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AnEro··on Several people fired after clampdown on speech over Charlie Kirk shooting
Sorry if you misunderstood, it is a nuanced take, I'm saying acknowledging one as a terrible person in response to flowery embellishments of their life isn't celebrating that death. My statement wasn't about political violence, rather, we shouldn't be punishing people for pointing out the false depiction of the dead. I think ideally we all should be mature enough to both mourn the loss of a human and also acknowledge who they really were.
AnEro··on OpenAI Grove
AI coding is mid(okay) yes, my main point is people use it and it's a good line of business right now for them. They expected bigger break throughs like gpt-2 to 3 to 4, and that's not happening so they have to lean on the other aspects of the business more.

The fact it is mid is why they are really needing all the other lines of business to work. AKA selling tokens to AI apps the specialize in other mid products, and limit the snakeoil AI products that are littering the market ruining AI's image of being the new catch all solution.

AnEro··on OpenAI Grove
Yea from what I understand 'Chats' and AI coding are something they already have market domination/are a leader on and are a good/okay product. It's the other use cases they haven't delievered on in terms of other companies using them as a platform to deliver AI apps, which I would imagine would have been a huge vertical in their pitches to investors and internal plans.

These third-party apps get huge token usage with agenentic patterns. So losing out on them and being forced to make more internal products to tune to specific use cases is not something they want to biuld out or explore

AnEro··on OpenAI Grove
Looks like they want to build up and support middle men to do the apps more than them, and act more like a platform or operating system position. Which makes sense giant corporations reporting 95% failed AI projects and the core success cases are specialist companies tuning the platform to a specific problem are successful. Then there are a ton of snake oil AI apps that are over promising under delivering hurting the image of AI's usefulness

This is probably purely a pivot in market strategy to profitability to increase token usage, increase consumer/public's trust more than farming ideas for internal projects.

AnEro··on OpenAI Grove
I think that MIT study of 95% of internal AI projects failing has scared off a lot of corporations from risking time in it. I think they also see they are hitting a limit of profitable intelligence from their services. (with the growth in inelegance the past 6–8 months being more realistic, not the unbelievable like in the past few years)

I think everyone is starting to see this as a middle man problem to solve, look at ERP systems for instance when they popped up it had some growing pains as an industry. (or even early windows/microsoft 'developers, developers, developers' target audience)

I OpenAI see it will take a lot of third party devs to take what OpenAI has and run with it. So they want to build a good developer and start up network to make sure that there are a good, solid ecosystem of options corporations and people can use AI wise.

AnEro··on Run Erlang/Elixir on Microcontrollers and Embedded Linux
Same, my personal theory where it excels and overachieves is where there is already really fleshed out and oversaturated developer ecosystems (and experienced developer pool) that organizations have alot of legacy software built on it. I think it will gain momentum as we see more need for distributed LLM agents and tooling pick up. (Or when people need extreme cost savings on front facing apis/endpoints that run simple operations)
AnEro··on Google AI Overview made up an elaborate story about me
I really hope this stays up, despite the politics involvement to a degree. I think this is a situation that is a perfect example of how AI hallucinations/lack of accuracy could significantly impact our lives going forward. A very nuanced and serious topic with lots of back and forth being distilled down to headlines by any source, it is a terrifying reality. Especially if we aren't able to communicate how these tools work to the public. (if they even will care to learn it) At least when humans did this they knew at some level at least they skimmed the information on the person/topic.
AnEro··on Gleam v1.12
I used to think it was kinda pander-y, but then after participating in some of these communities it was just obnoxious when it wasn't stated, the cultural wedge between people. Where randomly there was drama from someone posting an unrelated yet offensive meme/joke, then it was a huge discussion on if it was ban worthy, if it was okay to joke about, or xyz. When really I just wanted to be nerdy with others.
AnEro··on Gleam v1.12
> It's just another programming language, not a political platform

Politics is baked into everything we do, like the lack of any political messaging is still a political message. With this approach, it weeds out those that don't align with the core community which is ideal for an organization that only thrives with volunteer involvement.

