jitler

> Chinese models keep demonstrating that SOTA can be approximated for a fraction of the cost.

Wow, sounds like a threat to nation security. Those Silicon Valley companies shills start donating to select donation campaigns with hope to ban Chinese LLM models.

Can you imagine? Your children being exposed to the propaganda that these LLMs will be inevitably tainted to spew?

> Rehabilitation and figuring out why they are bullying is the correct response in a civilized society.

Your so called “civilized societies” have continuously failed at this though.

You can’t keep failing and then demand your method is the correct method.

> My coworker informed his dad, about the egregious injuries that day. His dad drove to the drunk man’s house and knocked on the door and seized the drunk man by the collar: “if you ever touch that boy again, I’ll kill you.”

Yeah that wouldn’t fly nowadays. Your friend’s father would be hot with a slew of charges from “terroristic threats” to “meanacing”

It’s still way better than Facebook marketplace. At least eBay mostly solved the scam issue. Zuckerberg seems to desire fraud on his platforms.

> I know a defence company that has a bunch of vaxes stored in low oxygen environments because they legally have to be able to provide software updates to firmware they’ve written for the next 20 or so years and it was written on a vax.

So uh, will these ever make it to an auction site you think?

Everything is screaming at me to leave this industry because apparently all paths to lead to becoming a yaml monkey. I’d rather rot.

> Microsoft, your users include developers and power users.

But their customers are enterprises. Until you’re bringing in the money that those enterprise contracts are, you’re a pathetic speck who can and will get what you’re offered and no more.

> This country is led idiots that do not enjoy or like freedom.

This country is populated by idiots that do not enjoy or like freedom. These people didn’t just seize power in a coup.

Reminds me of back a few years browsing job boards and the only people posting jobs were blockchain companies for some reason.

> We have hired outstanding individuals who did not attend or complete university. If this describes you, please continue with your application and enter ‘no degree’.

But not if they got bad grades in HS lol?

Did large blocks of them vote for Tate?

I suspect the third criteria might be the hardest.

In my experience HW companies are rarely interested software engineers from other, non-related domains unless they’re hiring a team to do web interface or something.

I think in the past year it’s gotten better if you are already established. 2023 was the worst of it for me.

> Both work OK

If only. The optimizations they do on their matching algorithm has made the UX so terrible, I regularly use Lyft instead now.

And overworked in general. The immigrants don’t mind that part.

> I left the field for good, going to study electrical engineering.

Aren’t most of the EE jobs in Asia now?

> Chinese labs are known for just going along with it. After all, you are the one paying them tens of thousands,

Are the engineering firms going to Chinese labs because of their rubber stamp approval or because the process is “tens of thousands” as opposed to “hundreds of thousands”?

> WEAPONIZE IT.

The moment you start doing this at any scale, the companies will notice, and after a few winks, nods, and campaign donations, you will not be able to use it anymore.

> I just don't care anymore, and I don't think it is because I got older... I got into tech in my mid/late 20s so I wasn't a born nerd like most of you guys tinkering with stuff since childhood.

I was tinkering since childhood and I was still tired of it pretty quickly. I always knew I do not want to work in software, but where the hell else was I supposed to go?

There was a thread the other day on RF engineering. There were a number comments describing it a “magic” or “sorcery”.

This is kinda how I felt about computers as a kid. I used to wonder about different types of software on my PC. “How does it possibly work”, “How could I make one”. It was this sort of curiosity. Over time, learning how the sausage was made, I just lost interest.

Nowadays I still find myself curious and inquisitive about how things work, just rarely software. Unfortunately most of the “magic” left in the world is a bit beyond my IQ level, such as the aforementioned RF stuff lol.