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Re:Hiring only senior engineers is killing companies on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @10:36PM (#45433749)
> It's a totally unavoidable problem with our industry.

It's the pay.

> People get bored working on one domain, one product and one codebase.

Yeah bullshit. It's the pay.

Re:Hiring only senior engineers is killing companies on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @10:26PM (#45433679)
Send me a single job employment posting that is fair
Re:Hiring only senior engineers is killing companies on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @10:15PM (#45433620)
You don't solve the problem by "humbling the workers".

The solution is rewarding people when a company is successful and more importantly not punishing hard workers. Right now people are under the impression that slacking and working hard will be equally rewarded, because that is the truth. Hard workers also get laid off so that CEOs can make a few extra bucks.

Re:Hiring only senior engineers is killing companies on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @09:59PM (#45433548)
Not in comparison to the value they provide.

A grocery store I worked at tracked finances and they were available to all employees. The grocery store made $270 per worker per hour. New hires were paid less than 1/10 of the value they provided.

I can only imagine how much more exploitative tech is

Re:Hiring only senior engineers is killing companies on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @09:50PM (#45433502)
Thats not reality though.

I didn't get laid off 3 times because I have a bad attitude. I got laid off because:

1) it was cheaper for the company to move the software department over seas

2) The business got sold to Amazon and as part of that process they had to downsize

3) Company collapsed due to leadership failure

I had a good attitude until I saw how disposable I was to these companies. You're an asset until you aren't.

Product finished? downsizing. Financial crisis that doesn't effect our industry? downsizing. Company about to IPO? downsizing.

Companies have no loyalty, you shouldn't either.

I misunderstood and thought this was a google sponsored project and not an open bug bounty.

Even still, you're responding in a thread about someone who is trying to do legitimate work on this project and google is not honoring the bug bounty system.

A problem google could fix if they just assigned someone to manually review the case, it would take like 15 minutes.

I don't think this correlation implies a causation, same with alzheimer's.

I think you're incorrectly attributing to viral/bacterial infection what can more likely be explained by a difference in lifestyles. Nearly 80% of people who die from Leukemia are over the age of 65. People who die in airplane accidents are usually flying private and that is not a lifestyle all of us can afford.

I think it's more likely that doctors die of specific causes because they have more money than the average person, the knowledge to do their best to avoid heart disease and smoking (and other hazardous activities except apparently for flying private), or perhaps because they're exposed to chemicals through their work environment

I remember the last time Kristi Noem "fired" something
I disagree with v_____.

"He didn't send the letter. The lawsuit was dropped."

"He didn't send the letter therefore the lawsuit was dropped."

Two very different examples. "therefore" in the second example communicates a causal effect from the independent clause that isn't present in the first example.

I'm sure one could argue that context clues could imply that same connection and therefore "therefore" is redundant but I just don't agree with the premise.

Therefore isn't empty verbiage. It's just communication, it's a conjunctive adverb. Therefore implies causation or at least some connection between clauses.

I could see arguing that starting a sentence or paragraph with "Therefore, " repeatedly in one essay is empty but tbh your teacher just sounds jaded.

Ok, so are airplane accidents transmissible as well?

> Increased mortality risk for male neurosurgeons was seen from leukemia, nervous system disease (particularly Alzheimer disease), and aircraft accidents

Feels like cherry-picking

> Also, apparently some of these issues exist for over a decade. That alone tells you how serious the problem is

The "serious problem" is that they've known about bugs for 20 years and not committed resources to fix it. The problem is the money.

Re:Hytale is canceled on Tuesday June 24, 2025 @02:32AM (#44363388)
From their updates it looks like scope creep starting in 2021 and a lack of leadership.

In 2021

> Even so, we know that half a year is a long time to wait for an update. The reason that answers have not been more forthcoming this year is because, until recently, we did not have them.

2022

> we’ve made the decision to redevelop Hytale’s engine—both the client and the server—in C++

Winter 2023

> This year, we've brought engine development fully in-house and steadily expanded our team

2024

> As we mentioned in our Winter Update, the first half of 2024 has been focused on finishing that process and transitioning our creative teams into the new engine.

They're still transitioning to the new engine.

Summer 2024 future plans

> The rest of the year [...] the goal [...] is to verify that our engine, tools and processes are capable of supporting our gameplay and creative goals.

They do not, not even in the top 3. Nurses face underemployment at almost half the rate of CS grads.

They're pretty close to the top but not actually the top.

From my perspective I just want better DevEx.

