In my experience so far with AI, it's primarily good for creating boilerplate pages and APIs and for helping with auto-complete suggestions.
I think eventually AI agents will really take off but not sure if anything works well there yet.
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Tesla has too much competition and their CEO is part-time. Boggles my mind that the stock is priced so high relative to their financial metrics.
xyzzy4747 commented on In the belly of the MrBeast kevinmunger.substack.com/... · Posted by u/stafford_beer
It's interesting how this is happening in software engineering YouTube content as well. It seems like things like "go sucks rust is great! Now rust sucks and zig is great!!" get way more views since it is basically clickbait for nerds.
It's too bad that nuanced discussion doesn't do too well on social media.
It also reminds me how the most upvoted comments on Reddit often reflect the consensus opinion but not necessarily the truth.
xyzzy4747 commented on In the belly of the MrBeast kevinmunger.substack.com/... · Posted by u/stafford_beer
Interesting experience to read an essay of such insight regarding a subject that is the opposite of insight.
Best thing I’ve read this week. I am happy to say I have never seen a Mr. Beast video, and now I will be sure never to see one in the future.
There's not much you're missing. His videos try to appeal to the lowest common denominator and are relatively vapid. Sort of like the junk food of YouTube.
xyzzy4747 commented on I deleted my social media accounts asylumsquare.com/backstag... · Posted by u/joemanaco
It’s nuanced. Something that appears to have been lost during the last years of trans hate.
> Like all DSM illnesses, one key component of depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, all of that, is that you have to be functionally impaired by it, otherwise it doesn’t count as a diagnosis
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/07/19/health/is-gender-dysphori...
Many trans people fought to keep it in the DSM for the simple reason that health providers would have refused treatment if it was removed.
There are many trans people that have had treatment and live perfectly happy lives. What makes many trans people unhappy is society’s persistent persecution of them in politics and media.
My point though is that if a person renders themselves unable to have offspring, especially before they have any, then from a purely biological perspective it's a form of illness. The same view would apply to all animals. If every member of a group acted the same way then the group would also die out. The functional impairment you mention includes the inability to attract a mate and reproduce. Hormones and sex reassignment surgery also severely hamper fertility.
Also trans people tend to have many other correlated mental issues and for example have high suicide attempt rates.
xyzzy4747 commented on I deleted my social media accounts asylumsquare.com/backstag... · Posted by u/joemanaco
That's not all FB is doing.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/meta-new-hate-spee...
"Meta will allow its billions of social media users to accuse people of being mentally ill based on their sexuality or gender identity, among broader changes it made to its moderation policies and practices Tuesday.
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The long list of changes to the new hate speech guidelines include removing rules that forbid insults about a person’s appearance based on race, ethnicity, national origin, disability, religious affiliation, caste, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity and serious disease. Meta also scrapped policies that prohibited expressions of hate against a person or a group on the basis of their protected class and that banned users from referring to transgender or nonbinary people as “it.”"
>accuse people of being mentally ill based on their sexuality or gender identity
But the question is, are trans people actually mentally ill objectively? It certainly doesn't help them reproduce (a form of survival) from a biological perspective, for example.
This Johns Hopkins professor thinks it's mental illness:
https://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/scpsva/Board.nsf/files/B8UR4X...
xyzzy4747 commented on I deleted my social media accounts asylumsquare.com/backstag... · Posted by u/joemanaco
Might be worth spending 30 minutes watching a video of what you can build with Rails in that amount of time instead of smugly dismissing it.
There’s a great example on the home page here: https://rubyonrails.org/
I've used it before, but Next.js with TypeScript is much superior in many different ways.
Apple is intentionally building a walled garden, which is a monopoly, which hurts our economy