My favorite tell is when a write-up starts with a verbose explanation of given knowledge on a subject. Yes, we all know what ‘World Wide Web’ and ‘Internal Combustion Engines’ are.
Get to the f’ing point.
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32·7 days agoSo many $$$$$$$$$$$$$, no doubt, for a single record in a database.
Just finished a bag of those. Now I need to adjust my timing belt.
2·10 days agoDreamforce has always paid San Francisco a ton of money to block off entire streets around Moscone Center. There was no way the city would allow a speck of dirt or homeless people within walking distance of the area. You drift out of the zone, though, and reality comes crashing down.
Was in a ‘modern’ hotel recently. Hardwood floors, fresh paint, and warm embedded light fixtures.
Went to look for a thermostat. Nope. One of these AC/heater units. It was all analog, twisty knobs, faded labels, easily from the 1970s. Two options: regular, and high.
It was fine, but pretty obvious the remo budget had run out.
Defending the Constitutional right to be a dick.
Last time, it didn’t go so well for the robot:
https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2017/7/17/15986042/dc-security-robot-k5-falls-into-water
“KnowledgePanel has been at the forefront of conducting online research for more than two decades.”
Online poll = gift-wrapped bullshit.
Soon:
Cats are majority brown, gray, orange, black, and (gasp) mixed. They’re lying immigrants, decimating the white mice of this land.
The genital folding will continue until
moraleflexibility improves.
Asked my buddy who is an L7/Principal at AWS with years of experience if this would affect him. He laughed. Said he had already decided to quit in January. This just clinched it. Said they kept hiring entry-level L4s. Lots more senior people going to leave.
Good read. Sad ending that all that work ended up nowhere.
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When this whole ‘training’ trend started a few years ago, there were companies offering image and video labelling services.
It turned out they were mostly sweatshops in low-income countries, where people sat in front of monitors and just dragged boumding boxes around sections of images and picked from an icon menu. Here’s a car, here’s a person, here’s an apple. That sort of thing. You didn’t even need to know how to read or write.
Of course, the quality was questionable, so they needed a second layer of supervisors verifying the choices. But even with that, the cost was way lower than having an engineer or QA person do it. IIRC, there was a bit of hue and cry when stories came out of big tech companies supporting sweatshop conditions.
Sounds like it’s still ongoing.
NEW, automated children’s bicycle. Guaranteed to teach the little tyke how to ride! *
- ^Comes with training wheels, and adult monitor standing by at all times.^
Hate to be pedantic, but what kind of phone is that in the photo? It has the white, wired headphones, and an actual phone jack.
It says it’s a campaign event on Monday.
If you use github pages, you can create, deploy, and host static websites for free. Only cost, if you want your own URL, is for a custom DNS name.
You can use their default Jekyll static rendering engine, and create the content using Markdown. And with github actions, all you need to update the content is create markdown, then push the change to the same repo. After a few minutes, the new content shows up.
https://pages.github.com/
Hugo can also be used, but it takes a few extra steps: https://gohugo.io/hosting-and-deployment/hosting-on-github/
You can also find ‘themes’ to customize the look and feel of the site, specific to the site generation tool.
If you want a lot of extra features, Docusaurus is pretty much as good as it gets, and you can set it up to push out to GH pages: https://docusaurus.io/docs/deployment