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yolkedgeek

163 karma · joined June 22, 2023

Hi. I'm Alireza Alavi. Software engineer by trade.

more about me at https://alavi.me

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yolkedgeek··on Sioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and research papers
Been using it for years. really the best pdf viewer for me.
yolkedgeek··on Krazam OS
yay go Krazam! absolutely love their videos, their videos are THE inside jokes between me and my co-workers.
yolkedgeek··on Write Dumb Code (2018)
I printed some of this and put it on the wall in my office for everyone to see
yolkedgeek··on Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims
Meta is as rigged and rotten as it gets. I live in Iran and whenever I have posted something political (not just rants, something serious) or any serious about the gov, it always got taken down. During the Woman,Life,Freedom movement everybody reported how instagram would take down important rebel news and posts and journalisms. you would think meta would work against something like the Islamic republic but it seems like it love all corrupt dictator governments. Let it be Islamic republic or Israel.

Thank god I have left all meta platforms for about 3 years now. But anyone who claims Meta is not pure evil is either evil themself or really really stupid.

yolkedgeek··on Mechanical Watch (2022)
OMG this was such a beautiful and interesting article. I was so impressed I HAD to leave a comment
yolkedgeek··on Rethinking the Luddites
Being opposed to technology is something I don't understand. I'm a software engineer; and if some day AI can fully replace me, that is a "me" problem. I should be able to bring value, I should be able to adapt. When horses where THE way of transportation, there were hundreds of jobs, and thousands of workers supporting the horse industry. creating stables, blacksmiths, vets, etc. but in a matter of couple of decades, the horses were replaced by cars. now Imagine if those people started wrecking cars and car factories. over time, if someone is fully unable to adapt to progress and wants to keep going his way, he will be eliminated by the survival of the fittest. and those who were able to adapt, found other jobs that they could bring value in. For example many of the blacksmiths became mechanics.

If an artist can lose his job to AI, it means he was never anything more than a weaker version of AI. you can't be angry because someone does your job better than you and for cheaper.

Should we regulate and control the advancements, so something like the atomic bombs, like hiroshima doesn't happen with AI? Absolutely yes. Should we have our guards up and say AI is bad, it will be end of us, etc.? No. opposing progress is something that humans have always loved to do.

yolkedgeek··on Gen Z is giving up on college
I'm almost finnishing my bachelors in software engineering. I really wish I didn't have to waste all these years in university. I could've learned much more by self study. the traditional teaching system which is centuries old, is very bad and backwards. we have advanced in every aspect, we are reaching new milestones everyday, but our education system hasn't changed much from the start of time. this is awful.
yolkedgeek··on Maps distort how we see the world
this is such an important point that rich countries don't want to spread that much.
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