Lets_Eat_Grandma
@Lets_Eat_Grandma@lemm.ee
- Comment on Everything old is new again. 1 week ago:
A taxi that doesn’t play games with the meter, that always takes a credit card, and that has a rating system that harshly punishes drivers with bad attitudes.
The problem with it is Uber’s cut.
- Comment on Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else” 1 week ago:
High paying jobs with tons of new graduates have an oversaturated supply problem. It’s no surprise that when people figure out that becoming a software developer is easy street to 150k+++ WFH that there was a huge rush to get those jobs… now that there are TONS and TONS of young junior devs there is no shortage to hire someone for near minimum wage.
Why pay 400k for a senior developer when you can hire a mid-level for ~100k to be a manager, and 4 juniors for 60k a piece, and augment them with chatgpt to help them learn what they are skill gapped by.
Plus junior devs are so desperate you can force them to come into the office, something the dev divas ten years ago refused to do back when there was a huge shortage of coders.
- Comment on Netflix Windows app is set to remove its downloads feature, while introducing ads 1 month ago:
I’m not really thrilled about almost all the money in show business being funneled to a couple of actors and actresses and giant studios/big money.
Over and over again the majority of writers, actors, actresses and supporting teams strike for a real share and they never seem to get one.
Meanwhile big companies get billions in tax credits every year for shooting movies. The public subsidizes the costs and then pays again once a show releases. It’s insanely big bucks going to the ownership class.
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 1 month ago:
I’m super not okay with a government (which we have) gaining free access to that information for anything they want (which they would)
I fully believe they already have it.
- Comment on Neuralink's first in-human brain implant has experienced a problem, company says 1 month ago:
I have nothing but admiration for the guy willing to be the human experiment. He’s like an astronaut paving the way for a potential future for mankind.
Even if someone else finds the right way of doing it, this is driving us towards having practical man-machine interfaces. It’s really cool.
Also completely terrifying to think about being the experiment myself.
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 1 month ago:
Honestly it doesn’t really matter what you or I are really in favor of when it comes to privacy and surveillance. Today we’re already tracked everywhere. Data privacy is a nice idea and even with all the laws in the world there is no transparency to make sure companies follow them. Our car tracking us is annoying and all but we all carry these things called cell phones which have GPS in them and we keep them on all the time. How many people have apps like facebook installed which harvest all kinds of data and then sell it to whoever is willing to pay? Speeding is already going to be seen with just that data.
The US Government today can legally get whatever data they want from anywhere in the US and most of europe. Maybe not your local cop, but someone, somewhere, taking orders from the US government in the name of something like terrorism has access to everything. Corruption is everywhere and everything can and will be abused. Opaque systems like we have today only proliferates corruption.
Technological solutions can absolutely be developed that are transparent and don’t give exceptions to cops driving personal vehicles. We absolutely can develop systems where senators, representatives and even billionaires are not above the law, but today in practice they essentially are.
But hey, like I said. My opinion doesn’t matter. Yours doesn’t either. We don’t get any say in how this stuff works. The idea that enforcement of our laws might be applied consistently across the board is terrifying to people because we all do illegal shit all day long in our own little personal corrupt universe. We just want to believe the cops will stop “the other guy” more than us and that we’ll be able to be smarter than the system. It’s fucked and nothing will change. The owners of the US just want the cops there so they can punish the ones who act out in the order of things in a way that might hurt them or their friends and family, and that’s how it’s gonna work.
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 1 month ago:
Without absolute transparency and total accountability it’s going to be abused, but we already live in a surveillance dystopia. Have you ever seen what happens to whistle blowers today?
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 1 month ago:
it’d suck you had your car wrecked by someone broke and were SOL
Welcome to New Hampshire, land of 0 auto insurance.
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 1 month ago:
can you going to mcdonalds twice a day be shared with your health insurer?
You think this data isn’t already shared?
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 1 month ago:
Call me an asshole but I think giving driving habit information to insurers is great, so long as good habits are given discounts and bad habits are punished.
I’m one of those people who would love automatic enforcement of driving laws as well as user reportable incidents of other drivers (given you can provide footage of something you’re reporting.)
If people don’t like living under the law… maybe the law shouldn’t exist. “That’s the way it is” is a terrible excuse for fucking anything.
Oh, and make audit trails for this shit public record. Someone creating AI videos or fake reports? Punish that too. It’ll never happen though. People want laws for others, not themselves.
- Comment on Neuralink's first in-human brain implant has experienced a problem, company says 1 month ago:
About a month after surgery the implant started to perform poorly. They tweaked some software settings and now it’s running better than it did before the drop-off for a longer period, based on the actual blog post the story is talking about neuralink.com/…/prime-study-progress-update-user-….
This is obviously prototype technology with insane risk. The guy only signed up because he’s paraplegic. It’s not in any way remotely ready for normal humans and probably won’t ever be in our lifetimes. IMO this is like self driving technology, it’s easy to promise the world but hard to actually accomplish what they say.
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 1 month ago:
Why pay for the prime account? What are you getting out of it?
Have you done the math of what you could do with $140 per year instead?
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 1 month ago:
I unsubbed from prime last year once the ads were announced on prime video.
There’s no reason to have it anymore imo.
A VPN sub is like $40 a year and that lets me get any media I want.
Free Shipping without prime starts at orders over $35. Who doesn’t spend at least $35 in 2024?
- Comment on Helldivers 2 now delisted in 177 countries 1 month ago:
Delisted in Puerto Rico, part of the US. Amazing.
- Comment on Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai-led company fires entire Python team for ‘cheaper labour’ 1 month ago:
Publicly traded companies do not have a duty to pay their workers, they have a duty to pay their shareholders and to maximize profits.
If you can get the same job done overseas for less money why would you pay american labor? what’s the benefit?
Not saying I like the system, just saying that’s how it is. Gotta have some kind of fine or penalty for outsourcing, offshoring and 1099 contracting labor if you really want to fix it.
Shit should be changed but the majority election system is funded by the ownership class who greatly benefits from this not changing.
- Comment on Escape From Tarkov studio boss says he "did not foresee" players would get mad about charging extra for PvE 2 months ago:
If the guy wasn’t a dumbass he would have sold the pve edition as a standalone game and avoided all the drama.
- Comment on Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai-led company fires entire Python team for ‘cheaper labour’ 2 months ago:
American google SWE wages: www.levels.fyi/companies/…/software-engineer?coun…
Munich SWE wages: www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/…/munich-deu
- Comment on Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai-led company fires entire Python team for ‘cheaper labour’ 2 months ago:
10 * 350k of total comp is 3.5 million dollars… guessing the german counterparts probably get 120k of total comp so only 1.2 million dollars, assuming it’s 1:1 staff swap.
Never heard of american software engineers at FAANG getting anything less than superstar sf bay wages, never heard of crazy wages in all of the EU for any kind of worker… but maybe someone can correct me on the german team’s salaries.