I didn’t know anything about electric self-driving cars, so thought Elon was a genius.
Likewise, I didn’t know squat about reusable rockets, so thought Elon was a genius.
I know about software, and this man is a moron.
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That balloon, the one China sent for “intelligence gathering” over the US. It didn’t find any, which is why it’s floating around out there going 🤷🏻♂️
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Well, a connection I didn’t think of*, but 🤣
boingboing.net/2023/01/24/ki…
*guess I should have though - the crown owns lots of property in the UK
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This is a really shitty way of doing layoffs, but not sure if informing everyone all at once or doing it more personally and everyone waiting to see if/where the axe will fall is any better.
We'll look back at this week as an inflection point when Big Tech lost its former attractiveness. It will be stories like Justin's, and the countless ones to be told, where many realize that, during layoffs, people become numbers, and 8% of those numbers need to be "marked."
ALT Screenshot of a LinkedIn post by Justin Moore saying: So after over 16.5 years at Google, I appear to have been let go via an automated account deactivation at 3am this morning as one of the lucky 12,000. I don't have any other information, as I haven't received any of the other communications the boilerplate "you've been let go" website (which I now also can't access) said I should receive. It was a (largely) wonderful 16 years, and I'm really proud of the work that I and my teams did over the years. I got to work with some great people and really help a lot of our users around the world in the Civics and Elections space. I was so incredibly fortunate. This also just drives home that work is not your life, and employers -- especially big, faceless ones like Google -- see you as 100% disposable. Live life, not work.
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In any case this is a historic moment for tech - many (myself included) thought it was really stable and as long as performing well jobs were secure - I’ve seen too many excellent people announce their layoff to believe that, and in some ways it appears random. Bubble has popped
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Please don’t get any AI to write comments like this - they are worse than useless.
Some of the other ideas in this thread are good (especially writing template/startup code), some are “meh”, and others (like generating regex) GPT get very wrong, so don’t give it too much trust
4/ Comment code
We can extend the point 3 above by adding line by line comments to that code base we didn't build.
But we can also make our own code properly commented before shipping, by asking ChatGPT to add comments.
No more uncommented code in PRs.
ALT comment code using chatgpt
ALT comment code using chatgpt
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Someone posted this image in LinkedIn, which I detest seeing political commentary there, but moreso shows a complete misunderstanding on how politics should work.
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Politics is a bad topic for lots of people, but that needn’t be so - politics, and politicking, can do good for either/both sides of the political spectrum, if honorable people debate in good faith. However, I’m sad to think there are few of those people in politics any more.
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Sigh, here we go. If there were any more evidence republicans want to fuck up america here’s another one. They don’t want money coming into the treasury *that it’s owed* by tax cheats and their GOP sponsors. It’s not “going after average Americans”, it’s having a functioning IRS
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And everyone says correlation does not imply causation ;)
The results are in from my straw poll of the most accomplished people I know ...
... the vast majority worked a ton, drank booze and ate poorly while on the rise.
So ... if you want to get ahead, skip the gym, grab a beer and take out, and get back to work ..
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I’ve got to say I’m kinda surprised that this hasn’t happened - testament to both the original engineering team, and those that remained.
Sites with this much complexity and traffic are often teetering on a knife edge. I think a saving grade is not pushing many changes
What's the probability that Twitter will have an unprecedented outage by modern Twitter standards (1 day or longer, where >= 50% of U.S. users or >= 25% of global users find Twitter to be unusable) by 2024-01-01?
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Elon Musk's team is seeking new investors for Twitter, offering the same $54.20-a-share deal and trying to close by the end of the year. Scoop w/ @ReedAlbergotti semafor.com/article/12/16/20…
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