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:#marseyrave::#marseyrave::#marseyrave:

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35641448

https://media.giphy.com/media/l83rkRUu4IqyUbt5k6/giphy.webp

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  • CREAMY_DOG_ORGASM : my account is unusable while I'm banned. Could you buy me an unban award pwease

Back in the day I used to do Mechanical Turk like :marseytunaktunak: work assessing search engine quality. There were very detailed guidelines about what made a search engine good, compiled into a like 250 page document Google had been curating and updating over the course of years.

One of the key concepts was the idea of a "vital" result for a user request. If a user had a specific request, the search engine had to deliver that content first. For example, simpson.com at the time was a malicious website. With this in mind, if the user searched for "simpson.com", the first result had to be simpson.com, even if the search engine is returning a malicious page. It's specifically what the user requested. We aren't supposed to question what the user wants. The results that followed after could provide suggestions of what else the user may be looking for, like the official Simpsons website.

I would love to see whatever shreds of this document is left at this point, and I'd love to know at what point the entire thing was thrown into the trash and rewritten. I assume somewhere around the year 2016 or 2020. I know this is nothing shocking to a lot of people, but it really does amaze me just how bad things have gotten. I've stuck to the major search engines because despite peoples bitching, for a long time they consistently outperformed the smaller competitors, but they are genuinely without hyperbole almost unusable now.

Example: I wanted to find the recent Tucker Carlson - Vladimir Putin interview. It's a newsworthy interview with a world leader and a current event. There is a very specific video I'm looking for, the published, official video of :marseytucker: sitting down and asking :angryvatnik: questions.

Here is what google returns in a private window:

https://i.imgur.com/OEidcAA.png

The very first piece of content - the "vital result" - is clickbait youtube cute twinkry from Time :marseysoyswitch: What are the keeraZIEST moments from the interview?!? :marseysoypoint:

The rest of the results are a cascade of editorialized garbage, opinionated news articles reporting on the requested content. God forbid a careless user actually be exposed to a primary source.

The closest result to what I'm looking for is about over 10 pieces of content deep - the transcript of the interview from Russia's state website. Likely this is an oversight.

Here is Bing:

https://i.imgur.com/N3LvC7b.png

There's been some meme going around that "no really guys, Bing is actually kinda good now believe it or not".

This is even more nonsense than Google. The most prominently featured content is, of course, more editorialized bullshit with the interview itself nowhere to be found. But also half of the content is just completely irrelevant crap I didn't ask for. Why is the entire right half of the page a massive infobox about Tucker and his books and quotes? Why am I seeing something about Game of Thrones?

Brave:

https://i.imgur.com/2Je4Mn7.png

You get the point. More useless crap. It gets half a point for its AI accidentally revealing that tuckercarlson.com is where the interview is located, but this doesn't count. The actual search results are all garbage. Thanks Brave for showing me all the latest reddit discussions :soysnoo2:

Yandex:

https://i.imgur.com/D9mfcZN.jpeg

Was that really so fricking hard? Result #1 - the interview from Tucker Carlson. Past the interview are news articles and images - things of waning utility that other users may be interested in. But the vital result is at the top of the page. That's fricking it. This would have been the required order for the page on Google ten years ago.

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CHATGPT NO! IT’S A TRAP
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>valued at 850 billion dollars
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DALL-E 2 vs Stable Diffusion: A Comparison :!marppyenraged:

https://old.reddit.com/r/MediaSynthesis/comments/wk9jzx/dalle_2_vs_stable_diffusion_comparison/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/wjcx15/dalle_vs_stable_diffusion_comparison/?sort=controversial

Haha I posted this on Dalle2 group and got banned 😂😂😂

:marseyxd:

Just got banned from Dalle.

Stable Diffusion for the win.

:#marseymanysuchcases:

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:marseylaugh::marseylaugh::marseylaugh: Plebbit is now laying off employees

:marseysnoo:

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/10l2o1a/reddit_layoffs_2023_what_to_know_about_the_latest/?sort=controversial

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Truly is it a society in which we live :marseypipe:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/16803819551574333.webp

https://i.rdrama.net/images/16803821274752185.webp

We are on track for a bright future.

