I agree. I viewed those as "a solid justification of why". Also, I'd expect there to be some grouping or consideration of job titles and organizations.
No body knows unless real leaks come out. Did they do it strategically? Or by numbers across the board like people are implying?
No. I DO believe lines of code was used as metric. It's a fast way to protect the top code contributors. I just don't think it's the only thing taken into consideration like people are implying...
There are countless teams and examples for it being a horrible metric to solely fire on.
I just think it's not right to jump to conclusions like Dictator Elon fires engineers with low LOC.
All we have to go off of is they had review meetings where they had to show off the code they contributed and Elon "suggested to query for lines committed."
Current example would be the filters that modify appearance that's used a ton on influencer platforms. We've been photo shopping for years but now anyone can create a false identity online. The bad side of this is like catphishing and unrealistic body standards causing non obvious mental health issues across generations.
Future would be continuing to push the boundaries of auto formatting filtering styles based on your preference or the populations preference. Scamming, impersonation, money to be made from gullible people.
This is just the surface. I'm sure there are tons of fictional books exploring this or people with more destructive ideas.
Just because I'm terrified and am listing the bad, that doesn't mean I don't recognize the good that can come from it. I'm not sure if that out weighs the bad yet.
I get multiple PayPal requests for money from random throw away accounts with messages ranging from begging for money for something or just phishing invoices like this.
Worst part is that the only option via email is to "Pay". I have to log into PayPal then go through multiple clicks to reject the money request.
Gather town is pretty awesome. My team held a 300 person internal event on that platform. People seemed to really enjoy it. They got a hang of it pretty fast without prior experiences playing games.
I do like the idea of an online proximity focused office space but I couldn't get my team to buy into the idea of it. Async messaging on slack is preferred.
Check out Diabotical. It's a bit dead but it was a ton of fun for the first few months. I think it's dead because of epic games contract.
It's more like quake than tribes but very nice fast paced arena fps.
I'd pay top dollar for a pebble time with smaller bezels and thinner body. Although, the pebble time was super thin compared to today's standards.
Are there any truly thin smart watches? The leaks for the new pixel watch kill all hope in my mind that I'll ever get a smart watch again since they are all thick and heavy. Even fit bits are thick compared to the pebble time.
I was in the same position but ended up buying the Onyx Boox Nova 3 color. They recently released the Nova Air color which has a better body and warm light functional (wish I had that on mine for night time reading.)
I love it for reading technical blogs, code, tech books. I wanted an ereader I could install android apps on and preserve color syntax highlighting.
Disclaimer, these devices phone home to China so most people install apps like NetGuard to curate an Allowlist of apps that can access the internet.
Some people push this stuff to the extreme and code on them. I would not enjoy that and do not recommend it but it is possible.