AnEro··on More women than expected are genetically men (2016)
As someone that has transitioned, I went into it with this opinion but now on year 7 of hormones, It's more complicated. I honestly now align more with the Olympic rulings of time in the hormone ranges of what you're competing under. Where at 5 years I lost all my strength, my bone density has dropped to cis womans (dexa scans). For instance, now I work out 3 times a week, 50 pounds still feels like 'get my body totally involved' heavy, before transitioning not working out it was a non-issue kinda heavy. (transitioned at 23) So its more having the time and atrophy of those muscles gained during that time period, then all that is left is probably an advantage of having a higher rate of fast twitch muscle fibre which probably is with in variance ranges of normal genetic advantages. Which also isn't a nice message to deliver to collage athletes of you have to muscle detox for 3-5 years.
AnEro··on Menstrual tracking app data is gold mine for advertisers that risks women safety
So we aren't seeing any risk in anyone being able to have one's medical data if the other party has the money for it? Especially when some of that medical care is being banned in regions this data isn't treated legally like medical data and have bounties on people reporting on that healthcare received else where?

Instead, the conclusion is just western women are accountability dodging sheeple that are just being coddled?

AnEro··on Can Style Be Timeless?
I think it's missing the eclectic element of personal style that fits your body that makes it timeless. Where adding the flavour of the current trend to your existing style more than having the trend now
AnEro··on The Anthropic Economic Index
Everyone in the comments seem to not like the article or see it as a waste of time. I just don't think we are the audience they wanted for this, I think they want to show the average business owner the realistic potential and public (journalists that will distill this later) they are aware of the impacts and what to expect.

I don't read it as fear AI, I read change is happening because of AI.

AnEro··on Inside Musk's Aggressive Incursion into the Federal Government
I think it's safe to assume that's where things are headed slowly. After the treasury situation, I think its more than fair to assume they aren't going to be only bloat or operating in good faith when their stance is to get rid of the systems entirely.

Remember when he bought twitter and gutted it? Child safty department was cut to the bone and they barely got away without any legal issues. Numerous core services failed leaving twitter/x barely operating for days. And this was with the tenured professionals keeping things running, now he seems to be using a bunch of people with under 5 years experience in the work force let alone in these sectors/technology.

AnEro··on Inside Musk's Aggressive Incursion into the Federal Government
Crash out, it's delusional to think the anti-medicaid and public healthcare party is only going to go after bloat in medicaid in good faith.
AnEro··on TikTok's algorithm exhibited pro-Republican bias during 2024 presidential race
I think if the algo showed alot of ED triggering content to ED survivors as well then I'd be more likely to agree thats the primary driver and not just an influence.

I'm not sure but anti-trans content/socializing in general is primarily a driver for poor mental health with trans people. Not engaging and blocking a lot of the content is day 1 advice in the community. Also, a lot of anti-trans content is targeting non-passing trans people, which is often full of ways to trigger ones dysphoria and dysmorphia. Like there are keyboard warriors for sure but i don't know anyone that intentionally watches that stuff and most even avoid tiktok entirely because of it

And I'm skeptical it even identifies me as trans if i'm just watching a few trans people that aren't talking about trans issues or experiences really. Where i scroll past much more xyz issue that affects females in particular, when it's trying to diagnosis me (which i think is cause of my health/nutrition interest it trys to convince me xyz is cause i'm not balancing my hormones or its pocs or assumes my period is terrible lol)

AnEro··on TikTok's algorithm exhibited pro-Republican bias during 2024 presidential race
I agree and disagree! To clarify, when I say centre/centre left I mean neoliberal and left being more aoc/burny leaning. It is very acceptable to neoliberal, but often not worth the political risk to go further than that and vice versa. Neoliberal isn't inherently protrans, and in general people see trans people in two ways, example for trans women a different type of male(biology) vs a different type of woman(social construct). Where depending on their ideology and their view as mentioned, it determines what trans issues they will come to bat and risk talking about.
AnEro··on TikTok's algorithm exhibited pro-Republican bias during 2024 presidential race
True but I think it's out of touch to not see the trans part as effecting the severity factor to it. Like some of the first advice most trans women get only wear shoes you can run in. Where in my experience if you aren't enough of those three you'll get chased down and no one will care to help.