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Lots of drama in this thread. With blackmailing over email and threats. Here is some highlights.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/16836647471395428.webp

https://i.rdrama.net/images/16836629857109876.webp https://i.rdrama.net/images/1683662986188389.webp

Ends with a jannie y'alling the thread

Edit: Since this post is doing so well, have some bonus peepeesword drama of some other AI ethicist also whining:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/16836660665007155.webp

https://i.rdrama.net/images/16836660986247673.webp

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Elon's about to lay off all the DEI staff, project managers, bootcamp codecels, and spreadsheet monkeys

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33280910

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https://www.teamblind.com/post/Reddit-is-doing-layoffs-SAkLHfEz

IN IN IN

I can't register a full account because I don't have a disposable work email from a massive company.

/images/16747336081050234.webp

Someone even tried to warn these cute twinks it was coming two months ago lol

https://www.teamblind.com/post/reddit-layoffs-ZziYJA8p

/images/16747336889991908.webp

HR or damage control team at work but also spitting facts like people who work at reddit are inherently lazy (except for the CEO of course)

/images/16747338895562499.webp

SPEZ IS PERSONALLY FIXING THE PROBLEM BTW

/images/1674733998899109.webp

MORE COPE

/images/16747341100813496.webp

Once the initial shock wore off everyone started remembering what a shit platform reddit has become lol

/images/1674734294567835.webp /images/167473436406766.webp /images/16747343777264369.webp

Just a little more stuff I dug up. Unfortunately I don't think Kethryvis got the giga-mop, but she did like a reddit :marseytrain: admins post on twitter which implies some internal drama:

https://twitter.com/CKWang/status/1618348168063905792?s=20

You'd think Kethryvis and her actual thesis on Internet Drama damage control (https://www2.sjsu.edu/anthropology/docs/projectfolder/Moellenberndt_Christine_thesis.pdf) would be able to figure out how to deescalate all of this, but come think of it, we should really thank her sometime for making http://rdrama.net possible.

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:marseylibations: Omegle shut down, for real. :marseyitsover:

Apparently this lawsuit was the breaking point.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64618791

Foid decided 10 years later to sue the site that allowed her and her abuser to meet. Not sure how omegle is responsible for the actions of the abuser. However, it doesn't matter because it seems omegle doesn't have the means to fight the battle and decided to close shop. RIP.

Here's an excerpt from the founder's final thoughts. This hit me pretty hard and kinda sums up the noticeable decline of the internet.

I worry that, unless the tide turns soon, the Internet I fell in love with may cease to exist, and in its place, we will have something closer to a souped-up version of TV – focused largely on passive consumption, with much less opportunity for active participation and genuine human connection.

omegle.com

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Mission Local is informed that the San Francisco Police Department early this morning made an arrest in the April 4 killing of tech executive Bob Lee, following an operation undertaken outside the city’s borders. The alleged killer also works in tech and is a man Lee purportedly knew.

We are told that police today were dispatched to Emeryville with a warrant to arrest a man named Nima Momeni. The name and Emeryville address SFPD officers traveled to correspond with this man, the owner of a company called Expand IT.

HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35555525

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It's full of quality code like this.

The lead software tester was a daughter of another friend with whopping 2 years of experience (and a non-stem degree).

They didn't have 2fa for anything, they got access to one of the developers outlook email+password through social engineering and got access to EVERYTHING.

the whole sourcecode: t.me/sawarim

I want to thank your countrymen for paying for this @UraniumDonGER:marseythumbsup:

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  • Snape : windows is as r-slur friendly as it gets, if you're too r-slurred to use it then keep yourself safe r-slur
  • 89wc : majority of mods to #makewindowsgreatagain actually involve reintroducing XP behavior lol
  • CREAMY_DOG_ORGASM : YWNBAW
  • SPRINGWRWR : Bing isn't that bad!
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Reddit had layoffs today. Smug data scientists take an L. They didn't even get a severance LM-frickin-AO

Blind thread: https://www.teamblind.com/post/Reddit-Layoffs-TiryTRSE

God I hate Reddit, but if we have any jannies on that powerjanny call tomorrow, maybe bring this up!

