YoungAchamian
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YoungAchamian
26d ago
small groups had the ability to make deadly, highly infectious pathogens.
Is not really possible, knowledge isn't the major bottleneck, its process, materials, equipment, and skillset. This is just a confusion that some more knowledge oriented profession have about difficulty in other fields.
YoungAchamian
26d ago
I can't understand the mindset of making such a large drone, in such small numbers and not giving it any defences. S-300s were around in the 1980s, it's not like 'just fly moderately high' is a sufficient defence.
Being in defense, the answer is greed. Only tangentially related, but the number of recent drone warfare calls I have been in is huge. The government keeps asking for disposable/attritable drones like Ukraine has, just less hobbled together. Everyone and their monkey offers up their drone for this. The kicker? The cheapest one was like 25k per drone. It made me felt like I was screaming into the void. So I bet the 150 Mil spy drone was given no defense tech because that's more expensive and it wasn't in the RFP.
YoungAchamian
26d ago
Why wouldnt IT be tech? Infrastructure is still technology
Its a bit of a category error. IT IS technically "Tech", but it's not in the context people actually talk about it. People like to ride up on coat tails of adjacent things that give them prestige by believing they are apart of the "great transformational wave" The tech boom has been driven by an explosion of SWE and SWE-specialty jobs not IT jobs. When people call this the "Tech Boom" they expect everyone to understand the imprecise terminology. IT jobs are costs, more of them doesn't drive a surplus of value because more cost is just more cost. As far as I know IT folks don't really develop products unless they are selling them to other IT folks as costs for their IT stuff. Cloud Engineers are probably a border area, idk who claims them. Idk if the modal Cloud Engineer starts as a help-desk IT intern either. The ones I know are SWE -> Cloud.
Your analogy is actually good, but you misunderstand it. If we said there was a Medicine Boom: lots of high paying medical jobs, shortages of skilled laborers, go get the job from college ASAP! And then a bunch of people went out and got Chiropractor, Acupuncturist, CNA jobs and then complained about low pay and large competition. Well those are technically "medical" jobs but the "medical jobs" we were really talking about was doctors, nurses, and PAs. Another would be women in STEM, which is Science Technology, Education, Medicine. Well women actually already dominate Education and Medicine, about 50% of Science, and 50% in things like Biomechanical Engineering, or Environmental Engineering. They have low numbers in hard sciences, and hard engineering disciplines like ECE, CS or Aero. IT is the same for CS, its "Tech" but its not the "Tech" that's being talked about as driving the Tech boom.
Thats an interesting critique. I havent heard of the too much white space critique before. How do i compress everything, while still sounding significant? Run it through GPT-5?
Your resume is literally 2 pages, I didn't even realize it at first. You just get rid of all the extra white space. idk if you need a llm to do that. Think about it this way, If you have a lot to say because you've done so much stuff, then your resume would like bursting, you want it to look like you almost struggled to include all of your stuff in 1 page. Instead it looks like you have lots of white space and two pages which means you wanted to fill the page so you added empty lines (not actually, but could be framed as such).
I mean. Per my resume, I did do most of this. As did many of my peers. We aren't jobless at all. Its just difficult to take the next step after help-desk.
This might just be the difference in our two "Tech" fields. But my career path looked like: Electrical Engineer Intern -> Robotics Intern -> ML Intern -> ML Engineer. My last two internships I was just doing normal Junior ML work with a bit more hand-holding. It wasn't difficult to transition because the transition was just more independence on the same experience. I'm not sure what the transition from Help-Desk IT to Cloud Engineer is, but it feels like Cloud Engineers, or Network Engineers don't start at help-desk or the transition is a lot.
P.S. I could also just be full of shit, I'm not in your field and don't pay much attention to it. Just giving my experience.
YoungAchamian
26d ago
I suppose since modal HR wokescolds aren't the woman in prison with him, the schadenfreude of leopards eating faces is probably a bit of a misplaced feeling. However it is germany, so I probably misunderstand what the modal underclass female prison believes politically.
YoungAchamian
26d ago
It already resulted in a peak-Germany situation
Reading that article had me grinning from ear to ear at the ridiculous troll situation.
