That’s basically Neuromancer, and at this point it seems that big tech companies are reading dystopian cyberpunk literature as next-gen business advice books, so you’re certainly right

Absolutely. I’ve always been a big Nick Offerman fan and I loved his performance in it, a fantastic show all around.

Totally makes sense, I just happened to see them in reverse. But props to Alex and team for doing the research and seeing the beauty of an actual quantum computer and using that for the show. At the advanced level they’re at in the show, it probably won’t look so much like that as they get smaller and more efficient, but the “vacuum-tube-punk” aesthetic is really neat

Yeah I really loved the look of the quantum computer in Alex Garland’s Devs

Turns out it’s pretty close to the real thing

Certainly possible, and I’ve definitely been a part of orgs with just too much management, but I’m wary of Google saying that, considering how many products they kill every year. I’m sure there would certainly be space for their employees to expand horizontally if their product lineup wasn’t so volatile

After an engineer is there long enough, they’re likely to become a manager. They’re way more expensive to keep around. Google wants to lay them off and churn them for college grads. Looks better for PR if they say it’s an “efficiency push” rather than “we don’t like to retain employees because it’s expensive.” So this was definitely an arbitrary number

Yeah usually the two requirements there are a decent business sense and a boatload of starting capital

Where is there a missing vowel?

“As we’ve said before, we don’t employ these Accenture workers, so it’s a matter between them and Accenture,” Google spokesperson Courtenay Mencini said in an emailed statement.

“It’s cheaper for us to outsource this labor and as long as Accenture doesn’t try to renegotiate our contract we give fuck-all what happens.”

The Capitalization Of Each Word Is Annoying But Yes, It’s Grammatically Fine

Which grade between fourth and eighth were you in

It’s proposed, but yes

it prohibits Google from paying to make its search engine the default for third parties, causing pain not just for Alphabet but for others.

Google pays billions annually to Apple and Mozilla to remain the default search engine in Safari and Firefox.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/21/usa_vs_google_full_filing/

Because it’s getting them engagement and is therefore a marketing campaign

“In the beginning:”

Facebook was a MySpace alternative for “academics” (college students / alums) instead of teens.

LinkedIn was a MySpace alternative for “professionals” instead of teens.

Forums were an evolution of BBSs that predated “social” media because it wasn’t you, it was an avatar, a fake persona you created rather than “first name,” “last name.”

ICQ and Skype were purely chat platforms, competing in a completely different space.

I have no idea what point this rant is trying to make but all the comparisons between services are way off base.

Lol the duality of man

“Apple, sir.”

hisses, his body rejecting the idea of fresh fruit

Yeah I mean zuck and musk don’t want it because it removes an extra hoop that OpenAI has to jump through to compete, but all said and done fuck all three of them for taking another leap in human achievement and making it a “profit for investors at any cost.” And fuck OpenAI especially for pretending that wasn’t the case all along

Yes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_razor?wprov=sfti1#Recent_changes

Yeah they are literally paying to reopen three mile island to power their AI training

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/26/1104516/three-mile-island-microsoft/

Taken from

https://lemmy.world/post/22784113