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by xingped 3mo ago
Do NOT work for Amazon! If you had a different offer, I'd say consider it, but Amazon is VERY likely to leave you high and dry within 12 months. Never ever trust that company unless you are completely willing and able to land on your f
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by xingped 3mo ago
Ew. Ex-Amazon. Never trust "career insights" from _anyone_ at or from Amazon.
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by xingped 3mo ago
Yeah, Wikipedia is famously hostile to new contributors. It's a wonder they still continue existing and also have the gall the beg for donations. Imagine if reddit begged for donations? I don't even really think about wikis as a s
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by xingped 3mo ago
Most people don't have a choice for what ISP they use. And even when they do it's usually "do what to live in the modern world or deliver your packets via the Pony Express?".
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by xingped 3mo ago
Whoops, lack of sleep, haha.
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by xingped 3mo ago
Lol! Yep, that's my bad. Too sleepy right now.
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by xingped 3mo ago
~~I wouldn't be so sure about "clearly". We're still very squarely in the "fancy auto-complete" stage of "AI", the name of which I still consider more branding than reality.~~ Edit: Ignore me, I'
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by xingped 3mo ago
This is also true, but for what I was calling out, people do pay off mods to supress or promote certain content on the subs they moderate or mods push their own sites or products if they have something to push.
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by xingped 3mo ago
You have to realize that the majority of reddit "users" are either bots (especially now with LLMs making it so easy to generate text on the fly) or utterly braindead. Just last week I got banned and comment deleted from a subreddi
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by xingped 4mo ago
Meetup used to be that until they got greedy and started charging everyone. It collapsed very quickly after that. It's a ghost town now.
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by xingped 4mo ago
Thieves whining about thieves. They'll have to excuse me for having exactly zero sympathy.
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by xingped 4mo ago
If only we lived in a sane world/country...
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by xingped 4mo ago
Nope, they ARE all faked ads. I'm really not sure why anyone would think otherwise. The only exception being the CS gambling sites which turned out to be owned by the guys making videos/streams showcasing them "winning"
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by xingped 4mo ago
You know what, that's a great idea! Surely nothing bad will ever come from increasing wealth disparity by letting wealthy people hoard all the money, right? If we let them hoard all the money, then surely some will spill back down to t
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by xingped 4mo ago
This is basically the modus operandi of almost every company these days. Where do you think anyone is gonna go? I sure as shit can't name any companies that don't act like this.
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by xingped 4mo ago
(Not parent) It doesn't. It's just uninformed or bad faith commenting, astroturfing, and arm chair developers who've never written a line of code for a game in their lives. Always has been. (Or maybe Jason Hall is going by &q
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by xingped 4mo ago
For code only, even then only sometimes or even rarely. The HN comments section is like a gold mine of the Dunning Kruger effect for social awareness/intelligence. It's not even worth pointing out because you'll just get 5 pa
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by xingped 4mo ago
Some dipshit with too much power and not enough brain cells nor incentive to care about making good choices. That's also an intentionally chosen pattern throughout the company. :)
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by xingped 4mo ago
Yeah, these days I use the little Ask button to just give a summary of videos more and more. Most videos could have been an email. I'll usually only let videos run when I need background noise, when there's sufficient detail throu
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by xingped 4mo ago
I can't think of literally anything meaningfully different about the Chrome UI from any other browser...
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by xingped 4mo ago
Yeah, this exactly. Google goes out of their way to be as unfriendly to adblockers as possible in Chrome. I don't know why anyone is still even using Chrome or why you would want to support them (by value-adding to their browser) with
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by xingped 4mo ago
This. If we try to tackle everything at once it won't work, but make inroads where you can while the winds are at your back for a particular issue.
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by xingped 4mo ago
People were plenty productive before AI burst onto the scene. Wanting to not have AI shoved down your throat doesn't suddenly make someone "not productive". What an utterly assinine take. Thank you for being Exhibit A for why
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by xingped 4mo ago
Wow there must be an echo in here because I swear I said just that... And then pointed out that it's the same crap being recycled back and forth across the company. There is no real separation.
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by xingped 4mo ago
That's horrific for people to even think of doing that and I'm sorry that's happened to you. You have my condolences. Too many people in tech are so utterly shameless, unfortunately.
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by xingped 4mo ago
To take an easy example that has actually had lawsuits I can link to, you must be unfamiliar with the lawsuits against Amazon for misusing sellers' data in order to undercut them with their own products... https://www.reuter
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by xingped 4mo ago
If you're really short, sure, maybe. If you're taller, no fucking shot because the... human being in front of you always insists on leaning back their seat as much as possible. You try working when your laptop can only open 60°.
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by xingped 4mo ago
Legality has long since lost literally any meaning to megacorps and the ultra-wealthy pretty much everywhere. Doesn't matter what country they're breaking the laws in. The only penalty will be a paltry slap on the wrist fine (if e
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by xingped 4mo ago
Same. There is literally nothing I need from Microsoft Office that I can't do just fine in Libre Office. Happier to be using free open source software too.
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by xingped 4mo ago
That certainly won't stop out of touch CEOs from choosing to do just that anyways. CEOs and making the stupidest possible decisions are also a match made in heaven.

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