Yes exactly. People who write text are not going to be excited about making saving their text such an extraordinarily complicated task, nor will they think it’s interesting in its own right.
I wasn't trying to be dismissive, only in line with the explicit call outs for simplicity from the author.
I suppose I was trying to give the perspective of someone doesn't have a problem with authoring a markdown document for example... and bringing myself back to the reality that for most people authoring a document with any sort of formal (rigid, to be interpreted by machine) syntax is unfamiliar.
Lol. I went the NY DMV a month ago to exchange my out of state license. Even with an appointment, a preapproved application completed online, and all the correct paperwork I had to wait 2 hours.
My experiences with the CA DMV were similar. Only in IL have I had quick, easy visits to the DMV
Usually dependent on the area and their population density. I know people who would drive out to more rural areas just to get a quicker DMV experience.
The whole taking appointments but still making you wait kills me a little inside though. There's a world where these processes could be so seamless.
I had an ok time with the NY DMV. I think it just depends on when you go. If less people would go when it was busy, I guess the reputation would be better, haha!
Yes, Homer will outlive us all, but what 20th century film is likely to have Homer’s longevity?
I think people will still be playing Tetris and reading Homer in a thousand years, but I’m not confident at all that they’ll be watching any of our videos.
It says something about the inhumanity of our contemporary culture that people willingly accept that our employers have no obligations to us in any way.
Whatever your employer did, it's not worth you committing a crime and/or having to defend a lawsuit. It's just not. You will suffer way worse than the momentary schadenfreude you get from watching the company suffer.
That doesn't mean you can't look out for yourself. You should absolutely. For example, I would advocate for not quitting your job until you start a new one. Things like giving notice are a convention, not a legal requirement (in the US at least; it can vary by country). Companies can rescind job offers. It's better to start. Then they have to lay you off or fire you.
If your conditions are really terrible and you have the luxury of just walking then do that. Walk. Immediately. Let them deal with the repercussions.
> Whatever your employer did, it's not worth you committing a crime and/or having to defend a lawsuit. It's just not. You will suffer way worse than the momentary schadenfreude you get from watching the company suffer.
While I agree in principle that it's generally not worth getting caught for sabotaging a company you've left, I wouldn't categorically state that it's never worth it. I suspect you're unaware of some of the deeply shady stuff some corporations have done.
For example, IBM leased Nazi Germany census machines which were instrumental in the identification of Jewish residents during the holocaust, continuing to provide upkeep and service for years. It's been remarked that the concentration camps could never have reached the numbers they did without the aid of IBM's machines. To make things worse: the machines required the use of specialized punch cards which at the time were only provided by IBM, meaning IBM could have cut things off at any time.
That's probably one of the most egregious examples, but it's not the only one. Off the top of my head, Coca-cola was alleged to have worked with paramilitary forces to murder union workers in Columbia. Chiquita banana was also revealed to have funded paramilitary groups within Colombia.
Playing devil's advocate: there are almost certainly some cases where a person could be forgiven (or even lionized) for sabotaging their employer on the way out.
It never ceases to amaze me how even the most inocuous online discourse, such as saying criminal misconduct isn't worth it just because you hate your job, nearly always somehow proves Godwin's Law.
We're talking about someone who most likely had a shitty experience at a shitty company for a shitty boss. Most of us has been there. That's all we're talking about.
"What if they're making Zyklon B?" They're not.
"What if they're funding or otherwise enabling death squads in Myanmar?" They're not.
And if they were, why were you (in this case) happy to work for them for 12 years up until you were demoted, knowing this?
Though it would be interesting to run an experiment where you somehow remove all of that from the training data.
Perhaps in 10 years training runs will be cheap enough, that one a whim you could just train a new AI model on data from only before the Pentium was released, and then see if it could come up with it?
Best I can find is “But the key thing I hope people will take away from this is that the values of The Post do not need changing. The duty of the paper is to the readers, not the owners.” https://archive.is/BpcDZ
He might claim otherwise but hard to argue that the values aren’t changing when the opinion editor is resigning.
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