No, his comments about race and supporting political groups that advertise oppression and hate have not and will not be simply categorized as a political view. There are universal truths and morals that do not change and simply saying we have different views does not excuse violating those.
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kemiller2002 commented on The Target forensics lab (2024) thehorizonsun.com/feature... · Posted by u/jeromechoo
This shows where their priorities lie. This is also the same company that got hacked and lost credit card data of customers through their HVAC system. Bet nothing has really changed there as far as cyber security goes.
I'm writing this from a Mac when I ask this. Has Apple actually created anything that could arguably have changed the world? Resistant crops, the Cray, mobile refrigeration all changed the world. My iPhone's nice, but it's not exactly on the same level. Is there anything from Apple that I'm missing?
kemiller2002 commented on Knowing where your engineer salary comes from seangoedecke.com/where-th... · Posted by u/mooreds
> Someone who says no for too long doesn't last.
I actually think the engineering manager is probably in the wrong there, because if killer feature X is that critical to sales, then it needs to be prioritized in among the tech debt. It doesn't matter that the codebase health is not great if sales plummet. Being a good employee means sometimes prioritizing the health of the business and not the ergonomics of the work environment. And being a good manager means understanding when the health of the business is really at stake or whether the sales team is just throwing shade because they don't want to sell what the company has.
This is an important point. Many people lose sight of the idea that tomorrow doesn't matter if you don't survive today.
kemiller2002 commented on It's time to become an ML engineer (2022) blog.gregbrockman.com/its... · Posted by u/jxmorris12
also curious to hear which fields these are
Not management. AI hasn't learned to play golf for them yet.
kemiller2002 commented on Shove your office mandates, people still prefer working from home theregister.com/2025/01/1... · Posted by u/rntn
I will be the first to say I enjoy working from home. I don't want to go back to the office. What I will also say, that what doubly makes me not go back to the office is the office space itself. It was expensive to put in. Some company paid a lot for it. There are marble tables in the break room, the furniture is obviously not cheap. It is all jarring. It is an assault on the visual and auditory senses. It's bright and loud and overwhelming.
If companies want to try and lure someone back to the office, they should spend some time and money and make it nice. It's not a magic bullet. It won't make people think, "wow I want to spend 30-40 minutes in the car each morning," but it's a start. It's the same thing about catering food into the office, don't buy mediocre food an expect people to hail your praises. If you really cared, you'd actually care about the quality.
kemiller2002 commented on Books I Loved Reading in 2024 thoughts.wyounas.com/p/bo... · Posted by u/simplegeek
+1 to antimemetics. I don't usually enjoy sci-fi, but this one captured my attention. You can read it online too: https://qntm.org/scp
Thank you sooo much for posting!
Nice to see this posted. Understated in this is that BND also helped North Dakota avoid the worst of the mortgage crisis, and that the student loan program (combined with decent state universities) make education more affordable. As far as banks go, BND is a gem.
When I was in college, I took a number of Econ courses, and I still remember the Macro Econ professor talk about banks failing. This was in the mid 90's. He flat out said that a bank failing is something that just doesn't happen anymore. He pretty much said, you'll never see it happen. This is before they repealed the Glass-Steagall act.
I still remember the mortgage crisis unfold in disbelief that they didn't see it coming. I worked in finance at the time, and I truly realize how fragile businesses (banks, etc.) are, and our trust in a number of things is completely unfounded. We have certain protections now, but I understood at that moment why people my parent's age (born during WWII) and older didn't trust banks, etc.
We have a family friend who is blind and a programmer. It's interesting to hear his perspective. His hope and expectation are that it will greatly increase usability.
I've been thrown into the usability deep end due to my wife also losing her sight due to an autoimmune disorder, and my dad losing his sight due to Macular Degeneration. Honestly, it sucks, and I mean like rage quitting, phone throwing sucks. (Try it. Turn on voice assist and close your eyes.) If Apple can improve it through AI, where someone can just talk to the phone to do a series of tasks. It will honestly change everything. The number of aging people who are going to lose their vision in the U.S. is set to go up exponentially in the coming years. This could be an unprecedented win for them, if they solve this issue with AI.
kemiller2002 commented on Learning not to trust the All-In podcast passingtime.substack.com/... · Posted by u/paulpauper
They won't be shocked, it's literally what they wanted and why people voted the way they did. You can't just blame corruption or something anymore. It's what people want.
And that is the saddest part of all.