shimman

They don't like competition when they have to actually compete.

Why are you expect companies that have been profiting off of LLM insanity to do the right thing if not legally compelled to?

No, the only thing that matters is what you can negotiate. Since most executives + board vote on their own salaries, which ones have you ever seen negotiated to lower their salaries?

It's an extreme abuse of power, especially since workers are the sole reason why a company is able to succeed or not and they don't get the same privileges as a board + executive.

Not too mention most corporations + startups are setup to encourage the worse forms of human collaboration (dictatorships + centrally planned economies).

It is in Ireland for tax reasons tho... like you understand this is how corporations make concessions with government right? You get favorable terms if you provide jobs/tax revenue? 6,000 employee salaries is a drop in the bucket for a company skirting 10s to 100s of billions in tax revenue.

Honestly in regards to data visualizations just look at others and copy them. For inspiration I heavily go to these two sites:

https://pudding.cool/

https://www.datasketch.es/

One of the people behind data sketches recently came out with a good book on how to think regarding data vizs (and making them unique):

https://www.visualcinnamon.com/chart/

Halfway through the book myself, lotta good techniques on how to think about visualizing data sets. Found it way more accessible than many of the more academic books.

No, it would be whataboutism to say something like "but in America you extrajudicially kill citizens for protesting the government."

It's not whataboutism to talk about the same subject in the context of a different government. In this case LLM corporations.

All you're doing is deflecting valid criticism. It's not whataboutism to talk about how bad American corporations are to American citizens in the context of talking about how supposedly bad Chinese corporations are to American citizens (China doesn't profit off of the deaths of Americans like health insurance companies (this is whataboutism for example)).

This is the type of slop that looks okay to amateurs but if you had a professional they could have tweaked this into a well made data visualization (like one you'd find on pudding.cool) rather than a slopified powerpoint presentation.

The only playbook big tech in the US seems to have are creating a platform and trying to extract rents off it.

You're assuming there is a bag to capture about placating to slop bots, that has yet to be determine. What it mostly seems to do now is balloon your services capacity on serving your worst customers to do busy work no one cares about.

You would like Cory Doctorow's concept of reverse centaurs.

Okay but political leadership of the US are literally are staking the future of GDP on exactly those few AI companies... $1.4trillion so far while universal childcare would only cost $40 billion a year.

It's a sick joke.

The fact that the US economy is load bearing towards unprofitable projects while things like medicare for all or universal childcare continue to not exist is just a damning indictment of the country.

Is fanatic some localized term for capitalists I'm not aware of?

It's not disingenuous, claude code has over 5k issues that are ignore plus thousands of more that were just silent closed.

This is a product by a company worth supposedly $1trillion and they can't even make one of their starship products not shit the bad within 5 minutes? These are the same engineers telling us for the last 3 years that coding is solved?

Like it's pathetic, and it's pathetic you're falling for it too. Have some standards, good grief.

You should care and do more. It's honestly sad to look at the destruction of your community and do nothing about it. There are plenty of groups that could use your help, go help them. Be part of something instead of an observer.

Okay and as someone who would rather just straight up use cursor than claude code, I'd rather have my software not crash out on me every 5 minutes. What sort of self respecting dev purposely uses broken software? Even opencode (use it on nonwork computers) is fully better at this point.

It's more uncivil to waste another human's time with slop, it's extremely insulting. There is a massive public backlash against the tech for many reasons now.

And we saw how easily the US political class capitulated once Americans started complaining.

IDK how this doesn't apply to American tech corporations too? Or is it only scary when America corporations face actual competition nowadays where they can't rely on the US government to bomb/sanction competitors?

We all know why... as a condition of some monetary support. It does give a sour taste, really shows what core values are: money > community. I'll just focus on using elixir for a project instead.

They can easily be found to have violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, like this is a slam dunk. Highly possible too seeing the massive public hatred against companies like OpenAI. DAs like easy political wins too and what better win than sticking it to OpenAI and its lackeys?

Might have to make some phone calls to my local representatives now...

Yes, the US is actually unique in this position. It even has it's own name the "American Rule."

In every other country, the loser pays the winner's legal fees.

The court of public opinion is a thing, and the onus isn't on us to not trust a rich tech bro to not be an unethical person. That's on them to fix their image + avoiding jail time.

The rest of us are allowed to rightfully laugh at them.

Not really, hubris is a real thing and not just a plot point.

Hmm, I've had for the car for 20 years (it's even older). Where I originally lived the roads were always smooth + paved well (also elevation was basically flat). Now that I'm in a city with actual hills (along with snow plows that ruin the roads), that's when the problems occurred. Seriously never seen so many potholes before in my life!

Not a cattle grid, but wouldn't have thought of the pothole angle without it.

Is there a reason why or is it just the quality of the materials?

Funny because the CD player in my car has been dead for like 16 years but the cassette player has never been better. Wonder why the cassette player lasted much longer, guessing the optical drive in the car is damaged because CDs will fail to read after like 10 second.

Bro do you know what industry we work in? We work in an industry that openly champions destroying the jobs of others then sarcastically told them to learn how to code. It's no wonder the general public has open disdain towards big tech.

It's easy, you just have to hate the human experience. It's not hard to connect the dots either when you have noted friend of Epstein, Peter Thiel, openly struggling on whether the human race should exist or not.

Which group of leaders do tech workers at big tech look up to again?

Who in slurping the slop here? Do you talk to people? I've been doing deep canvassing for the last 2 years. One common element seen across country are American's complete utter hatred of these companies.

Majority of artists hate it. Celebrities routinely comment how much they hate it. It's become a punchline to describe anything that sucks.

I'm sorry but force feeding something that is deeply unpopular ain't working. If it was, companies like OpenAI + Anthropic wouldn't be trying to so hard to expand their fill of corporate welfare.

You're in a bubble, like most of tech.