The question is whether social media is closer to candy or cocaine.
You are right that kids will chose anything other than homework but how do you explain adults spending 8 hours a day on short form platforms? Don't think TV had this kind of a hold on people. Some gamers did tend to develop obsessive tendencies over gaming but now that seems much more widespread with social media
> Don't think TV had this kind of a hold on people.
Tvs in the bedroom, living rooms, kitchens, they're centerpieces of rooms. Sports on all day on weekends. They got put into cars. I get together with older family and they'll put the TV on and we sit around it.
They only thing with TV is it wasn't convenient enough to be in our pockets all day.
What's lacking here? Waymos are driving driverless in multiple cities and Teslas are not. Robotaxis have a person with hands on button at at times for emergencies.
They might get better but how is that not evidence enough that currently Robotaxis are behind Waymos in self driving capabilities?
This was your chance to provide the evidence to your claims. It is conjecture what you have provided. Waymo requires the remote operator make decisions often, such as at uncontrolled intersections when the lights go out, as shown in SF. Just because you don't see the strings doesn't mean they aren't there.
It's hard for me to take advice like this seriously when, in my experience, things like budget and manager's social influence is more deciding in whether you get promoted or not than whatever work you did.
These arguments unfortunately fail flat in front of industrial use. AWS could be considered "critical" by most metrics and what is is it written in? Java
I really don’t like the argument calling “industrial usage” just because a main company or FAANG aren’t using the tech stack, but arbitrary under the hood are doing basically the same stuff with internal toolings that should be entirely under the language features, not under a system design library.
But your take about modern Java is correctly, and they adopt this style under internal projects for some workflows.
Yeah no, that's not it. Not everyone has to chase the highest purpose. A lot of existential dread would go away if:
1/ People had hopes of buying a house in their lifetime
2/ They were not afraid of being let go at any point
3/ Social media did not create a hedonistic treadmill
The whole higher purpose narrative is bs to keep sell more books or courses or whatever author is selling. And what's with random yellow highlights and bold formatting on every second sentence?
It has the option of doing that, it asks you if you want to enable the backups.
It also allows you to encrypt the backups with a passkey or a password that you can manually set, client-side.
It didn’t always have the encryption option I think.
1. Automatic capture with structured extraction: Grov uses Haiku to extract reasoning_trace (conclusions + insights) and decisions (choice + why) from each session. You don't write anything, it captures automatically.
2. Intelligent injection by file match: When you edit src/auth/login.ts, Grov queries past sessions that touched auth files and injects only that context. A markdown file would be read entirely every time, wasting tokens. (next version will also include semantic search)
3.Team sync: Automatically syncs to a team dashboard. When dev A explains the auth system, dev B's Claude knows it automatically while doing related work.
Technically this was the core idea of Grov, for my coding agent to know the reasoning behind why my cofounder's coding agent chose to implement xyz in such way.
You are right that kids will chose anything other than homework but how do you explain adults spending 8 hours a day on short form platforms? Don't think TV had this kind of a hold on people. Some gamers did tend to develop obsessive tendencies over gaming but now that seems much more widespread with social media
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