Notices by Donald Ball (donaldball@triangletoot.party)

@inthehands Also – even in the time before llms, a solid idk 20% of job postings were either zombies, resume bait, or pro forma because a candidate was already chosen. It’s even worse now with all the scams and with employers thinking they hold all the cards.

When you apply and are summarily rejected, or are ghosted – do NOT take it personally. There’s literally nothing you could have done differently to get a better outcome.

@gbargoud @inthehands The inability or abject refusal of people to accurately weigh the magnitude of different actors’ misdeeds may well be the death of us all.

@inthehands @cdarwin “I felt it was very important to identify that the protesters themselves were being very aggressive and that they were half of these confrontations, and so I instructed my producers to find images in which we see the protesters acting aggressively. We found a picture of a protester chest-bumping an officer. We found a picture of an officer being hit in the head with a snowball.”

Not just literal both sidesism, also an explicit editorial choice to magnify one perspective.

@cdarwin @inthehands Don’t sleep on the fact that Pelley admitted to already framing the news in a manner biased against the public.

@inthehands I really don’t think tepid or even vaguely hostile reactions to the Segway slowed the micromobility revolution. I think battery tech evolution and production capacity are more likely.

@jeremydebose @WarnerCrocker I mean, in his first successful presidential campaign, he claimed to have never made a mistake, which is quite specifically a heresy from both evangelical Protestant and Catholic doctrines, which hold that only Jesus is without sin.

@inthehands Me, hearing about docker: Cool, yeah, a structured declaration of runtime dependencies does seem like a useful development.

Me, looking into docker: ...

@tuban_muzuru You conduct yourself like a real asshole.

@inthehands @Violinknitter In fairness, this was a while back, and our data were pretty bad, but still, I… I took a lot away from that job.

@inthehands @Violinknitter I worked for one of the email coupon companies with delusions of grandeur many years back.

For unimportant reasons, we failed to personalize the coupons in our campaigns for a few weeks, falling back to a random selection to each recipient. After we fixed the integration bug, we treated it as a natural experiment of the efficacy of our personalization ml algorithm.

It was negative. Definitively. Random selection handily outperformed all the expensive personalization.

@inthehands Yeah, that is a worthy observation. I put the lack of counter-action down to something like a (correct) belief by the regime that these rallies would not become protests or cover for effective actions, and incompetence by the regime in organizing a useful counter.

@inthehands My experience is that (2) is par for the course for rallies mostly of nice white people that aren’t challenging police power.

@nixCraft @catsalad Every time I’ve tried, I’ve been successful in getting Copilot to extrude code whose only known source in the wild is published under the GPL.

@norootcause We measure stuff that’s easy to measure, not important to measure.

@jbowles While "reviews performance metrics" is very much in the bailiwick of the engineering manager as constructed by big tech nowadays, I strongly question how accurate and also how useful those metrics actually are. Not only are the data exceedingly coarse and readily manipulable, I hold they do an extremely poor job of capturing the business value performed by engineers working at highly variable tasks.

They measure things that are easy to measure, not necessarily valuable to observe.

@inthehands If the four factors test still applies in practice (lol, lmfao), I’ll grant them transformative, but on each of the other three, the ML argument fails as completely as it is possible to fail, imho.

@cdarwin @inthehands Legitimately believe his two most likely ends are drug overdose or firing squad.

@inthehands Erm, apologies, I wasn’t trying to imply you did. I guess I see less of an abrupt change recently than you do.

@inthehands Mmm Whitewater, Travelgate, Wen Ho Lee, Richard Jewell - they had an editorial agenda in the 90’s.

Remember too they sat on Bush’s wiretapping story for a full year. Had it come out in 2004, well, he probably still gets reelected but that doesn’t excuse their malpractice.

@mekkaokereke @ohmu I know I don’t need a thing I just learned existed mere minutes ago, but also I do need it.