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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • We definitely see a gross incentive where companies don’t want people to become citizens because it allows their labor to be cheaper.

    I think back in Trump’s first term, he had one policy that I genuinely agreed with - that the H1B Visa program should have a very high minimum salary to it, returning it to its intended purpose of being used for rare, high-talent specialized positions. As it stands, HR will just invent overly specific criteria so that they can deny local citizens jobs, claim they can’t find anyone, and then hire cheap H1Bs - and threaten them with deportation anytime they complain.

    Needless to say, because it was a good idea and anti-corp, Trump dropped it almost immediately.






  • I’m in a workplace that has tried not to be overbearing about AI, but has encouraged us to use them for coding.

    I’ve tried to give mine some very simple tasks like writing a unit test just for the constructor of a class to verify current behavior, and it generates output that’s both wrong and doesn’t verify anything.

    I’m aware it sometimes gets better with more intricate, specific instructions, and that I can offer it further corrections, but at that point it’s not even saving time. I would do this with a human in the hopes that they would continue to retain the knowledge, but I don’t even have hopes for AI to apply those lessons in new contexts. In a way, it’s been a sigh of relief to realize just like Dotcom, just like 3D TVs, just like home smart assistants, it is a bubble.










  • Except even this isn’t true.

    One of the least pleasant parts of driving is traffic, potholes, and constant construction. We get fewer potholes when fewer cars are weighing down the roads. We need less construction when we’re not building so many lanes.

    On meat, if you ever saw that KOTH episode where he eats from that coop: That store makes amazing meat but could never sustain a huge customer base without selling out and driving their quality down. When everyone demands huge meat portions for every meal, what you get is terrible quality.

    You are better off with your habits NOT being grossly overpopular.