This all rings true. Most search results are just bot-curated pages of answers copied from somewhere else, mixed with some low-quality posts of Reddit. Rarely you stumble on a treasure trove of links that someone put together in a list of Github. Maybe it's time for hand-curated web directories to start back up again.

Stock options are nice, but companies are offering "AI engineers" more than $1million salaries right now. "One in the hand is worth more than two in the bush..."

Amazon is not a startup.

An unreasonable demand is... unreasonable. Rejecting it is not letting down other people on the team. It is respecting yourself.

I'd love to see that bridge wiped out, not just damaged. Send the Dali cargo ship near it.

In a statement the [Russian] embassy said its envoy "categorically rejected the accusations that Russian state structures were involved in the given incident ... as unsubstantiated and groundless."

If they ever said otherwise, poke me until I wake up, and/or check Puttie for a fever.

Oh well, play another game I guess. The illusion that you "own" the game you paid for should've been obvious a long time ago. I think there is a good precedent that this will allow users to claim refunds if the game's system requirements are materially changed after purchase, though.

Many will merge into bigger co's. In the mad dot era around late 90's, our company's secret goal was to get bought out by a bigger co. or rival, as we knew we were skating on a sketchy business model.

I don't understand how that could possibly be useful for anyone. Is this just a syndrome of ADHD or something?

I'd personally take it as a relief to have all that stuff cleared away. I accumulate all kinds of crap on my desktop, every year I take it all and move it to an "old" folder. If I don't need anything from it in a few months, it gets deleted. I don't even bother looking through it.

Live by cutting edge, get cut by cutting edge. Tech is churn and burn.

Warning: Semi-off-topic Rant Ahead

Even with "regular" software, more devs and companies are more interested in chasing buzzwords than parsimony and simplicity. The result is a moving messy target. There are tools from the 90's that dev's are 4x more productive under because they are integrated tools rather than glued-on layers, requiring about 1/4 the code per feature. You don't need to worry about "separation of UI and biz logic" because BOTH are so compact that there is almost no down-side to mixing them in the same class. The separation-of-concerns movement was to manage bloated stacks & teams better, not an evolutionary step up.

They are not web-scale and not mobile-friendly, but that turned out not to matter. Internal biz didn't need mobile after all, and we spent all that bloat and trial-and-error trying to get dual-device layouts to work right in vein. People like to tell stories about how such tools became problematic when they needed "enterprise scale", but most our internal apps are not enterprise-scale.

The assumption is often that a web/enterprise tool can scale both down and up such that it's used on smaller projects also. Wrong Answer!* That's a failed assumption, creating bloated fragile smaller apps. One Tool Size Does NOT Fit All. Internal is not external. Desktop is not mobile. Small is not Web-scale. One of the reasons the F-35 got so expensive is that it tried to be everything to everybody. Maybe one day they'll make an affordable version, but the journey was expensive and bug-ridden.

Humans, you are doing IT wrong.

* It may be possible to have the small-end and big-end tools share a lot of features, conventions, and libraries, but not be the same tool. This hypothetical set should share what makes sense to share, and separate for target size when not. Do note that lack of data volume doesn't necessarily mean "simple". Billing can get rather complex for service companies, for example, but there is typically only say 30 invoiced being generated a day, including drafts.

Germans want to blow up the Kirsch Bridge even more than they want to engage in buggery.

Listen to the leaked tapes from last month.

Now they are forming a pretext.

Ah, so they won't be able to ID a little girl by her face but sexual assault is still OK with them?

These people are sick in the head.

The problem of airplane terrorism was solved over a field in Shanksville PA ninety minutes after a plane hit the North Tower.

We'll have to take back the Fourth Amendment if we want it - it won't be returned.

Why would anyone do that? Especially an experienced "AI engineer" who should be in demand job-wise in the current market.

Don't accept unreasonable demands from employers. It just tells them that you don't value yourself and that you will happily be mistreated further in the future.

Your "meat" doesn't work when you're only 8.

China should return samples from the near side first. When that secedes, then try on the far side.

Space is hard. Russia and the US had many many failed missions until they got sufficient experience. For example, US's Ranger 7 was the first successful Ranger mission*, as 1 thru 6 bit the dust; it became almost comical. (I have a draft script for a movie about the stressed Ranger team.)

Incremental is a safer bet.

* To get close-up photos of the moon's surface by taking rapid photos up until the time it intentionally crashes into the moon. Ranger was sort of like a Gatling gun of cameras in order to take and send images fast enough.

> This has to be the eighth time in the last twenty years that Microsoft has declared security to be the top priority, yet nothing ever changes.

I indeed remember multiple from the past also.

"But this time it's top top top priority, not just top top priority".

I once had a non-IT PHB-like manager who would rank ALL items on my to-do list "A+" (top-most importance). I pointed out that doesn't tell me which to start on first, but the PHB replied, "If I put B's and C's, you won't be motivated to get to them."

I was about to reply, but then bit my tongue, went back to my cubicle, and slapped my forehead for 10 minutes straight. How the F do humans that dumb get to be managers? Maybe they just *sound* smart to the extra stupid managers who promoted them? Explains certain politicians.

> I'm paying for it.

You'll stop when you get less value from it than the fee is worth.

It sounds like they're lazily destroying their value proposition but Subjective Value Theory says that set point will be different than everybody else.

It's still stupid of them to remove features for paying customers. Probably they are losing devs or hiring unqualified people for non-merit reasons. Their shareholders should be pissed.

FWIW when I was a teen I probably spent $100 a months (in 2024 dollars) on music so I can see why so many people subscribe.

I still own my CD's but only ever listen to the mp3 rips.