Still down as of 22:31 PDT.
Readit Newsfwungy commented on Meta fires staffers for using $25 meal credits on household goods arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/botanical
Show me the person and I'll show you the crime. -Stalin
This was a person they wanted to let go and needed an excuse to get rid of that would save them severance and lawsuits, I'd wager.
Who would collect such a dossier?
Who would want such a thing exposed?
How many Trump voters care about the details of JD Vance enough to change their vote (zero)?
Why has Zuck publicly shifted from strong anti-Trump positioning to neutral or mildly pro-Trump?
The Razor only works when you use it.
fwungy commented on Too much efficiency makes everything worse (2022) sohl-dickstein.github.io/... · Posted by u/feyman_r
Efficiency means minimizing the use of the costliest components. It's installing fault points into a system on purpose.
Robust systems minimize fault points. Efficient systems come at the cost of robustness, and vice versa given a fixed definition of what is being conserved, i.e. costs or energy.
For example, a four cylinder engine that gets 15mpg will have a longer life than one that gets 30mpg, given the same cost.
fwungy commented on Possible cluster of human bird-flu infections expands in Missouri nytimes.com/2024/09/27/he... · Posted by u/ctoth
My uncle works for Nintendo. He says Bird Flu is going to start getting real bad in two weeks, like REAL BAD.
fwungy commented on Ask HN: Why hasn't there been more outsourcing of tech jobs to Japan? · Posted by u/jarsin
India has more than ten times the population of Japan, so all other things being equal you'd expect there to be ten times as many Indian devs than Japanese devs. And all other thing are not equal, and there are probably several factors that skew things even more (English skills, cultural reasons, economical reasons).
The consensus at the very large IT provider I work for, amongst the staff, is that India is a good bet for a script running operations team, but poor on ingenuity, innovation, and creative problem solving. The best Indian talent are as good as anyone, but the average talent level is far lower than American, Asian or European.
Elon Musk and Franz von Holzhausen, to be precise.