uptownJimmy | 1 month ago | on: How AI destroys institutions
All scams are inherently destructive. Everything else is co-morbidity.
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uptownJimmy | 7 months ago | on: GitHub CEO Warns Developers: "Either Embrace AI or Get Out of This Career"
Surely GitHub can (and should) find someone less unhinged to run the company.
uptownJimmy | 8 months ago | on: Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights
Maaaaan, this is so cool. I'm geekin'.
uptownJimmy | 1 year ago | on: Sergey Brin says 60 hours a week is the 'sweet spot'
I'll not be taking advice on how many hours per week I should work from someone who doesn't work at all.
uptownJimmy | 1 year ago | on: Vanilla Prime: A simpler, more sustainable way of web development
"purity" is a word that sets off alarm bells for me, every time.
uptownJimmy | 1 year ago | on: Google is a monopoly – the fix isn't obvious
Google's "search results" are the textbook definition of a monopolized good/service. The whole thing is almost a casino, rigged to the point of absurdity.
There has been nothing in my life so disillusioning as working on a Web app for a company that is more or less required to play Google's game.
uptownJimmy | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: Should we bring software dev in-house?
Whatever you decide, don't assume that it would be hard to find devs.
There are a lot of us who prefer to work for real businesses offering real products/services, and avoid working in the startup world with all its concomitant pipe dreams, wishful thinking and scams.
uptownJimmy | 1 year ago | on: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
That is absolutely one of the A-tier "certain type of a criminal a55hole".
uptownJimmy | 1 year ago | on: Publishing AI Slop Is a Choice
Google's market share was suffering because they have been using their dominance to force everyone to participate in the "game the search engine" scam that Google was selling, which exists only to cheat the Google search engine.
Once enough of us realized that Google search results are usually just paid ads, what's the point anymore?
It's insane, and "AI" isn't going to fix any of it.
The rot in our tech economy is astonishing.
uptownJimmy | 1 year ago | on: VCs aren’t your friends
I remain confused as to why anyone would take VCs seriously at all, much less want to be friends with them. They mostly give strong vibes of "sociopath" and "malignant narcissist".
uptownJimmy | 1 year ago | on: The jobs being replaced by AI – an analysis of 5M freelancing jobs
"One is that these generative AI tools are already good enough to replace many writing tasks, whether it’s writing an article, or a social media post."
Good enough to what? Give me a headache when I try to read any of the articles that Google coughs up when I search almost anything these days?
The auto-generated pap that passes for "good enough" is literally a tsunami of near-meaningless word-porridge that is burying the Web in nonsense. Might as well shove large chunks of lorem ipsum into your "articles" or "social media posts".
uptownJimmy | 1 year ago | on: Finding lead in Stanley's Quencher
Maybe you would deign to elaborate? It's not a fun and informative discussion unless you are willing to offer something more specific than "you are wrong".
Gift us with specifics.
uptownJimmy | 2 years ago | on: Finding lead in Stanley's Quencher
I'm pretty sure the biggest problem with social media is the staggering number of people spreading disinformation and lies. So that's something you can stop doing to help fix the thing you hate so much, right there! It's a win-win for everyone, I'm sure of it.
uptownJimmy | 2 years ago | on: Reddit: Return of the Junk Stock IPO
I miss newsgroups. They were good enough. We didn't need to dress them up.
Our incessant chasing of the latest shiny thing, it's all so silly. We keep throwing the baby out with the bathwater in our endless, desperate forward motion.
uptownJimmy | 2 years ago | on: Stanisław Lem's vision of artificial life
I have only read Lem's "Solaris", and I have also watched the Soderbergh movie. But I don't think I've ever read/seen a more profound meditation on the human experience PLUS the possibilities of an encounter with an alien intelligence. Just wonderful, soul-provoking stuff.
uptownJimmy | 2 years ago | on: Stanisław Lem's vision of artificial life
Dick thought everything was artificial, eventually.
uptownJimmy | 2 years ago | on: The Meaning of Melancholy
Steven Soderbergh's The Limey covers a lot of ground, but I think it expresses as powerful a sense of melancholy as any modern film. Highly recommended.
uptownJimmy | 2 years ago | on: A blacklist of banks that block movements to or from Bitcoin related services
Agreed. It's handy to have a list of banks I can trust to not do anything stupid with the money.
uptownJimmy | 2 years ago | on: Electric mountain: Power station that shows the beauty of infrastructure
Though not as technologically impressive, there are quite a few rather "simple" little hydroelectric dams tucked back in the Allegheny Mountains of the eastern USA. They are a marvel to see, worth seeking out if you are driving anywhere near them.
Cheoah Dam is on the infamous Tail of the Dragon in TN, and there's a spot where you can pull over and see the whole thing below, it's such an inspiring thing.
uptownJimmy | 2 years ago | on: Just kidding: the evolutionary roots of playful teasing
Dudes tease/poke at each other relentlessly, in my experience. It's a fundamental part of many/most male friendship.
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