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Mister Facetious posted:the scoring/statistics mainly. Stuff using 8/16 bit code that has hard limits of 64/0-255, etc. Game programmers are overly zealous about using smaller sizes, even if this is frequently unwarranted. Just because I chose to pack an index into a 1-byte variable doesn't mean I'm using SNES-era code. 
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HootTheOwl posted:getting a push notification that my laundry is done would actually improve my life until someone hacks my dryer and shrinks my pants. Joke's on you, you should have gotten your pants from Shrink.ly, the tech startup which ensures your clothes are calibrated to the exact amount of heat your dryer can provide.
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luxury handset posted:i completely agree with you that they're botching this sunset announcement They're backpedaling/trying to clarify pretty heavily: quote:All Sonos products will continue to work past May My startup's been paying attention to the whole debacle considering our first hardware had to be immediately discontinued after the first production set because the WiFi module we were using got discontinued (and was garbage anyway). Rather than try to redesign it with a different WiFi module and go through certification, etc. again, they decided to do a different piece of hardware with a completely embedded architecture, so the software is already splitting into two vastly divergent codebases. They considered sunsetting the software as well after barely 2 years, which I thought was tantamount to PR suicide, and this Sonos thing only confirmed it. I've already wasted so much time adding new platforms to the graphics abstraction layer, and now there's talks of even more different hardware for the coming generation. I really need to get out of this startup poo poo and back into games. Jan fucked around with this message at 03:10 on Jan 24, 2020 |
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ryonguy posted:Normal people: let's make batteries replaceable and ensure this is easy to do because the loving planet is getting buried in garbage Also normal people: "What's this!? 50 extra dollars on my 500$ headphones for a replaceable battery!? No way, I'll take the non-replaceable one for 50$ less."
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Sounds like we need a tech startup to disrupt grocery checkout kiosks.
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Karia posted:This sort of poo poo is especially enraging because it only applies to the workers whose time is worth the least to the companies, simply because those are the only jobs with easily calculable metrics. And just because metrics are easily calculable doesn't mean they're relevant. In that example, they were asking that guy to code 35,000 lines of code per week. What's the likely outcome of this? Garbage code from a desperate worker under pressure, that anyone else in the company will hate working with? This is some galaxy brain thinking there.
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https://twitter.com/jason_koebler/status/1235269120301699077?s=19 I, for one, welcome our AI overlords taking over the police's job of racial profiling. 
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My SF startup company brought up a similar policy of reducing people's pay if they decide to ride out the roni in a cheaper place. The argument given was that keeping Bay Area salaries in a lower cost of living area would become like golden handcuffs, where one would not want to leave to a lower paying job and end up becoming resentful.
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Groovelord Neato posted:You know generally speaking American wages/salaries are like a 1/3 of what they should be right? blunt posted:Workers discover one crazy graph that shows what their output is worth. CEOs hate it! You can't lump the overinflated salaries of GAFAM tech worker with the rest of the US workforce's. It's entirely reasonable to both say that the average US worker is chronically underpaid (especially given the complete lack of social safety nets) and that tech workers from oligopolistic corporations are also overpaid. Platystemon posted:Good for them. It's also not about this. I'm certain I could double my salary if I made a move with the Apple or Facebook recruiters that keep poking me. Lots of others, including my friends from university, chose to do just that and good on them. The problem is that these tech companies are able to afford these inflated salaries because they've by now cornered enough of the market that they can just starve or buy out smaller competitors. Basically this: dwnelson posted:I think this gets to the real point. The problem isn’t that megacorps are “overpaying” workers, it’s that their size enables them to have an advantage that small businesses don’t have, which lets them outcompete small businesses for workers... thus further exacerbating the problem. The big get bigger and the small get starved to death. I don't think it's an unreasonable stance, in this thread of all places, to think that these companies have grown so large and can afford to overpay so many tech workers by systemically undermining everything our society has taken for granted in the past 50+ years. So when a smaller startup that's absolutely not (IMO) an up-and-coming unicorn chooses to adopt a relocation salary policy like this, citing some hokey reason like "regional golden handcuffs" for it, it kind of stings. I'd have much rather they be completely honest and said "we're burning through our cash reserves and we'd rather use every possible means to extend our runway". Especially considering another thing that was previously mentioned is they'd considered moving the company altogether to avoid having to pay Bay Area salaries, but chose to stay because it's easier to raise more capital with the higher expectations surrounding Bay Area startups. That's like trying to get only the good parts of being based in the Bay Area without the bad. I get it, it's purely a survival calculation, but as someone mentioned, if they'd calculated they have room in payroll for my salary, it's kind of insulting to think that salary should go down if I move somewhere cheaper. I'm not staying because of compensation, I'm staying because the work is adjacent enough to what really interests me and I don't have to feel like I'm pocketing blood money from social media giants that are destroying the fabric of society.
