The worry is not about ML. It's about bot farms in India/China with real people behind the wheel. That's why CAPTCHA needs to be able to evolve without maintenance from the website operator.
The issue with that is so much of the software industry is propped up by advertising. There is nowhere to go without being involved with ads, so why fight it?
I'm a developer who uses Steamworks. Keys are free for us to generate and sell at will. Valve reserve the right to say no, but from what I can tell, their only policy is to not take the piss (selling millions of keys), and not to charge more to customers who buy directly from Steam.
I agree. Social distancing + vaccination is pretty much the only effective strategy so far. Lockdowns do enforce that, but they also create vast damage beyond what's needed.
It's become a politically charged subject. Conservatives are barely touching it because it's not a polite topic, and Labour outright are pretending it's not an issue.
FAANG. The chairs at the office were super good. This is partly why I'm part of the pro WFO crowd - because then I don't need to spend thousands on getting a similar quality setup to the office.
Well I'm glad things are going good for you. Some of us are still struggling. Many people are too poor to splurge 1K on a luxury office chair. This article is about those people.
Exactly. I consider coffee breaks and the like to be a healthy part of work life balance. They stimulate new ideas and learning in a way that video conferencing does not. Software is not like back breaking warehouse labour (which I used to do). An unhealthy mind produces nothing but shit output.
I chose my field specifically because it matters to me what I work on and doing it while being surrounded by great people matters even more. Not as a means to an end. That would've just left me bitter fourty years from now.
I didn't even know software had big money until I joined the industry, which probably explains my whole philosophy WRT in-person work.
Sorry, but no. Work is supposed to work for me, as well as me working for it. Some people might be fine with perfect compartmentalization of work, but I would find it soul crushing to just be a corporate machine for 8 hours a day.
