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Microsoft Fires 4800 as Xbox Division Undergoes Major Reorganization

ibtimes.com
41 points·by justacrow·5 days ago·11 comments

Flesh-eating screwworm confirmed in Texas as parasite crosses Mexican border

reuters.com
3 points·by justacrow·last month·0 comments

Netherlands will boycott Eurovision 2026 if Israel participates

nltimes.nl
20 points·by justacrow·10 months ago·5 comments

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justacrow
·3 days ago·discuss
Any $200k+ SW engineering jobs?
justacrow
·5 days ago·discuss
Thanks, that link is a lot better
justacrow
·7 days ago·discuss
Seems weird to dismiss stuff as "nonsense" just because you're "pretty sure". Hikaru Nakamura (who's been the world #2 in classical rating) did an IQ test on stream and ended up with 102. I've not seen any other results for top players.

The first study of it I found (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01602...) notes that, while there is some correlation, "Full-scale IQ explained < 1% of the variance in chess skill."
justacrow
·14 days ago·discuss
And if you are a state agency who'd like to keep the undisclosed zero-days you rely on secret, spamming maintainers with reports makes sense.

As a bonus if you find any actual zero-days in your mass-generated ones you don't report it and get a new one to play with.
justacrow
·last month·discuss
Look, I have exactly two options:

1) Me and my entire family starves to death

2) I make 600k per year building surveillance systems for whoever wants them (as long as they're aligned with Peter Thiels and/or government interests)
justacrow
·2 months ago·discuss
Yes, all those people Meta just laid off due to whistleblowing on the Glass privacy violations, and their content moderators and data labelers and so on have my full support.

No sympathies for anyone doing SW engineering or similar. Anyone working there can definitely get a different programming gig. It likely doesn't pay as much but that's how it goes when you sell your soul.
justacrow
·2 months ago·discuss
Do you think if there was a mass movement of students moving off Spotify and downloading MP3s, they would _not_ be charged today?

The hypocrisy is what has at least me upset
justacrow
·3 months ago·discuss
Philip K Dick wrote a short story similar to this, "The Defenders".
justacrow
·3 months ago·discuss
> workers should show more solidarity to one another, not because of “deserving it” or not, but simply because it’s the only way out of the pit they put us in.

In the same way we shouldn't have any solidarity with scabs, we should have no solidarity with the people who happily built the pit-pushing tools.
justacrow
·3 months ago·discuss
What do you mean "achieve very little"? A lot of American oligarchs made boatloads of money!
justacrow
·5 months ago·discuss
It's been a while since I saw that movie, how many sons, daughters and neighbours of those people does he kill, maim and abuse?

Assuming he kills several, how many hospital workers trying to help them and journalists documenting his rampage does he kill?

I would feel sorry for all of those people.
justacrow
·5 months ago·discuss
That's great, only like a generation of people having to suffer and struggle from say age 20 to 40 so that their masters can attempt to be a superpower.
justacrow
·5 months ago·discuss
I'm all for banning social media as well as tracking in general, and will also happily work to those effects.

It's also prudent to shame those who allocate and greedily take that capital.
justacrow
·5 months ago·discuss
Engaging in bad and immoral behaviour for capital is still bad and immoral behaviour, particularly when one has other choices.
justacrow
·5 months ago·discuss
>Following rulings in several courts, the UK Supreme Court on Wednesday said Oatly could neither trademark nor use the phrase "post-milk generation".

>The long-running dispute has centred on Dairy UK's argument that, under trademark law, the term "milk" can only be used to refer to products that come from an animal.

Next they should ban "zero sugar" and similar on packaging
justacrow
·5 months ago·discuss
Murder/homicide rate has been relatively consistent since 1990 https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/swe/swe...
justacrow
·6 months ago·discuss
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."
justacrow
·7 months ago·discuss
You'd hope there is room for a lot of stuff in between as well. I tried searching for some of yhe more unknown artists I follow (and have bought stuff from!) but didn't see any clear way to filter it to Spotify/music metadata only. Restricting to metadata+other cuts it down somewhat but it's still 100s of results for most topics.

Will be interesting to see what's there and not once the actual music torrents come up, should make it easier to search.
justacrow
·8 months ago·discuss
What is the evidence that these are drug traffickers? Are they convicted anywhere? Should the police in the US be able to execute anyone they claim are trafficking drugs or committing other crimes?
justacrow
·8 months ago·discuss
It's also not mandatory for the majority of jews, as they are not Israeli citizens