jacksontech.bsky.social
Infra engineer, reader, and reluctant jock (watching F1, actually hiking, running, skiing, yoga). Lover of novels and the feeling of dirt between my toes. He/his.
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Unfortunately social media has created a landscape that seems to warp people’s understanding of broader public opinion.
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The only appropriate context for Rumsfeld quotes are engineering meetings at place of work.
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People struggle with nuance and have a very hard time understanding cultural perspectives beyond their own. So we keep seeing wild theories about the Arab Israeli conflict from people who have no grounding in either theory or history.
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I mean it’s active measures from foreign intelligence working with useful idiots and grifters, social media, cable news, talk radio, books, etc. are just the attack vector.
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Basically every serious leftist is a capitalist since 1991, but a lot of the online, aesthetic, left has no familiarity with theory.
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Just treat women like they're people and take an active interest in the inner lives of others. You'll have to buy bear mace to keep the women at bay...
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They want to endlessly critique power.
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Ah the olden times when you just had to know where you were going and understand where things were generally. At least with cell phones we could call folks and tell them "hey, I'm lost." The generation just before mine couldn't even do that!
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I think only my consoles have USB-A at this point, I adopted Thunderbolt 3 early because it’s fast and multi function. Having TB3 to USB-A seems overkill, why not just C 3.2 to A and save on a Thunderbolt controller?
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People don’t seem to understand if you’re not at the table you’re on the menu.
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Reducing an opponent to name calling is among the clearest indicators of winning an argument. They can’t refute central ideas, repudiate the argument, or even counter said argument—so all that’s left is going after the opponent which reeks of desperation. Attacking opponents is for small children.
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Could this be some training data artifact or something?
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That’s a national figure, in high cost of living areas, it’ll be higher. Nobody’s disputing executive compensation is massive, there’s just far fewer executives than workers—whose benefits and pay are typically among most organizations largest expense.
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Median game dev still makes like $108k a year though which is not a bad.
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I mean the gaming industry kinda sucks but it’s mostly deadline driven—games have release dates and high expectations.
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Austin, it’s all the colors that make manufacturing iPhones hard, anyone can make 100 million 2nm processors in their garage with some basic tools from Harbor Freight.
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Yeah if you’re a college educated man, your 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, probably 80s are pretty great. Sure, by 90 everything kind of sucks but you’ve had a solid 70 year run.
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Yeah this looks like mostly habanero with hints of hotter peppers. I’m imagining it tastes a citrusy and not like “oh boy heat” like many of the “it’s just insanely hot” sauces.
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It’s all an aesthetic, like politics for young people. They don’t engage with material beyond a surface level because they encounter all this stuff via social media where there’s no depth.
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Well you see, his VP had actual experience and qualifications unlike the even older guy who's never done anything more than rename post offices in his community. We just don't often get candidates of even older guy's caliber!
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Hey at least their handle checks out.
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Hey social dynamics are key and haven’t yet cured prion diseases. I’m on the right side of this issue lol.
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Tbh I just don’t think that was a good metaphor for human social interaction because our ecosystem is fundamentally different than a rainforest ecosystem. Conceptually it doesn’t mesh, cats must eat meat, I can but will not eat humans, primarily because it undermines social dynamics but also kuru.
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Tbh the most charitable assessment is they’re pursuing clout—either in pursuit of power or aesthetic/peer approval. But I think some of these folks also fell victim to disinformation campaigns.
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They get radicalized by tankies and adopt some really bizarre views. It seems functionally similar to Discord servers where people just wallow in mutual suffering.
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Tbh I think people upset about a $4k/mo apartment are mostly very young.
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Yep, I’ve had it up to here with people unaware of the Arab Israeli wars yap about the Arab Israeli conflict. If it were some easy, slam dunk, policy win—somebody would have snatched their Nobel Peace Prize already!
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Yep, I was in the same boat (I hate it here).
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I understand people enjoy it and love that for them, I just didn't like it when it came out and in a stunning turn of events don't like it now.
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"No you don't understand, you just need to watch the first 300 episodes" actual conversations I've had with people about One Piece who don't realize *they* don't like One Piece they're just suffering Stockholm Syndrome.
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For a lot of people politics is an aesthetic not set of beliefs and opinions about organizing society.
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Fucking excellent!
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Making peace with the establishment is an important aspect of maturity many people never achieve.
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I want to like it and find it more useful, but if I wanted confidently wrong answers or information about things, there’s no shortage of men on the internet.
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They just want freedom from responsibility. I somewhat wonder if this is just downstream of 50 years of focus on individualism and gratification.
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Well I guess it depends how much *they* had to drink. Based on the vibes, he’s getting no/low ABV blood.
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People don't understand LLMs are fancy statistical systems that output the next most likely token. Because "next most likely token" often looks right and is presented in Standard American English, people just accept it unquestioningly.
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I don't hate AI, but it's nowhere near as useful as people suggest, the rate of hallucination is astronomical and most models require significant pair programming--which would be better done with human colleagues who then understand the codebase. Hasn't significantly improved TBH.
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Beyond ethical considerations, the technology doesn’t consistently deliver on its own promises. If it worked as people expect, I’d still be bullish!
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Correct.
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It's only gibberish if you're unfamiliar with American culture,
observations about which concede no points. Name-calling and personal attacks are the lowest forms of disagreement, at least you also managed to attack my tone though.
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Longterm social changes have reshaped what's possible for men but culturally Americans still view "blue collar w/ F-150" as the masculine ideal--despite that guy not being able to deliver what culture expects anymore. Also a source of much seething among those types of men and why they hate change.
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Eh if you want to catch people using LLMs, require multiple drafts of papers, and ask students to explain deltas. In the professional world, I just ask interviewees simple questions with significant depth and probe--same as I've always done. Hallucinated answers are frequent and easy to spot.
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People really underestimate the degree to which social media entraps them, but we spent years sending "our best and brightest" to work at Alphabet and Meta, what did we expect?
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This topic, pisses me off in ways few others do, because none of these people are familiar with the Six Day War--or any of the other Arab Israeli Wars. Israel and its neighbors have a well established history of conflict independent of external influence.
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Just like real life lol!
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I have a few public repos that well demonstrate “what I can do for you.” They’re not fancy but they get the job done.
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You're just mirroring back what I said, absolutely incredible. No notes.
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I'm not making anything up, people do not seem aware of the opposing side's position on this issue or how it might impact real people. It's all just vapid talk for clout on social media.
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The people painting Biden a genocidaire are still not aware Trump moved the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem or what significance that may have had.