YoungAchamian
28d ago
It's always weird to me when the IT field gets conflated with "Tech" which to me (not that I am an authority) is a shorthand for Software Engineers/Machine Learning Engineers/Computer Scientists. The two fields have radically different variables, IT is almost always a cost center to someone. You are either doing it in house, or working for a consulting company selling your cost center-ness to other companies. The Tech folks are money generator in that they create products/services/work that is then sold (in some fashion). On a balance sheet these are two radically different outcomes, and when the economy slows, companies don't want to expand the cost center.
I lost my job in late 2024 as part of a lay-off. I sent out probably a 100 resumes via websites, linkedin, recruiters, et al. It took me about 6 weeks to find another job that ostensibly required me to relocate, but in practice I was able to prove my value staying at the local office near me. My boss no longer talks about me relocating. One of the interesting things I noticed, is that remote work jobs are insanely over-valued. If you are applying to work remote, 10,000 other people with your skills or better are too, and unless you are the creme de la creme, you aren't standing out. In person jobs are much better competition wise, and you can even turn them into quasi-remote jobs once you have proven yourself.
Its fascinating, because many people in the gen-z bracket were told to got to college, get a degree, and you'd have a nice cushy office job lined up
Only if you picked the right field, got internships and work experience, and either networked, did projects, research or went to the right school. The extra parts were just implied. No one smart ever thought getting an English bachelors or HR degree entitled you to a nice cushy job. The part about going to college, is that it requires you to also demonstrate you can think without being told to. Figuring out which jobs are flush with applicants or are low pay is fairly straightforward with some independent thought. The only lie that gen-z was sold was that it required no extra effort, no extra thought, just color inside the lines like you were told to, you good little lemming. And that's probably because that extra effort/thought is a costly signal. And why pollute the costly signal, the smart ones will figure it out, which is the point of a costly signal.
here is my resume
You have too much white space, it definitely shouldn't be 2 pages. Everything reads super bland. You don't need to always do the "show me don't tell me" it just needs to read better than something 10k other entry level IT folks also all do.
YoungAchamian
1mo ago
I finished No Life Forsaken. It was okay. I feel like Erikson has lost some of his touch. The "hidden" characters were too on the nose. It felt too much like an avengers-slop style full of team-ups/guest appearances. The dialogue was boring and without gravitas, the only interesting thoughts were those about worship which has been done better in his other books. Even the tropes just felt well-trod which is something I remember, maybe incorrectly, as something he was better at pathfinding previously. Lastly for a Karsa Orlong series there is a specific dearth of actual Karsa appearances, which is disappointing.
Plenty, I routinely voted democrat or libertarian, 2024, I voted for Trump. I live in one of the top 10 most contested/important counties in the country. I was persuaded by facts, logic, and reason. And I will be again in 2026 and 2028. Considering Trump won the popular vote in 2024, something that hasn't happened in forever and sure as hell didn't happen in 2016 or 2020, I think screeching that there aren't independent swing voters left is just an excuse to engage in accelerationism.
I've beaten this drum before, and I'll beat it again. If you post political content online in anyway, you are not normal. You are not the average voter. And there is a good chance you exist in a bubble. You can either be unaware of it, or acknowledge it.
YoungAchamian
1mo ago
Yeah its the tackiness that seems to impact my mind the most. I feel like its one of these costly signals. Erikson is a well established writer with a well established fan base. One would suppose that he has no need to really engage in the new-rich/tacky/booktok style marketing for a mass market audience. The costly signal for high quality reading material is that it doesn't need to try and be trendy because its quality will make it so regardless. It likely jars me, because it is directly coming into conflict with my estimation, making me re-evaluate
YoungAchamian
1mo ago
Different kind of degraded. You are talking morally degraded, and yeah Karsa has super foreign morals. I agree with the Erikson blogpost on the purpose of writing him is, to really bring into the perspective the narrative of "Noble Savage".
I meant degraded in terms of tropes/quality. The first book had this almost preachy take on modern social issues wrapped up into the plot that felt distinctly heavy handed in a way that a high quality author like Erikson should be above. It is also fundamentally at odds with my understanding of his general literary style: he writes civilizations with the dispassionate style of an archeologist(which he is). There's no: "this is right" "this is wrong" only "this is a socio-cultural permutation that could exist, lets explore it in a story". He has overarching themes, but the pro-immigration/pro-refugee stance was so off kilter, so black and white, and so pronounced that it felt like a departure.