C++ DevEx is significantly better than ISF despite them looking very similar and it seems like less of a hurdle to get C++ to spit out an ISF compatible file than it is to build all the tools for ISF (and GLSL, HLSL, WGSL)

MENA - Middle East & North Africa

WANA - West Asia & North Africa

SMEX - "a non-profit that advocates for and advances human rights in digital spaces across West Asia and North Africa." (from their website)

It's not being pedantic. Disabling the application does not give me the storage space back.

If people are paying for upgrades to storage space it's completely reasonable for them to be annoyed by bloatware

Re:My AI skeptic friends are all nuts on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @06:59AM (#44168597)
AI can’t make anyone a painter. It can generate a digital painting for you but it can’t give you the skills to transfer an image from your mind into the real world.

AI currently can’t reliably make 3d objects so AI can’t make you a sculptor.

Re:My AI skeptic friends are all nuts on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @06:48AM (#44168506)
Most of the vector art I see is minimalism. I can’t see this as anything but an argument that minimalism “stifles creativity”

> vector art pigeonholes art into something that can be used for machine learning

Look around, AI companies are doing just fine with raster art.

The only thing we agree on is that this will hurt workers

Re:My AI skeptic friends are all nuts on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @06:39AM (#44168449)
Your premise is an axiom that I don’t think most would accept.

Is the matrix a ripoff of the Truman show? Is Oldboy derivative of Oedipus?

Saying everything is derivative is reductive.

Re:My AI skeptic friends are all nuts on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @06:05AM (#44168257)
No, it didn’t.

It changed the skill set but it didn’t “kill the graphic arts”

Rotoscoping in photoshop is rotoscoping. Superimposing an image on another in photoshop is the same as with film, it’s just faster and cheaper to try again. Digital painting is painting.

AI doesn’t require an artist to make “art”. It doesn’t require skill. It’s different than other tools

Re:Arkansas moves to ban candy, soda from SNAP eligibility on Thursday April 17, 2025 @12:20AM (#43713098)
Drinking soda has almost nothing to do with rotting teeth. Dentists are now more concerned about the damage electrolyte drinks cause.

Should we take away Gatorade too?

Re:Arkansas moves to ban candy, soda from SNAP eligibility on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @12:52AM (#43701604)
Someone plz explain to me why the ban also applies to diet sodas
Re:Arkansas moves to ban candy, soda from SNAP eligibility on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @12:47AM (#43701570)
Why not just tax the “harmful” product?
Re:Arkansas moves to ban candy, soda from SNAP eligibility on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @12:35AM (#43701512)
The dose makes the poison.

Why not ban white bread and bleached rice while you’re at it?

Re:Arkansas moves to ban candy, soda from SNAP eligibility on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @12:32AM (#43701493)
Chiquita also kills people
> Take Street.AI, a prototype smartphone app that I developed, which lets citizens report issues including potholes, street violence or illegal litter dumping by simply taking a picture through the app. The AI model classifies the problem automatically and alerts the relevant local authority, passing on the location and details of the issue

So the audience for this app is people who saw something on their street but can’t determine if it was a pothole or a street fight?

Give this man $50M /s

Survivorship bias
Re:Do women talk more than men? on Saturday April 05, 2025 @02:47AM (#43591443)
I don't love the way they came up with these numbers. Although it's possible I'm being overly skeptical.

The recording device turns on randomly and captures bursts and then a computer counts how many words were spoken and they estimate the total days count based on that. It amounts to about an hour of recording per day spread out over 17 hours.

I cant see the full paper but from what I can see they don't describe identifying who the speaker is in each recording, so does that mean any word the microphone picks up is attributed to the wearer?

With 5,258 hours or 657 workdays worth of recordings I wouldn't be surprised if they cut this corner given that even at $15/hour they would be spending more than $80k on just the transcription.

So, is it possible falling asleep with the tv on skews the results?

What about being a generally quiet person and living with a yapper?

And more abstractly, is asking "Do you want fries with that" making conversation or are they just doing their job? Should that really count? (no shade, I just don't think our customer service voice is a reflection of our true self)

Re:The Slow Collapse of Critical Thinking in OSINT Due to AI on Thursday April 03, 2025 @07:19PM (#43576634)
The OSINT framework isn’t meant to be an intro to OSINT. This is like getting mad that https://planningpokeronline.com/ doesn’t explain what Kanban is.

If anything you’ve just pointed out how over reliance on AI is weakening your ability to search for relevant information

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