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Groovelord Neato posted:They wouldn't be overpaid if everyone else was making what they should. Even if the gap between productivity and wages was corrected, the average worker would still be making a pittance compared to tech workers.
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Genderify deleted their tweet, their account and their website altogether. Literally laughed off the Internet. I almost feel bad for them, if only because you'd have to be completely oblivious to think there was any need for this API, let alone think it could work at all to begin with.
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But never before have they been improved through the revolutionary application of machine learning!!
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Well, that's more time than any copper has had to serve for murdering a black person in cold blood. Not that that's a very high standard to measure against, I suppose.
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Nice to know Ubers trading their employees welfare for voting decisions What is good for uber is good for its employees Actual employees, mind you, not that contractor trash
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This seems all too complicated, I sense a startup opportunity. Let's design and market an electric car where the battery would be designed to be hot swapped easily, to the point it would be faster to battery swap than fueling up at a gas station.
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Was my Tesla shitpost too subtle or have we already forgotten? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5V0vL3nnHY When even Tesla abandons an idea because it's not commercially viable, that idea has a very long way to go.
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TACD posted:Yea but on the bright side, every time they email the Excel document it's automatically backed up! SCC by BCC
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Doggles posted:Also Also very convenient that none of these 12 people have luggage at an international airport.
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at the assumption that 12 people can get out of, and another 12 people into, the same van in the span of only 40 seconds.
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If you were ever wondering which tech company gets to write vaccination algorithms... Think long and hard about which your worst choice could be, then spoil yourself: https://venturebeat.com/2020/12/19/covid-19-vaccine-distribution-algorithms-may-cement-health-care-inequalities/ quote:In an effort to achieve its goal of inoculating 100 million Americans by Q1 2021, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services partnered with data-mining firm Palantir to develop a software platform called Tiberius. Looking forward to pandemic deniers, antivaxxers and actual Nazis getting prioritised because they're higher risk factor!
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I mean, GoDaddy was cancelled before cancelling was a thing, a decade ago when they came out in support of the SOPA copyright bill. Life was so simple back then, people could boycott and disapprove of things and maybe get some momentum. Now if you choose to disagree with copyright revamps, you also have to disagree with the coronavirus relief bill. (Which you should, but for different reasons than it being a garbage omnibus garbage fire.)
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poemdexter posted:You are an outlier because most people don't even leave town. And whether it's an outlier or not doesn't really matter here. The problem isn't choosing between email or the social media that was explicitly designed to keep people in touch.* It's the fact that the latter has been so subverted by the pressures of endless capital gain that it puts user engagement and divisive rhetoric above the well-being of its users. If it hadn't been so easy for right wing propaganda arms to pollute the network, it'd just boil down to a perfectly innocuous choice between communication methods. * Well, really originally, designed to rate college girls in order of attractiveness, but that's besides the point.
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The Oldest Man posted:Wasn't it something like 63% of joins to extremist Facebook groups were found to have been recommended by Facebook, according to Facebook's own studies of the issue a couple of years ago? Oh yeah, I'm not trying to argue that Facebook and its algorithm isn't complete trash, I was trying not to rehash that rabbit hole by summing up that they've made it easy for right-wing outlets to find fertile ground. I meant more that in a nicer world, it wouldn't have to be such an issue if social media really stuck to "keeping people in touch", rather than desperately trying to push them down the slippery slope to fascist brainwashing. I basically have an account because that's what we'd all use to organize events in undergrad, but I only keep it active because some of my relatives use it as their communication tool of choice. The feed is just an endless stream of garbage, no matter how much I try to curate my follows, so I've given that part up a long time ago.
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Irony.or.Death posted:calling someone Excuse me, aren't you aware that millenials have ruined calling?
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UCS Hellmaker posted:But again, I have heard of absolutely no fire service that's full private, namely because unlike ambulances, there is nowhere near enough potential revenue in it to do so, and what your gonna charge thousands every time a fire alarm goes off? No one will pay it. Weren't there some rich-rear end parts of LA (I wanna say near Hollywood?) that had basically assembled their own private firefighting force during last wildfire season? As the planet grows warm and everything burns down, privatizing fire services until no one but the rich can afford them would be very on brand.
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Instead of multitasking space trucker on a second window during meetings, multitask meetings on a second window inside VR space trucker.
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Ulta posted:That was what I was thinking! Thanks Please don't quote the Ita, I am trying to uphold the Discipline.
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