The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread

Kilemall

@tigger said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

So Altman is going back to OpenAI and they are adding board members so that the previous ones cannot do anything. I want my money back.

So you invested? Or bought binge rights to the season?

tigger

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@tigger said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

So Altman is going back to OpenAI and they are adding board members so that the previous ones cannot do anything. I want my money back.

So you invested? Or bought binge rights to the season?

Binge rights it is! I don’t think you can buy OpenAI stock really. And I’d buy MS stock only moments before it will drop by 50%

Pakoon

@tigger said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@tigger said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

So Altman is going back to OpenAI and they are adding board members so that the previous ones cannot do anything. I want my money back.

So you invested? Or bought binge rights to the season?

Binge rights it is! I don’t think you can buy OpenAI stock really. And I’d buy MS stock only moments before it will drop by 50%

Next time you’re thinking of buying MS shares, please let me know a day or two before.

@tigger said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

So Altman is going back to OpenAI and they are adding board members so that the previous ones cannot do anything. I want my money back.

Satya Nadella must be feeling like the jilted lover. Although it’s still not a bad outcome for MS, it’s not quite the coup that having the rights to GPT and having maybe half of OpenAI working for Microsoft would have been.

Pakoon

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@tigger said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

So Altman is going back to OpenAI and they are adding board members so that the previous ones cannot do anything. I want my money back.

Satya Nadella must be feeling like the jilted lover. Although it’s still not a bad outcome for MS, it’s not quite the coup that having the rights to GPT and having maybe half of OpenAI working for Microsoft would have been.

So, ethics lose and capitalism wins.

Gators1

Capitalism was always going to win here…at least until the AI wins.

Pakoon

@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

Capitalism was always going to win here…at least until the AI wins.

I bet AI is a commie

Not that I’d do it but, it must be satisfying to leave a company, publicly name and slam your boss as incompetent and have it go to the top of Hacker News.

Take Jeanine Banks, for example, who manages the department that somewhat arbitrarily contains (among other things) Flutter, Dart, Go, and Firebase. Her department nominally has a strategy, but I couldn’t leak it if I wanted to; I literally could never figure out what any part of it meant, even after years of hearing her describe it. Her understanding of what her teams are doing is minimal at best; she frequently makes requests that are completely incoherent and inapplicable. She treats engineers as commodities in a way that is dehumanising, reassigning people against their will in ways that have no relationship to their skill set. She is completely unable to receive constructive feedback (as in, she literally doesn’t even acknowledge it). I hear other teams (who have leaders more politically savvy than I) have learned how to “handle” her to keep her off their backs, feeding her just the right information at the right time.

Hixie's Natural Log

tigger

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

Not that I’d do it but, it must be satisfying to leave a company, publicly name and slam your boss as incompetent and have it go to the top of Hacker News.

Take Jeanine Banks, for example, who manages the department that somewhat arbitrarily contains (among other things) Flutter, Dart, Go, and Firebase. Her department nominally has a strategy, but I couldn’t leak it if I wanted to; I literally could never figure out what any part of it meant, even after years of hearing her describe it. Her understanding of what her teams are doing is minimal at best; she frequently makes requests that are completely incoherent and inapplicable. She treats engineers as commodities in a way that is dehumanising, reassigning people against their will in ways that have no relationship to their skill set. She is completely unable to receive constructive feedback (as in, she literally doesn’t even acknowledge it). I hear other teams (who have leaders more politically savvy than I) have learned how to “handle” her to keep her off their backs, feeding her just the right information at the right time.

Hixie's Natural Log

Per linkedin, Jeanine Banks is a serial VP. 2-3 years in a company, then move to another company, ideally to a slightly better position. She’ll be gone from Google in a year, as she already stayed more than 2. These people are the cancer of at least the tech sector but I suspect wider industry. They carry no knowledge, they have no vision, they never built anything, they never constructively worked with their reports. They don’t even do the work they are supposed to, they are just doing the bare minimum while expanding their social circles to land another similar position at a different company.

