It has no judgement at all.

There are plenty fleeing Substack, and at considerable cost when a Substack subscriber decides to chargeback because they're no longer writing on Substack.

I am regretting letting my schlubstack.com domain expire now.

Oops, someone forgot to not be a bellend in public.

Oops, someone forgot to not be a omo in public. I win!

Perhaps you can show the statistics for harm and death caused by the shots?

>The reality you want is government overreach and a removal of individual choice.

Have you not met the general public? The infants are incapable of advocating for themselves and they risk death all because an incredulous new mother has been influenced by some lunatic on TikTok (or, indeed, in Government).

Good work, that. The area data is very interesting as well, but what surprises me is the relatively low spread excluding motorways.

I would rather push the car then pay motorway prices.

They were hunting elephants. It's quite clear that they weren't being forced to subsist on small herbivores.

"rabbit starvation" refers to a diet of mostly lean protein, deficient in fat. So much so that it results in malnutrition.

Eating nothing but rabbits is one way to get it, but is not really about "subsisting on small herbivores". It's the fact that the meat is very lean, not fatty. Apparently "mal de caribou" is the same thing, and Caribou / Reindeer are not small.

This is why the wolves also eat whole mice.

>But we want engineers who will respond to a slack message after 5pm during a P1 escalation.

Then you're going to have to pay, aren't you.

We do. €130K-€170K TC is at the top of the range across ALL of Europe outside of HFT. Even London Investments Bankers don't make that much outside the 75th percentile and above.

Money ain't a problem, attitude is.

The Western Europeans with the right attitude either move to America (eg. I'm sponsoring the O-1 of 2 founders who are shifting from London to SF for that reason) or end up becoming leadership for American companies in Western Europe.

75th percentile pay doesn't go as far as it used to, tbh. I'm on about that in Western Europe and am looking for more as my costs have increased massively.

And even though I could easily move to London (modulo family) I wouldn't as the wages there are much worse for my specialty.

Honestly based on talking to friends and former colleagues I think you're probably underpaying for many Western European markets, TC of 200k is where it's at now.

I'll leave your attitude comments out as I don't have enough context to reply effectively.

"Am I the problem? No, it must be the employees"

The commons were never unregulated. This is a tragedy of enclosure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure

We might get stuck discussing semantics. Large parts of the internet remain public and open; but an incredibly vast part of it is a toxic wasteland.

It’s true that many spaces people frequent are ‘enclosed’, but these are also less subject to the abuse taking place in the public and open areas.

>Anyone trying to stay safe will be on the gradient to a Stallmanesque monastic computing existence.

As a proud neo-luddite, I'm watching the AI hype with grim amusement and I'll tell you hwhat, it doesn't look like a good time. Even putting to one side the planetary scale economic crash that is incoming, all the hypers seem to be on some sort of treadmill that is out of their control and it simply doesn't look like fun.

Do you think that avoidance is going to protect you from the fall-out?

Everyone keeps saying how essential it all is yet a few years in and I still don’t see anything like the promised future of “everyone using them every day for everything.” Everyone’s just constantly talking (or stressing) about it.

We - including the companies - don’t know what the real “billion dollar application” of them is other than the unproven claim it makes everyone more productive in some general sense. When it doesn’t work people continue to say “it’s your fault not the tool’s.” Meanwhile investors are getting skittish and not one AI company is profitable yet. Companies that laid people off for LLM’s are regretting their decisions, leadership (and educators) is dealing with unvetted writing and having to waste their time cleaning it up, the list goes on. “Slop” is still a huge and growing problem.

LLM’s are here to stay, but IMO it’ll be more relevant in the long run than 3D printers yet less revolutionary than the internet. Everyone will touch them at various points but this whole-life, every-industry-disrupted integration still seems far fetched to me. Pricing is still a huge unsolved problem - everyone is still subsidized and despite gains in using fewer resources, it’s still too much to run these locally, even small models (not even getting into tooling and knowledge required to use them in a productive way).

When we zoom out and look at the whole picture, LLM’s have mostly made everyone’s online experience worse while the VC funded companies behind them are playing municipal and state governments’ for suckers a la Amazon getting so many cities to trip over each other giving away land and tax breaks, but far worse. Those are the biggest contributions so far aside from anecdotes from coders about “1000x productivity.” Again, I think they’re here to stay. But it’s called “AI hype” for a reason.

LLM’s have mostly been a problem creator IME rather than a “disruptor.” Never really seen “revolutionary technology” quite like it.

But hey, I’ll admit it’s useful to have a meh local model when I’m writing TTRPG stuff and have writer’s block. Though then I remember how it was trained, a whole other subject I haven’t even touched, so that kind of sucks too.

Yes, mainly because I will continue to know the difference between a truth and a lie.

The author is blocking UK ip addresses, presumably out of principle rather than because they’d fall foul of it.