knows so-and-so and then ask for introductions.

  It also may be industry specific. I’m a software engineer, and I’ve had several employment opportunities come from these connections.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who here does NOT have intrusive thoughts?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think I have intrusive thoughts. I’m happy, generally pretty creative (hobbies, coding, etc.). Sometimes politics and world affairs get me down, but I don’t feel like they are “intrusive”, more like affecting my mood. I like how /u/0x01@lemmy.ml put it–I kind of let my mind do whatever it does, and I try to be an observer of what unfolds. I think meditation practice has helped with this practice (Vipassana or Insight meditation specifically).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What determines whether people are likely to purposely (but mistakenly) put two words together (without a space)?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  theinternet.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DeepSeek Proves It: Open Source is the Secret to Dominating Tech Markets (and Wall Street has it wrong).⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s tricky. There is code involved, and the code is open source. There is a neural net involved, and it is released as open weights. The part that is not available is the “input” that went into the training. This seems to be a common way in which models are released as both “open source” and “open weights”, but you wouldn’t necessarily be able to replicate the outcome with $5M or whatever it takes to train the foundation model, since you’d have to guess about what they used.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is almost completely true, but I would add the caveat that PWAs (progressive web apps) are not as easy to discover and less familiar to install as an app in an app/play store. It might also be because it’s in Apple and Google’s best interest to not streamline that. But it’s still an obstacle nevertheless.