Comment Re:So they want to make things worse? (Score 1) 85
No, you're 100% correct: it's the other guy who doesn't know how to use English when he calls the C Suite "drones". That word is normally used to refer to low-level employees.
No, you're 100% correct: it's the other guy who doesn't know how to use English when he calls the C Suite "drones". That word is normally used to refer to low-level employees.
Yes!!!
The worst is stopping a timer. You have to scream "STOP!!!"
I know understanding human speech is hard, but come on you piece of trash Google device: you literally just announced the timer ending two seconds ago, so you don't have to even understand *what* I'm saying
Also Liberal Arts majors can make great programmers: you use the same/similar parts of your brain to write production code as you use to write an essays (and liberal arts majors write lots of essays). The kind of code CS majors write is often *less* similar (it's much closer to mathematical proofs).
I say this not just as a Liberal Arts major programmer myself, but also having worked with many great ones. And there are even famous examples: eg. one of the co-founders of Python's Django was a Literature major.
In that example you can downvote that answer, and leave a comment explaining why it no longer works
I think context matters here. As a web developer, I still use Stack Overflow on an almost daily basis, and it's just as relevant as ever (if not more so)
Can we please stop calling this sort of thing a "return to office" mandate? It's not, so let's call it what it is: a layoff.
We've repeatedly seen numerous massive tech companies use the same playbook. They don't want the bad press of a layoff, so they institute these pointless mandates not to increase productivity, but to (quietly) lower headcount.
So Zuckerberg wasted *billions* of shareholder dollars on his failed VR experiment, the company hasn't done anything innovative in a decade, and when it comes to AI, what is Zuck's answer? "We'll solve it without hiring any new people, because we're open sourcing our model"
It's like in the movies when the bad guys beat the hero down, but he keeps getting back up
Similarly here, the beeper folks might never win this war, but they can still achieve a pyrrhic victory if their actions lead to an anti-trust case against Apple.
>Sure, Varjo are in a different market segment, but requiring tethering is such a pain in the ass. It really is a messy setup no matter how high-end you go.
For a professional flight simulator
A coupon can be relevant to you, or it can even be relevant to lots of people, but that doesn't make it a newsworthy event. It's in the very word itself; "news" means new stuff.
Coupons from an e-commerce company aren't new. All that's new here is that Amazon is giving a free healthcare coupon instead of (say) a wood chipper coupon.
Who the fuck pissed in your cereal this morning?
I offended you by calling a coupon a coupon?
Ah yes, "you can save $100 a year if you want to add in telehealth to your existing prime subscription". Total non-story. No one will care about it, for SURE!
It's still a coupon. Amazon has $100 )or more) of products all the time: it doesn't make news.
Amazon Prime members will be able to access US healthcare provider One Medical's suite of benefits, for a fee
Did they announce at the same time that non- Amazon Prime members could also access One Medical's benefits for a fee? $199 per person, to be exact.
Literally all this is is Amazon giving a coupon for $X off of One Medical to Prime members: it's a complete non-story.
I never said Musk didn't know "grok" came from Stranger in a Strange Land (someone else in a different thread said that). I said I couldn't imagine him reading and finishing the book (because the core ideas in it, which are about so much more than freedom, are antithetical to Musk's beliefs).
Again, the two men definitely had some things in common. One of those things was a predilection to *talk* about freedom a lot (although I'd argue Musk just talks about it, while Heinlein dedicated his life to writing stories which helped spread it)
Stranger in a Strange Land was intended as a satire of counterculture.
Source? I've read the book twice and never saw that, nor can I find any mention on Wikipedia of it. Perhaps you're confusing it with Heinlin's Starship Troopers?
Musk was Heinlein's kinda guy.
Again, no. Here's what Wikipedia has to say about what both:
Heinlein used his science fiction as a way to explore provocative social and political ideas and to speculate how progress in science and engineering might shape the future of politics, race, religion, and sex.[12] Within the framework of his science-fiction stories, Heinlein repeatedly addressed certain social themes: the importance of individual liberty and self-reliance, the nature of sexual relationships, the obligation individuals owe to their societies, the influence of organized religion on culture and government, and the tendency of society to repress nonconformist thought. He also speculated on the influence of space travel on human cultural practices.
vs.
Elon Musk, the CEO or owner of multiple companies including Tesla, SpaceX, and X Corp, has expressed many views on a wide variety of subjects, ranging from politics to science.
Musk has expressed concern about issues such as artificial intelligence (AI), climate change and population decline. He has also criticized COVID-19 lockdowns, public transportation, and labor unions.[13] He has promoted conspiracy theories, and made controversial statements that have led to accusations of antisemitism and transphobia.[14][15] His views on international relations, including on the China-Taiwan and Russia-Ukraine conflicts, have received mixed reactions.
They both focus on liberty, "the future of tech, space travel in particular" and both are provocateurs
The point is, while they certainly have commonalities, the had more important key differences. Musk loved *one* of Heinlein's short books (The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)
Anyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none.
