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He bought himself luxury sports cars using company money under the guise of “company car”.
Hiding your assets behind a corporate veil is a relatively common form of fraud and tax evasion for rich people.
He bought himself luxury sports cars using company money under the guise of “company car”.
Hiding your assets behind a corporate veil is a relatively common form of fraud and tax evasion for rich people.
Moore’s Law is about transistors, not resistors. Tell me you know nothing about hardware without saying you know nothing about hardware.
Sure. I could accept hearing “Windows is more polished than most Linux distro’s”. But to say blankly that Windows is polished is crazy talk. It’s jank as balls. Its got like 3 totally discrete and independent UI frameworks for the menus operating in parallel, and somehow none of them provide all the functionality you would need, have to mix and match them.
That’s just a single example. I could rant for hours.
I agree with your point, but I never would have thought of describing Windows as “polished”.
I can’t be bothered to learn git.
How to become unemployable as an engineer 101.
Well that other guy said it’s only 66megs so, you’re wrong.
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Great rebuttal. Really got him with this one.
That ship has long sailed unfortunately. The industry gave up on optimization in favour of praying that hardware advancements can keep up with the bloat.
Sam Altman was actually president of Y combinator from 2014 - 2019. An interesting connection when you realise HN has been actively removing news critical of the Gen AI bubble hype.
How else was he supposed to keep the user base up!???
Yep
No, it wouldn’t be. The base circumstance is the same, the software misidentifying a subject. The severity and context will vary from incident to incident, but the root cause is the same - false positives.
There’s no process in place to prevent something like this going very very bad. It’s random chance that this time was just a false positive for theft. Until there’s some legislative obligation (such as legal liability) in place to force the company to create procedures and processes for identifying and reviewing false positives, then it’s only a matter of time before someone gets hurt.
You don’t wait for someone to die before you start implementing safety nets. Or rather, you shouldn’t.
You lack imagination. What happens when the system mistakenly identifies someone as a violent offender and they get tackled by a bunch of cops, likely resulting in bodily injury.
Your comment explains exactly what happens when post-expiration companies like Google try to innovate
Hah well, in my defence I did do the sweaty five guys in a basement startup thing in my 20’s. Nowadays I’m more concerned with paying the mortgage and keeping my newborn alive.
I agree with everything you’re saying. Google hasn’t been the plucky, disruptive underdog in the arena for at least a decade. They’re corporate and bloated. All that matters to Google, and more broadly any incumbent and large corporation, is to inflate the stock price. The products don’t matter, the tech doesn’t matter, all that matters is make stock # go up. The stock is Google’s product.
Unfortunately in the current economic environment, capital is more expensive now and the incumbent heavy weights are doing everything they can to build regulatory moats around their cash cows. I don’t think we’ll see any competing startups with real tech and engineering innovations for some time.
Let’s be realistic here, google still pays out fat salaries. That would be more than enough incentive for me. I’d take the job and ride the wave until the inevitable lay offs.
That being said, it seems like it’s only downhill from here (arguable a few years ago). Reminds me of IBM at this point.
Yep. LTT just lives rent free in Lemmy’s collective consciousness.
He’s not. There were unsubstantiated accusations from a disgruntled former employee that were proved to be false.
Some people just hear what they want though.
I’d argue the oil and gas industry, not auto. Lots of auto industry players like GM, Ford, Honda, Toyota are selling EV’s. There’s a market for them, people want them, there’s money on the table. Why would auto not want that.
Listen, you’re not middle-managing hard enough. If AI tools can improve worker productivity by 50%, then you fire 75% of staff and overwork the remaining 25% while threatening to replace them with AI if they don’t suck it up.
If in the future you’re ever in doubt about how to tackle a problem, just think to yourself “what would an idiot with an MBA do?” and you’ll be set.
What the hell are you talking about? I’m pretty sure the millions of people the Romans enslaved did not volunteer for a better life but were in fact brutalized through violence and abducted from their homes.