maynarkh

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[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 7 points 9 months ago

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish when?

What do you think WSL is trying to be?

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 20 points 9 months ago

I read an older book called "The Mythical Man-Month" a while ago, and one thing that stuck with me is that the guy is speaking about engineers having offices.

I never had an office to myself!

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 5 points 9 months ago

Nah, the problem here is literally that they would edit your prompt and add "of diverse races" to it before handing it to the black box, since the black box itself tends to reflect the built-in biases of training data and produce black prisoners and white scientists by itself.

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 7 points 9 months ago

The US founders were on to something by trying to break up power and have each group kept I’m check but that too is failing.

Yeah, separation of powers is a pretty old and workable concept, 8 times older than the whole history of the US, and has worked for most democratic countries since.

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think they wouldn't do that, since they could do the redirect within Chrome itself. The only reason they would do this is to grab users on other browsers, but that would mean everyone else stopping to use Google DNS, which means less data to collect or sell.

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 6 points 9 months ago

Yeah, they don't sell it or trade it usually, they use it as collateral for loans in cash.

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 29 points 9 months ago (6 children)

I'm just waiting for them to figure out how to inject ads into DNS.

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 2 points 9 months ago

Even if I got laid off twice in a row in six months though? In this market? Both times it was with around half the company as well. One was an acquisition with the new US owner preferring people in India, the other one was a "pivot" after sales sold something that they themselves couldn't really describe.

I didn't get to hiring managers and explanations in the first place. I got told at one point by a hiring manager that they would rather hire some Googler who recently got laid off, since the pipeline is full of those. The fact that six months later they laid said hiring manager off with his team as well does not really make me feel vindicated either.

No worries though, I got my plans sorted out, no better time to get more specialized, go back to uni and get into a niche but growing field I like.

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 1 points 9 months ago

Always has been.

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 2 points 9 months ago

They would get massive fines if they tried that.

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 1 points 9 months ago

they tried to ban P2P encryption

They recently enshrined it as an unalienable human right as a world first.

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That's assuming you don't get laid off, sadly. Ask me how I know.

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