V0ldek

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[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 13 points 4 days ago

You must first read this 4500-word blogpost, and possibly one or two 3000-word follow-up blogposts”.

This, coming from LW, just has to be satire. There's no way to be this self-unaware and still remember to eat regularly.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 1 points 4 days ago

Not doing your due dilligence during recruitment is stupid, but exploiting that is still unethical, unless you can make a case for all of those companies being evil.

Like if he directly scammed idk just OpenAI, Palantir, and Amazon then sure, he can't possibly use that money for any worse purposes.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 2 points 4 days ago

Ah ok, I'm aware of what this is, just never heard "work trial" used.

In my head it sounded like a free demo of how insufferable your new job is going to be

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 5 points 5 days ago

it was a bit of squeeze to add even Gemma3n:e2b onto it

statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 5 points 5 days ago

This is so funny, I don't think I've seen this before

Like imagine a cryptobro circa 2020 being like "no, we're not early, this is actually the honeymoon phase and it'll just get worse"

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

My immediate gut reaction to a rule as general as this is that there's fat chance it's universally applicable, there will always be cases where active would be clunky.

Like I can't imagine an RPG protagonist exclaiming that "Someone trapped this chest!" instead of the 100% more natural "This chest was trapped!"

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This article is wild already, on the first page there's this quote

‘Do not use the passive voice when such use makes a statement clumsy and wordy. . . Do not, by using the passive voice, leave the agent of the verb vaguely indicated, when the agent should be clearly identified.’ [Edwin Woolley, Handbook of Composition, 1907, p. 20]

Emphasis mine on... a clear usage of the passive! In active this would have to be "when you should clearly identify the agent" or something of the like, the fuck, how hard is it to not expose your whole ass like this mate

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 3 points 5 days ago (21 children)

Wait what, TIL there was/is a crusade against... the passive fucking voice?

Some people just need to invent problems for their life to feel meaningful, don't they

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 6 points 5 days ago

so businesses and employees who get real value out of the stuff.

I have really bad news about what percentage that would be

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I'm sorry but what the hell is a "work trial"

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 4 points 6 days ago

Exactly, like the whole point of their schtick is that they want to legitimise plain old racism as something more sophisticated, so I don't see a reason to entertain them as such.

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