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https://www.vice.com/en/article/9ke3ke/famed-computer-scient... [2019]

Turns out people don't want to do business with you when you make comments like that.

Doesn't matter how much cool software you wrote. Or how much you donate. After a certain point people would rather not be involved with your behavior if it doesn't align.

Fortunately in this specific instance we see society taking SA and r**, as serious topics.

Let's hope we have more of this. Maybe one day I'll finally meet a female colleague in the tech industry who _doesn't_ have a harrassment story to share.

Comments in this thread represent what’s wrong with the industry.

The article references sexual harassment, the commenters care about market share.

Did you know it’s important to hold people accountable more, the more power they have?

It’s one thing if you disagree, but making it about “winners” and “losers” and not about victims is how we ended up creating toxic workplaces.

Is it necessary to replicate the insensitive language here? I suppose the point could have come across without adopting the WSB usage in the same way.

Also, unlike Elon tweets (from https://github.com/commaai/openpilot/blob/devel/README.md#su...):

> openpilot ALC and openpilot LDW do not automatically drive the vehicle or reduce the amount of attention that must be paid to operate your vehicle. The driver must always keep control of the steering wheel and be ready to correct the openpilot ALC action at all times.

While changing lanes, openpilot is not capable of looking next to you or checking your blind spot. Only nudge the wheel to initiate a lane change after you have confirmed it's safe to do so.

Many factors can impact the performance of openpilot ALC and openpilot LDW, causing them to be unable to function as intended. These include, but are not limited to:

Poor visibility (heavy rain, snow, fog, etc.) or weather conditions that may interfere with sensor operation. The road facing camera is obstructed, covered or damaged by mud, ice, snow, etc. Obstruction caused by applying excessive paint or adhesive products (such as wraps, stickers, rubber coating, etc.) onto the vehicle. The device is mounted incorrectly. When in sharp curves, like on-off ramps, intersections etc...; openpilot is designed to be limited in the amount of steering torque it can produce. In the presence of restricted lanes or construction zones. When driving on highly banked roads or in presence of strong cross-wind. Extremely hot or cold temperatures. Bright light (due to oncoming headlights, direct sunlight, etc.). Driving on hills, narrow, or winding roads. The list above does not represent an exhaustive list of situations that may interfere with proper operation of openpilot components. It is the driver's responsibility to be in control of the vehicle at all times.

You’d be surprised how much work goes into operating with that many subscribers. Top funnel, attrition, constant harassment, stolen content, fan requests, just to name some obvious ones.

Isn't Reddit like this, in a way? You can append ".json" at the end and get the data for a page. Others can build their own UI on top of this, if they don't prefer the first party representation.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/.json

This has regressed. In the NetZero days you would be limited to some hours per month depending on your plan. Then came unlimited cable. And now we are back: my residential AT&T DSL connection is limited to 1TB per month in the Bay Area

This is incredible, thank you!

There’s a lot. Cisco makes them if you have their conference room hardware. Any new tech corporate office (and some non tech) will have some sort of hardware that lets you dial into the meeting and or reserve the conference room.

Yep. Got banned from Google ad mob because the ads I bought using other Google services gave me traffic that was deemed to be fraud.

Of course there’s no way to contact and tell Google that Google gave me fraud traffic and got me banned from Google.

Couldn’t agree more. Instead of learning those things in school. I got lucky and had privilege and learned some of them outside of school, and still need to learn others.

But instead, they made sure I knew the name of the boats Columbus sailed in, in 1492. The Niña the Pinta, and the Santa Maria. I was forced to submit to whatever story they told me about the relationship between Columbus and the natives, no matter how untrue it was. But maybe that was the real lesson....

That sounds painful for an ops person. When I did ops work I much preferred to have as little abstraction as possible seeing how critical each action is.

I would never want my production deployment rollback tied to my instant messenger plugin working.

If the $300/mo surprises you, you might not the target audience for this.

Most people that would buy this would also take a class at Flywheel/Barry’s Bootcamp/Rumble/Soulcycle/F45 which come out to $25-$35 per class depending on package and region. If you want to work out 2x per week you’re at $200-$300 per month. (I know folks in SF for example that take more than 2 classes per week and sometimes more than 2 classes in a single day.)

Compared to that a peloton is really cheap. And you don’t have to deal with going to the studio and finding a time slot that isn’t booked and works with your schedule.

I know quite a few coastal elites that definitely pay the premium for these group workout classes.

Anecdotal, but that is the target audience.

Very interested in trying this.

Is it ridiculous to consider that you fail your interviews because you’re not as good on a global level because some countries have better work ethic than others and better education systems than others even if America considers them to be “lower than”. Adobe and Microsoft CEOs went to the same high school and it wasn’t in the US ;)

- jealous American student

nice, maybe we were in the same class with Mackey

The problem is that the claim is most likely subjective so it doesn’t need evidence. And the act of always being asked for evidence in various situations, and not being respected for knowing what is going on was one of the subjective claims being made.

Someone doesn’t have to justify their feelings or opinions or observations of how they are being treated. If someone says they are always experiencing something, then we should listen instead of asking them to prove to us that they are allowed to feel that way.

I’m not sure if this is meant to be a joke. But with your username, replying to a comment about “{GROUP} feels that they are unreasonably asked to prove themselves” with your reply of “can you prove to me that {GROUP} is allowed to feel that way?” is more than a little ironic.

Except every single one of the dozen+ female engineers I personally at FAANGM+ has a first-hand account of something vile that a male collegue did. In one case an internship mentor asked someone to come to their house, stating the wife and kids aren't home at night. Maybe you're a great man, and you only know other great men . But you can't dismiss a whole group just because you don't experience what they do. Just because it's not happening to you, doesn't mean it's not happening.

Similar situation is when my non-minority friends are surprised that racism still exists in <area>. "I know racism exits, but that kind of thing cannot happen <here>!" Well, my friend, you wouldn't feel that way if you looked like me.

I am curious to know about the infra / tech stack, if you're comfortable with sharing any information.

Simply put, for the simple "front API" can you set up a Cassandra cluster with 100% uptime? A virtual machine with 100% uptime? A rack with 100% uptime, or even electricity to that rack with 100% uptime, etc.?

Your uptime is only as good as your downstream components, and no downstream component will give you 100% guarantee. You can have redundancy on top of redundancy (like space systems), but that will just stretch out your nines at best.

For the same reason your downstream components cannot guarantee you 100% uptime, you also cannot guarantee 100% uptime for a new system in isolation, for reasons the sibling comments go into.

This seems like an extreme case of “assume your hack will be used in production for years to come.”

I feel like the Blue Origin / SpaceX "first to land" is relevant here.

Blue Origin (another Bezos company) was technically first to land a rocket, and gloated about it. But SpaceX has a more useful implementation as of now.