dumbotron

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by dumbotron 3y ago
The man is clearly smart, but it's posts that this that show he had no business in a leadership role at Facebook. When he left, he cited low GPU utilization as an "offensive" metric. These skills were great for writing early
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by dumbotron 3y ago
These were different because they were funded with a bond.
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by dumbotron 3y ago
> They are making $40/year avg. off a user by selling users data People need to stop parroting this. Meta targets ads with user data. That's very different than selling user data.
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by dumbotron 3y ago
FAANG hires 2 types of people: people who are good and people who are good at working the system. A lot of people who are good at working the system worked their way up to VP of very little, but even that comes with VP pay. It happens on th
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by dumbotron 3y ago
This felt like the outcome of being surrounded by sycophants. What's funny is the reasoning about owning the platform and not being dependent on Apple and Google makes perfect sense. The outcome was just silly.
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by dumbotron 3y ago
I don't see mixed messaging. They're pushers, not users.
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by dumbotron 4y ago
It was funny seeing people bikeshed the use of the word "master" in a code base while not realizing H1B workers are the next best thing to actual slaves.
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by dumbotron 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis > I regularly just feel like shit for basically no reason, and will want to take a day off because of that. I feel like I've seen a rise in this. I'm not su
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by dumbotron 4y ago
> ensuring that the powerful can't rewrite history That overstates IA's influence. People still think Elon started Tesla.
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by dumbotron 4y ago
I don't donate to them because they're mismanaged like this.
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by dumbotron 4y ago
Clearly the only tech billionaire with Bruce Wayne level ambitions is Elon Musk.
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by dumbotron 4y ago
> but then quickly realize that it's a huge amount of work and not guaranteed success The other path I've seen rich kids take is get a good enough job in sales and marketing where they're doing fine, but not as good as the
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by dumbotron 4y ago
> I lived near a highly ranked MBA school for a while This is how elite colleges work. They connect elite kids with talented kids they can take advantage of.
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by dumbotron 4y ago
I'm due for a new laptop at work. I asked IT why they don't have any of the latest gen Macbooks yet. They're still working through old inventory.
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by dumbotron 4y ago
Imagine if votes were weighted by life expectancy
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by dumbotron 4y ago
> Decided to pack up my stuff and move to the city. Might I ask which city? SF and NYC are pretty different these days.
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by dumbotron 4y ago
> It was eye opening to learn how few of my coworkers had anyone outside of work. So where do I go out and meet people who aren't super religious, ballroom dancing nuts, or alcoholics? The other thing I'll add is that when you&
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by dumbotron 4y ago
I go into the office, but it's still pretty empty. It's getting to the point where I might leave in 6 months for somewhere where people actually come in. I'm just not sure where that is anymore.
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by dumbotron 4y ago
Remember the time Facebook blocked news in Australia?
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by dumbotron 4y ago
> the top decile from mid level colleges rather the average ivy leaguers The problem with hiring from the ivies is these are people who got into ivies. They know how to game the system.
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by dumbotron 4y ago
Apparently the radioactive boy scout was only identified through a "chance encounter" with police. He only created a superfund site. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn
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by dumbotron 4y ago
It's also easy to kill yourself while trying to separate the isotopes.
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by dumbotron 4y ago
You don't use a nuclear bomb. Well, maybe once, somewhere remote. The idea is once you do, you can do anything you want. Want to annex Ukraine? Want to run a country where you're the dear leader? All you need is a nuke.
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by dumbotron 4y ago
Weren't CD+RWs considered the better format? Maybe this is just my experience with a first-gen xbox that makes me think this.
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by dumbotron 4y ago
Honestly, I'd pay $50, maybe $100 for that.
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by dumbotron 4y ago
Fun trivia: hard drives write from the outside in because the performance is better due to (once) being constant CAV. People would sometime "short stroke" drives by using an undersized partition, improving both latency and through
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by dumbotron 4y ago
It's not like rain on your wedding day.
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by dumbotron 4y ago
The pedo guy incident opened a lot of doors because he has zero credibility, so he can say anything he wants, and it's ok because you can't believe anything he says.
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by dumbotron 4y ago
Props for getting both 3 and 4 word digs in.
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by dumbotron 4y ago
I'd love to see how PSC went for him. I'm sure he got "exceeds" or better, but between missing TikTok, nor being ready for Apple's privacy change, wasting time on a crypto currency and the metaverse, and a botched l

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