YoungAchamian
1mo ago
It almost doesn’t feature Karsa at all. It’s very post CG Malazan empire. The first was more theloman focused, and this second one was very 7th cities focused. This last one had some odd azathani focus that made it feel more like a fall of light/walk in shadow prelude
YoungAchamian
1mo ago
The first book was good but the themes felt far more heavy handed than his previous works. I'm hoping this second book isn't so... degraded? idk the exact feeling.
YoungAchamian
1mo ago
pondering that he may be a loser
Heh, I suppose I am removed the youth of these days, video games were ubiquitous in my days but so was reading. I didn't have the super-stimulus of a smart phone available until much later
YoungAchamian
1mo ago
Every time I see a section of a brick-and-mortar bookshop called "booktok" I cringe.
This would make me squirm. I'm now dreading going to my local trendy Brick-and-Mortar. Yeah the game thing feels the same way, it's almost like begging for attention. It would feel actually worse if they directly thanked certain game streamers on twitch by the handles
YoungAchamian
1mo ago
I'm reading the new Malazan Karsa book: No Life Forsaken and I noticed something strange. The foreword is dedicated to Youtube book streamers and Booktok explicitly. This feels oddly tacky and off-putting. I never really thought of Steven Erikson in that light. Anyone know if this is some new weird parasocial thing authors are doing? Or is Erikson a trailblazer.
YoungAchamian
1mo ago
I find it pointless to really try and judge people's intelligence over online forum posts. As a former 'annoying white autist' making the jump to 'not-annoying white autist' does wonders for people's willingness to hear you out, and engage with your ideas. Unfortunately, it's all about the opportunities you have available and many of those come from other people being willing to listen, engage and like you.
If he's young then he should try to re-optimize for that. If he's not its probably too late to learn it.
YoungAchamian
1mo ago
This is simply not true.
Ok they were medium articles when I looked yesterday. But my search doesn't have them show up, here are the links. Full disclosure: I just scanned them.
Medium, Research Paper from 2016, Some open source textbook, The Cellophane paradox from the DuPont court case
You would just give actually interesting arguments instead of name dropping references and getting triggered.
I'm not making claims I am a genius wiz kid with a mega IQ. As Dase puts it: I'm a 120IQ midwit ML engineer. Furthermore my interest in this conversion is quite low to put any serious effort in a field that is outside my expertise.
but it's high enough for a quant finance job
It probably is, but it sounds like quant finance jobs are looking for more than intelligence.
I guess I can't be frank about that here without people getting triggered.
The only thing that triggered anyone here is the sheer autistic arrogance: "The I'm smarter than everyone but can't seem to tie my own shoe laces" mentality. Followed by repeated attempts at trying to flex that and just failing.
YoungAchamian
1mo ago
Absolutely, for some reason there's this insane arrogance that smart-ish autistics get. Not sure why it's such a thing.
YoungAchamian
1mo ago
God I've been around here for a bit, I'm not sure I remember who this is. There's been a couple people that will flex credentials in other fields to give themselves a flex, but IQ flexers are not something I've remembering.
YoungAchamian
1mo ago
I'm going to reply to both of our chains here because I think they overlap.
Someone who hasn't mastered the basics misinterprets that as "wrong" or "dumb."
Your whole linguistic verbiage reads as this weird striver/hustle slang. The fundamentals of what? If you were a CEO or COO doing hiring successfully I'd be more inclined to believe demonstrated mastery of the "position of intuitive mastery of the fundamentals" but if you were an executive you wouldn't be trying to get rich, you'd already be rich. So I think the implication that you've mastered hiring for talent is unfounded. Otherwise that could be your startup idea. I'm sure a lot of people would pay top dollar to a firm that could hire them the right person for the job.
upwards due to the intelligent logic like the critique of the pedigree lingo, the assessment of hiring practices from a psychometric point of view, as well as the concept of Fallacy of Sufficient Competition.
