I keep waiting for a law enforcement death due to a no-knock raid. With gun ownership in the US, it's only a matter of time before someone shoots someone they assume was a burglar, and since it was no-knock, just saying "FBI" isn't really enough. Anyone can break into a home and say "FBI."
In college, I was diagnosed with Aspberger's. Later, after seeing a student therapist few a years, the therapist and their supervisor (and actual psychologist) didn't think I do. It made me wonder if the original diagnosis was the lazy, obvious one, and something else is going on.
I wasn't a "golden child," but growing up, the thing adults praised me for was my intelligence. Not being in a good school district, I skipped a grade. Thinking about the different opinions of the therapists, I wonder if my emotional immaturity relative to my peers, always being eager to show off my intelligence, and disadvantage at sports isolated me from my peers, hurting my social development.
In a few months, I might be switching to a team with a C++ project. A lot of the team is new to C++, and there's nothing about the project that needs C++, Java would have been fine.
But do the teams know that? I love picking on Timnit Gebru and her time at Google. She clearly didn't know what her actual job was, which is funny because she seems to be good at marketing herself. You think she'd know Google was using her for marketing.
His resume has some impressive accomplishments, but has enough BS that it makes me suspicious of what teaching courses on ethical design actually entails.
For several months, keyless entry stopped working on my car. It fixed itself. My unlikely conspiracy theory is I was being tracked and interference kept the keyfob from working.
> Once collected, this information is analyzed, compiled, and sold to any interested parties willing to pay for it.
The part about selling isn't true. Google and Facebook slurp in a lot of data, but they hoard it. It's only "sold" by allowing advertisers to target against it.
Google claims
> we do not sell your personal information to anyone.
Facebook claims
> No, we don't sell your information.
Maybe there's an asterisk when it comes to heavily aggregated data, and they both work with legitimate researchers, but big tech selling your data isn't true. A bunch of medium-sized adtech players you've never heard of sell your data.
Does anyone have tips for having high code standards, but still pleasant to work with? I got feedback that I have high standards, but I also go to the effort of explaining why I think an approach is better in code reviews and don't talk down to people in code reviews (and got feedback saying this), but I'm not sure it's enough.