Man, I almost ran into the piece of shit car you had so many times… what even WAS that thing?!
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Honestly, this isn’t a surprise or really a big surprise. Gamification like this has been a thing since the 90’s or earlier. As soon as the web became ad revenue driven, sites figured how to drive clicks and keep people on them. More engagement == more page views == more revenue. Video games have done achievements for decades. AOL even did this in the 90’s. More “you got mail”, more AIM messages, more things available, more engagement, more likely you’re going to pay that hourly charge for access. It’s the same reason there’s clickbait everywhere and everyone has a newsletter the automatically sign you up for. Here Facebook does it… everyone’s slightly different, but all have the same premise. Gotta keep you hooked, give you that dopamine hit and make you keep coming back.
This goes back to the age old “if we could make the internet monetarily self sufficient without ads, how would that work?”
This was Elrond talking to Isildur, right?
You must be in the US! Isn’t it great?!
I can’t wait for discovery and Trump being forced to do a deposition. That worked so well for him in the past.
Honestly, I feel like somehow they’re just going to settle out of court and he’ll get a few million sent his way for no apparent reason.
I’m sure the board will soon be calling for Elon… to get more money.
Come on man, Speaker phone, video calling, Snapchat, and just the fact that most of them seem to choose text messaging over phone calls.
Do young children even hold phones near their heads anymore? I rarely see a kid less than their early teens doing anything but FaceTime or games. And after that point, video chats, texting, and doom scrolling.
Even my 15yo daughter never holds the phone against her head.
While I 100% agree with the fact that even modern things can be fixed with some knowhow and troubleshooting (and spare capacitors or the like), there’s a few things at play: `
- people generally don’t have this skill set
- electronics tend to be made cheaper, this means they may fail faster but also means they can be replaced cheaper
- it costs real money for tech support that can fix said issues, often many times more money than the thing costs to replace `
As a retro enthusiast, I’ve fixed my share of electronics that only needed an hour and a $2 capacitor. But there was also $7 shipping for the cap, and 30-60min of labor, and my knowhow in troubleshooting and experience. If the company had to send someone out, they’d likely spend well over $200 for time, gas, labor, parts, etc. not including a vehicle for the tech and the facility nearby and all that good stuff. Even in the retro sphere, the math starts to side towards fix because of the rarity, but it’s not always clear.
As a DevOps manager who regularly talks with development about hiring/architecting, and works at a Fortune 500. Here’s our short list:
- kubernetes/containers (like deep knowledge, not just “I ran helm once”)
- CI/CD, and IaC + GitOps
- golang/rust/dotNet… modern statically typed and compiled languages are greatly preferable. Python/bash/PHP is clutch, but it’s also easy to pick up if you know the above, and honestly I kinda just assume it at this point.
- actual complete understanding of Git.
- solid full stack development experience/understanding
- cloud experience (AWS or Azure mostly, but GCP is close enough)
- thinking/problem solving skills
Honestly, I’ve seen so many people with AI experience of some sort, it’s not a difference maker. It’s fairly easy to learn and no Fortune 500 is hosting their own LLM unless that’s the point of the business. If you actually understand the stack and how things relate, it’s huge.
A big part of hiring is understanding what the person knows and how well they know it to know if they can apply their wisdom to other things. You know some day AI is going to burst, something better than Blockchain will happen, Rust or Golang will be superseded, a new cloud provider will appear, etc. I need to know you can apply your understanding and knowledge to some new challenges using tools that aren’t even concepts now.
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It’s almost like people can buy and enjoy whatever they want. If you want to buy a switch2, go ahead, if you don’t, that’s cool to. Gatekeeping has no place here. People are allowed to like what they like.