wackywayneridesagain [none/use name]
It’s just MAAA now. Google (Alphabet) and Apple each have 16-20x more employees than Netflix, it was never even part of the club to begin with but especially not now. Pretty soon it’ll just be AAA I guess, Meta only had like 6x more employees than Netflix before the upcoming layoffs.
:shrug-outta-hecks:
I could believe a lot of such relationships aren’t for the best, but I was dating 17 years my senior @ 18 and 31 years my senior @ 28. With that background, I’m fine with it personally.
I heard his voice once and wrote him off as a potential POTUS, but there’s a world where COVID plays kingmaker for him.
He definitely got a big boost off of the lack of anything precautionary for COVID. The world in which he can probably ride that to the White House is one that’s certainly possible, not the most likely outcome but definitely one of them. For now it looks like everyone’s just going to point fingers regarding the current spate of respiratory illnesses and various population level analyses of health conditions that went into decline throughout 2020/early 2021 before ticking up during 2021 and 2022… Lots of people with various motivations are going to blame COVID vaccine programs for these anomalies - they were approved on a shortened timescale as is so it’s not as if these claims can actually be defeated. None of that excuses Florida’s refusals to do the bare minimum at preventing unnecessary deaths, but if there’s any systemic problems that a largish number of people can be convinced is vaccine-derived, I’d expect him to win easily. Dems, to the extent they want to win, have put a fucking shit load of more faith in Pfizer & Moderna than I would ever personally. The Brandon admin has definitely tried to distance themselves from COVID & Warp Speed in large part, we’ll just have to see if anything comes of it.
I only did a little tiny bit of the higher education thing, so not sure what “revise” means in this context but I’d say keep algorithms and data structures if that’s not what you’re already planning.
OOP using JAVA
Object Oriented System Development
The first thing I wasted my time learning was Java back in the day… I hate Java (and OOP) so much now. Got that DARPA money though at one point lol. But OOP has been a disaster for organizations everywhere, except for game dev probably. I have just never seen a single codebase in a business or information processing environment where the OO nature of it didn’t just become the equivalent to the organization taking a 12oz hammer and smashing 2 toes on each foot of every developer after a couple revisions were needed.
Anyway… my votes for emphasis would be Database Management Systems and Distributed Systems.
I do machine learning optimization and other data engineering stuff for a living. Not for exploiting people thankfully, though probably automating away some jobs in a couple years’ time.
I think they’re missing that art is ultimately consumed by humans. We can definitely use AI to simplify making art, by generating things that artists can manipulate. That’s already been in use for years and is just accelerating a bit now.
And we already train those models using the output of previous executions. Where the poster is wrong is whether this will be usable to replace human input completely. That’s not realistic to me, at least not before virtually every human is dead.
Yeah the origin of the “verified” marks on various sites and services is probably somewhat obscured nowadays, and it was actually generally well-received when verified accounts became a thing due to the prevalence of, mostly, scams. The dilution of its value happened long before :melon-musk: from what I can gather. I forget the first website I saw doing it, I know it wasn’t the bird site because I’ve only ever gotten linked there and never participated.
Maybe it already does something like this, but if someone starts chatting with you and they have a similar name to a verified account, sites could say “this user is unverified, and might be impersonating: <profile badge or something> (dismiss) (report)” - simple as that. Because as it stands, the absence of verification isn’t an immediate red flag to the vast majority of people (who would already fall for some kind of celeb romance scam, or worse). Maybe if every other user had an “unverified” mark, it would stick in peoples’ minds to look for it.
There’s still a pretty common trend of country musicians and shit being impersonated on Facebook etc and romance-scamming thousands from senior citizens. The chats are pretty wild, Kieth Urban (pretty sure that’s one of them) telling :meemaw: that he needs them to wire 10K to get away from his wife so they can elope.
so no more anonymity
Not quite, it would be pretty trivial for a government identity verification system to mark public persons and companies that want to participate in the verification scheme as verified, while anyone who wishes to remain anonymous or not participate in that remains unverified.
No, it doesn’t hold up at all. Russia is basically just emulating the US but on a lag.
I’m seriously surprised by how poorly Russia is doing. It makes sense based on how everything’s played out, but it’s baffling that Russia wasn’t better prepared for this eventuality. Western foreign policy experts of many sorts have talked up the Russian invasion of Ukraine for almost 30 years (almost 20 at the time of the Russo-Ukraine War breaking out). It was always in the context of what would happen should the West make serious overtures regarding NATO/EU membership for Ukraine. Hell, iit was speculated on almost as soon as the USSR was dissolved, no doubt even beforehand in the event that it did dissolve in some circles.
Even if we pretend the 2014 origins of the Russo-Ukraine War came from nowhere, Putin has had 8 years to prepare for what I’d consider to be totally predictable… Not only is it the same playbook the CIA ran beforehand and during the Soviet-Afghan invasion, but the US had just withdrawn from Afghanistan and the defense contractors whose financial interests are served by our media and natsec state would clearly be looking for new avenues to launder US taxpayer money. If history isn’t accelerating and pretenses are still needed, we should see a US invasion of Ukraine before 2045 related to stopping ultranationalist terrorism spawned by… CIA training, money, weapons, and surveillance equipment…