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farcitizen··on Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras
It's important that the cattle pays for its own imprisonment. For example a cow's milk gets sold to pay for the fence. If the farmer where to pay for the fence out of his own pocket, he would be creating negative karma, but if the cow pays for it, its a form of consent. You are are the Cow in this story.
farcitizen··on Alex Karp says only trade workers and neurodivergents will survive in the AI era
Just to clarify, the person staring out the window would be competent, just bored. They see the schoolwork as relatively pointless. The adversarial work/tasks you described can be largely done today. Throw a complex scenario at GPT 5.3 with Extending thinking and you will see my point. The problem now isn’t the models capability, it’s the context. Getting the AI the info it needs. So, where I think we differ, is I am saying AI today (or near future) can reason against these complex scenarios (edge cases/outliers) you mention. The agents just don’t have all the context it needs in these complex scenarios. There will be some scenarios where the AI will fail, but this will be very small, and you can have human in the loop.
farcitizen··on Alex Karp says only trade workers and neurodivergents will survive in the AI era
I agree with him. Historically, society handsomely rewarded the book-smart, the classmates who could absorb rules and execute on them flawlessly. Doctors, lawyers, accountants, professions where creativity was almost a liability. In the new AI era, that entire skillset gets heavily discounted, approaching irrelevance. The honors student who aced their SATs and was applauded for their 'intelligence'? They're on a path to obsolescence. In fact, you could start treating a perfect test score as an anti-success metric.

Successful companies of the future will need to identify neurodivergent candidates who have a solid foundation, but it's not all upside. These individuals often struggle in conventional social environments, may take risks that could negatively impact a project, lose focus when not sufficiently challenged, and would be more susceptible to substance use. So developing rigorous criteria to find high-functioning neurodivergent talent, and fostering the right environment for them, becomes a critical competitive advantage.

Put differently, we're entering a bizarre, topsy-turvy world. The student who sat eagerly at the front of the class, hand raised, awaiting the teacher's next instruction? They may find themselves unemployable. Meanwhile, the kid staring out the window, the one who couldn't fathom how anything the teacher was saying could possibly matter, and saw it simply a busy work. That's your next hire!

farcitizen··on Durdraw – ANSI art editor for Unix-like systems
Love this.. I was an ANSI Artist back in the day.. Was in <ACiD>, I knew it was a matter of time before AI would make Ansi's out of Photos.
farcitizen··on Intelligence is a commodity. Context is the real AI Moat
Great Article. And this idea is Largely behind all the new Microsoft IQ products, Work IQ, Foundry IQ, Fabric IQ. Giving the Agents Context of all relevant enterprise data to do their job.
farcitizen··on Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT
I got the same experience. Dont get how people are saying gemini is so good.
farcitizen··on "Inspector Dangerfuck", ANSI art comic from 1994
Love to see retro ANSI art. I was in both the large ANSI artist groups, ACiD and iCE back in the day. These ANSI blocks were a next level step in online graphics, from ASCII art. This was the predecessor to Adobe Flash.
farcitizen··on What makes you senior
Why? Lack of experience. See the other comments, these aren't major things.
farcitizen··on What makes you senior
Exactly. That was very intuitive that you picked that up.
farcitizen··on What makes you senior
When everyone in the room wants to go in a certain direction. And you tell the team "9/10 times i did it that way it blew up in my face.", and you don't fight them and let it play out as a lesson. And there is still a 10% chance it could work!
farcitizen··on A day using money in Cuba
I got a source. My ex-Gf who was scrambling to get her brother to contact a family friend to make sure she didn’t get on a government list for being caught with me. The police stoped us when she was on the back of my scooter.
farcitizen··on The Next 50 Years of Databases (2015)
The Use Cases for GraphDB's are surprisingly small.
farcitizen··on Is GraphQL Still Relevant in an HTTP2 World?
GraphQL is barely relevant today with the older HTTP standard. There is a very limited use case for GraphQL, and you most likely don't need it. If you are new to GraphQL I would recommended simply trying to use it to delete an item by Id. While this is a trivial task if you were using the MongoDB with Node/Express.. just and the GraphQL Layers.. and see all the extra code you need..