Meta is one company that I morally wouldn’t work for UNLESS they paid me 3x what I make now. One of my old managers just jumped to meta and is going to be making 2.8x what I make. I could suffer it for 2-4 years to buy and pay off a house…

I’d say it’s exponential growth for how many users are super active. Like maybe only 5% of users even know about this new thing. And then 1% even care to use the block feature.

But that’s very different. People are uploading music on YouTube to be listened to as music and that directly infringes the copyright of another song on YouTube that is legit. It’s directly taking money from the owners of the song. Games are not (typically) intended to be a replacement for just listening to that song.

There’s a reason they have a -6 total score from me… I don’t just downvote all willy nilly either…

I use AI in my job but for script development. I would never have an AI without explicit guardrails or automated and not prompt driven and watched. It’s gotten creative though by using find … exec rm to remove old files, because I allowlisted find *. But it still only can do stuff in the directory it’s open in.

They did start randomizing the numbers though, so the first 3 aren’t based off of the area you were born.

Ah yes let me open up a voice chat of a forum.

The only software assessments I’ve done allowed me to use the internet, just like how I would in a job. The difficulty comes from being timed and having bizarre edge cases.

I hope this is not becoming normal.

I would absolutely have emailed them and asked for another way to do an assessment. You did the right thing, even though you’re not really in a position to be denying work.

I love eSIM because one day on the bus I was tired of AT&T speeds being shit in my commute, so I decided to switch carriers. By the time I walked home from the bus, I was done releasing my number and setting up my new eSIM to my new carrier and immediately got faster speeds. It just worked.

I completely understand if you’re changing numbers all the time it could be annoying, but it was just a simple activation for me.

Do you think Dropout will enshitify? It’s one of the best streaming services, and tons of people on the fediverse say it’s the only subscription they have. They raised their prices last year by $1, but let people keep their old price if they stay subscribed.

The Seattle zoo also rejected federal funding with these strings. My wife lost her job because of it. Because it was just for one program and the no-DEI was organization wide…

Apparently the Portland Zoo signed it… No one expected that shit. We both let her parents know that this is because of their vote in another state.

Last night from 12-4am, it was almost every region impacted so it didn’t help that much.

But we do have failovers for customers that they need to activate to just start working in another region.

But our canaries and infrastructure alarms cannot do that since they are for alerts in the region.

As someone that works at another Amazon AWS dependent org, it also took out us. It was awful. Nothing I could do on my end. Why the fuck didn’t it get rolled back immediately? Why did it go to a second region? Fucking idiots on the big teams side.

I got paged 140 times between 12 and 4 am PDT. Then there was another one where I had to hand it off at 7am because I needed fucking sleep. And they handled it until 1pm. I love my team, but it’s so awful that this even was able to happen. All our our fuck ups take 5-30 mins to roll back or manually intervene. This took them 2+ hours, and it was painful. Then it HAPPENED AGAIN! Like what the fuck.

You can buy nitrous ANYWHERE, so I wouldn’t blame TikTok for that.

It’s the same in Amazon software development. We have like 3 different AI tools. I enjoy it for unit tests and predicting the next two lines of a simple thing, but it’s not going to refactor our codebase.

I was using Amazon Q, so it could just be the shitty LLM.

Exactly. But they tout this as “AI” instead of an LLM. I need to improve my kinda ok regex skills. They’re already better than almost anyone else on my team, but I can improve them.

I asked my work’s AI to just give me a comma separated list of string that I gave it, then it returned a list of strings with all the strings being “CREDIT_DEBIT_CARD_NUMBER”. The numbers were 12 digits, not 16. I asked 3 times to give me the raw numbers and had to say exactly “these are 12 digits long not 16. Stop obfuscating it” before it gave me the right things.

I’ve even had it be wrong about simple math. It’s just awful.

Exactly. I’m nowhere close to the top of the tech ladder, but I make more than that and still have to rent and will be renting for several more years. To buy an average house in this city, it would be like 7k/month without a 20% down payment. And household debt needs to be 30% of your total income so I would need to make $250k to even get approved for a loan for an average house in the city.

Yea, that’s very weird. It’s open source so anyone could make changes to it, but still.

https://github.com/ffxiv-teamcraft/ffxiv-teamcraft