I only started dressing as a woman again after I couldn't pass as a guy anymore and learned how to be as attractive as I could be. Which is a common experience amongst trans women

AnEro··on TikTok's algorithm exhibited pro-Republican bias during 2024 presidential race
100% I started not passing then lost a ton of weight and found out I have alot of traditionally feminine interests. I went from being spat at in the street and almost attacked with no help, to people going out of their way to protect me from creepy men following me.

From my experience passing, how attractive you are, and your interests/hobbies are all attached to how well you a treated in the world right now.

Trans people call it passing privilege for a reason.

AnEro··on TikTok's algorithm exhibited pro-Republican bias during 2024 presidential race
Haven't tried, I got off twitter and insta 2 years ago. I've been meaning to try it but its often hard to build up a feed again on one of those platforms it often just feels empty or if you don't follow the right people cluttered.
AnEro··on TikTok's algorithm exhibited pro-Republican bias during 2024 presidential race
I'd say with the reverse being very true as well would largely just make it so once you get anything close to touching the topic it tosses out which ever side they think you'll engage with the most.

For more anecdotal context, my other interests lean into a demographic/stereotype of an upper middle class pilates/health/cleangirl girliepop. Which from my experience they centrist/ambivalent maybe skew left but not inherently pro trans.

AnEro··on TikTok's algorithm exhibited pro-Republican bias during 2024 presidential race
Weird to say but could be a relevant anecdote, as a trans person, that avoids politics in my socials but watches trans creators. I've never gotten a platform that doesn't show me the trans negative politics in my feeds after engaging with trans creators. I find I only get the positive politics AFTER I ignore or dislike the negatives ones.
AnEro··on Elon Musk's Doge Wants Access to the Treasury's Payment Systems
He's got the perfect intern for the job come on guys I say let him at it!
AnEro··on Majority of US teens have lost trust in Big Tech
Or when the side that said they were gonna be totally above doing that and were pro free speech started censoring 'cisgender', people that got traction making fun of them/calling them out and criticisms of governments committing war crimes.

Maybe its cause people realise its a purely profit interested business with lots of influence that will change to what ever governmetns want to stay in business. Even drastically changing algorithms to meet regulatory needs like the EU's or who evers incharges feelings like china/usa/russia

AnEro··on 1374 Days – My Journey with Long Covid (2023)
Well I don't think someone adapting to new disabilities or impairments should be punished for it. So if someone is getting PIP'd a few months after returning from covid and aren't performing, I think theres a lot of moral failings as a manager/owner/employer you can have if you don't take it into account.

Also, why is it wrong to want to provide grace to those dealing with it? Like suddenly losing IQ or getting a cognitive impairment is a huge part of someone's life, there are non-invasive and non-condescending ways to support them

AnEro··on 1374 Days – My Journey with Long Covid (2023)
Because most know someone that has had covid. Then still its not public knowledge it can be as debilitating as it is, even IQ loss and brain fog effect should be better understood by the public as well.

Plus its not well researched so we should at least be trying to get the symptoms that are proven out there so we can get more information on it

AnEro··on Show HN: I built TikTok but for studying with quizzes from your own notes
true but tiktok is anki in reverse, it learns you
AnEro··on Study: Playing D&D helps autistic players in social interactions
Which makes it so fun to dm! I had someone make basically a batman character, but it was a min-maxed goblin shadow monk. Who thought he was a great investigator but wasn't, which always was funny to have a dumb batman trying to insecurely inserting himself into situations he shouldn't. He didn't meditate, he 'brooded' and was only technically useful in stealing/combat or when wisdom was in play. So at the campfire he'd be able to console the warrior for losing with the wisest thing that character has heard, only to follow up with something extremely dumb immediately after.
AnEro··on Study: Playing D&D helps autistic players in social interactions
Yea mostly they are obsessive about the game like I'd say they'd be more likely to be min-maxers from my experience. Just unintentionally so you don't have alot of the toxic downsides of the min-maxers of forcing xyz situations or not having a backstory, it was more thats how they had fun building a character.
AnEro··on ChartDB – Free and open source, database design editor
love it, but it doesn't (yet) handle editing huge tables with 100+ columns where the scroll bar jumps around a ton while trying to type. 100% going to be watching this project, and building smaller things with it
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