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> I really resonate with what you're saying about shifting focus to becoming an expert rather than trying to stay sharp in everything

I’m honestly not sure I am the “expert” anymore. The different specialties within AWS are so varied, no one can be an expert at everything. Any of the specialist “architects” that work streams get assigned to when I lead a project are probably better than I am at their specialty. My knowledge is wider than most. But not deep. Someone needs to be deep to get the job done.

If I had to down level in responsibilities to be hands on within any specific area of technology, it would take me a few months to be competitive.
The comment and quote is telling of the zeitgeist. I would be more aghast by it, but then I remember that my SSN has been a subject to multiple data breach notices in past year.. so.. what is one more bad actor at this point?
What? Google is absolutely not even remotely concerned with such things. Their bring-to-market strategy for products is basically "Spend billions a year on developing random things" and then "OK, it's been a year, cancel 1/2 of them".
those plays can easily backfire - like when tiktok first did it

although there are success cases, like prop 22 in california and uber
Devil's advocate: Can this not also happen on literally any other social network? Can this kind of shit not also be initiated by domestic agents, or agents of allied nations, or even just some bored haxor group with a penchant for chaos?

If what you said is the primary reason for banning TikTok (bad actors can do bad things), it's also a valid reason to ban literally every social network, or possibly even all user-generated content on the internet.
Shimboot dev going viral for pdf doom? We truly live in the best timeline.
There’s a good chance they fail since our intelligence services are essentially watching everything they do internally in real time.

And a proper failure gives an opportunity to disappear them.
I just got asked to do the problem where you calculate permutations of coins to total X cents problem. I spent 2 minutes with Claude passing their test suite. I had 58 minutes left in the test so I redid the solution with dynamic programming, converted to TypeScript, added JSDoc annotations, runtime profiling, caching, even some Easter Eggs. They loved it.

I don’t know what the point of these quizzes are now. Actually I never knew what the point was. At least they are amusing now.
Loosing the people that actually care about the price/reward is a bonus for them, now they have an audience that buys superfluous stuff.
Same. This is bullshit.

Nobody on my team uses these features. They're actually quite distracting.

Google gets to raise prices under the guise that these are improving productivity.

I wish there was a fast and easy alternative. Google has its claws in deep.
So ability to graduate from high school determines the worth of a person?
Ropey – A UTF8 text rope for manipulating and editing large text
FB Marketplace is definitely the best way to buy and sell anything locally. Of course you will have to filter through the usual flakers and what not but that was always the case since craigslist days.

But for actual social media? Burn it all down lol
Unfortunately the USA doesn't have religious prisoners who can be coerced into a factory as slave labor.
The propaganda on TikTok comes disguised as Americans sharing points of view that just happen to serve CCP interests. Often the creators are expressing a genuine (but rare) viewpoint that China just needs to amplify. This isn't about keeping Americans from reading Pravda.

It's not hard to imagine the messages China will be pushing to weaken support for assisting Taiwan in a conflict. "Don't waste money propping up the corrupt Taiwanese government, spend it on health care /tax cuts at home!"

Then China gains control over TSMC without a fight and much of the American economy is at their mercy.
I don't know, though certainly the experience is a lot simpler without the 15 minute timeout, painful login, and extra security checks I see on web banking.

Edit: Not to mention that many of the newer banks don't even have web banking. It's app only. Of course, its your choice to open an account there though
Or maybe calling a cab and telling the cab driver each direction to get to the destination instead of the cab driver just taking you there.
I accidentally started the Gemini-the-product free trial in Workspace while trying to find how I could test Gemini-the-model in AI studio.

The first task that I asked for it’s assistance with, was how to disable, cancel or unsubscribe from Gemini-the-product. It repeatedly and confidently made up instructions to adjust settings that didn’t exist in menus that weren’t where it said they were and provided links to irrelevant documentation.

It was either useless, actively misleading or extremely motivated to not be turned off.

