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My partner works there as an engineer. The org they work in had loads of people transferred to the "AAI" org doing data labelling. I find it almost unbelievable as well, but it is …

The presence of an alternative launcher does not prevent spotlight background tasks from running

As opposed to the AI-free operating system, Android?

Not really how it works anymore. Everyone just gets 4 year RSU grants with an even vesting schedule and no lockout period, and it has been that way for a long time now. I've never …

ok so no evidence, just racist innuendo

I read the book on release and loved it. The main themes and plot points are present in the movie, though it's overall a bit less nerdy and a bit more comical than the book. I thin…

I don't know, but it makes me uncomfortable

I for one hope not to live in a world where academic journals fall out of favor and are replaced by vibe-coded papers by citizen scientists with inflated egos from one too many “yo…

I am not sure. I think we're talking about the one where Trump illegally and unilaterally ignored the sale or de-list deadline passed in said bipartisan bill so he could figure out…

Thank you for your service

I noticed that, too. They seemed to tense up and notice it with enough time to spare to manually intervene and either slam on the brakes or swerve to avoid it.

Well for starters, maybe my new grad SWE buddy with 2 YOE will finally find a job after being laid off for nearly a year.

If you use YouTube this much, just get YT Premium maybe? It comes with YT Music, which seems like 70% as good as Spotify to me.

Do you actually own AirPods or just assume that's the case? Nobody I know has really had to replace their AirPods unless they lose them, forget them in a pocket and wash them, or d…

Might want to see a doctor about that

I don't think wages are suppressed because immigrant tech workers make less money. Instead, It seems like the effect of the dramatically increased supply of workers would dominate,…

Why think when your phone or the AI can do it for you? I imagine there are a few people in this forum who might have some thoughts about that.

Well and actually building the thing well enough for them to become/remain customers.

I think also it's the reality in most engineering roles that you will often have to pivot to new technologies, help out on unfamiliar projects using different technologies (e.g., w…

I don't write Go, but reading this, it feels like you don't actually need functional scoping at all. In Java, I would simply write: try (SomeResource foo = SomeResource.open()) { m…

It's not hard to imagine an alternative universe where Github is a steward of innovation for both git and the code review process; alas, this is not the world we live in.

I am not sure what you mean. Stateless RPCs, cache controls, client-side typing, tracing/observability, and bidirectional streaming are all things that strike me as very relevant t…

In addition to what others have complained about, another issue I haven't seen highlighted as much in the comments is the infuriating explosion of content length. AI responses seem…

This phenomenon really frustrates me on behalf of my peers. I'm not sure what the right answer is, but anecdotally I've observed many others struggle to get their first jobs in tec…