No severance lmao

https://i.rdrama.net/images/16860925514552891.webp

They had layoffs in January. Wish I had known so I could gloat about that one too.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/16860925515295854.webp

Left Twitter bcuz of mean ol' Musk just to get the wingcuck layoff with no severance.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/16860925515940497.webp

Booohooo muh third-party app devs have to pay now booohooo

https://i.rdrama.net/images/16860925516763601.webp

My feelings exactly.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/16860925517458794.webp

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Discuss.

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Sneed

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Something something SJWs

Edit: This actually has nothing to do with git but I was in a hurry to post so enjoy your fake news

Orange Site discussion

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  • maggotz : dumbass number go back to work contribute to society

Anyone ever give up looking for a job after years of no success? (self.cscareerquestions)

submitted 5 months ago by goodnewsjimdotcom

Anyone give up looking? I stopped trying to find jobs after graduating Carnegie Mellon University in computer science during the dot com era. I put out 1000 resumes, talked to 100 head hunters, not one job, and less than 5 interviews. Applying to buggy websites back then was demoralizing, you'd spend a half hour tailor answering questions to their application then it'd error out. I'd think,"Man, it'd be easy to fix this, if they could have hired me." The funniest part is I'm one of the world's biggest try hards in academia.

I started coding age 3 at 1981 on a TI-99, haven't stopped.

I had such a high IQ that they didn't give me the number in Elementary School, just looked in me in fear as they wrenched the IQ exam away before time was up after I invented division on the fly and started doing even higher math than that.

I had the same look of fear in Carnegie Mellon when I did 20 rocket science questions in 20 minutes getting em all right only using my mind no paper... My peers took 100 hours over entire notpads and not always getting em right.

I've been #1 in the WORLD at some video games arguably more intellectually demanding than chess: Starcraft all races, Warcraft3 all Races. Also #1 world in games no one cares about: Diablo2 hardcore, C&C3, SC2 2v2. Proof: Blizzard Entertainment shouted me out and their webpage: www.crystalfighter.com/a.html > You gotta give proof or people call you a BSer. Video games stimulate the mind to problem solve in a time limited space which promotes your mind to compartmentalize with fast logical answers. Everywhere I go people often say I'm the smartest person they ever met.

Yet, I never even got a Jr Position, let alone a senior architect. I have a unique software engineering skillset of both rapid prototyping and extended expadsible foundations. I do indie dev, and my one coworker who worked with the top guys at leapfrog told me I'm 4x faster, 4x more quality of their most elite teams of 4. 4x4x4= 64x more effective than a single software engineer, but you know how that goes, efficiency is lost in groups even with proper collab software.

Why spend time applying wasting hundreds of hours when no one gets back to you?

I updated my Resume, has a couple games I finished, I coded most of them all by myself, some of which have over 100,000 lines of hand written code. I'm one of the absolute best software architects on Earth, and nah, no one wants to interview me, life is funny, eh?

https://crystalfighter.com/bin/JamesSagerIIIResume2022.doc

All the above is true as the Blizzard links in www.crystalfighter.com/a.html are verifyable history in the Internet Archive.

Also you can see a few games I made:

A unique puzzle game that twists your brain in the right way: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1062390/Triangle_Mania/

A 2d Zelda style game: www.throneandcrown.com

A 2d gauntlet style game that got over 2 million plays and Defy Media didn't pay us the royalties: https://www.tangerinepop.com/

I'm capping off www.StarfighterGeneral.com now, a MMORPG with a few research level techs ECS/DOTS, an innovative way networking, and solid MMORPG design. I have about 100-200 hours to piece the working techs in. Unity's new experimental packages are kinda unstable and finnicky.

I coded all of the majority of the above games, even making servers from raw sockets. Some of those games have over 100,000 lines of code hand written. No funding, no pay checks unless games made it. Dungeon Run made me 9,000$, 7000$ of which I put into student loans that interest ate anyway. So in the past 30 years I made negative dollars making video games.

Just wondering, anyone else give up looking? I'm not sure why no one gave me a chance at a game developer position or a normal business job, but it's not worth my time anymore a decade with over 1000 resumes and 100 head hunters out is a lot to get only 4 interviews...

PS: I actually have some fanatical haters who will post comments just mocking me. Plz ignore em.

Very cool, James W Sager III

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daily reminder

no im not ignoring ur DM, i just didnt read it yet :marseycry:

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They're also asking for 45 days of pet bereavement leave :marseyxd:

Orange site sneed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35832910

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