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Meta really hired me just to fire me during bootcamp (Blind)
- goatse.cx (Boeing): Your resume will be 10x stronger with meta on it, even if only there for a month
- team-snow (Snowflake): Were you a low performer during the bootcamp?
- iqbdh (Meta): Layoff was leaked 2 months ago and you still join? And no backup plan?
META Layoff Thread (Blind)
- meta7890 (Walmart): Anyone know what the criteria is? My husband who is a TPM got impacted and has exceeded expectations for his annual review 2 years in a row.
- Blink404: Ex-Microsoft with 400k TC? How? Spill it here.
- sadi_life2 (Amazon): I’m seeing a lot of Meta product managers being laid off!
After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet and Phone Ban / A Texas councilmember will propose “a total ban on all cellular and GPS-capable devices for all operations within city limits" and “a total termination of all internet services." (r/technology)
- SlapThatAce: Looks like someone needs to have an audit done on their finances.
- jamesdmc: Looks like somebody just lost out on a backroom payday.
- Choice-Ad6376: Why is buying local city/town leadership not prosecuted more. This is obviously bribery across the country. This seems like layups for state ads to prosecute.
AI Is Too Expensive: AI is, as it stands, not economically viable for anybody involved other than the construction firms, NVIDIA, and the surrounding hardware companies benefitting from the irrational exuberance of a data center buildout that doesn’t appear to be happening at the speed we believed (r/technology)
- Glittering-Living585: nvidia gets paid whether AI works out or not. that tells you everything about who’s actually winning here
- woodpaulusgnome: Ecologically it would be an absolute disaster if the speed at which we are informed this expansion is taking place. It amazes me that plans can be made to build without the required resources in place.
- North_Penalty7947: To date, ed zitron’s claims are more accurate than those of scam altman or slop musk.
YAML? That’s Norway problem (r/programming)
- rminsk: Don’t use PyYAML. It is no longer maintained and only supports YAML 1.1. Try a different library like ruamel.yaml that supports YAML 1.2.
- jletourneau: Ontario is another one that hits this problem. The truthiest province.
- CrackerJackKittyCat: Ah, this generation’s New England ZIP codes in CSV vs Excel.