Any of those was reason enough not to use it ever again.
Spreadsheet software and in this case specifically google docs are great tools for getting something off the ground fast; often it's good enough that no replacement needs to be written. I'm reminded of a contract some of my colleagues had at some point where a company's core business was all in a shared excel sheet, their job was to replace it with a proper application; iirc it took like 2-3 years to get it finished, at significant cost / investment. Of course, the excel sheet was no longer fit for purpose and not a good long term strategy to have.
Many commenters just hate America.
you won’t
I can hardly wait to use it as an excuse. "Oh sorry I didn't do that because it wasn't in the AI summary" ;)
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Microsoft's newest Copilot plan for business is pay-as-you-go
Interactive Graphs in Rerun
When much older, after cycling thousands of km, I tried a bike with support wheels and it was absolutely terrifying! How is one suppose to take corners?
That's definitely not how Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat wrote MapReduce and Bigtable. I'm sure what you're saying is correct at many companies (I've seen a few), but it's a stupid policy, depriving them of the benefit of having senior engineers.
If they want one Easy level Leetcode, I am OK with that.
Two Medium/Hards in 45 minutes is ludicrous and unacceptable.

FAANG is the worst and too many companies are lazy and copy them.

If you can get a strong reference from someone at a startup/smaller company, the coding exercises will be negotiable.
Apparently they don't want it if Google had to force the feature on everyone to raise revenue.
Do you think you risking closing your mind off from new ideas by assuming everyone disagreeing with you is an LLM or russian or chinese or whatever?
Yep. The Chinese state is guilty of a number of things in Xinjiang, but genocide is not one of them.
PTSD is misapplied quite a bit these days, though CPTSD (the C stands for complex) seems to be the most appropriate clinical definition for the kind of scattered traumatic damage people experience, especially from childhood.

Glad to know you've received the help that you needed and have been able to move on. I compartmentalized and put off working on my traumas for far longer than I should have. People underestimate how much a dysfunctional school environment can mess someone up even when the home environment is mostly healthy. I screwed up great relationships in large part because I still had trust issues and CPTSD triggers that I didn't even realize at the time.

No joke, I'd rather have only known the neighborhood kids growing up than have thousands of kids to socialize with while having fucked up things happen to me. So what if I wouldn't experience prom night? If it's not the right environment for me, then it's not worth it.
Now for the important question: which children's cereals will be changing color?
It is a balancing act for sure, but is it 'right' to have all those choices, but only as long as they sufficiently support governing body overall worldview?
People say that, but I've long since abandoned my FB account and sinkhole facebook domains. I miss CragisList for that. Used it a lot a decade ago.
They did try that last year though it did generate a lot of calls in absolute terms and it didn't actually work as political pressure for them to vote against the ban.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/07/tiktok-us...

Getting congress to reverse something seems much harder, in that they also have to get someone to introduce the bill, get it through a committee, get it scheduled for a vote, etc, in both houses.
I was trying to find cases of it happening historically so I could check the RDAP record to see how domain registrars use it in practice... and yeah, the registrars seem to ignore a lot of the spec. While they do generally seem to follow the "lapse and re-register = new registration date", I can see how your example is something they probably would break. RDAP records don't appear to show historical expirations and reinstantiations and re-registrations despite the spec describing events for that. It's always just the basic event entries:

Registration date, last changed date, future expiry date. Even with domains that have well known dramatic histories. Which tells me the RDAP spec is not really enforced.

While I dislike "blockchain all the things" I can definitely see the argument for a blockchain-like global shared public ledger (albeit a not for-profit proof-of-work one) with full history for this sort of data.
musk takes Ambien; explains a few things
I agree with most of the sentiment with his post, and was enlightened to learn about his perspective on universities and research into the history of it, but the argument of language nuance itself (colored vs PoC) feels short sighted.

All language has nuance. And the language is very high on the Maslov’s hierarchy, but that’s the point. It’s a progressive discussion. Terminology has meaning and we’re growing our understanding what the meaning is.

You can have discussions and understanding or no understanding and ignorance. The problem is not the language or understanding, it’s the actions itself. Being aware and understanding is not bad. The answer is not the counter culture naivety or cancel culture.

Yes, cancel culture and prigism are abominations of high society. That’s the action. In the same turn, the term “woke” has been absolutely weaponized from the counter culture point of view. We, as a society, are figuring out its place. It’s definitely not in public schools or politics. It has, like abortion, been co-opted for power in a democratic society. Let’s focus on the action and changing our systems to enshrine cultural norms (like a public service of unbiased news) into law instead of relying on the markets.
Here is the rest of that story.

When the foreign movies started to filter into the Soviet Union's illegal movie theatres, you would get 3 or 4 movies playing at once in one room. There would be a TV in each corner of the room and 4 or 5 rows of plastic chairs in front of it in an arch.

