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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:while eds analysis may be a bit basic, and probably not entirely accurate about Raghavan, he has made the big G upset part of my complaints are in that i have a broad suspicion that sundar is the problem. as far as *means* go it is in fact the much simpler explanation. of course "problem" needs to be carefully understood here since google is just piling up the cash under this regime.
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:while eds analysis may be a bit basic, and probably not entirely accurate about Raghavan, he has made the big G upset
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haveblue posted:the NHTSA dropped their tesla self-drive investigation and the results should not be surprising to anyone ITT does fool's control still cost $8k or however much a month it was
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Zamujasa posted:does fool's control still cost $8k or however much a month it was I think it's a one-time $8K fee (down from $14K as of the morning of tesla's last earnings report, which is probably a coincidence)
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:part of my complaints are in that i have a broad suspicion that sundar is the problem. as far as *means* go it is in fact the much simpler explanation. yeah every layer of the system tells the layer beneath it "make Number Go Up, now, or you're fired". the specific villain in question is irrelevant. but if you personify Number Go Up in a specific easy-to-hate villain then it's a lot easy to whip up some righteous rage toward the villain in question, so that's what reliably get clicks. which in turn makes Number Go Up lol.
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i think you could pick just about anyone in big tech at Sr. VP level or higher and righteously rage against them
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Apr 26, 2024 20:11
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just lmao at google
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haveblue posted:the NHTSA dropped their tesla self-drive investigation and the results should not be surprising to anyone ITT quote:“If you’ve got, at scale, a statistically significant amount of data that shows conclusively that the autonomous car has, let’s say, half the accident rate of a human-driven car, I think that’s difficult to ignore,” Musk said. “Because at that point, stopping autonomy means killing people.” i like how this is phrased as a conditional, because if this data actually existed it wouldn't need to be phrased as a conditional
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also like, NHTSA doesn't even sound like they want him to stop, just to call it something else and implement it better
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not tech bubble, but maybe a nice saturday morning read about a different idea of what computing could be, from the 90s a guided tour of magic cap and the history of the interface, devices, and development quote:These grabs alone (from a 1993 update video), from the very looks on their faces and the shine in their eyes, show how much they were into it. Details mattered — the user interface considered sound effects as important as graphics — but they never lost sight of the big picture that enjoyment, however that's defined, is as equally essential to the user experience as utility. Really, it was the magicians' enthusiasm for the task, to design a device that would not only transform how people accessed and interacted with information but also a device that they would truly love and enjoy using, that made the company incredibly fascinating to me. You saw that kind of optimistic vision a lot in the earlier days of computing. You don't see it as much now, and there are some very dark patterns today that go exactly in the opposite direction.
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nice! the movie is also good https://www.generalmagicthemovie.com
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third of those peeps went back to apple and did poo poo there
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Apr 27, 2024 17:08
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thats a bit of a skeumorphism overdose
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Apr 27, 2024 17:22
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yeah, you can see their influence in the forstall-era apple poo poo
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Eeyo posted:thats a bit of a skeumorphism overdose covering your workspace in stamps and stickers like a trapper keeper is something that appeals to me even if i wouldn't actually do it likewise, the idea of making interfaces that aren't a nightmare to interact with, and products that weren't solely designed to strip mine you for monetizable information
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i like ed even though i agree with all the criticisms here. there is just so little actual meaningful criticism of the tech industry out in the wild.
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infernal machines posted:covering your workspace in stamps and stickers like a trapper keeper is something that appeals to me even if i wouldn't actually do it yeah. it is for sure sad that effort spent on customizability, the kind about pure self-expression and fun, has pretty much entirely dried up in tech. i don't think it is inherent, to some extent the incredible success of apple showed that way, but i think the success of apple is extremely unrelated to hemming in customizability (afaik it was mostly one of jobs' weirder hangups)
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Eeyo posted:thats a bit of a skeumorphism overdose microsoft bob looking rear end pda
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:yeah. it is for sure sad that effort spent on customizability, the kind about pure self-expression and fun, has pretty much entirely dried up in tech. i think it has, yeah. and the obsession with functionless minimalism hasn't really done us any favours either
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shackleford posted:i like how this is phrased as a conditional, because if this data actually existed it wouldn't need to be phrased as a conditional he said "at scale" indicating a genius mind at work though
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dude is addicted to adding those weasel phrases. my favorite (cant find it) was 'my predictions are always correct, just not accurate as far as time schedules' or something.
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yeah and stuff like “in the limit”. legitimately a useful technique to think about problems sometimes, but not when you’re making predictions about self driving or whatever
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so i heard that ibm is gonna be merging ansible and terraform after the hashicorp merger gonna call it "terrible"
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shackleford posted:i like how this is phrased as a conditional, because if this data actually existed it wouldn't need to be phrased as a conditional that's an extremely heavy load bearing "if" he's got there as well
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"if I had perfectly complete and compelling evidence that I'm right then it would be wrong to stop me" - me, a very smart boy
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same as the "give me a complete, guaranteed plan to end poverty with this six billion dollars and i'll do it" poo poo.
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outhole surfer posted:so i heard that ibm is gonna be merging ansible and terraform after the hashicorp merger i actually kind of liked ansible 
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I also don’t mind ansible
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I had never heard of ansible till this year and I’ve been working with it for a few months and I like ansible.
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its the old non-hotness
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Eeyo posted:just lmao at google google's ai solution is heavily dependent on python and just this week they fired the python development team and now deepmind is extremely loving pissed because there's no one left to support them for gemini development except a few typescript/javascript engineers that they replaced the team with so their chatgpt killer is comically kneecapped and basically dead in the water now lmao at google
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that's fine they can just rewrite it in full-stack javascript
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Pollyanna posted:lmao at google goog leaving their MS era and entering their IBM era
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rotor posted:goog leaving their MS era and entering their IBM era going from 11% cloud marketshare to 2% is more realistic than going from 11% to 24%
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Pollyanna posted:gooracle amazon garbage rear end name
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I’ve heard a lot of people saying “goeing” internally
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nrook posted:I’ve heard a lot of people saying “goeing” internally goeing, goeing, gone
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https://newrepublic.com/article/180487/balaji-srinivasan-network-state-plutocrat lol how did i not know about the GRAYSquote:“What I’m really calling for is something like tech Zionism,” he said, after comparing his movement to those started by the biblical Abraham, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith (founder of Mormonism), Theodor Herzl (“spiritual father” of the state of Israel), and Lee Kuan Yew (former authoritarian ruler of Singapore). Balaji then revealed his shocking ideas for a tech-governed city where citizens loyal to tech companies would form a new political tribe clad in gray t-shirts. “And if you see another Gray on the street … you do the nod,” he said, during a four-hour talk on the Moment of Zen podcast. “You’re a fellow Gray.”
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