What an interesting use of GDPR.
Boy do i wish there was something analogous where i am.
Have had identical experiences with large-named places.
I guess its just hard to run a fan club where everyone wants in, you have to grasp at straws to dismiss. Paraeto at work again.
It's really great. Snowflake ghosted me when I asked politely for interview feedback. I identified their likely DPO via LinkedIn, sent them my compliant and quickly recieved all of the interview notes and feedback.
Interestingly this mirrors in parts my experience with Mozilla. I have experience with couple of megacorps and they were always more organized than those folks and the folks in this story.
based solely on anecdotes and rumors and feelings, I wonder if it's a nonprofit problem. Reminds me of the kind of grift you read about in various NGO charity type organizations
Exactly, you'd think a targeted, application-specific, purpose built tool would be what a vendor would gravitate to, not probabilistic, non deterministic hype, hot off a shelf. I really wish we could have overlords with at least some technical knowledge.
Who knew alls she needed was to change the tempo, pitch, timbre, add/remove lyrics, add/subtract a few notes, rearrange harmony, put it behind a web portal with a fancy name, claim it had an inspirational muse or assume all mortal beings as being without one in the first place so it doesn't matter, and proceed to make millions off of said process methodically rather than giving it away for free, and she'd be right as rain.
Totally believable. My grandmother lived though the great depression, wherein she was lucky to get an Orange at christmas. The last few decades of her life she basically was a food hoarder, pantries overflowing with canned goods, and a freezer where you never saw the back.
When I was a kid I did odd jobs, and one of the odd jobs was cleaning out a semi-hoarder’s house after he’d passed away (iirc he’d lived through the Great Depression). Not like you see on TV, with the heaps and heaps of garbage. Maybe like your grandmother, tons of… basically well organized supplies and stuff.
I dunno. Toilet paper, some canned goods, lighters, I guess that stuff all lasts decades if stored properly. Takes up a lot is space, though, and your descendants might have to pay some kid to throw it all away if you don’t use it up in time…
But, some folks wished they were toilet paper hoarders during the pandemic I guess. Wonder what the kids of 2060 will be throwing away as a result of our life-experiences.
> Wonder what the kids of 2060 will be throwing away as a result of our life-experiences.
EOL devices(tablets, phones, macbooks, thinkpads, hobby electronics boards, home lab equipments, hdd and ssd full of archive data, swag from conferences, outdated books on product and programming, smart watches etc).
Shit, could you imagine boomers with that mindset.
The last time i remember being around old folks with that mentality i was in high school, i swear they did exist though. Lots of wonderful old folks with perspective. I miss them. I'd say if they were still around theyd be well over 100 now.
I do not think it is fair to compare people’s motivations before the advent of healthcare that could extend their lives for 10+ years to people’s motivations after the advent of healthcare.
It is possible both groups of people were just as self-interested, but one did not have the capacity to spend more resources in retirement, simply because they did not have the option to live as long.
Also, fairness has got nothing to do with it.
Plus, If we can only judge the outcome of circumstances based on arbitrary notions of fairness and not actual results it becomes easy to rationalize any outcome.
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