Actually, I think we are living in the most equal times ever. Don't get me wrong the situation is very bad especially if one belongs to any minority group but the wealth is divided more equally than any time in the history before
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zulrah commented on Ask HN: How is the job search coming along for people who got laid off? · Posted by u/taauji
That is just Amazon being Amazon.
When they interviewed me the first time, the interviewer didn't show to work, so they asked another guy to interview me, he ended interviewing me in a language he didn't knew, to a position using another language entirely, the whole thing was a farce.
Some years later Amazon recruiters contacted me, asked me to go interview in person. Then during the interview in their offices, they literally forgot me for several hours in a random room of the building, the employees left at the end of shift, and left me alone in the floor with nobody in it, and I had no idea where the exit was.
I really need a job and been applying to lots of companies, but I won't apply to Amazon again.
My Amazon interview was cancelled as interviewer got ill. It was never rescheduled
zulrah commented on FreeTube – A Private YouTube Client freetubeapp.io/... · Posted by u/night-rider
I think you might not be understanding the context of the argument.
Google has tons of information on you - way more than it needs, and yet it still doesn’t get recommendations as good as we expect (as you rightly point out).
So the issue is that it has tons of extra data than they need because it * doesn’t make their recommendation any better.*
Gathering data for the sake of gathering data in todays world of information privacy and hackers, leaks, etc. And that is what they are doing.
In my opinion (sample size of 1), YouTube is incredibly simplistic in its recommendations. I find it very hard to believe that they couldn’t achieve the same quality with much less info on me.
For instance, my IP changes when I travel, but I’m an American who speaks English, and yet YouTube insists in showing me local ads in different languages when I’m in foreign countries, despite having my home address (verified with my credit card no less!!!) That’s just laughable.
>I’m an American who speaks English, and yet YouTube insists in showing me local ads
The number of travelers in foreign countries are so low compared to local population that I don't think it even makes sense for Google to optimize ads for people like that
It's an extremelly low effort post. How did it even make into the frontpage? Upvotes by bots?
zulrah commented on Crypto: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly seldo.com/posts/crypto-th... · Posted by u/tagawa
>Every time I dig into crypto I find things that seem stupid, or useless, or actively bad. But so many people are into it!
During my time in tech I've only knew two people who held crypto. However, I've know a lot of people(myself included) who got into crypto, got dissilusioned by the promises, and after seeing that nothing they promissed actually arrived left.
5 Years ago I've heard how crypto is going to be a killer usecase for e-commerse, banking, and even cloud computing but no actual work was ever done to acomplish these goals
The worst mistake I made was accepting linkedin invites from recruiters. I expected that it will increase my chances to get offered some kind of job but most of them never even wrote to me. And my linkedin absolutely filled with spam
Wow, I've just tried it and it's really good. As mentioned in the article, I already had winget in my PC. So I was able to use winget upgrade and it listed all the apps that I can upgrade(None of them were installed using winget but it still worked).
It's a huge improvement over downloading new version of VLC from their website for example.In total it upgraded 10 applications. The only annoying thing was that it still had to open GUI installers for updating applications. I'm also not sure how does it handle applications that are currently open during the update
zulrah commented on The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway alexskra.com/blog/the-mer... · Posted by u/oarth
I've noticed another trend recently where it seems that some websites write content for google SEO instead of optimized for human readability.
E.g.: I've seen my exact search phrase repeated mutiple times and then a very long article about the topic when what I searched was a simple question with a few words answer.
zulrah commented on Cloud Programming Simplified: A Berkeley View on Serverless Computing rise.cs.berkeley.edu/blog... · Posted by u/adjohn
It’s also great for vendor lock in and rent extraction. At least in its current iterations. I’m fairly certain Amazon isn’t going to make it easy to run your “serverless” applications on anything but their infrastructure.
What would be more interesting would be languages and runtimes that run on the next network that is distributed, peer-to-peer, and able to be trusted. And easier to program for than they are today in their current iteration.
Edit: which is where I thought the BOOM group was going back in 2012 or so.
Have you seen Kelsey's Hightower demo where he used s3 event as a trigger for Google Cloud Function? You can already use serverless providers that abstract your function from the provider, but of course in that case you're locked to that specific vendor.
Also, no licence stops you from migrating from Lambda at any moment. Other Companies have you to pay enormous licencing fees and lock you for a one year contract or even longer.