nxdefiant

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[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 23 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I let my cat step on the remote. Fucker doesn't pull his weight, so if the lawyers come after him he's on his own.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 16 points 8 months ago

https://web.archive.org/web/20191127235720/http:/news.cpd.com.cn/n3559/201904/t20190425_836599.html

They don't have to own it when they can make it do whatever they want. You won't find critical analysis of anything important on Chinese tik tok.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Depends, do you have an unscratchable itch in your Halleryeriperactiam?

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 134 points 8 months ago (9 children)

If you've ever interviewed at Google, you know why this is happening. They hire people who are as much like the people they already employ as possible, to the point that employees don't know who they're interviewing or even for what. The person getting hired is pre-screened for all sorts of "desirable traits" before being matched with a team. The people who succeeded there all think the same, and so they all end up having the same ideas, and the number of novel ideas nose dives.

IBM has an internal motto that they really push when you get hired there: "Treasure wild ducks". Beyond the regular buzz word bingo of 'think different ' and 'move fast break things' it means "when someone else has a crazy idea that might just work, fucking listen to them", and it's what's kept them in business for literally a century. I don't think Google has that fundamental non-self-centered DNA. Every product they've ever put out was a result of their intellectual monoculture and the hyper competitive mire of sameness it breeds.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 4 points 9 months ago

The man has a crippling spatula habit, he needs the income.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 21 points 9 months ago

The dev team's boss is literally an elden ring boss.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 10 points 9 months ago

FULL SELF DEFECATING

(I'm sorry, but that fruit was hanging lower than Musk's credibility.)

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The money will be dumped into AI

The new scripts will be derivative mashups of the old scripts.

An independent will create a successful film

The new scripts will be derivative mashups of that script.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

On a long enough timeline, all things end, and tech has hyper accelerated timelines.

I was once interviewed by a guy who asked for my biggest failure, which was basically "favorite open source project didn't work out". He let me know he worked on an early competitor of the X windowing system and really believed in it. And we laughed about that. (He hired me).

So yeah, I kinda agree with this job hopper guy on everything but legacy, but only because we really don't get to have a say on what our code ends up meaning to anyone. The sands of time are nothing compared to the brutality of tech stack churn.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 4 points 9 months ago

I can offer some insight. A friend of mine recently switched to the new one plus and he's finding all sorts of little things he misses from his pixel 6 pro. The background music discovery was one, as was the camera processing stuff.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 4 points 9 months ago

That's what I'm trying to get across, it's very unlikely Tesla got it wrong. Bare stainless will eventually rust, but not in a few days of freshwater rain, sheesh.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 2 points 9 months ago

Heh, even more reason to never buy version 1. I doubt they're doing anything but pulling steel off a roll, cutting it, stamping it, and spot welding a reinforcing piece to the back.

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