How can they actually get hired if they are useless? The whole ecosystem is full of them, and they hire people like themselves, because those people help them extend their social circles and move on. Their only saving grace is that they are often not evil people and don’t touch what they don’t understand.

Lob12

She is a black women in tech, you bunch of racises!

I just signed in to linked in. What a headache inducing website. Was directed via popup to two messages from 2015/2016 that I hadn’t read so I guess that’s when I last used it.

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

Not that I’d do it but, it must be satisfying to leave a company, publicly name and slam your boss as incompetent and have it go to the top of Hacker News.

Reminds me of a three month contract I had in maybe ~~2005~~ 1995 or so. My boss there was the worst I’d ever had. Really nice guy but hella neurotic. He’d not only regularly hover over your shoulder while you worked, he’d call out keystrokes for you to type in (can’t make this shit up). Anyway, despite the crazy, I kicked some goals while I was there and after my contract was up they wanted to renew. I wasn’t going to say “no way, Klaus is fucking crazy” so I agreed to renew if they doubled my daily rate. I knew there was no way they could get over the psychological barrier of paying me double what they had up until then and, sure enough, they let me go and I didn’t have to shit on anyone.

Kilemall

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

Not that I’d do it but, it must be satisfying to leave a company, publicly name and slam your boss as incompetent and have it go to the top of Hacker News.

Reminds me of a three month contract I had in maybe ~~2005~~ 1995 or so. My boss there was the worst I’d ever had. Really nice guy but hella neurotic. He’d not only regularly hover over your shoulder while you worked, he’d call out keystrokes for you to type in (can’t make this shit up). Anyway, despite the crazy, I kicked some goals while I was there and after my contract was up they wanted to renew. I wasn’t going to say “no way, Klaus is fucking crazy” so I agreed to renew if they doubled my daily rate. I knew there was no way they could get over the psychological barrier of paying me double what they had up until then and, sure enough, they let me go and I didn’t have to shit on anyone.

Railway Express Agency was the train era equivalent of UPS/FedEx. They were a monopoly and had an exemption with the caveat that they couldn’t turn down ANY shipment.

So they would try to say no by pricing the shipment so high the shipper would be dissuaded.

A woman I knew from high school went into banking and would say no to a loan by quoting too high rates.

Gators1

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

Not that I’d do it but, it must be satisfying to leave a company, publicly name and slam your boss as incompetent and have it go to the top of Hacker News.

Reminds me of a three month contract I had in maybe ~~2005~~ 1995 or so. My boss there was the worst I’d ever had. Really nice guy but hella neurotic. He’d not only regularly hover over your shoulder while you worked, he’d call out keystrokes for you to type in (can’t make this shit up). Anyway, despite the crazy, I kicked some goals while I was there and after my contract was up they wanted to renew. I wasn’t going to say “no way, Klaus is fucking crazy” so I agreed to renew if they doubled my daily rate. I knew there was no way they could get over the psychological barrier of paying me double what they had up until then and, sure enough, they let me go and I didn’t have to shit on anyone.

Railway Express Agency was the train era equivalent of UPS/FedEx. They were a monopoly and had an exemption with the caveat that they couldn’t turn down ANY shipment.

So they would try to say no by pricing the shipment so high the shipper would be dissuaded.

A woman I knew from high school went into banking and would say no to a loan by quoting too high rates.

Foamer thread!!!

Gators1

https://themessenger.com/tech/openai-sam-altman-helen-toner-reserach-paper-artificial-intelligence-chatgpt-chatbot

Kilemall

@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

Not that I’d do it but, it must be satisfying to leave a company, publicly name and slam your boss as incompetent and have it go to the top of Hacker News.

