panda_abyss
@panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 30 minutes ago:
LinkedIn, former coworkers, sometimes headhunters.
I also do a lot of research and ask about work life balance etc. in interviews. I know people can lie, but so far it’s worked out.
- Comment on 23 hours ago:
He’s kind of an ass but someone I always found credible.
Though after the 2016 election when he got more annoying.
- Comment on Meta chief technology officer(CTO) explains why the smart glasses demo failed at Meta Connect — and it wasn’t the Wi-Fi 1 day ago:
Yeah.
They’re about the last company in the world I would want to use this with.
Also, you should take these off when you pee.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
I went to look at the 538 Trump opinion polls to compare to his first term, then I remembered ABC bought and destroyed 538.
- Comment on Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs 1 day ago:
These features get built because Microsoft and other tech companies evaluate staff on “AI use” and building AI features.
That means everyone has to build AI shit or get put on a PIP.
- Comment on Doot doot 1 day ago:
Why don’t we get replaceable teeth?
- Comment on Subscribe 4 amazing dating tips !!! 1 day ago:
Imperial space belongs to the Imperium, whereas metric space is focused on distancing itself from that.
- Comment on yeah everything is probably made of like, idk, earth water, fire and air or something idrk 1 day ago:
They could just drop an empty bs filled wine bottle.
Maybe fill it with mercury (but don’t drink it)
- Comment on 2 OP 1 day ago:
Thank god the terminids haven’t figured this out.
- Comment on Subscribe 4 amazing dating tips !!! 1 day ago:
This is such a specifically targeted meme
- Comment on Doot doot 1 day ago:
It turns out jellyfish have been the ideal species the whole time.
No brains to worry with, no bones to hurt or cause anxiety.
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 2 days ago:
I will only work for small companies now. And only when my personal views match and I honestly feel what I’m working on is worthwhile to society.
I like the experience a lot more this way.
I’m lucky to be able to make that choice, but the work is much more rewarding.
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 2 days ago:
God this is true.
I’ve seen some real snake oil projects get massive finding and everyone on board getting promos.
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 2 days ago:
I knew of a company that listed an internal tool as a job requirement so they could claim a skill shortage and hire foreign workers. They coached them to put that tool on their resume.
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 2 days ago:
The industry has brought in a ton of soulless goons and uninterested/stupid workers for a decade and it’s destroyed the industry.
I’m not saying there aren’t good people, but I have interviewed hundreds of people over 10+ years for jobs in tech, and the quality bar dropped a lot.
This started well before AI. I met people from Apple/Amazon/Google/etc. who functionally could not do their job, contributed nothing to projects, and were highly paid. Only a few big companies were the exception.
I’ve met a ton of people with phds and advanced degrees from prestigious schools that were total crap too.
We shovelled so many people into the system because the jobs sounded amazing and they’d pay stupid prices for a degree. We fully industrialized low performance hiring, so yeah, no surprise packages are dropping.
Plus, I used to get time to teach interns and new grads too. The staff we taught grew into way better workers than the job hoppers with 6 jobs at fancy companies over 3 years who had never implied a real project beyond the shiny prototype.
The last 3-4 years I had been constantly threatened about looming layoffs, and that we needed to meet targets at all costs. I’ve been perennially told “if we’re just heads down and all out until [6 months from now/project completion] it’ll all be good again”. Only for the cycle to repeat again and again and again.
The big tech machine destroyed my mental health and I’m out, and I’m much much happier and healthier. I still work in tech, but I’m incredibly selective about the jobs I take, and I’ll never work in corporate tech again.
- Comment on Get ready to see ads on your… Samsung refrigerator 3 days ago:
Nobody would be quoted as saying I’m smart, no need to apologize
- Comment on Get ready to see ads on your… Samsung refrigerator 3 days ago:
This it’s why there is nothing “smart” in my house.
I do have a smart tv that’s not allowed access to the internet, and that’s because they’re all like that now.
- Comment on Soup season 3 days ago:
What was the pizza soup like?
I bet finishing it with cheese and bread like a French onion would be amazing.
- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 4 days ago:
This is stupid.
15 years is a massive time to just update your OS.
15 years ago instagram didn’t exist, the iPad was new, and people were just updating from Vista to Windows 7. I think Hadoop was just created then.
That is a massive amount of time to support software that would have almost no architectural protection against things like heartbleed.
- Comment on S1ngularity/nx attackers strike again 4 days ago:
I thought I was crazy for doing this, but it’s good to know I’m not the only one.
This won’t protect your .env files though, right?
- Comment on Oracle, Silver Lake consortium to control 80% stake in TikTok in US, WSJ reports 4 days ago:
Is this part of the actual reason oracles stock has exploded?
- Comment on ChatGPT Building Age Detection Tools 4 days ago:
Coming from the guy who wanted to scan everyone in the world’s eyeballs?
- Comment on Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site” 4 days ago:
At the risk of agreeing with Reddit:
Under new rules rolling out over the coming months, a small number of users will be required to leave some of their moderator posts so that they aren’t moderating more than five subreddits with 100,000 monthly visitors.
That sounds perfectly reasonable. Reddit has a massive powermod problem.
- Comment on Man, 53, marries AI-generated chatbot via matching app 5 days ago:
I think it’s neat
- Comment on silly anime cat 6 days ago:
Probably for the best.
Grenades seem very high on the fuck around - find out index.
- Comment on silly anime cat 6 days ago:
Grenades are way cheaper than I thought
- Comment on ClockBench: Even the best AI models can't reliably read the clock 1 week ago:
Some of those don’t have tick marks. I hate clocks like that, they’re difficult to read.
I’m surprised it’s near 90, a while generation has grown up with digital clocks everywhere
- Comment on Microsoft doesn't understand the Fediverse 1 week ago:
I think I need to grift more, but I can’t even conceive of such stupid ideas.
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 1 week ago:
Are we counting the amount of junk code that you have to send back to Claude to rewrite because it’s spent the last month totally lobotomized yet they won’t issue refunds to paying customers?
Because if we are, it has written a lot of code. It’s just awful code that frequently ignores the user’s input and rewrites the same bug over and over and over until you get rate limited or throw more money at Anthropic.
- Comment on Roku wants you to see a lot more AI-generated ads 1 week ago:
I’ve always said I want to see more commercials made by people who have no idea what they’re doing and with near zero oversight for quality or taste.