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Comment Re: Thank You, Fake AI (Score 1) 237

Honestly, it was the tone of the message, which is admittedly difficult to derive from a forum. IMHO, the proper response would have been one that questioned whether the 'upscale grocer' selling spareribs at $6.99/lb vs $1.49/lb were at different ends of the subjective or objective quality spectrum. In my case, they are literally the same brand: Smithfield. The only difference is that Aldi is $5+/lb less expensive.

That said, IMO, unless we're talking about a butcher that sources heritage-breed Berkshire (or the like) pork from a local farmer, I don't really give a flying fuck where the previously cheap cut of meat I'm going to put on my smoker for 6h is sourced from.

Comment Re:China is like Hamas (Score 1) 103

No. China is nothing like Hamas, because it's strong and doesn't need to engage in asymmetric warfare. China doesn't put its children in harm's way and spend 10 years provoking its neighbors and using the response to gain sympathy at universities and on new media.

China isn't like Israel either. It doesn't squander its goodwill frivolously. It doesn't fall in to traps set by the likes of Hamas, and if it's going to make a move that anybody might describe as "genocide", it makes clear that it doesn't care what we think while simultaneously finding ways to keep it out of the media just in case it does matter what people think. Does anybody even know what I'm referring to, and if you do have you seen a story about it in the last six months? That's how good they are.

Comment Re:I call BS (Score 3, Interesting) 178

I am absolutely certain many of those kids are great at writing code; what I have found in the last ~3y of hiring candidates out of undergrad and/or masters programs is that they DO NOT interview well.

They can answer esoteric technical questions about software dev (I *assume* this is because they study for coding interview questions) but they cannot possibly answer more general questions about themselves, how they would operate in a real-world business setting, and/or how they might build something from soup to nuts.

I'm not asking them to give me real-world experience; but, I expect a college graduate to be able to think about questions asked critically and provide a coherent and thoughtful reply to that question. Even if it's technically 'wrong', the conversational nature is INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT for any work I have done in my 25+ year career.

Anyone can have AI solve most esoteric technical coding problems now; interfacing ability w/others on the dev teams and the rest of the business is what is important in getting shit done.

Colleges need to start investing HEAVILY in leveling up their students in how to interview well.

Comment Re:What value added? (Score 4, Interesting) 89

I watch dogs (primarily overnight--most for 3-7 days but some 1 day and some >7d) via Rover. I make around $1500/month (pre-1099) and after their ~20% cut (of which most people give back to me in tips).

I WFH so the largely passive income is nice. I wouldn't have found as many people w/o a platform to do the heavy lifting for me in finding new dogs.

I am not advocating that we need to have these sorts of things in the market, but it does make for nice extra cash. YMMV.

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