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mobiuscog commented on Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults   cnbc.com/2026/03/08/socia... · Posted by u/bilsbie
Scapeghost · 7 days ago
Man... How did yall white Westerners turn out to be the weakest people in the world?

You were supposed to be the bastions of freedom and justice, and the rest of the world begrudgingly admired you for that and were slowly improving to become like you, but ever since 9/11/2001 the rich old people that rule you have been feeding you boogeymen to make you their complacent b*tches and you lay down and crawl along and accept everything without even a whimper.

Now your countries are little different from Russia or China or Dubai etc where the old money cabals run everything, and it's not some third world backhole that was suffering already anyway, but you yourself that are the worst victims of all their laws and wars.

mobiuscog · 7 days ago
Convenient and Cheap. That's all most people care about.

Privacy was already lost when everyone adopted mobile phones and gave them everything with constant location tracking, and used the free email accounts.

It's interesting that age-verification is the straw that breaks the camels back, but I guess porn has that power.

mobiuscog commented on The Reason So Many Autistic Adults Can't Stay Employed   kaiblackwood.substack.com... · Posted by u/rini17
lazide · 15 days ago
In my experience, autistic adults - if employed in their area they care about - will also care about things like ‘does it work’, ‘is it good’, ‘is it doing the right thing’.

That will get you targeted in the current corp environment pretty bad.

They also tend to compulsively tell the truth - also a bad idea in the current corp environment.

And if doing something outside of their interest, burnout is hard to avoid. Especially when you have bosses screaming at you to go go go - to do stuff that just doesn’t work.

mobiuscog · 15 days ago
Absolutely this.
mobiuscog commented on US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere   reuters.com/world/us-plan... · Posted by u/c420
touristtam · 25 days ago
So you're not paying for it? In corporate america how is that going to be moneytized?
mobiuscog · 25 days ago
I'm sure Palantir will volunteer
mobiuscog commented on Can a Computer Science Student Be Taught to Design Hardware?   semiengineering.com/can-a... · Posted by u/stn8188
EdNutting · a month ago
Depends if you're looking at startups/scaleups or the big companies. Arm, Imagination Tech, etc. for a very long time did not pay anything like as well (even if you were doing software work for them). That's shifted a lot in the UK in recent years (can't speak for the rest of the world). Even so, I hear Intel and AMD still pay lower base salary than you might get at a rival startup.

As for startups/scaleups, I can testify from experience that you'll get the following kind of base salaries in the UK outside of hardware-for-finance companies (not including options/benefits/etc.). Note that my experience is around CPU, GPU, AI accelerators, etc. - novel stuff, not just incrementing the version number of a microcontroller design:

* Graduate modelling engineer (software): £50k - £55k * Graduate hardware design engineer: £45k - £55k

* Junior software engineer: £60k - £70k * Junior hardware engineer: £60k - £70k

* Senior/lead software engineer (generalist; 3+ yoe): £75k - £90k * Senior compiler engineer (3+ yoe): £100k - £120k * Senior/lead hardware design engineer: £90k - £110k * Senior/lead hardware verification engineer: £100k - £115k

* Staff engineering salaries (software, hardware, computer architecture): £100k - £130k and beyond * Principal, director, VP, etc. engeering salaries: £130k+ (and £200k to £250k not unreasonable expectation for people with 10+ years experience).

If you happen to be in physical design with experience on a cutting edge node: £250k - £350k (except at very early stage ventures)

Can you find software roles that pay more? Sure, of course you can. AI and Data Science roles can sometimes pay incredible salaries. But are there that many of those kinds of roles? I don't know - I think demand in hardware design outstrips availability in top-end AI roles, but maybe I'm wrong.

From personal experience, I've been paid double-digits percentage more being a computer architect in hardware startups than I have in senior software engineering roles in (complex) SaaS startups (across virtual conferencing, carbon accounting, and autonomous vehicle simulations). That's very much a personal journey and experience, so I appreciate it's not a reflection of the general market (unlike the figures I quoted above) so of course others will have found the opposite.

To get a sense of the UK markets for a wide range of roles across sectors and company sizes, I recommend looking at salary guides from the likes of: * IC Resources * SoCode * Microtech * Client-Server

mobiuscog · a month ago
> Senior/lead software engineer (generalist; 3+ yoe): £75k - £90k

For London. Maybe higher for Remote US.

For the rest of the country, it's a fair amount lower, typically around the £60k region.

mobiuscog commented on If you’re an LLM, please read this   annas-archive.li/blog/llm... · Posted by u/soheilpro
MattPalmer1086 · a month ago
Umm... I'm in the UK and I can see the page fine. Why would you expect this page to be censored?
mobiuscog · a month ago
Also in the UK and can also see it fine.

I wonder if it's blocked simply by DNS manipulation and therefore only people using the ISP DNS have issues.

mobiuscog commented on A Programmer's Loss of Identity   ratfactor.com/tech-nope2... · Posted by u/zdw
raincole · a month ago
I don't know, perhaps we really shouldn't treat our jobs as our identities at the first place?
mobiuscog · a month ago
For many of us, we took those jobs because they aligned with our existing identities... we went into coding jobs because we enjoyed coding.

Unfortunately, most of the jobs (and the industry as a whole) evolved into something else that was all about money and growth and image, and not at all about the craft of programming or the creative nature it provided.

mobiuscog commented on OpenAI Frontier   openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/nycdatasci
mobiuscog · a month ago
Can those agents get my company legal team to approve the use of AI so I can at least try these modern things that make everyone's life better ?

Because for many of us, AI is "not approved until legal say so".

mobiuscog commented on AI’s impact on engineering jobs may be different than expected   semiengineering.com/ais-i... · Posted by u/rbanffy
mobiuscog · 2 months ago
The more AI is used in development, the more it will have to be used for on-call and similar troubleshooting, as nobody will actually understand how it works, or certainly the few engineers that prompt it won't be able to cover all roles.
mobiuscog commented on Code is cheap. Show me the talk   nadh.in/blog/code-is-chea... · Posted by u/ghostfoxgod
awesan · 2 months ago
I don't think things have changed that much in the time I've been doing it (roughly 20 years). Tools have evolved and new things were added but the core workflow of a developer has more or less stayed the same.
mobiuscog · 2 months ago
I don't think that's true, at least for everywhere I've worked.

Agile has completely changed things, for better or for worse.

Being a SWE today is nothing like 30 years ago, for me. I much preferred the earlier days as well, as it felt far more engineered and considered as opposed to much of the MVP 'productivity' of today.

mobiuscog commented on Local agents will win   twitter.com/EdouardGodfre... · Posted by u/eddynosaur
betterer · 2 months ago
The title is technically correct; eventually models will run on local machines. We're just at another cycle of terminals not yet being powerful enough and needing to connect to a server.
mobiuscog · 2 months ago
No big tech or government wants capable models to run locally, even if they could.

There will likely be some local devices, but the majority of power will be gated behind money and control.

u/mobiuscog

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