Readit News logoReadit News
simgt commented on Obsidian Bases   help.obsidian.md/bases... · Posted by u/twapi
Ezhik · 6 days ago
Hyperlinks are all you need: https://ezhik.jp/hypertext-maximalism/
simgt · 5 days ago
I like that simple rule, I'll give it a go. Thanks for this shameless plug ;)

Deleted Comment

simgt commented on When you're asking AI chatbots for answers, they're data-mining you   theregister.com/2025/08/1... · Posted by u/rntn
panny · 6 days ago
>Data mining doesn't mean the model is instantly updated

I'm not expecting instant. Even next week it won't be there. It's like how AI never learned to count how many times the letter r appears in strawberry. Like sure, now if you ask brave, it will tell you three, but that is only because that question went viral. It didn't "learn" anything, it was just hard coded for that particular answer. Ask it how many times the letter l appears in smallville and it will get it wrong again.

simgt · 6 days ago
I didn't think for a second you could be right, so I tried with Claude. L in smallville was correct, then it suggests it'd have gotten l in parallel wrong by answering 3 instead of 2 (buts gets it right in a new chat). Then it suggests it'd get n in millennium wrong by giving the right answer, and gets it wrong in a new chat. https://claude.ai/share/93b46c3b-23a7-40ad-8a2b-ec2ed6c34a19

Thanks, that was enlightening.

simgt commented on Open office is giving you secondhand ADHD   floustate.com/blog/open-o... · Posted by u/skrid
Waterluvian · 8 days ago
Been working from home for about 9 years and I’m not sure I’d ever be able to go back. It would be such a huge step backwards for actual performance (though I’d probably look a lot busier with all those meetings and syncs and presence)
simgt · 8 days ago
Looks like we're in adjacent fields. How do you manage to keep the productivity higher than in an office? I've always worked for companies that do hardware and I find it more difficult remotely for fairly obvious reasons.
simgt commented on AI is different   antirez.com/news/155... · Posted by u/grep_it
cropcirclbureau · 9 days ago
Yes but can the market not be wrong? Wrong in the sense that, failing to meet our expectations as a useful engine of society? As I understood, what was meant with this this article is that AI completely changes the equations across the board that current market direction appears dangerously irrational to OP. I'm not sure what was meant with your comment though besides haggling over semantics and attacking some in-expertise of the authors socio-politic philosophizing that you perceive.
simgt · 9 days ago
Of course it can be wrong, and it is in many instances. It's a religion. The vast, vast majority of us would prefer to live in a stable climate with unpolluted water and some fish left in the oceans, yet "the market" is leading us elsewhere.
simgt commented on AI is different   antirez.com/news/155... · Posted by u/grep_it
000ooo000 · 9 days ago
What this delusion seems to turn a blind eye to is that a good chunk of the population is already in those roles; what happens when the supply of those roles far exceeds the demand, in a relatively short time? Carpenters suddenly abundant, carpenter wages drop, carpenters struggling to live, carpenters forced to tighten spending, carpenters decide children aren't affordable.. now extrapolate that across all of the impacted roles and industries. No doubt someone is already typing "carpenters can retrain too!" OK, so they're back to entry level wages (if anything) for 5+ years? Same story. And retrain to what?

At some point an equilibrium will be reached but there is no guarantee it will be a healthy situation or a smooth ride. This optimism about AI and the rosy world that is just around the corner is incredibly naive.

simgt · 9 days ago
It's naive but also ignores that automation is simply replacing human labor by capital. Capital captures more of the value, and workers get less overall. Unless we end up in some mild socialist utopia where basic needs are provided and corps are all coops, but that's not the trend.
simgt commented on Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness   yro.slashdot.org/comments... · Posted by u/MilnerRoute
WalterBright · 10 days ago
His name is on many patents. For many other engineering qualifications and work, see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk

simgt · 10 days ago
Come on, your comments trail shows that you have a lot of experience. You know that being on a patent doesn't make one an inventor, just like being on a peer-reviewed paper doesn't make one a contributor. Yes Musk seems to be a deeply technical person, even Karpathy wrote it somewhere here after he resigned, but these credentials you're citing are not the proof.
simgt commented on Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness   yro.slashdot.org/comments... · Posted by u/MilnerRoute
wkat4242 · 10 days ago
Yes that's what I don't understand about most of the ultra-rich. They keep wanting more despite having enough to spend millions every day for the rest of their lives. Tesla can't stop throwing tens of billions in bonuses at Musk. But what can he do with that money that he couldn't already?
simgt · 10 days ago
It's a selection bias, the ones you're thinking about wouldn't be ultra-rich if their greed had an end. And at this level of wealth, money buys you power, not things.
simgt commented on Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness   yro.slashdot.org/comments... · Posted by u/MilnerRoute
bboygravity · 10 days ago
I've never been able to find that elusive "easy to find" online work people keep speaking of.

Am I being gaslighted or am I looking in the wrong places? In the EU in my entire 15 year carreer there have been exactly 0 companies or even vacancies offering fully remote.

simgt · 10 days ago
In my experience, it's much easier as a freelancer. Usually what is meant to be a couple weeks gig turns out to be a couple months or year-long business relationship.
simgt commented on How we built Bluey’s world   itsnicethat.com/features/... · Posted by u/skrebbel
bombcar · 20 days ago
One of the things not talked (much) about is how families are much more isolated now - since the average person is from a two-child family, and has a two-child family, most of their peer group growing up and when they have kids is in the "same boat" so they don't really have insight and experience of what the youngest years brings.

Even the basic idea of "kids like games, make things games" that permeates Bluey is likely unknown to many new parents.

simgt · 20 days ago
I completely missed your point, I think. Do you mean that the current generation of young parents didn't experience enough things being games as kids themselves?

u/simgt

KarmaCake day293October 20, 2024
About
Lead Software Engineer in agtech
View Original