ALL of the movies were being revoiced by the same person. So, if you were sitting in the back of the 5th row, you were potentially getting the sound from an action movie, a comedy, a horror movie and a romance at the same time. In the same voice.

You learned to filter really well. So, if that's what they were trained on, watching a single movie must have been very relaxing.
Americans finally discovering their constitution is interpreted all day every day is the funniest thing on the internet. You also don't have free speech, and your rights to bear arm are very restricted.
> You're asking it as a moral question,

I'm asking questions about what I could only interpret as a moral proposition.

> I honestly care about the end result.

You're applying normative criteria to evaluate something, whether it is the initial action or the consequences that proceed from it.

But before we event get to normative evaluations, I'm trying to understand what the substantive difference in the two things you're comparing are. It's seems bizarre to consider something to be the cultural inheritance of humanity as a whole, and then complain about certain humans adapting it to cultural activities that you for some reason don't like.

> And the end result seems to be going in the same direction as movies, as the range gets narrower in terms of what's produced, and everything is a sequel, remix, reshuffle of previous work.

The vast majority of all creative work has always been a remix or reshuffle of previous work. When we were younger, and were being exposed to things for the first time, everything seemed novel and original.

Maybe the first time you saw The Lion King, it didn't occur to you that it's essentially a rework of Hamlet, or you never counted how many episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation were based on recycled plots from Homer. But this has always been going on. Sure, it's a little bit more explicit today when you are dealing with big Hollywood productions, since Hollywood has built up a large library of its own output to remix and reshuffle, and people do want to see new iterations of the specific things they grew up with.

Still, amidst all that, there's a lot of novel independent creative work being produced. By definition, though, that's all going to be found in niches and not in the mass market -- but it's always been that way.

We've also had a massive shift in the specific media people use to express creativity, thanks to the internet. Lots of small-scale independent work just gets self-published on YouTube these days, and doesn't filter through the mass-market studios and publishers anymore. Consider that the increased ability for independent creators to work outside the legacy media has the effect of also limiting the amount of novel work that the legacy media have access to.

> There are exceptions, but their percentage is far lower than in previous decades.

And vastly higher than in previous previous decades. Compare modern movies to the stuff that Hollywood was putting out during the era of the Hays code. After the collapse of those restrictions, there was an outpouring of pent-up creativity that lasted a few decades. Maybe modern movies aren't as distinct or creative as the ones from the '70s, '80s, and '90s, but try comparing them to the average film from the '40s, '50s, or '60s.
I think around here people will all agree with you, the problem is that in practice this isn't at any level about cleaning up peoples experience of each other. it's economic protectionism injected with yellow-scare nonsense reminiscent of the 20th century. they're gleefully making the large ones worse while closing down anything which doesn't benefit US oligarchs
The Chicago school was always "conservative" inasmuch its ideas, whether intending to or not, in practice produce results that maintain existing power relationships and economic distributions.
The way Zuckerberg prostrated himself before the US-Führer and his president just confirmed my assumptions about the oligarchies that own the united states.
The research capacity for almost everything semiconductors related was almost always in the US, but before the CHIPS act, there wasn't much of an incentive to invest in expanding that capacity here (aside from Texas and Arizona, who had very strong semiconductor public-private programs), because the margins are just too dang low to attract any private investment domestically.

The semiconductor industry is multifaceted, and it's very difficult to be competitive in every single segment of it.

For example, Taiwan does great at fabrication, but is horrid at chip design. Israel and India are major chip design hubs but are horrid at fabrication. Malaysia is THE packaging and testing hub, but weak at fabrication and nonexistent in design.
"Thinks"..... do we think this is the case?

John Searle captured this conundrum quite nicely

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
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I am fine with 'find the bugs' - in fact these should replace Leetcode foolishness.
> I can have productive disagreements with other technologists

Only for tech topics

Things went ugly(but fun!) for political/geopolitical topics, 'unpopular' opinions will be grayed out, opinions survived coalesced into the essence of the Anglo-Saxon spirit
It depends on how they respond over the next 1-2 weeks.
I mean, yea, probably.
Thanks!

I am looking explicitly for people who want to "run ffmpeg"

I don't have the skills, nor the capital, to build a solution for the whole market of people that want to mess with videos.

Just for reference Mix raised 177M since 2016.

The goal is not to run a startup, but a small business with recurrent business.

Of course there are a lot of way to approach this.

One would be an API sold at cost plus (which is the closest to my skillset.)

