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GlickWick commented on When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines   jazco.dev/2025/02/19/impe... · Posted by u/cyndunlop
glerk · 6 months ago
> the left on Bluesky is full of in-fighting

yes, the right is full of infighting too as shown by the recent H1B debate, that doesn't contradict my point.

> any social media platform will become an echo chamber if you only choose to follow people that echo your sentiments

bluesky is almost 100% political and almost 100% left-wing. There is literally no one else to follow, at least for now. X still has non-political content, I mainly follow AI, technology and cryptocurrency, and I couldn't find similar content on bluesky.

GlickWick · 6 months ago
I use Bluesky and literally only see Gamedev content. Unlike X or whatever, I control what I see.
GlickWick commented on Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10   pcguide.com/news/nearly-h... · Posted by u/Sontho
zitterbewegung · 6 months ago
I have a gaming computer on Windows 10 and I only really play Warframe so I plan on making it stay that way (I'm thinking about locking it totally down and not even browsing the web or move to a cloud service). I really don't like moving to Windows 11 especially with the features I don't want or need.
GlickWick · 6 months ago
Warframe works flawlessly via Proton these days. Probably don't even needs Windows anymore if that's all you do.
GlickWick commented on Google offering 'voluntary exit' for employees working on Pixel, Android   9to5google.com/2025/01/30... · Posted by u/anp
tombert · 7 months ago
I had never heard of the term "voluntary exit" until I heard that the Trump administration is going to do that for federal workers. Is this going to be the new normal?

> “to be deeply committed to our mission and focused on building great products, with speed and efficiency"

I hate this language. It sounds culty. Why can't a job just be a job? Why does everything have to have a god damn "mission"?

GlickWick · 7 months ago
This was common in 2008, during the dot com crash, and in plenty of other industries. Definitely not a new thing.
GlickWick commented on TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday   reuters.com/technology/ti... · Posted by u/xnhbx
bloopernova · 7 months ago
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri:

"As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."

GlickWick · 7 months ago
There's nothing free-flow about TikTok, though. Like Twitter/X, Instagram, etc it's actually a carefully curated experience that can be tuned opaquely by whoever runs it to control the flow of information. The US took umbrage to this being in the direct hands of a foreign adversary.
GlickWick commented on Ask HN: How to go about reverse engineering and deformulating a beverage at home    · Posted by u/World_Peace
petargyurov · a year ago
1. Buy the ingredients listed on the back

2. Look up basic proportions & recipes for canned sodas online, just to get an idea about how much to use

3. Start experimenting, varying the ratios of each ingredient in each batch

GlickWick · a year ago
Until you realize "Natural Flavors" does all of the heavy lifting!
GlickWick commented on Say less in your emails, get more replies (2017)   gkogan.co/increase-reply-... · Posted by u/gk1
GlickWick · a year ago
This is a great case of actually putting in the steps to prove something many people implicitly or observationally assume is true. You only have a few seconds (at best) to grab someone's attention, so it stands to reason that a short email will be more focused and likely to grab their attention.

I'd be curious to see how this works in an internal corporate setting. I tend to notice that 1+ page email blasts about some technical or process change at my employer (who I do not speak for) tends to get ignored. If you ask people if they know about the process change, they generally have no idea what I'm talking about. A quick email that says "Hey we've migrated the schmission engine from forkilate to quantilate, please stop using forkilate by August 7th" tends to get a lot of attention!

GlickWick commented on A WFH 'culture war' has broken out across Europe   fortune.com/europe/2024/0... · Posted by u/rustoo
adamnemecek · a year ago
I don’t think that this is a war that employers can win. Employees got a taste of freedom, and it’s hard to go back.
GlickWick · a year ago
We will see. The EU is more employee-friendly than the US of course, but so far US corps are winning the war there.
GlickWick commented on Viagra improves brain blood flow and could help to prevent dementia   ox.ac.uk/news/2024-06-07-... · Posted by u/geox
GlickWick · a year ago
Wasn't this class of medication originally for cardiovascular issues, and the whole ED mitigation was a happy marketable accident?
GlickWick commented on Google Announces Stealing Part of a Production Language Model   twitter.com/_akhaliq/stat... · Posted by u/ludovicianul
LtWorf · a year ago
> it's still the same basic idea

You create weights to decide which word comes next most probably inside your brain and need to do million of multiplications to say a word?

I think it might not be the same basic idea at all.

GlickWick · a year ago
I think you might want to take a step back and understand the abstraction they were making.
GlickWick commented on Google Announces Stealing Part of a Production Language Model   twitter.com/_akhaliq/stat... · Posted by u/ludovicianul
LtWorf · a year ago
The moment that you can train an AI to be a good developer just with a java manual and some slides on design patterns, your analogy will make sense.

But for now an AI requires billion of times more data than a human brain to extrapolate anything useful. Which means that your comparison is meaningless.

GlickWick · a year ago
I think it's a meaningful comparison still. As a human I can comb through tons of prior art to learn my trade, and that's how we learn most of what we know.

Yes, an AI requires more, but it's still the same basic idea. I'm still not comfortable with using AI to replace artistic functions in particular for a variety of reasons, but the person you're replying to is definitely within the realm of reason.

u/GlickWick

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