Your critiques don't read as a genius, they read as someone bitter about being gatekept out of a field. If I google "Fallacy of Sufficient Competition" I get 6 medium/substack articles, not the epitome of an original idea.
Aka, the poster is wrecking 115-125 IQ normies which is a robust sign of higher intelligence.
One, I seriously doubt anyone here is considered a normie. Two, I just realized you sound like this guy from slow horses. I couldn't find the clip where he talks about how much a genius he is but this is the general level of obnoxiousness, midwit behavior that you are engaging in: Roddy Ho. People who are smart don't feel the need to flex their IQ continuously. You would just give actually interesting arguments instead of name dropping references and getting triggered.
You have to be smart enough to do this yourself to appreciate it, though
Wow I really got hit with the rick and morty special unironically, maybe you are a troll lol.
YoungAchamian
1mo ago
All of politics is. Contrary to it's pretense, sociology is not a science, so there's a lot of going with your gut when you're governing.
No but economics is and is a far better tool than your gut when dealing with large markets and the mass decisions of human behavior. Mass human interactions are all fundamentally markets. I think assuming sociology = politics is the exact urge that technocrats have...
Though I object to being called a technocrat.
What else do you call someone who attempts to solve human problems like its an experiment to be managed or its factorio/paradox/rimworld esque. I think this impulse is exactly the technocratic one.
Not everyone on the right is a libertarian. In fact, it's only a small minority that is.
Obviously not, but plenty on the right object to being forced into compliance as though they were playthings of the technocratic mind. A principle they do not reciprocate in their own wild fantasies of power. So for them the question is not "Is the boot good" but "How do I get to wear the boot". As such when they morally grandstand about the abuse of the progressive wokes they aren't standing on principle but against the radical belief that in a democracy you will need to share the boot. There is dark humor in the idea that adults are fundamentally just kindergarteners with power who never learned to share.
YoungAchamian
1mo ago
your general axe to grind about how awful western women are is particularly ill suited to explain the problem.
Nah my axe is with how awful western elites are, its not gendered. I wouldn't even say its a western elites vs eastern elites, I just live in the west. Rather it seems that the current crop of elites are particularly incompetent and out-of-touch with the world. Despite centralizing power and authority they seem incapable of actually using it to make things better for anyone besides themselves.
Your rights are not being trampled because you're asked to pay for taxes to support things that will pay dividends to you in your old age dude, be serious
What dividends am I getting? I'm pretty sure if I just invested that money I would get better returns be it in stocks, gold, or lead and rations. Considering the last time the government got money for people's elderly age they spent it all on booze and hookers, and setup the current ponzi scheme we have now.
Some problems can't be solved with money. And if raising taxes is a means to punish the childless, then yes it is trampling rights.
YoungAchamian
1mo ago
It's cheaper?
But apparently less effective. I feel like a percussive maintenance approach to fixing a defect-defect is similar to a pray and spray approach to shooting. It might work, it might not, but punishing people on a "might" is how you get the saying: "The road to hell is paved with good intentions"
I always find it funny, ironic, and depressing how people on the right are not opposed to technocratic solutions, they just don't want to be a on the receiving end of them. Everyone wants to wear the boot.
YoungAchamian
1mo ago
I think I have a better grasp on empirics of the world than the median mottizen.
Idk you seem to be struggling with the concept of pedigree and large interview sample size. I'm not sure anyone I know who is smart fails to understand the concept of a social/meritocratic signals in the form college pedigree, credentialism, etc. You seem pretty pissed about it.
I'm 95th %ile income for my age
This is not hard, depending on how young you are. $250k in the Bay area for a 30 year old is 97th percentile and is a starting salary for any SWE of that age and commensurate experience. I was apparently 93rd percentile a couple years back, and I'm not a money chaser and I don't live in the Bay.
I think I will be in 5 years, given my intelligence and track record
Good luck, however understanding the lay of the land will be important. I think this thread has some good advice when it comes to the fact that a large percentage of the population in our culture wants to be rich and many of them are quite smart. Degrees like quants are actively setup to winnow out people, and many times to winnow out those who lack the requisite class markers like a ivy league school or advance degrees. If you really want to be rich, and are as smart as you seem to think you are, then the easier route is to be a startup founder.
Is this bait? This was my honest assessment.
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