Reminds me of a three month contract I had in maybe ~~2005~~ 1995 or so. My boss there was the worst I’d ever had. Really nice guy but hella neurotic. He’d not only regularly hover over your shoulder while you worked, he’d call out keystrokes for you to type in (can’t make this shit up). Anyway, despite the crazy, I kicked some goals while I was there and after my contract was up they wanted to renew. I wasn’t going to say “no way, Klaus is fucking crazy” so I agreed to renew if they doubled my daily rate. I knew there was no way they could get over the psychological barrier of paying me double what they had up until then and, sure enough, they let me go and I didn’t have to shit on anyone.

Railway Express Agency was the train era equivalent of UPS/FedEx. They were a monopoly and had an exemption with the caveat that they couldn’t turn down ANY shipment.

So they would try to say no by pricing the shipment so high the shipper would be dissuaded.

A woman I knew from high school went into banking and would say no to a loan by quoting too high rates.

Foamer thread!!!

Fear of history! Sad!

Gators1

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

Not that I’d do it but, it must be satisfying to leave a company, publicly name and slam your boss as incompetent and have it go to the top of Hacker News.

Reminds me of a three month contract I had in maybe ~~2005~~ 1995 or so. My boss there was the worst I’d ever had. Really nice guy but hella neurotic. He’d not only regularly hover over your shoulder while you worked, he’d call out keystrokes for you to type in (can’t make this shit up). Anyway, despite the crazy, I kicked some goals while I was there and after my contract was up they wanted to renew. I wasn’t going to say “no way, Klaus is fucking crazy” so I agreed to renew if they doubled my daily rate. I knew there was no way they could get over the psychological barrier of paying me double what they had up until then and, sure enough, they let me go and I didn’t have to shit on anyone.

Railway Express Agency was the train era equivalent of UPS/FedEx. They were a monopoly and had an exemption with the caveat that they couldn’t turn down ANY shipment.

So they would try to say no by pricing the shipment so high the shipper would be dissuaded.

A woman I knew from high school went into banking and would say no to a loan by quoting too high rates.

Foamer thread!!!

Fear of history! Sad!

Many bad things happened in history. Noah’s flood, Ghengis Kahn, Holocaust…

Unity's 1.6 BILLION Dollar Mistake

275 kiwis are now out of work because John Riccitiello paid 1.6 billion dollars for an albatross. He already stepped down a month or two ago over the unity license agreement reneging debacle and I wonder where he’ll end up next. Him being forced to resign over poor performance at EA didn’t stop him from getting the Unity gig.

Gators1

@Hog with our luck he will buy LOT from Lithu and then use our subscription fees to buy some commie or European forum and merge them.

One of our servers, probably the main server for most business functions, has 5 terabytes of RAM and is otherwise configured up the wazoo with the most premium disk and CPUs that Azure has to offer.

It runs like shit. It’s always run like shit but we had a software version upgrade and now it’s often unusable. Some of the business functions that used to take 10 minutes (but should have been much less) can take hours now and it’s affecting production.

There’s a 24/7 bridge call set up for the crisis that I get sucked into occasionally that occasionally produces actions like*Hog, explain why this complex application that you’ve never seen before today and is slow and report back in an hour with your recommendations". And they’ll hassle you for updates exactly within the hour if you haven’t reported back because you don’t understand wtf the app is doing functionally let alone technically…

A couple of times it’s looked like I’m going to have to rewrite whole apps or re-architect others while the business bleeds and IT management drums their fingers and hovers over my shoulders.

Thankfully it seems that the penny has dropped that it’s not an app specific problem but something wrong with the system. I’m hearing things like some process or other trying to use 50 gigabytes of cache that’s only been configured to allow 5 megabytes.

Of course, I’m not counting on that so I’m trying to learn as much as I can about the apps and processes I might have to rewrite at no notice.

Fuck me, IT is stressful sometimes. I have some talents but one of them isn’t thinking well and understanding stuff under extreme time pressure.