They work for Meta. I would expect them to be miserable.
The company has been dumping 10 figures a year into trying to build a VR world no one wants, with nothing to show for it after the better part of a decade. At some point, you expect morale to decrease.
They'll use the same excuse when AI perfects the Torment Nexus, I'm sure.
Oops. I thought I was responding to the story about the grossly insecure White House app.
Still, it's incompetence all the way down.
Although I'm not as big a fan of Hanlon's Razor as I used to be, I'd be willing to chalk this up to typical government incompetence, farming this work out to the cheapest bidder in a way where no one involved in any decision-making has any technical expertise whatsoever.
Nothing is going to get better as long as the U.S. education system is captured by ideologues whose priorities are _not_ an educated, literate and thinking populace.
It went to the same place that Winamp 4 went to.
I loved Hack 1.0.3. At some point between then and now NetHack got unreasonably difficult for me.
Multiple instances of a name with a non-ASCII character and of course
I'm referring to Erdos, of course, but I replaced the non-ASCII o with a diacritical so it would be displayed in my message.
I rarely see _any_ subtitles that are not appallingly bad, including YouTube.
The good thing is hiring 9,000 H1Bs now could cost $900,000,000 in filing fees, and visas are weighted so that the highest wage H1Bs are given 4x the weight of the lowest wage H1Bs. I've noticed the number of H1B “entry-level openings" meaningfully decrease, which means it was never actually about talent "scarcity" and all about talent "cost". The H1B funnel is also getting a double whammy with AI consuming exactly the offshore-able, entry-level work the H-1B and offshore IT models were built around. The cost advantage that enabled both to work is at the point of economic unviability.
Do they actually do anything?
Microsoft is offering a 6-figure buy out, but it's in Windows Store credit.
They are desperate. They had multiple massively valuable IPs, including their own, and they ran them into the ground by putting out woke slop. To compensate, they are trying everything except making good movies.
They probably can't move the movie up. Knowing Disney, they'll probably still be doing reshoots the week before.
There is zero chance I'd go back to an ICE car. The maintenance, reliability, and fuel costs are not even comparable. The math behind driving an ICE car today only makes sense if you need to tow large loads for significant distances. The caveat is that you need a place to charge them for it to be stress-free. We calculated not long ago that it would take $0.25/gallon gas to make an ICE car break even with what we're spending on EVs.
"If John Madden steps outside on February 2, looks down, and doesn't see his feet, we'll have 6 more weeks of Pro football." -- Chuck Newcombe
