VibeSurgeon

Seems particularly high in levels of snake oil to be honest

Well, you’d lose support for devices which can’t handle software DRM playback, old YouTube clients installed on things like TVs which no longer get updated, if you want to support things that only get Widevine L3 support (most devices) you’re not really going to move the needle since Widevine L3 had been broken since like forever, etc.

The main thing YouTube would gain in practice from such a move would be to get DMCA as a legal tool to crack down on people ripping YouTube videos, but that’d require some very significant resources invested into driving Legal processes against average consumers ripping videos, and the return on investment for that is almost certainly abysmal.

EDIT: I thought of two more reasons:

• Given the enormous scale of YouTube’s transcoding pipeline, just adding in a DRM step into the mix will cost non-significant amounts of money
• All old content will remain non-DRM, because a re-transcode of the full YouTube catalog would cost an impossible amount of money

My very limited experience says that it’s possible but risky and unpleasant. NYC is probably a bit different, as is always the case in the U.S.

Walking works quite well in Sweden however

While I am broadly speaking in favour of free transit, one thing that should be noted in any conversation about it is that it often does not significantly increase ridership by users who were previously not using transit - the increase mainly comes from increased utilization by prior users, and sometimes you can get negative effects such as the newly free transit trips displacing walking.

Hence, other investments into the transit system may be prudent - for example, expanding the system, increasing headways and so on.

We should try to be brave enough to do all of the above, but sometimes you’re forced to choose one or the other.

An infinite pool of money.

Video hosting is very costly, especially at scale

The idea, cruel as it may be, is that you keep hiring more people while chopping off the bottom, keeping the headcount at your desirable level.

Unregretted attrition is however one of the most potent poisons you can introduce into your company culture. Perhaps this is why Zuck opted against it this year - signs of cultural decay may have already set in.

When you’re sufficiently rich, you don’t even have to care about what the regular rich people think.

You can probably adopt the habit even before you manage to reach that level of wealth

RTOs are most often a “one free layoff”-card that businesses play, so firing someone for criticizing it is very much in line with the underlying intent of the policy.

Complete hands-off no-review no-technical experience vibe coding is obviously snake oil, yeah.

This is a pretty large problem when it comes to learning about LLM-based tooling: lots of noise, very little signal.

So far, there is serious cognitive step needed that LLM just can’t do to get productive. They can output code but they don’t understand what’s going on. They don’t grasp architecture. Large projects don’t fit on their token window.

There’s a remarkably effective solution for this, that helps both humans and models alike - write documentation.

It’s actually kind of funny how the LLM wave has sparked a renaissance of high-quality documentation. Who would have thought?

You can tag a mastodon user in a Lemmy/Piefed-post.

The caveat being that their server has to be connected to your server.

You can’t choose another server to log in. Think about it as email - if you are using Gmail, you can’t log in to your email using Hotmail. You can write emails to users with Hotmail, but the login only works for your own email provider.

Ask the people at the Nürnberg trials how that went for them

The right-wing that is currently in power doesn’t really see it that way, unfortunately.

good benefits and perks.

Didn’t they literally just introduce free coffee at the office post-pandemic?

Not to say that I would willingly choose to work at Amazon, but I do know the reason. It’s documented here: https://www.levels.fyi/companies/amazon/salaries/software-engineer

I’m not sure it’s even possible for me to cringe harder at this point