Genius does weird things to a mind and body lol

The one and only hold music banger!

I feel like there’s a weird curve where, if the outage was under control quickly enough, saying “not a cyber attack” can instill confidence/sideline worries. And then if it goes too long…it flips, it had better be a cyber attack, cuz that kind of organizational incompetence is actually way more confidence-destroying. Fun games in pretend world as usual!

I was mostly being cheeky (if sincere, lol) - thanks for sharing it, I didn’t know about it and like the premise!

Completely agree!

My present phone, however - port is blasted and useless by now. Not too uncommon, so safe and convenient wireless options remain valuable.

To me this sounds like a strong advantage lol

this guy F…ourier Transforms

An extra hour appears in the middle of the night, while folks are partying, leading to some…extra-spooky haunting, ya might say.

USian, yes, but I’m saying something more subtle than you realize. Obviously I understand basic root words for what they are, and no I’m not the kind of silly liberal that imbues words with unrealistic magical power. For instance I always thought trying to force people to use “latinx” in place of “latina/latino” was stupid, culturally insensitive, and honestly pretty patronizingly racist.

I’m not what you’re imagining, and I do detest that tendency.

"We previously had a casual, low-key racism that no one minded! Everyone was perfectly fine with that arrangement. Until the youths stumbled into a way to get attention by making it more racist! I didn’t want it to be more racist, it was the right amount of racist before! And as I said, everyone was fine with it!

Anyway regardless I’ll still call them neegers. Those Americans with their influence can’t take that from me."

Just an unbelievably trash hill to stake your vomit-tier flag on, but sure, go off.

Here’s a question, why are all the “I’m Estonian!” announcers I ever stumble into, always just simultaneously, proactively finding the worst possible takes to give, upon their own introduction/announcement? The fuck is up with that “type” of y’all?

I read recently (ish, couple months now?) that Meta was reshaping its engineering workforce toward having them train an AI to do their work. Big push to record all user activity with their machines and engineers re-tasked away from engineering to doing the crucial, all-important labeling of this recorded data, so it can be used to train a model explicitly intended to replace them.

So yeah I don’t think stuff is going great over there (thank fuck).

Woof lol, just layers deeper than mere “independent contractors”, too, the strike threat is unbelievably funny.

These are people who are years downstream of even other downstream folks (the plastic-facade YouTuber hustlesphere influencer types who eventually <???> enough popularity to move these folks into actionable FOMO lol).

A “strike” 🤡

Them saying “I was squandering my inheritance, but then I wasn’t and it was so easy, I was so smart!, and now they made it harder, so I’ll have to suffer through just squandering it again and I’m mad that they did this to me!”

Sounds like a responsible strategy to draw back from a lot of this. It’s all so…effervescently remade, the “ecosystem”, every few months.

For me the takeaway comes from time I spent in some safety-critical parts of engineering and personal hobbies. Ultimately relying on people to make good decisions ~all of the time isn’t enough to prevent disaster, if something like disaster is on the line.

Systems must be engineered to remove possibilities for accidentally bad, in-the-moment human decisions, where it counts. Thoughtfully. This is the weird same-shape but exactly-opposite doppelganger of that set of best practices.

When the systems are using ~opaque automations that behave like humans (w.r.t. some decision-making and unreliable expectations of behavior) - and then relying on people making the right calls on top of that ever-shifting set of capabilities - I mean c’mon lol.

This is gonna happen a lot, while the carrot of go-faster remains dangling so unignorably (because it’s in front of everyone, everyone working anywhere near the stuff). Until we look around and take a broader view. Which will be learned the same way we learned to make safety regulations, but I largely doubt our ability to respond in a similar way.

The money will eventually respond, of course, but that’s always a poor and late proxy for what ought to be done.

Sidenote, for aspiring engineers, take heart!

It will be you who ends up tasked with unburying from all the technical debt incurred, truly. A practice steeped in the ancient wizardly traditions of yore. Spending a career on that and building something better.

It will be necessary, the work begins roughly a while ago lol but more fully when things settle somewhat. Many large and slow organizations are right now very engaged in simply unburying themselves from the technical debt of a previous hype cycle, AKA now making use of all the data they collected (badly, via go-fast charlatans) during the “Big Data! You’ll be left behind if you don’t collect extreme amounts of data, it’s cheapish and everyone else is doing it!” era.

This take sounds like the kinda guy who introduces “hot dogs are a sandwich” to a group, everyone enjoys the laughs and mock debate for a minute, then gets weirded out when the dude appears to really mean it and wants to defend the idea seriously 😂

You fucking suuuuuck dude, get better ideas

Adding to the chorus - you’re a real piece of shit for taking an artist’s work, REMOVING something the artist finds important, and then pretending like you’ve got some moral high ground here.

Go fuck yourself!

Big difference between a comic and a meme, you should go fuck yourself.