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Staff is the new Senior now (Blind)
- carpet2 (Microsoft): Senior is the new Staff now*
- fish 🐠 (Lyft): Senior Staff is the new Senior actually. Staff is the new mid-level. Senior is the new entry-level. Anything below that is intern.
- gkdnwodrnn (ex-Amazon): Senior is the new staff, staff promos and interviews are harder across the board What you’re describing is 2021 Covid market where anyone was getting in as senior or staff
Being polite to LLMs (Blind)
- Maximum10! (Vanta): I am still being polite out of habit. I don’t see why you would not be. Maybe skipping a thank you or please occasionally to minimize typing, but I don’t see why anyone would try to be impolite.
- c8ycyloy (Salesforce): I’m still polite. Old habits die hard. I figure it’s fine to stay in practice lest I start being super curt to people 😂
- griwi029 (Pixar): [I am polite because it doesn’t cost me any more money or time or effort to be nice than it does to be a prick, and the latter doesn’t make it work any better. It’s how I converse normally and it’d be an effort to be rude.
I see the people whose prompts are abusive and cruel and wonder how damaged they are to be like that and I bet they would treat humans the same way if they could. Power over another shows a person’s true nature, frequently.](https://www.teamblind.com/post/being-polite-to-llms-jx0goiws#comment-51665866)
L9 @Google DeepMind, barely 30 y/o (Blind)
- GOOGEL (Google): [Fwiw OP you must also be pretty damn good being E6 at 25. I’m E5 at 34 and don’t see a path to E6.
Meta also has many such people that are directors under 30. Look up Zain Rehmani](https://www.teamblind.com/post/l9-google-deepmind-barely-30-yo-gqdbm6de#comment-51664369)
- out of (ByteDance): [Imo getting to L9 at Google at age 30 is much harder than becoming a billionaire at age 30.
It would take both significant luck and talent. Maxxed out sliders on everything: IQ, technical skills, work ethic, communication, charm & likability, interpersonal skills, manage up/down skills, DEI checkboxes, university pedigree etc.](https://www.teamblind.com/post/l9-google-deepmind-barely-30-yo-gqdbm6de#comment-51664238)
- fish 🐠 (Lyft): Generational talent and intelligence coupled with a healthy dose of timing, hard work, and luck.
Google apologizes for not refunding man’s LoTR movies after they vanished from library (r/technology)
- Bundlecorn: Google apologizes after massive public outcry makes it impossible to hide.
- tes_kitty: It’s only truly yours if you have it in a DRM free format on your own storage.
- Incendiis: Saw Fellowship in theaters 9 times, The Two Towers, 7. RotK, 5 times. I got the Extended Edition DVDs which I will cherish forever. After getting the BluRay I was thoroughly pissed that in order to watch it I had to suffer through NINE unskippable movie previews. DRM is just the digital way of companies wanting to milk you for every single fucking penny you have with the power to take what you own at any given whim. Fuck the people who do this and think it is okay. To hell with them for all eternity.
Twitch Is Now Using Your Content To Train Amazon AI Models And Has Hidden The Option To Opt Out. “If it was opt in, nobody would opt in,” admitted the streaming site’s chief product officer during a livestream (r/technology)
- Power-of-Wings: Click on your profile pic -> Settings -> Security and Privacy -> Training for Generative AI (near bottom).
- invyros: [When a commenter asked the duo what would happen if they streamed with someone who hasn’t opted out, Minton seemed not to have an answer, but admitted it was a “good question.” He also confirmed that Twitch has no plans to implement an option for users to easily see which channels are opted in and opted out of AI training.
Another person asked why Twitch didn’t email people about the change; Kish said that was a “good question” and then added, “not everyone reads their emails”
So many “good questions” with not many good answers, or answers at all.](https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1vmtqqa/comment/p3cbffj/)