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by turtledove 4y ago
It's implied, I think, that the set of folks doing academia for pleasure are excluded from the analysis. In America, at least, the prevailing cultural attitude is "you do something to get ahead or you are falling behind". It&
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by turtledove 4y ago
How many attempts and how much human curation was involved. Every "I made AI do..." story seems to necessarily omit the "and I filtered out a LOT of rubbish before picking this one good example."
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by turtledove 4y ago
Have fun living in a world of people taking advantage of you, I guess.
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by turtledove 4y ago
That's certainly one theory on how to price labor, but it's not the only one (and not even the only one in our capitalist economy.) Worker coops, for instance, have a totally different theory of labor value. So no, it's not h
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by turtledove 4y ago
FWIW, I am an engineer and I agree with you.
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by turtledove 4y ago
I was an engineer in a games studio for years. QA did not have an easier job than I did. None of my engineer peers would do QA work. Wonder why that was? Maybe because the life of a QA person was difficult? Long hours, contact labor, no ben
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by turtledove 4y ago
Hahahahaha. Having worked in the industry for years, developing games is way easier than QAing them. It just requires a lot more initial training and skill development. I was an engineer, and I don't think I ever saw anyone work har
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by turtledove 4y ago
Writing design docs isn't a bad part of the SWE job. > that doesn't mean you should make a union to do that. Usually folks don't unionize until their work consistently fails to deliver good working conditions, so, yeah, in
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by turtledove 4y ago
What's more difficult than a job that's absolutely soul draining and long hours for next to no pay? It's difficult to become a software engineer, but the job is relatively easy. It's not hard to become QA, or a fruit pic
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by turtledove 4y ago
You aren't paid to play videogames. You are paid to test videogames. It's asinine to think they are just playing the games - QA has complex skills necessary to succeed, from technical writing to careful test planning to cross orga
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by turtledove 4y ago
Good for them! More of this in the industry is needed, especially in game dev where workers are treated especially poorly. Activision is likely to drag their heels on negotiating for years, unfortunately.
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by turtledove 4y ago
It's not the same, and you are delusional to think that I'm being irrational. A 401k has regulations. My broker has a fiduciary duty to act in my best interest. The money invested into the markets helps power the economy. And yes,
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by turtledove 4y ago
Nope. Sorry. Those are not the same. I'm cheering to see the grift coming apart. Yes, some people are losing. But the early the grift falls apart, the fewer future people get destroyed by it. I'd rather cheer seeing crypto fail, t
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by turtledove 4y ago
The white supremacist who did this is not a hero. I'm not cheering for that asshole.
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by turtledove 4y ago
You love to see it. Love to see crypto taking Ls.
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by turtledove 4y ago
The people who genuinely believe "code is law" are stunned to learn that: a) humans won't act "rationally", b) regulations exist for a reason, and c) no, the law is law, code is brittle.
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by turtledove 4y ago
Wait, what are you saying about Bush? If there's one thing his admin is known for it's targeting Muslim Americans. But I'll agree, Dems still don't support gay marriage, pregnancy care, trans folks, etc. They just happen
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by turtledove 4y ago
Do they? I mean, maybe, but definitely not in the States.
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by turtledove 4y ago
Or it's called social housing, food assistance, and single payer healthcare?
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by turtledove 4y ago
At this point, not fixing it is indistinguishable from malice. We've known for at least a generation the side effects of means testing. Keeping them around is cruelty.
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by turtledove 4y ago
This is one of the most insidious side effects of means testing. The moment you improve slightly , you cross the threshold and lose the benefits you needed to get established. Which can mean getting a job can worsen your income and quality
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by turtledove 4y ago
Yeah. Most Dem politicians aren't leftists. Many leftists vote Democrat out of, "what other choice do we even have. Not voting at all?"
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by turtledove 4y ago
Means testing (making sure benefits only go to poor folks) is such a colossal waste of time and money. And it creates perverse incentives where becoming slightly less poor can lead to a huge drop in benefits. If we gave everyone food stam
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by turtledove 4y ago
Yeah... Teach your kids the games they are interested in, and use that as an opportunity to build bonds. Poker, chess, go, Catan, Magic, whatever. Trying to optimize your child is so backwards to me.
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by turtledove 4y ago
Ok, last question first: because a job pays your bills, and maybe the job is ok and pays well as long as you don't get sexually harassed. She was effectively demoted through no fault of her own. "She asked not to be demoted, which
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by turtledove 4y ago
And it would be sexual harassment at best? And it would be right to hold you to account... "I drank too much" does not excuse showing someone your dick and asking to buy sex from them.
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by turtledove 4y ago
I cannot overstate how important communication actually is. A huge bulk of what engineers do is communicate. Design docs, white boarding, tech talks, gathering requirements, challenging leadership, organizing a team, code reviews, peer fe
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by turtledove 4y ago
Not he, they. But yes, exactly. The cars feel amazing in demos, but given time in them... It's a whole different story.
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by turtledove 4y ago
My car has had constant build quality issues. Yes, a demo drive is nice, but then you live with one. We had to have our windshield replaced immediately because it didn't seal, then the automatic wipers stopped working. The door handles
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by turtledove 4y ago
Tesla is on rocky footing, imo. I own a Tesla, and have for 8 years, but I'm not convinced I'd buy another. They build low quality cars that have high range and a pretty good charging network. They have a self driving program that

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