Building on top of that would be trivial for more pay-for-value product.
Red panic, racism, and corporate welfare. The usual motivating factors in US policy.
The US didn’t “ban” anything. If the EU required Meta to divest I imagine they would do that rather than shut down and lose billions.
Great point - AI makes Leetcode obsolete.
we do have a lot of prisoners though, and they do various factory kinda jobs. probably not high skill ones though?
The formulas are really not very complex. The Standard Model is a single Lagrangian with a couple of dozen constants.

https://visit.cern/node/612

You can expand that Lagrangian out to look more complex, but that's just a matter of notation rather than a real illustration of its complexity. There's no need to treat all of the quarks as different terms when you can compress them into a single matrix.

General relativity adds one more equation, in a matrix notation.

And that's almost everything. That's the whole model of the universe. It just so happens that there are a few domains where the two parts cause conflicts, but they occur only under insanely extreme circumstances (points within black holes, the universe at less than 10^-43 seconds, etc.)

These all rely on real numbers, so there's no computational complexity to talk about. Anything you represent in a computer is an approximation.

It's conceivable that there is some version out there that doesn't rely on real numbers, and could be computed with integers in a Turing machine. It need not have high computational complexity; there's no need for it to be anything other than linear. But it would be linear in an insane number of terms, and computationally intractable.
Regarding 1990, nonetheless, prolonged U.S. presence in Saudi Arabia after the Gulf War became highly controversial though, fueling anti-American sentiment.
What skepticism did I express? There are two possible explanations for the value of a metric changing: either the thing being measured has changed, or the methodology of conducting the measurement has changed. I honestly do not know which is the case here.
Public spreadsheets (and forms) simply aren't indexed by Google; I'm sure there's a reason somewhere but I haven't been able to find it.
It is generally considered unwise, and depending on age or other circumstances, illegal to ride without a bike helmet, in large part because most places you will meet a car, and if you don’t, wiping out at 15mph is still going to be hard on your noggin.
I believe GP is comparing pre-feed and post-feed days, not chrono feed vs algo feed.

For its first few years, Facebook had no feed at all.
Ha you got me there. Well in that case: cursed be the devops guys and their devilish inertia & groupthink.
Forget how cool the keyboards are (they are very cool) - this website is just awesome in so many ways. There are like, 5 things on here that made me say "wow, I didn't know a web browser could do that" as I went through the setup. The hand scanning, the parametric 3d modeling, the WebRTC stuff for establishing comms with my phone?! Even if you've got no interest in weird crazy keyboards, this site is just a great tech demo for some of the wild stuff a web browser can do these days.

I've got half a keeb printed that I generated here, I really need to restart that project at some point...
> Teachers can't be expected to help 30+ children work through that.

The big mystery is: how did teachers manage this miracle 50 or 80 years ago?
People already pay a premium on Macs to be honest. Every hard drive upgrade is ridiculously overpriced.

"Minecraft proves that the children yearn for the mines"
Oh no nobody’s buying your ai vaporware, let’s make everyone suffer!
But the "my job can be performed from home" is entitlement. It can be done in the office too.

You want to work from home
because it's easier for you. And I agree, it takes a lot of weight off your shoulders but for me who enjoys working in the office a caveat is that it's harder communicating with those who do work from home.

I couldn't work from home, even if I wanted to.
What about Red 40?
We dilute, pervert, change, invert, transform and reshape the meaning of words all the time, throughout history and across languages. I don't see anything special about the words we use to describe sex and gender.
The one I tried, had a lot of issues. It was a music theory book and it did not know how to pronounce C# (it kept saying C 'hash'). It also referred to, but did not read out the diagrams, or tables.

So, it was not just the voice, but the quality control pipeline that was missing as well.

Maybe it mostly works for old plain text books, but if nobody is checking.....
In conversations like this, I often find it clarifying to ask if your interlocutors have children. Nothing strips away ideology like a screaming baby.
hey, not everything has to do with musk - he's already enough places without your post.
I partially agree with this. Using AI has sped up my work by about 30% so far but only in cases where i need boiler plate to get going and i have written the correct algorithmic solution many times before and can quickly check it.

I think it might be better to have them find bugs in code as opposed to write it from scratch. Interesting idea!
Yeah, this is the way. I don't know why the training wheels route is still so ingrained here. Probably also some kids start there, and not on a balance bike (wrong imo).