ramblinguy

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[–] ramblinguy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

Ugh well hopefully there will come a point when there's not actually enough people to layoff anymore. Then maybe the game of follow the leader will stop. Or maybe another one starts up where they start over hiring again, who knows

[–] ramblinguy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

At first I was confused about the books comment, since most books are just black text on white paper, but then I realized you were probably including comic books and manga in that too (and probably textbooks that include a lot of graphics)

[–] ramblinguy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

I feel ya man, I don't work at Amazon but at a fintech startup, and I've survived through so many rounds of layoffs, demotions, and "restructurings" that I'm kinda numb to it all and just waiting for my turn too haha

[–] ramblinguy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

Don't worry, once the hype fades, we can start calling LLMs "machine learning" again

[–] ramblinguy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago

Why would this even impact you if you're using their index funds? Twitter isn't even public so it can't be in any index

[–] ramblinguy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A frog that is slowly boiled will jump out. However, if it's dropped in boiling water, it'll die because it doesn't have time to jump out before the proteins in its body get destroyed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog

Relevant because I don't think slow change is as irreversible as fast change, and might actually be more manageable

[–] ramblinguy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Am idiot, still use Instacart though because it saves me at least an hour a week (probably closer to two hours after accounting for shopping time and getting ready to leave) for $20, which is worth it to me