The most worrying thing is that Mullenweg just seems unwell and has created his own reality distortion field where he can no longer see the absurdness and damaging nature of his actions. His behavior reminds me of a cult leader or a celebrity where they surround themselves with only people who do their bidding and gradually slip into this state.
Readit NewsKina commented on WordPress CEO quits community Slack after court injunction 404media.co/wordpress-wp-... · Posted by u/davidcollantes
I even have the same problem from me to me. My phone to my mac. Bluetooth and all that is on.
FWIW, I found LocalSend (https://localsend.org/) to be quite handy especially since it is a cross-platform solution.
Kina commented on The Weird Nerd comes with trade-offs writingruxandrabio.com/p/... · Posted by u/jseliger
I agree with most of this story, but I really find the assertion that weird nerds are just autistic rather offensive and dismissive. It reminds me way too much of lazy teachers in the 90s insisting students they didn't want to manage were just suffering from ADD and hoping they could just get their parents to dope them up on Ritalin.
Kina commented on Microsoft Research chief scientist has no issue with Recall theregister.com/2024/06/0... · Posted by u/beardyw
It is difficult to get someone to understand something when their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
Kina commented on xAI announces series B funding round of $6B x.ai/blog/series-b... · Posted by u/frisco
That's what people said about AI art, yet here we are.
Is where we are any good? I think one of the more germane issues with generative AI art is that it is distinctly not creative. It can only regurgitate variations of what it has seen.
This is both extremely powerful and limiting.
An LLM is never going to give you some of the most famous films like "Star Wars" which bounced around before 20th Century Fox finally took a chance on it because they thought Lucas had talent. Is what we want? A society that just uses machines to produce variations of the same thing that already exist all the time? It's hard enough for novel creative projects to succeed.
The....Gerber Baby? Is there a story there? She seems pretty normal and pleasant from her Wikipedia.
It doesn’t matter who the Gerber Baby really is. Society has chosen to associate the Gerber Baby with certain attributes regardless of who the person behind the photo really is, and so it is with Kevin Mitnick. Mitnick, the real person, excelled at social engineering more than any other trait and was arguably subjected to malicious prosecution. But in his later years, there’s a lot of documentation online indicating that he didn’t live up to the myth that grew around him and he was not a pleasant person [1].
People here are mostly reminiscing about Mitnick--the myth, not the man.
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/uk6wgd/why_d...
Damn, even @paulg??
Someone help me out here. Most incredibly smart people I know and even most of you here on HN, we basically grew up on discord, irc,etc... I hate to make myself look bad but if my IRL social skills and sociability is 3/10, remotely it is at least 7/10. Are there really a lot of high caliber people who somehow spent time to develop IRL social and communication skills?
My theory is that people who are now in their 40s or older can't figure out how to work remotely, especially as managers. There are people that talk to me in private message when I work remotely and then there are those that only engage with me in person, that's why I theorized that. They need to train people explicitly and show them how they unconsciously avoid engaging with others remotely.
Also, my coworkers that like to brown-nose the most and they are social butterflies that are very attentive to managers and respond socially to their every needs get the most recognition but really smart full-WFH guys that are getting so much quality work done basically don't exist in the eyes of management. It is a travesty, I specifically chose this field because your technical skills are rewarded, and that was my strength.
I am not an extremist, a balanced approach is what I advocate for. If you can't manage people remotely, you can't manage people. For regular employees, they should let people WFH based on performance and partially (bad performance=3days office, good=1day office). If that isn't viable then at least let it be at the discretion of managers instead of company wide.
I also theorize that founders are very social people and they especially typically can't figure out remote management.
> I also theorize that founders are very social people and they especially typically can't figure out remote management.
I think this is a large part of the problem that isn’t being explicitly pointed out. Extroverts likely hate this style of work and it feels like some folks, instead of really compromising or trying to find an effective model that works with this new reality, just go the safe route. I was happier with the way things were...
Has Musk ever handled the operational aspects of the companies he claims to run? Does he really understand what it takes to make a company _work_?
For instance, my understanding of SpaceX is that he really should be seen as the initial financier of it to chase a crazy idea. Gwynne Shotwell is really the one in charge of day-to-day operations. It's just that Musk shows up for the fun bits and gets all the sound bites in.
Kina commented on Twitter to start layoffs -internal email reuters.com/technology/tw... · Posted by u/wglb
This constant hagiographic view of Musk and others like him is grotesque.
I never understood the “grain = realism” thing. my real eyes don’t have grain. I do appreciate the role of grain as an artistic tool though, so this is still cool tech
I have to imagine past glassmakers would have been absolutely enthralled by the ability we now have to make uniform, large sheets of glass, but here we are emulating the compromises they had to make because we are used to how it looks.