The CEO who got paid that much has quit. We don't yet know what the salary of the new CEO is going to be.
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That CEO is working for the Mozilla Corporation, these layoffs happened at the Mozilla Foundation. The latter is legally a non-profit, so it would be quite limited how much money they could accept from the Corporation anyways.
Those are job postings at the for-profit Mozilla Corporation, the layoffs happened at the non-profit Mozilla Foundation.
They're theoretically connected, in that the Corporation is a subsidiary of the Foundation, but to my knowledge, they practically don't hand money from the Foundation to the Corporation, because the Corporation has magnitudes more money anyways.
Well, for reasons, I happen to know that this person is a student, who has effectively no experience dealing with real-world codebases.
It's possible that the LLM produced good results for the small codebases and well-known exercises that they had to deal with so far.
I'm also guessing, they're learning what a PR is for the first time just now. And then being taught by Microsoft that you can just fire off PRs without a care in the world, like, yeah, how should they know any better?
Yeah, Google likes to guess the language preference based on the IP address, which thankfully never goes wrong.
Tangentially related rant: We had a new contributor open up a pull request today and I gave their changes an initial look to make sure no malicious code is included.
I couldn't see anything wrong with it. The PR was certainly a bit short, but the task they tackled was pretty much a matter of either it works or it doesn't. And I figured, if they open a PR, they'll have a working solution.
...well, I tell the CI/CD runner to get going and it immediately runs into a compile error. Not an exotic compile error, the person who submitted the PR had never even tried to compile it.
Then it dawned on me. They had included a link to a GitHub Copilot workspace, supposedly just for context.
In reality, they had asked the dumbass LLM to do the change described in the ticket and figured, it would produce a working PR right off the bat. No need to even check it, just let the maintainer do the validation.
In an attempt to give them constructive feedback, I tried to figure out, if this GitHub Copilot workspace thingamabob had a Compile-button that they just forgot to click, so I actually watched Microsoft's ad video for it.
And sure enough, I saw right then and there, who really was at fault for this abomination of a PR.
The ad showed exactly that. Just chat a bit with the LLM and then directly create a PR. Which, yes, there is a theoretical chance of this possibly making sense, like when rewording the documentation. But for any actual code changes? Fuck no.
So, most sincerely: Fuck you, Microsoft.
Business intelligence is in the context of analytics. It means something very different from "business logic", in case you're thinking they're synonyms...
Achso, ja, mein Gedanke war höchstens, dass man den initialen Aufprall eben an der Schulter abbekommt, anstatt vielleicht woanders. Wobei eine plötzliche horizontale Beschleunigung natürlich trotzdem noch zum Genickbruch führen könnte.
Aber stimmt schon, wenn das primäre Ziel gewesen wäre, Passanten zu schützen, dann hätte man es anders entworfen...
I'm curious to see, how long it'll last. Much like with a support hotline, there's no directly obvious financial benefit to having such a chatbot, so if the hype has died down and the price is increased, I could see those being axed pretty quickly...
Ja, stimmt an sich natürlich schon. Für größere Anschaffungen findet sich meist ein Sponsor. Und die Arbeitseinsätze, um die Betriebskosten zu decken, sind ja auch eine Möglichkeit, um der Nicht-Einsamkeit zu frönen.
Gibt ja aber vielleicht auch Anschaffungen, die das Ganze erst so richtig ermöglichen, wie vielleicht eine Turn- und Festhalle.
Puh, schrammt teilweise schon hart an der "Korrelation ≠ Kausalität"-Grenze, was ja zumindest einmal im Artikel auch aufgegriffen wird.
Aber ja, wäre spannend, was tatsächlich konkrete Maßnahmen sind. Verpflichtende Gesellschaftsräume (oder zumindest Sitzbänke) in Mehrfamilienhäusern? Auto-freie Sonntage? Mehr Geld für Büchereien, Vereine und Co.? Öfter mal ein Stadtfest?
Brave has a notable market share? I've never seen them in any graph.
Comparing the two is also a difficult territory, because Brave does not develop their own browser engine. If Google stops publishing the Chromium source code, they're gone in a few months.