I will only work for small companies now. And only when my personal views match and I honestly feel what I’m working on is worthwhile to society.

I like the experience a lot more this way.

I’m lucky to be able to make that choice, but the work is much more rewarding.

God this is true.

I’ve seen some real snake oil projects get massive finding and everyone on board getting promos.

I knew of a company that listed an internal tool as a job requirement so they could claim a skill shortage and hire foreign workers. They coached them to put that tool on their resume.

The industry has brought in a ton of soulless goons and uninterested/stupid workers for a decade and it’s destroyed the industry.

I’m not saying there aren’t good people, but I have interviewed hundreds of people over 10+ years for jobs in tech, and the quality bar dropped a lot.

This started well before AI. I met people from Apple/Amazon/Google/etc. who functionally could not do their job, contributed nothing to projects, and were highly paid. Only a few big companies were the exception.

I’ve met a ton of people with phds and advanced degrees from prestigious schools that were total crap too.

We shovelled so many people into the system because the jobs sounded amazing and they’d pay stupid prices for a degree. We fully industrialized low performance hiring, so yeah, no surprise packages are dropping.

Plus, I used to get time to teach interns and new grads too. The staff we taught grew into way better workers than the job hoppers with 6 jobs at fancy companies over 3 years who had never completed a real project beyond the shiny prototype.

The last 3-4 years I had been constantly threatened about looming layoffs, and that we needed to meet targets at all costs. I’ve been perennially told “if we’re just heads down and all out until [6 months from now/project completion] it’ll all be good again”. Only for the cycle to repeat again and again and again.

The big tech machine destroyed my mental health and I’m out, and I’m much much happier and healthier. I still work in tech, but I’m incredibly selective about the jobs I take, and I’ll never work in corporate tech again.

Do the dems want to win the midterms?

Their popularity is down since the election.

How fucking hard is it to listen to what the voters say they want?

Nobody would be quoted as saying I’m smart, no need to apologize

This it’s why there is nothing “smart” in my house.

I do have a smart tv that’s not allowed access to the internet, and that’s because they’re all like that now.

What was the pizza soup like?

I bet finishing it with cheese and bread like a French onion would be amazing.

This is stupid.

15 years is a massive time to just update your OS.

15 years ago instagram didn’t exist, the iPad was new, and people were just updating from Vista to Windows 7. I think Hadoop was just created then.

That is a massive amount of time to support software that would have almost no architectural protection against things like heartbleed.

Is this part of the actual reason oracles stock has exploded?

Coming from the guy who wanted to scan everyone in the world’s eyeballs?

At the risk of agreeing with Reddit:

Under new rules rolling out over the coming months, a small number of users will be required to leave some of their moderator posts so that they aren’t moderating more than five subreddits with 100,000 monthly visitors.

That sounds perfectly reasonable. Reddit has a massive powermod problem.

Probably for the best.

Grenades seem very high on the fuck around - find out index.

Grenades are way cheaper than I thought

I would never admit this happened to me

I’m sure the number is higher than 2