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[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I might be, if I had seen any evidence of what you're describing occurring.

I'd imagine that is also the reaction of most people downvoting you. You keep insisting this is happening, but I haven't seen it. Provide some screenshots, anything to elevate this past "impassioned rant" and into the realm of having hard examples to talk about.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Please show examples of the pro-AI users of db0 trying to spread it to other communities.

That would pretty strongly go against the general "vibe" of the db0 instance, and I'd expect the db0 admin team wouldn't stand behind their users breaking rules of other comms (assuming the other comms have rules against it).

If the other comms don't have rules against it, then you block the user in question. If you feel this strongly about it, make your own comms and instance.


If you check my posting history you'll see I'm active both in this comm and techtakes on awful.systems, both very strongly anti-AI.

I blocked the AI related comms on db0, which took maybe 10 minutes. Beyond that, I would block any users doing what you've described if I encountered them, but I sincerely can't remember encountering more than maybe two users in my two years here who would fit that criteria.

This entire post reeks of bad-faith and purity testing.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So, there is some jank in how Microsoft handles the desktop that results in more shortcuts on in using more resources. It always has to have all the images and icons loaded at all times.

But with the increases in baseline RAM I'd be shocked to find anyone with more than 4GB experiencing slowdown from it, even in the most extreme situations.

Similar thing with trash/recycling bin. Are you already low on storage space? Then yeah, clean it so your PC has enough spare space to work, or to use for swap (effectively extra, slower RAM by way of using drive space). But that was also far more likely to be a problem on the old drives measured in MB.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not 100% on the technical term for it, but basically I'm using it to mean: the first couple of months it takes for a new hire to get up to speed to actually be useful. Some employers also have different rules for the first x days of employment, in terms of reduced access to sensitive systems/data or (I've heard) giving managers more leeway to just fire someone in the early period instead of needing some justification for HR.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because you can buy other people's code for cheaper than developing it yourself, as long as you use it within the restrictions of the license you paid for.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What? There's a big difference between "legal to sell as a compiled binary" and "legal to release as source".

Yeah, that kind of comment is going to fly over the head of a lot of stupid people.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm not shedding any tears for the companies that failed to do their due dilligence in hiring, especially not ones involved in AI (seems most were) and involved with Y Combinator.

That said, unless you want to get into a critique of capitalism itself, or start getting into whataboutism regarding celebrity executives like a number of the HN comments do, I don't have many qualms calling this sort of thing unethical.

This whole thing is flying way too close to the "not debate club" rule for my comfort already, but I wrote it so I may as well post itMultiple jobs at a time, or not giving 100% for your full scheduled hours is an entirely different beast than playing some game of "I'm going to get hired at literally as many places as possible, lie to all of them, not do any actual work at all, and then see how long I can draw a paycheck while doing nothing".

Like, get that bag, but ew. It's a matter of intent and of scale.

I can't find anything indicating that the guy actually provided anything of value in exchange for the paychecks. Ostensibly, employment is meant to be a value exchange.

Most critically for me: I can't help but hurt some for all the people on teams screwed over by this. I've been in too many situations where even getting a single extra pair of hands on a team was a heroic feat. I've seen the kind of effects it has on a team tthat's trying not to drown when the extra bucket to bail out the water is instead just another hole drilled into the bottom of the boat. That sort of situation led directly to my own burnout, which I'm still not completely recovered from nearly half a decade later.

Call my opinion crab bucketing if you like, but we all live in this capitalist framework, and actions like this have human consequences, not just consequences on the CEO's yearly bonus.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Get your popcorn folks. Who would win: one unethical developer juggling "employment trial periods", or the combined interview process of all Y Combinator startups?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44448461

Apparently one indian dude managed to crack the YC startup interview game and has been juggling being employed full time at multiple ones simultaneously for at least a year, getting fired from them as they slowly realize he isn't producing any code.

The cope from the hiring interviewers is so thick you could eat it as a dessert. "He was a top 1% in the interview" "He was a 10x". We didn't do anything wrong, he was just too good at interviewing and unethical. We got hit by a mastermind, we couldn't have possibly found what the public is finding quickly.

I don't have the time to dig into the threads on X, but even this ask HN thread about it is gold. I've got my entertainment for the evening.

Apparently he was open about being employed at multiple places on his linkedin. I'm seeing someone say in that HN thread that his resume openly lists him hopping between 12 companies in as many months. Apparently his Github is exclusively clearly automated commits/activity.

Someone needs to run with this one. Please. Great look for the Y Combinator ghouls.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Pretty sure they advertised the first season of that arc directly stating that it was a coma arc.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Wow. The first 24 seconds of this 1 minute teaser are just clips of major spoilers of the ending of the first season. Remember all these characters that died? Let's watch their brains splatter out again. Enjoy the gore!

That's definitely a choice. I guess that's one way to keep people from expecting this to feature more content with the same characters from season 1. Still think it would have been better to title it something different than Edgerunners 2 considering it's not likely to tie in with that story.

I wonder when this is going to be set. Before 2077 makes the most sense. If it's after then they'd have to canonize at least some aspects of one of the game endings.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Since when have rights holders ever been held responsible for the actions of online players?

The only instances I can think of are when games exclusively target minors, like Roblox.

And in what crazy world would those scant responsibilities carry over to community servers after official support was ended?

What a cop out.

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Cropped from [EastCoastitNotes], shared by @stamets@lemmy.world in this post: https://lemmy.world/post/31818124

 

My daughter is a little over two, and through well meaning family and friends we have more toys than we know what to do with.

My wife keeps buying what are essentially (fancy looking) big boxes and just dumping everything in them. Love my wife, but that's not working, it's just hiding some of the mess in a box.

We end up with these hardly ever opened boxes full of unorganized piles of toys that we end up having to dig through to find anything specific, and the toys that my daughter is actively using just end up scattered around the floor so they don't disappear into the box dimension.

Every once in a while my daughter opens and digs through the boxes and dumps half the contents on the floor anyway (not like she can see specific things to grab what she wants) and then we just kind of arbitrarily choose some of it to put back in the box and a new combination of mess to leave out.

Unfortunately we have another baby on the way, so I'm probably not getting my wife to let us toss any of it right now.

I'm leaning towards cubby shelves with individual bins for different "types" of toys like her daycare does, but I wanted to hear what strategies other parents tried, and what has and hasn't worked.

 

This blog post has been reported on and distorted by a lot of tech news sites using it to wax delusional about AI's future role in vulnerability detection.

But they all gloss over the critical bit: in fairly ideal circumstances where the AI was being directed to the vuln, it had only an 8% success rate, and a whopping 28% false positive rate!

 
 

Machine autotranslation of a french comic from https://lemm.ee/post/64691257

 

Cross post of https://thelemmy.club/post/27042027

AAAARRRRROOOOOOOOOOO

 

Came like this, they absolutely knew:

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