Have you seen sci-fi movies? It's all fake! And people are happy with this. Same here, it becomes annoying only after some time. Most didn't get to this point yet. By the time they get quality will be better, so like new again. After that even adults will have hard time telling apart reality from generated. Like little kids believe dreams are true.
> see an alternate reality, it helps to escape the bubble, for example, by spending time in a completely different culture
I'm at similar position now, need to make decision. The problem is after leaving IT world for a while it will be hard to get back. I'll have to change my life completely and discard all knowledge and expertise I have. That will be fun, interesting, eyes opening, etc, but no way back.
I don't know you, don't know your situation, but this does not seem to match the experiences of many of my friends who left for a while and then came back. "Spent two years starting a restaurant" and "had to take care of my parents" were not blockers for getting another computer related job in due time. There are few truly irrevocable decisions in our life.
Now, the current job market makes this significantly harder than it was in the 2010's, but that's floating over all of us- if your company does an Amazon tomorrow, would you get a job as nice as you currently have? Maybe, maybe not.
In executive roles, your expertise really is in management acumen a lot of the time. But as an individual contributor--or adjacent--once you're out of a technical space for a few years, it's increasingly hard to get back in even if you've casually kept a finger in.
Exactly, the only way to stay current is to keep doing something at least half time. The good thing it doesn't have to be the same as prev job. Just keep brain working and learning.
Agree and disagree. Yes, keep brain working and learning of course. But, if you've dropped out of some space, you're going to be pretty rusty about what is currently going on.
> Israel must by now have intercepted more missiles of all kinds then the rest of the world combined
Very unlikely more than Ukrane alone (unless you count fireworks from Hamas and alike). Iran just didn't launch this many. Besides they are less advanced.
If scrapers were as well-behaved as humans, website operators wouldn't bother to block them[1]. It's the abuse that motivates the animus and action. As the fine articles spelt out, scrapers are greedy in many ways, one of which is trying to slurp down as many URLs as possible without wasting bytes. Not enough people know about common crawl, or know how to write multithreaded scrapers with high utilization across domains without suffocating any single one. If your scraper is URL FIFO or stack in a loop, you're just DOSing one domain at a time.
1. The most successful scrapers avoid standing out in any way
The question is who runs them? There are only a few big companies like MS, Google, OpenAI, Anthropic. But from the posts here it looks like hordes of buggy scrapers run by enthusiasts.
Ad companies, even the small ones, "Brand Protection" companies, IP lawyers looking for images that were used without license, Brand Marketing companies, where it matters also your competitors etc etc
Not a new idea. For years now, on the occasions I’ve needed to scrape, I’ve used a set of ViolentMonkey scripts. I’ve even considered creating an extension, but have never really needed it enough to do the extra work.
But this is why lots of sites implement captchas and other mechanisms to detect, frustrate, or trap automated activity - because plenty of bots run in browsers too.
> It seems like a number of the "DEI is anti-merit discrimination" messages in this thread are overlooking how DEI work usually works.
It has two sides, one promoting, and one denying. Based on race. DEI activists are always talking about the first. How great it is. And never talks about second, to not to ruin the rosy picture. Just recently I visited a hospital in mostly white area. Inside it looked like african consulate. There are still DEI stickers on the wals. What they did they denied jobs to all white applicants.
Looks like Python foundation decided to promote exactly this. Well, you will not get a penny from me till you change the course.
Mostly white probably means rural. These are undesirable hospital jobs. There are incentives for doctors to work in underserved areas, like rural hospitals, and those incentives are disproportionately used by J1s.
I'd like to point out that this commenter assumed these doctors did not earn their positions purely based on skin color. I don't see how this is functionally different than classic racism. "DEI" complaints often seem to fit this fact pattern. In particular, I've never heard a white man described as a DEI hire.
True, and overkill too. With DDR5 partial offloading it would only take probably two or three at most to outperform it in every metric except power draw. My point was more that the pricing is absurd for the performance.
It's a different animal. Ryzen wins on memory bandwidth and has 'AI' accelerator (my guess matrix multiplication). Spark has times lower bandwidth, but much better and more generic compute. Add to that CUDA ecosystem with libs and tools. I'm not saying Ryzen is bad, actually it's great Mac substitute for poor man. $2K for 128GB version on Amazon now.
The other reason could be the copyright cases they are fighting in court. OAI was ordered to keep all records, including private. Not sure if it was lifted already.
And another could be EU requirements for age verification. AI can produce adult content.
There are may be other reasons, like to prevent using OAI models' output to train competing models.
