The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread

[Jam]

@Pakoon said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

On the off chance that you are a fan of Anthony Burgess . . . . and possibly one who appreciates Joyce.

It’s time for (me) for a re-read of Re-Joyce, reviewed here 14 years ago.

Book Review: "ReJoyce" by Anthony Burgess

To paraphrase the opening lines of the "Scylla and Charybdis" episode of Ulysses , this is "a great writer on a great brother writer." ...

“My book does not pretend to scholarship, only to a desire to help the average reader who wants to know Joyce’s work but has been scared off by the professors. The appearance of difficulty is part of Joyce’s big joke; the profundities are always expressed in good round Dublin terms; Joyce’s heroes are humble men.”

–From the Foreword by Anthony Burgess.

[Gators1]

Sucks they have masks on. I wanted to be able to recognize them next time I see them making my coffee at Starbucks.

Hayden Field  /  Apr 17, 2024  /  Technology

Google workers arrested after nine-hour protest in cloud chief's office

Nine Google workers were arrested Tuesday after sit-in protests, including a nine-hour sit-in at Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian's office in Sunnyvale.

[Kilemall]

@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

Sucks they have masks on. I wanted to be able to recognize them next time I see them making my coffee at Starbucks.

Hayden Field  /  Apr 17, 2024  /  Technology

Google workers arrested after nine-hour protest in cloud chief's office

Nine Google workers were arrested Tuesday after sit-in protests, including a nine-hour sit-in at Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian's office in Sunnyvale.

Where did they think their salaries come from?

Where were they when China killed all those Muslims or crushed Hong Kong?

[Gators1]

There were something like 30 of those idiots fired already.

[tigger]

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

Sucks they have masks on. I wanted to be able to recognize them next time I see them making my coffee at Starbucks.

Hayden Field  /  Apr 17, 2024  /  Technology

Google workers arrested after nine-hour protest in cloud chief's office

Nine Google workers were arrested Tuesday after sit-in protests, including a nine-hour sit-in at Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian's office in Sunnyvale.

Where did they think their salaries come from?

Where were they when China killed all those Muslims or crushed Hong Kong?

Google isn’t really in China. So that’s not where the salaries come from.

[Gators1]

@tigger that’s what the Chinese communists want you to think!!!

[tigger]

@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@tigger that’s what the Chinese communists want you to think!!!

True. I’m quite confused by what everyone wants me to think!

[Blanks]

I’d rather take the unemployment than work at google anyway. No way any position there could be rewarding.

[Gators1]

@Blanks said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

I’d rather take the unemployment than work at google anyway. No way any position there could be rewarding.

They pay very well to software developers and it’s a big stepping stone to a successful career later on. And even if that isn’t good enough and you don’t want to work there, just leave. Don’t make some worthless “occupy Google” protest that achieves nothing and possibly fucks up your future career prospects.

[Pakoon]

@Blanks said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

I’d rather take the unemployment than work at google anyway. No way any position there could be rewarding.

I like working at Google. Good pay and a free datcha at Sotchi.

[Lob12]

Do they need evil HR lawyers by any chance? Looks like they might!

[Pakoon]

@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

Do they need evil HR lawyers by any chance? Looks like they might!

Yes, but there’s a catch. If you beat the AI they will sue you.

[Lob12]

@Pakoon said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

Do they need evil HR lawyers by any chance? Looks like they might!

Yes, but there’s a catch. If you beat the AI they will sue you.

No risks of that happening.

[Pakoon]

@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Pakoon said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

Do they need evil HR lawyers by any chance? Looks like they might!

Yes, but there’s a catch. If you beat the AI they will sue you.

No risks of that happening.

Are you sure?

[Lob12]

Me beating the AI? Yeah.

I’ll take a baseball bat to the server nodes though.

[Blanks]

@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Blanks said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

I’d rather take the unemployment than work at google anyway. No way any position there could be rewarding.

They pay very well to software developers and it’s a big stepping stone to a successful career later on. And even if that isn’t good enough and you don’t want to work there, just leave. Don’t make some worthless “occupy Google” protest that achieves nothing and possibly fucks up your future career prospects.

I agree, that was never going to actually solve anything, but you can’t collect unemployment if you quit! Or can you? I don’t actually know.

[Gators1]

@Blanks said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Blanks said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

I’d rather take the unemployment than work at google anyway. No way any position there could be rewarding.

They pay very well to software developers and it’s a big stepping stone to a successful career later on. And even if that isn’t good enough and you don’t want to work there, just leave. Don’t make some worthless “occupy Google” protest that achieves nothing and possibly fucks up your future career prospects.

I agree, that was never going to actually solve anything, but you can’t collect unemployment if you quit! Or can you? I don’t actually know.

Maybe in California. Mostly no though.

[A Former User]

[Blanks]

I don’t believe I’ve ever read a PDF and gone “you know what little PDF…I wish you were capable of conversation, maybe even sentient, then we could spend our nights chatting over a glass of wine”

[Jam]

@Blanks said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

I don’t believe I’ve ever read a PDF and gone “you know what little PDF…I wish you were capable of conversation, maybe even sentient, then we could spend our nights chatting over a glass of wine”

Be careful.

You’ve just triggered Jerraye to depict that which you have described in mere words.