livid-neuro

The first cars broke down all the time. They had a limited range. There wasn't a vast supply of parts for them. There wasn't a vast industry of experts who could work on them. There wasn't a vast network of fuel stations to provide energy for them. The horse was a proven method.

What an LLM cannot do today is almost irrelevant in the tide of change upon the industry. The fact is, with improvements, it doesn't mean an LLM cannot do it tomorrow.

I was in high school in the late 90s to early aughts. The school system used Novell NetWare with Windows NT workstations. At the time, their security was lax. In fact, they set up the directory so that by default, every user logged in using the first four letters of their first name coupled with the last four letters of their last name as the username, and the last four digits of their phone number as their password. I realized this also applied to school employees. Most of whom never changed their password. All of whom were local administrators for computers. Some of whom had network administration rights.

I used multiple school officials' accounts to log in, push a copy of UT99, filled with custom maps, to a network share. We would then copy that folder to the hard drive of the school computers and play UT99 on them. We had amazing LAN parties where we would find empty computer labs after school and play games for hours.

They had BNC networking in that building at the time. It took "forever" in my mind to copy the game from the network share to the local hard drive. Totally worth it.

In those days they even let us maintain the high school website using Dreamweaver...

I took mine to an Office Depot that "recycled the battery" for free. The guy at the register printed a receipt for having taken it, then took it from me and walked back into the administrative office by the front of the store. I assume it was to take it home. At least I tried...

What genocide? https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/state-of-pale...

I'd love this kind of innovation for power tools... The price of a Milwaukee M28 battery is bonkers these days. The cheap Chinese replacements are hit or miss... some come doa and Amazon complains they will terminate your account if you return too many of them.

I've been working on startups for over 20 years. Some have sold, some haven't. None have become household names.

In order to support this life, I had to provide consulting services for other companies. Many of them are startups themselves. In any case, this meant I worked at least three full-time jobs. I would work to find clients, work to provide services to those clients, and work to build my startup.

In one case, the startup would take off and pay all of my bills so I could focus on it. In another case, we raised money from investors to focus on it.

In any case, if you want a 9-5 gig contract and don't want to find the work, you can try and use recruiters if you are a knowledge worker. If you aren't a knowledge worker, then you probably will be relying on gig work like Uber/DoorDash. In the case of the latter, you better have a lot of roommates since those pay so poorly.