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I still think it's crazy that the heat wave in Portland, OR (116 deg in 2021) had higher temps than places like Austin, Dallas, Miami, etc have ever had in recorded history. An area of BC recorded over 121.

didn't FB grant someone else $1B over 4 years or something for some AI lead role? Wouldn't be surprised if this guy is getting similar offers, which could explode even further with the stratospheric valuations of top AI companies.

I like that too. And by "like", I mean "absolutely can't stand." Made the site unusable for me.

Sounds fucking miserable. Thank goodness I'm far enough into my career that I can throw in the towel and retire instead of having to capitulate to this lunacy.

If you think hiring, prioritizing, planning, and cross-team negotiation are all tasks of a tech lead and not a manager, then what is the job of an engineering manager in your opinion?

> I am just as loony now as I was when employed ... flirting with the gals in town and wildlife

Flirting with the wildlife certainly does fall into the "loony" bucket in my book. Make sure to stay safe!

I think you might be. Most retired folks I know just end up watching TV all day. Not even "good" TV-- it's mostly game-shows and 24-hour news cycles.

Is this an AI generated comment? The format follows almost exactly the format of your other comments, down to the location of the em-dash.

> 3. That only developers / engineers / tech folks can join

Is at odds with

> 6. That doesn't have a bunch of fake "linkedinmaxxing" garbage content

Almost all of the shit-tier AI-generated AI evangelism has been from "tech folks" connections. It's all the exact same content.

Having a notification that just shows me an ad for "LinkedIn premium" should be a crime.

> The irony of course is that the way they've gone about reacting to this has damaged their brand so badly at the trust level that the public view of their company has completely flipped.

No one at my company gives a single shit about Openclaw, so this whole situation has been a noop for a lot more of the public than you seem to think.

Also, "censorship"? How is disallowing a specific tool that abuses a subscription "censorship"?

I might be wrong in this case, but anyone I've ever met who refers to Zuckerberg as "Zuck" is a current or former employee of Meta.

Make what you wish of that information.

With more and more flights offering Starlink, I don't see why this would really ever be necessary.

Also, agreed with the other commenters: just read a damn book and take a nap.

Have you considered that people can both like their work, and like other things at the same time?

What do you think is an appropriate time for most employees to end their workday?

Heck, I could build Facebook in a weekend!

I'm convinced that 99.9% of folks online who claim they're going to "short a stock" have never actually shorted anything in their life.

Their stock is up something like 1500% since IPO. I can't imagine most employees there feeling like they're undervalued with that sort of equity valuation.

Can you elaborate as to why your linked article would suggest nextjs to be a "circus"? If anything, DHH (founder of RoR) and his Looney-Tunes opinions are much closer to a circus sideshow than anything I've seen come out of Vercel.

I'll never forget this spot on NPR where they interviewed a machine learning engineer working on AI videos. The engineer was purely focused on how cool the technology is, how real it looks, etc.

The interviewer asked, "aren't you worried about this getting into the hands of the wrong people, and creating deepfakes for extortion and things like that?"

The engineer paused for a few seconds, and then said, "gosh I never even considered that." She created this monster and all she could think about was how neat it was technologically.

> can someone explain the difference between what alex jones said about sandy hook and what other people say about 9/11 being an inside job, hologram planes, fake this fake that etc

Those "other people" were also Alex Jones.

Alex Jones makes dozens of patently false claims per episode. Yet every once in a while, he will accidentally say something that can be associated with reality. People will latch onto those once-in-ten-thousand statements and say, "look! Alex Jones was actually right about x all along," while completely ignoring the veritable sea of misinformation he spouted along the way.

I don't want this garbage in anyone's "backyard", mine or not.

That decision should be left to the people who study and understand psychology, not laymen, podcast hosts, and politicians.

10 years ago it was Heroku and Ruby on Rails*

Thanks for this. So glad HN limits ninja edits after a certain period of time. So frustrating when I'm hunting for an answer on Reddit, and stumbling on a thread with a bunch of "thanks, that solved it" replies to a [deleted] post.

Every time they're discussed, I think of that scene of Homer bashing a weather station in the 70s[1]

[1] https://youtu.be/zexJJb9Lbas

There have been tons of great TV series over the last decade.

If the factories only employed 50 people, polluted the earth at a much higher scale, and were mainly used to product fake cat videos and scam dating profiles, then yes I would support banning them too.

Can't tell if this is a joke comment, or a "why does FB have thousands of engineers, I could code it in a weekend!"-style comment, modernized for the era of AI.