Actually, I declined the interview. This was in the pandemic before the vaccine. During the phone screen the recruiter told me all work was required to be on site and asked if I was okay with that. I said: sure, but only if I have an office so I can set up an air filter and generally control my working environment. The recruiter said no one gets an office, not even Musk. I said thank you and goodbye.
Hmmm, how do you know that if they aren't coming to your house?
I have talked with Amazon about this.
What does "open office" mean in this regard?
No partitions. No walls. No doors. Just desks and chairs.
Some jobs simply require teams to work in the same physical location.
The complaint wasn't about being in the same physical location. It was about the compulsory open-office configuration, even back in the middle of the pandemic.
The complaint was Musk insisted that people work in open offices specifically or they cannot work for him.
Correct. Even in the middle of the pandemic he demanded on-site work and would not allow private offices in the building.
NASA hired women as scientists and engineers when that wasn't a thing. If her talents were worth it, that was that.
Musk won't hire people unwilling to work in an open office. And forget about telework. It doesn't matter what skills you bring to the table, Musk having his way is more important.
That's how NASA landed people on the moon while SpaceX's rocket keeps blowing up.
I'm sorry, what exactly is the point of this nitpick? That there's some reason it's okay Amazon isn't getting shit to my house because a different person signs the driver's paycheck? Even if it was FedEx or UPS fucking it up (they find my place just fine....) I can't tell Amazon to use a different shipper, so I'd still drop Prime anyway.
And... yeah the branding does matter. Unlike Amazon I don't order shit from FedEx.
For clarification- These are Amazon-branded delivery vehicles and drivers.
Meanwhile, I give their custom to Amazon instead because every time I've ever spoken to their customer service they've understood one thing:
- Customer service is a necessary business expense.
Have you done that recently? One of the reasons I dropped Prime was over the course of a year it was progressively harder and harder and HARDER to get an actual human on the line. This was mainly over not getting packages TO MY HOUSE, their core business!!! My wife was recently complaining that Amazon was pushing her towards talking to their objectively-stupid chatbot to resolve issues.
Maybe our experiences are different, but Amazon's been on my "they don't give a shit about good customer service anymore" list for a couple of years now.
The 2023 National Customer Rage Survey found that the percentage of American consumers seeking revenge for customer service hassles had tripled in three years.
This is consistent with what I've seen on Facebook. For the uninitiated- Facebook long ago decided that seeing what our friends are up to wasn't good enough, so they cram sponsored slop into your feed. Picture the comments section here, it's all
That's basically what FB is doing. So in my case, for example, I'm still super pissed at T-Mobile for reasons I can share if anyone cares. And since I once searched for T-Mob's Customer Support Facebook's Algo thinks I'm a fan of theirs. Soon T-Mob's sponsored posts started appearing in my feed. Not only can I reply to those sponsored posts, I can click 'like' on them... or even better, click the 'Angry' icon! When one interacts with a sponsored post FB actually shows you MORE of them. And that's where I'm actually seeing people engage in 'revenge for customer service hassles'. When T-Mobile pops up in my feed there are already other people there who have clicked the frowny 'like' and posted about their horror stories with doing business with them. They're trying to alert others to the perils of doing business with them.
One hilarious side-effect of FB's approach to monetization is now T-Mobile is paying to show me specifically their sponsored posts because of my frowny-face engagement. Normally I want an ad-free experience but this one is funny because I've told them I'm never returning as a customer, they're wasting their money! Ha ha!
Not something I expect to last forever, but I am seeing people find creative ways to get back at these companies for screwing them.
Not just identical twins. If you haven't found pictures of your doppelgangers online, it's only because they're not famous enough and haven't committed any crimes. With 8 billion people on the planet, statistics demand that a lot of them look enough alike that a casual observer wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
Apple copied that feature long ago. Do you trust Google on that feature working exactly as you expect it to? Because I don't trust Apple's intentions or competence. Google wants your data and I have no doubt Apple would take a bribe from Meta.
Worried this could one day become a possibility I uninstalled the FB app. Now that I'm saying (typing) this out load I'm realizing Messenger and Instagram need to go, too.
Umm... don't Android users worry about this from Google? I'm legitimately asking.
Oh. You don't know how a search engine works. No wonder you don't know how copyright and computer software interacts.
You know what a search engine is, right? It takes all the words in a document and stores them in a database along with a link saying that this word was found in that document. The search engine has stored every word in the document, but it has done it in a way that it's not possible for the search engine to reproduce the document. The legal precedent is crystal clear that this activity does not violate the document's copyright.
Now you have a baseline for storing every word of a copyrighted book without violating its copyright.
When the LLM "trains" on a copyrighted book, how does it store the data? Has it saved the original data, in order, where it can spit it back out on command? Or like the search engine, has it stored relationships learned from the data which allow it to reason about the work but not reproduce it verbatim?
That's the correct question to ask when determining whether an LLM violates the copyrights of its training data. The plaintiffs failed to offer a credible answer to that question.
All Finagle Laws may be bypassed by learning the simple art of doing without thinking.
