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And yet it still has a bunch of ads for PC+ littered throughout it. Despite being grandfathered in, I abandoned it earlier this year for Podcast Republic, which hasn’t spammed me or locked me out of any features I’ve tried to play with despite not having paid them anything.

It’s litigation around what a machine can freely use in its learning model.

No, its not that, either. It’s litigation around what resources a person can exploit to develop a product without paying for that right.

The machine is doing nothing wrong. It’s not feeding itself.

Here's a google prompt for you: "raspberry pi police"

Are they still playing apologetics for the cops? Because if so, no thanks.

Accurate. I’d like to go home now.

just someone using the term to mean “young people”

Rude. How dare they stop using “Millennial” to mean “young people”. They weren’t supposed to recognize that some of us are in our 40s now!

Negative utility is still utility, right?

Once you have enough money to meet your needs, all money is is power.

Maybe it depends on the specific field, but I’ve had no issues mentoring people remotely, and even when I was in the office I was doing it via Teams half the time.

In many contexts it isn’t that hard if you have the tools. The fact that many workplaces skimp on the tools is a them issue, not a mentoring issue.

working in the office is important so that younger/newer employees can recieve mentorship

That has real “I can’t mentor someone unless we’re at the strip club” energy.

Yeah. I doubt they can have debates in person, either. But getting 7 people in a room so that the 2 highest paid ones can ideate all over each other while the other 5 nod along as a paid audience just feels better for those 2 than looking up to see the glassy-eyed stares of people who are trying to get their work done while sitting in on a pointless vanity meeting.

Personally, I really like renting things I used to own.

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The experiment isn’t really valid with optgin data, but that doesn’t mean there’s a need for it. That’s entirely contingent on whether the experiment is needed at all, and most of the time these things are about squeezing one last drop of blood out of a dead corpse. And I’d argue that that’s not something that’s needed.

Even still, without a consistent experience over a reasonable amount of time, all you’re really monitoring is novelty or discombobulation. You’re not learning which interface generates more money.

This only makes sense if discombobulation makes the most money.

Of all companies out there, I’d expect Google to be able to run an a/b test right. You don’t learn anything of value by constantly pulling the rug out from underneath people.

But how far away is the chemist’s?

My issue is working around people.

Nah, being at work was driving me towards a nervous breakdown. Open office + management that liked to just drop in at my desk uninvited and without a heads up had me an absolute wreck.

I did not handle the panopiticon well.

You could place me next door to the office, and it would have been the same.

That would just require them to admit that, as managers, their jobs are to sit in meetings and delegate work. Currently, most of them don’t want to admit that - especially upper management about middle management - but as soon as they needed some kind of quantitative measure to highlight their productivity, it would be normalized and accepted.