is "late stage capitalism" too broad of an answer?
Too vague yes
Readit Newstoonalfrink commented on The great displacement is already well underway? shawnfromportland.substac... · Posted by u/JSLegendDev
toonalfrink commented on The great displacement is already well underway? shawnfromportland.substac... · Posted by u/JSLegendDev
I think a lot of folks are missing the forest for the trees, here. OP is (presumably) a competent professional who has fallen on hard times despite record growth of the private enterprise and their immense profits. Their story is not unique, and Microsoft is adding another seven thousand bodies to the pile alone this week.
The fundamental problem is, as the OP gets at towards the end, what happens when a society built upon the trade of time and labor for income to provide for one’s needs, meets innovations that threaten to wholesale eliminate vast swaths of labor, permanently. A society that demands labor for survival, against corporations that demand growth at all costs, inevitably creates a zero-sum conflict between the working class and the Capitalist classes.
Workers, desperate to survive in a society hostile to the under or unemployed (and increasingly hostile to the presently employed), will continue to resort to more desperate means over time and as their numbers grow. This is an inevitability bore out through history time and time again, OP is just joining the chorus of voices warning that we are rapidly approaching such an inflection point if we continue soldiering onward “as-is”.
It is nature that demands labor for survival, not society.
Society has been gradually diminishing that demand, and may theoretically be in the position to remove it entirely, but such a state of affairs has never existed.
toonalfrink commented on The great displacement is already well underway? shawnfromportland.substac... · Posted by u/JSLegendDev
> I do have a substantial number of OSS work but that rarely was of interest to anyone.
This was a sad reality for me. I spent thousands of hours putting my heart and soul into OSS projects that people loved and used.. and for what? When I graduated university, recruiters never clicked the links. The companies I joined treated me like a baby who never worked on anything. I switched gears and grinded Leetcode to land a FAANG job instead, but I can't help but feel my engineering craft regressed in all this time.
There's you who insisted on a FAANG job to make 6x more than you probably need and then there's me living on 1.5k a month because I refuse to do anything that feels more than 1% useless (i.e. most things in the enterprise). I'm not saying my attitude is better than yours, but I do think you didn't really need to grind leetcode if you really didn't want to do useless things
> It's still not entirely clear (for remote servers) to me what you can do with MCP that you can't do with just a REST API,
Nothing, as far as I can tell.
> the latter being a much more straightforward integration path.
The (very) important difference is that the MCP protocol has built in method discovery. You don't have to 'teach' your LLM about what REST endpoints are available and what they do. It's built into the protocol. You write code, then the LLM automatically knows what it does and how to work with it, because you followed the MCP protocol. It's quite powerful in that regard.
But otherwise, yea it's not anything particularly special. In the same way that all of the API design formats prior to REST could do everything a REST API can do.
In other words, MCP is RESTful (as in, it has HATEOAS) and "REST" is not
toonalfrink commented on First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV cnn.com/world/live-news/n... · Posted by u/saikatsg
I don't think that counts as communicating to people at all, let alone to as many people.
Prices are about communicating almost more than they are about prices...
I asked what you find objectionable, not what it says.
Not the one you're asking, nor the one you meant to ask, but I find it rather objectionable that we are now restricting the production of new memes in academia to the ~25% that is most aligned with a moral fashion that is patently hostile to intellectual freedom. It's good to be willing to consider DEI like any other idea but to endorse it is a clear indication that you only care about truth insofar that it is socially advantageous to do so. You're basically unfit for the job at that point.
This looks like it’s been posted on Reddit 10 years ago:
https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/32m611/logic_question...
So it’s likely that it’s part of the training data by now.
This whole answer hinges on knowing that 0 is not a positive integer, that's why I couldn't figure it out...
She's a physicist. LLMs are not for creating new information. They're for efficiently delivering established information. I use it to quickly inform me about business decisions all the time, because a thousand answers about those questions already exist. She's just using it for the wrong thing.
toonalfrink commented on My 16-month theanine self-experiment dynomight.net/theanine/... · Posted by u/dynm
Or maybe the stress-reducing effect carries over to the next day?
Stress has a habit of not being randomly reset to the default value every morning when you wake up
To me this statement looks like, they can't really make bold statements, so they make vague ones instead