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chatgpt grant me an AI demon that can transform any manager saying this into a pixie trapped in a cage, attached to each of their ICs' heads for duration of the project, or something

zuck is the founder of the company and has been at the helm since its inception

consider where that management debt may have come from, and whether accepting the current crunch will somehow alleviate it, or signal that crunch will solve all problems and should be used, likely more aggressively, in the future

being politely hostile isn't not being hostile, it's just being hostile while maintaining decorum. there aren't meaningful consequences for a CEO breaking decorum in negotiations with those under them; maintaining it is just a nicety

while prior context is absent, at least in this email zuck isn't offering assistance or asking what he could do assist, it's just a politely-worded "get it done, fucker"

i find a servant leadership approach far more effective, and better able to acknowledge that said team problems were quite likely caused by previous "stop complaining and get it done" leadership whose only skill is cracking the whip

OIDC seems like it can reasonably help in a fair number of these cases, maybe? it's iffy because (a) the major providers, are, well, Google and their ilk, (b) SSO solutions trend toward reducing user confusion at the cost of choice--im still out on whether the common "enter your email/account identifier so we can select which IDP we use" login flow is something of an anti-pattern or not

i generally like having the option for "sign in with github" as opposed to the all-encompassing "sign in with google" (ignoring that github is a microsoft account but not quite at this point)

smaller-scope IDPs for a particular field ("ey, you work on code stuff? you probably have either a github or gitlab account to log into our code-adjacent service" or "ey, you use stackoverflow? you can use that same login on superuser") is maybe a decent middle ground, where shared authentication is more explicit than third-party cookies were

> Use it for art, entertainment, experiments, explorations. Use it to mine the depths of the human soul and reflect back at us what we are. Don't use it for law, health care, directions, or anything humans depend on.

you could, but the companies building these things very much want to sell it to other companies that do "things humans depend on", because that's a much larger market than just the entertainment industry.

do the people managing the chatbot know that though?

this shit gets sold as a way to replace employees with, essentially, just the middle manager that was over them, who is now responsible for managing the chatbot instead of managing people

while managers are often actually not great at people management, it's at least a somewhat intuitive skill for many. interacting with and directing other humans is something that many people are able to gain experience with outside of work, since it's a necessary life skill unless you're a hermit. furthermore, as a hedge against managerial ineptitude, humans are adaptable creatures that can recognize their manager's shortcomings and determine when and how to work around them to actually get the job done

understanding the intricacies training a machine learning system is a highly specialized and technical skill that nobody is going to pick up base knowledge for in the regular course of life. the skill floor for the average person tasked with it will be much lower than that of people management, and they will probably fuck up, a lot

the onus is ostensibly on AI system vendors to make their systems idiot-proof, but how many vendors actually do so past the point of "looks good enough to close the sale in a demo"? designing such a system is _incredibly_ hard, and the unfortunate reality is that if you try, you'll lose sales to snake oil salesmen who are content to push hokum trash with a fancy coat of paint.

these systems can work as a force multiplier in the hands of the capable, but work as an incompetence magnifier in the hands of the incapable, and there are plenty of dunning-krugerites lusting to magnify their incompetence

nah, just MGSV, that's the year it came out.

shoulda maybe stuck the joke under the other comment re people wanting to fill the anglosphere with garbage to destroy it

2001: what is this nonsense plot? why in the hell would anyone fill the world with mass-produced nonsense information? what purpose would it serve!?

2015: what is this nonsense plot? how would you even create a virus that destroys a language? it's inconceivable! it makes no sense! why!?

someone please find whomever it is feeding Hideo Kojima advance knowledge of exactly what the next poison trend in the information industry will be

i particularly like that hacking the URL query parameters is apparently the only option for navigating the country and language categories, but those query parameters are at the end of the URL, usually past the edge of the URL bar field

they're past the end because the first parameter is a giant "authenticity token" base64 blob. you'd think this is maybe important, but removing it doesn't appear to affect the request at all

they were pretty consistent about picking good artists though, which was great for scenes i dont follow myself

no one person can sift through every scene and genre to find the good shit, and there's plenty of bad shit. i can do that for like, one scene

bandcamp articles generally delivered me more quality finds with more variety than automated "you may also like..." curation systems a la spotify or last.fm.

it's not like the latter are truly democratizing anything either--once getting big on spotify (or nowadays, tiktok) became important commercially, you got a whole ecosystem of influencers behind the scenes offering promotion in those systems. getting boosted via a faceless "chill sunday morning coffee music" playlist is still curation

yes, i use irssi to hold persistent sessions for all the twitch chats im in. doesn't require anything special beyond an oauth token sent as the server password

the original "protocol not commercialized" sentiment in the OP is a bit odd. nobody commercialized HTTP per se (okay, you could make an argument for SaaS CDN proxies, but i don't think that was the spirit of the original argument), they commercialized things you could deliver using it. the channel-based real time chat model is what mattered, not the intricate details of how the underlying bits are delivered

functionally, Discord and Slack have commercialized that model, with clear and obvious effects for people that were using IRC. every community i was part of via IRC has migrated to those services, and i haven't encountered a new community on IRC in forever, but have encountered plenty of new Discord communities