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you mean we aren’t talking about working in a kitchen?

Sadly the only thing I am missing from deGoogleing my android phone was the good voice dictation.

The PM’s job is to stop those doing the project from getting derailed. Literally manage the project. This means holding the stakeholder’s feet to the fire. If the steak holder agrees to the terms they need to accept the repercussions of changing requirements, and their own misunderstanding.

Bad PMs don’t hold the line. They don’t signal early when bad things may be coming soon. They let all the shit derail productivity.

This is why systems like Agile were created. By making derailment a ceremony it became acceptable to remove the onus of the stakeholder to really make sure the project is ready and worth it.

edit: i should read over my dictated comments a little better

The engine is C++ and the game code is C#.

Godot is a great example. The vast majority of the code you write is single function, callback style procedures. Rarely are you creating a hierarchy of class interfaces or dealing with a large multifaceted infrastructure. You are writing what can be done in pretty mundane python.

Rather, C# is there to grab the Unity community and they only really use it because idiomatic Unity may have bigger projects creating engines. C# still follows the HelloWorld complexity property of programing languages.

I think that is probably due to the places where it shrines isn’t often a FOSS area. All my corporate use was for these massive windows applications. FOSS many times are small teams making very targeted solutions. Aside from Android, it feels like Java programmers are picking java out of personal skill. I don’t known what apps I use would be a good target for C#.

I just think it includes Musk. He’s an absolute dipshit, he isn’t some mastermind pulling the strings.

I agree. But the major difference between Trump and Musk is that Musk has companies that are actually doing well because he was able to pick them up when they were heading in the right direction and allowed more competent people to actually do the business stuff. SpaceX does well, he has other people doing the real work. Twitter is a failure because he is doing it all himself. Tesla is only falling apart because Musk is getting in the way.

If he’s bribing political scientists to say what he wants, I wouldn’t exactly call them legitimate.

I’m saying he can actually hire people who are extremely good at this field of work. There are highly skilled economists and strategists and speech writers and analysts that will work for him if he pays them well enough. He can fund the whole political scene if he truly wanted to. Trump wants power and he only gets it when the Republicans are running the show. If Musk wanted to treat politics like how he “runs” SpaceX then he could do damage. But what we have seen so far, like in Wisconsin, was Musk treating it like Twitter.

Trump won just fine without Musk before, so why is Musk suddenly vital?

He is vital because Trump loses after he gets elected. He is a shit president and a shit business man and he is only good at playing up his abilities. We are seeing just how bad of a leader he is and the polls are showing that people are getting pissed off at utter lack of “winning” Trump always says we will have. I think Trump is going to need money and social media to make sure the Republicans don’t lose the midterms as it could instantly make him an impotent president if there is a big in a year and a half.

But even more vital is how soon that fear starts to creep in for the Republican Party. Right now they are being told not to have town halls because everyone is out for blood. Once that sets in and they start realizing they need to change Trump is going to start losing control. For the House to right the ship would mean pushing back on his insane ideas. Musk can make that happen really quick if he wanted.

Yes Trump has a following and is a force by himself. But Trump can’t carry the entire Republican party. We saw it in all the races he tried to sway besides his own. With his current poll numbers and the Republics not doing anything to fix all this chaos, Trump isn’t going to be able to keep midterms going his way by calling all the candidates stupid names.

I’m saying that Musk provided funding to make sure things finished the way they wanted party wide. If Trump pisses off Musk enough with a fraction of 1% of his worth he could take out any Republic midterm contest. Musk can find legitimate political scientists and fund them to swing a lot of elections. Where as Trump seems to only be able to find the most incompetent to work for him.

i miss my phone that also had FM radio built in.

That reminds me of an article from back in the late 90’s or early 00’s about how much of the money he did make came from other people using him basically. They would talk him into projects and make him think it was his idea. He was such an easy mark and now we are starting to see it. Simply making fun of him will cause him to double down, major ass kissing will make him like you.

because Musk was the financial force behind Trump winning. The fact Musk could completely take over all of the ad space on TV and social media and still be the world’s richest man is something Trump knows. If Musk wanted to primary a ton of Republicans he could.

It makes more and more sense that he failed to keep a casino afloat.

yeah i think Trump is afraid of Musk. So far he has not said anything negative about Musk, hasn’t said he was fired. Trump just keeps bending over.

And don’t forget, their sales numbers are down world wide so much of his bad press is just about him being a Nazi and what not. That doesn’t go away when he leaves DC.

When your boss takes a vacation it’s not in your best interest to yell obscene remarks as he drives away.

Except that RSU typically require vesting, are often not liquid enough to be useful as wages and aren’t as beneficial if the company isn’t going to skyrocket and be sold off.

The issue I ran into was that my team of 3 directly generated $25M in new areas of growth in a single year causing our company to have an increase of 12% gain in our profit margin. With RSU and profit sharing I saw a two hundred dollars worth of income increase that year. The next two years the industry flopped, profits were down in all areas except my team, and we started a three year pay freeze. I did my job amazing and rather than just paying me better I had to go down with the ship.

This caused me to leave along with my two coworkers. The company couldn’t replace us and ended up scrapping our division losing out on that business.

One thing you will eventually find out is there is a good portion of the company who thinks they are an effective employee when they really aren’t. For example I work in Software and Hardware development. In 25 years I’ve worked in large companies and small, big teams, small teams and teams of one. I’ve had many project managers and in almost all cases they have ranged from bad to pointless. The well oiled teams found the project managers only got in the way and provided no ROI to their work. So much so that in one org the PM left and they never replaced them which resulted in the teams highest productive quarters two years running.

If we were to vote I’d ask for justification for those roles and what their returns are. What actual added benefit did they bring and what problems did they cause. The issue i foresee is that every single one of them would say they were very valuable and important. But if you asked the people under them doing the actual development you’d hear the exact opposite. With the pandemic and everyone working remotely you’d think their role would become even more important but a lot of places have shown that haven’t.

But then I’d ask how do you outlaw human systematic consumption of information. The camera on my car cant watch 24/7, then why should YOU be allowed to watch 24/7? What you’re outlawing is the literal methodology.

This has always been an issue with my thoughts on AI. If the computer became sentient does the LLM learning rule go out the window? or is it because they are made of metal?

I feel like they need a test case to figure out how to define derivative work when the creator is not human.

If i make a painting and you see it and then make one in a similar style it would be considered derivative and not a violation. In your head is a distillation of my image. It doesn’t contain the image and your output would be lossy. Similarly the LLM contains statistics and not verbatim content. So the question is “how is human synthesis different than AI synthesis.”

Until that is resolved a class action would probably fall apart. Individual damages would need to be determined and even a single example of “you put your stuff out to the public and aren’t going aftet Joe who made derivative work…” would derail the case.

You would think that but we did have a few tens of millions of people vote for someone who said he was going to fuck up the economy and now these people are all asking what the hell happened.

Maybe we should stop assuming and start calling a spade a spade.

Your examples listed above are skipping the part they are taking issue with, “becoming a billionaire.” The problem isn’t that it’s emotive language, its that you don’t care to focus on the portion they want to focus on.

To become a billionaire you make the vast majority of your money off the backs of other people. Some do it via markets, investment, buying and selling companies and all other things “capitalism.” There are others that do it through actual slavery and other extremely abusive methods. But no billionaires do the work themselves to make this money. And all billionaires could give more back to those doing the actual work, relishing themselves mere millionaires and still never have to worry about money.

Maybe we should be acknowledging when a billionaire does a good thing but not ignore the fact that they are just giving away other’s hard work. Maybe the only real good act a billionaire can do is not be a billionaire.