teractiveodular (u/teractiveodular)

teractiveodular commented on What does it mean that MP3 is free? idiallo.com/blog/listen-m... · Posted by u/foxfired

GGByron · 10 months ago

Large hard drives and fast internet do not render obsolete the principle of frequency domain compression. MP3 and JPG will probably remain in service for a very long time.

But of course, if people weren't habituated to this bogus conception of obsolescence, how on earth would Microsoft manage to sell them a word processor for $179.00?

teractiveodular · 10 months ago

They don't. You now subscribe to Copilot 365 or whatever the hell Office is called today for the low, low price of $12.99 per month for the rest of your life.

teractiveodular commented on Google kills diversity hiring targets wsj.com/tech/google-kills... · Posted by u/kepler1

Quarrelsome · 10 months ago

> You're assuming there is no genetic component whatsoever to human skills and interests

Are you seriously suggesting that black people are genetically less predispositioned to program? Explain the evolutionary advantage to that please because that sounds absolutely absurd.

teractiveodular · 10 months ago

Here's a strawman: White people are more likely to diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). If people with ASD are more likely to opt for CS degrees, by induction we'll have more white people in CS.

teractiveodular commented on Google kills diversity hiring targets wsj.com/tech/google-kills... · Posted by u/kepler1

devnullbrain · 10 months ago

That's a non-sequitur, there can be non-genetic and non-sexism cultural reasons that influence study tendencies, or a blend of all three.

teractiveodular · 10 months ago

Such as? If a specific culture puts women off studying CS, than that culture is sexist, no?

teractiveodular commented on The FAA’s Hiring Scandal tracingwoodgrains.com/p/t... · Posted by u/firebaze

scott_w · 10 months ago

> Just for clarity, this was for a publicly posted job position, so non-target candidates were able to, and did, put in applications. They were assessed the same way target candidates were.

Try again.

teractiveodular · 10 months ago

> In our case, the recruitment team started by only headhunting target candidates. Once we exhausted that pool, they would headhunt any candidate.

"Target candidate" = those in minority groups, yes?

teractiveodular commented on Google kills diversity hiring targets wsj.com/tech/google-kills... · Posted by u/kepler1

paxys · 10 months ago

What you say is true, but these corporate diversity efforts are mostly used for PR and aren't actually making a difference to any race or community. The simple truth is that tech companies are going to hire any qualified engineer they can find, regardless of whether they are in a minority group or not and whether there is a DEI department at the company or not. So the question that should be asked is – why are black people (5-6% of CS graduates vs 15% of population), women (16-18% of CS graduates vs 50.5% of population), latinos (7% of CS graduates vs 20% of US population) etc. not pursuing STEM education and graduating with engineering degrees at the same rate as white and asian men? And what can we do to fix that? Diversity hiring at the corporate level is not the solution to the problem, education and training is.

teractiveodular · 10 months ago

You're assuming there is no genetic component whatsoever to human skills and interests, and the only reason women are not studying computer science/car repair/welding is sexism.

teractiveodular commented on Google kills diversity hiring targets wsj.com/tech/google-kills... · Posted by u/kepler1

sheepdestroyer · 10 months ago

"childhood household income. That transcends race or gender"

vs

"targeting childhood household income will see representation of the groups you're trying to help drop to nearly zero"

Did you misunderstand the point? It seems right that if you want to help poor people, you should target poor people, how could that be counterproductive?

teractiveodular · 10 months ago

But what if the poor people have the wrong skin color?

teractiveodular commented on Google kills diversity hiring targets wsj.com/tech/google-kills... · Posted by u/kepler1

skywhopper · 10 months ago

Diversity targets are usually built around under-represented groups, not necessarily specific races.

teractiveodular · 10 months ago

The referenced Google diversity reports spell out the percentages of "Asian+, Black+, Latinx+, Native American+ and White+" (their terms).

https://about.google/belonging/diversity-annual-report/2023/

teractiveodular commented on The FAA’s Hiring Scandal tracingwoodgrains.com/p/t... · Posted by u/firebaze

0xB31B1B · 10 months ago

Sort of. There’s like 5 conditions of automation commercial planes can be in. The automation mostly functions to make the pilots workload manageable, not to make their workload non existent. Commercial flights used to have a crew of 3, captain, first officer and flight engineer. The automation has reduced the workload to eliminate the flight engineer role and make flights operable by 2 people.

teractiveodular · 10 months ago

Flights are operable by 1 person, and this is in fact the normal state of affairs in general aviation. The second person on commercial aircraft is there mostly for redundancy, although obviously having another pair of hands makes things easier.

teractiveodular commented on The FAA’s Hiring Scandal tracingwoodgrains.com/p/t... · Posted by u/firebaze

scott_w · 10 months ago

Weird how I knew performative outrage would be the response, just as night follows day.

teractiveodular · 10 months ago

It's not performative outrage, it's a statement of fact. You didn't merely widen the net, you spearfished candidates of the right race and ignored those of the wrong ones. Regardless of your intentions, how is that not racist?

teractiveodular commented on The FAA’s Hiring Scandal tracingwoodgrains.com/p/t... · Posted by u/firebaze

ein0p · 10 months ago

> In a moment of dark irony, the sort of diversity-focused work she’s passionate about—not lowering the bar, but inspiring more people and providing them with mentorship and opportunity to reach it

Discrimination by race, gender and sexual orientation (aka DEI, jokingly disabbreviated as "didn't earn it") always results in lowering the bar. No exceptions. Either the candidate earns a position fair and square, in which case you don't need "DEI", or you are discriminating against someone else more deserving, and therefore lowering the bar overall. What's ironic is this is setting minorities back decades. In 2000 nobody cared what color you were or whether you had a penis. In 2025 the assumption is that a minority is a "DEI hire" unless proven otherwise. And bah gawd there are real exemplars out there to support that narrative.

teractiveodular · 10 months ago

The one positive "DEI" thing you can do without lowering the bar is to widen the net: look harder for qualified candidates in places where you didn't look before.