AlecSadler
@AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Trump is building ‘one interface to rule them all.’ It’s terrifying. 16 hours ago:
I’ve given up because I have tried rallying people and nobody wants to rally.
Everyone just wants to peacefully protest, which I disagree with.
Everyone wants to just wait until midterms, which is too late.
Nobody, dems included, have any balls. It’s over.
- Comment on Trump is building ‘one interface to rule them all.’ It’s terrifying. 1 day ago:
and should inspire us to fight back.
LOL. We won’t. US citizens have given up and those that haven’t done believe in anything but peaceful protests or trying to go about things “the right way”. Neither of which will do anything but hand over more control to billionaires and child rapists.
- Comment on Instagram Caught Hiding Posts That Say "Immigrants Make the Country Great" 1 day ago:
I’d watch, keep us posted.
- Comment on Laura Loomer wants ICE to livestream arrests for entertainment: "Make it exciting an show ICE agents tackling Juan and Jesus" 1 day ago:
I say go for it, then we can start using it to geolocate activity and fight back against the gravy seals.
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 2 days ago:
True. And blood. Frankly not sure I could handle either, so I’ll stick to my desk job
- Comment on Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle. 3 days ago:
Hard disagree. Every company across the spectrum I’ve worked for couldn’t care less about a portfolio.
- Comment on Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle. 3 days ago:
My first tech job out of college was $55k.
Average in my area for new grads at best is like $85k.
My highest paying was $195k as a Senior and my average is probably $150k as a Senior / Lead.
None of this was big tech though.
- Comment on Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle. 3 days ago:
Eh.
- Comment on Chrome VPN Extension With 100k Installs Screenshots All Sites Users Visit 3 days ago:
+1 for mullvad
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 3 days ago:
This.
At my jobs, AI is just scratching the surface. But they’re slowly implementing entire coding bot swarms, so a Product person can report a bug, it gets reviewed by an agent, assessed by an agent, fixed by an agent, and rested by another agent - then PR’d for a dev to review.
This hurts the junior level.
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 3 days ago:
I’d be happy to review your resume and code samples and provide feedback if you want.
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 3 days ago:
Nursing is huuuuge. My nurse friend with a doctorate just landed a $250k base job with 10 weeks paid vacation and a slew of other benefits. Wild.
Plumbing is huge too. If I ever need one, they’re booked out like 3+ months unless you want to pay an emergency fee which is like double or triple.
I, too, am raising some livestock. We’ll see where it goes. But at least to me it feels more connected and real.
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 3 days ago:
I’d love to hear your experience around this and what sector or jobs this assisted, because more data is great.
But in my experience across 25+ jobs ranging from startups to fortune 500/250/100…I have never encountered a hiring process that would care about this.
I would love to be proven wrong though.
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 3 days ago:
3-5 years ago my answer would’ve been different. I could trip and find a job offer. I was getting job offers by email essentially without interviewing.
About a year ago that completely dried up. I can’t even remember the last email I got that was more than recruiter spam. My friend who used to also trip into jobs (7 at peak) has been hunting for 3 months now with no luck.
But…servers and data centers and stuff, you’re probably onto something. Wishing you the best.
- Comment on Trump is deporting so many immigrants that it could cause inflation to hit 4% next year, top economist says 1 week ago:
Yup.
- Comment on Trump Tries to Spin Failed Putin Peace Summit as Critics Label It a 'Self-Own' 1 week ago:
How 'bout those Epstein files?
- Comment on US suspends visas for Gazans after far-right influencer posts 1 week ago:
- Comment on We hate AI because it's everything we hate 1 week ago:
In house at my work, we’ve found ChatGPT to be fairly useless, too. Where Claude and Gemini seem to reign supreme.
It seems like ChatGPT is the household name, but hardly the best performing.
- Comment on We hate AI because it's everything we hate 1 week ago:
I’ve definitely been pretty anti-AI, finding it kinda stupid and generally useless…
…but we hired an AI researcher at my work (which I laughed at). But I cannot deny anymore that with the proper setups, configs, rules, blend of onsite / cloud resources etc. - workplace AI can be pretty fucking game changing. To the point where I went from campaigning against the changes because I felt they were a waste of time to where I am worried for my future job and am using agents 5-10 times a day to handle small bugfixes for me.
I don’t know what will happen when the bubble pops though.
- Comment on Forget Netflix, Volkswagen locks horsepower behind paid subscription 1 week ago:
In older Tesla Model 3s if you sold it back to Tesla they’d revert it, but if you sold it private it wouldn’t be reverted.
- Comment on Trump, 79, Sparks Dementia Concerns With Weird Cold War Comment 1 week ago:
They’re just trying to bide as much time as they can to use him as the fall guy for anything and everything.
That way they can wave hands at all the shit up until now when they instill someone like JD Vance who will actually be worse.
- Comment on Spirit Airlines warns of "substantial doubt" about its ability to stay in business 1 week ago:
I feel bad for the lost jobs, but not for the lost company.
- Comment on AOL will end dial-up internet service in September, 34 years after it's debut — AOL Shield Browser and AOL Dialer software will be shuttered on the same day 2 weeks ago:
For one of them, yes, but it costs more than they want to pay.
For the other…sort of yes, but it goes out 50%-70% of the day for some dumb reason I’ve yet to figure out. The company has no plans to fix/improve it…and they’re the same company offering the dialup backup.
- Comment on AOL will end dial-up internet service in September, 34 years after it's debut — AOL Shield Browser and AOL Dialer software will be shuttered on the same day 2 weeks ago:
To be fair, I have rural family in areas where dial up is still their only internet option.
- Comment on New executive order puts all grants under political control 2 weeks ago:
Fuck Trump. Fuck his supporters. I hope they all die.
- Comment on This boomer couple would be hit with $700,000 tax bill if they sold their mansion 2 weeks ago:
It’d be funny if they died like a week after the sale closes and they move into the new community.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 2 weeks ago:
They’ve had plenty of opportunities and haven’t done it.
- Comment on Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives 2 weeks ago:
Canceled my Perplexity subscription (that I got for free…lol) after their last shitty scandal.
Fuck this company.
- Comment on The UN demands censorship of the Internet, "we need to take global action" 3 weeks ago:
lol I grew up with a 2400bps modem connecting to BBS. 1mbit sounded dreamy for years and years.
- Comment on I wish there was an uninhabited, autonomous zone for folks who want "freedom" to play out their dangerous ideas away from the rest of society 3 weeks ago:
Danish countries.