This is a pretty gross privacy violation but it's also just... So depressing.

I learned that either my phone's gyroscope is broken or my browser obfuscates it.

Still interesting, even if not surprising.

I too am surprised anyone uses Chrome, but I will admit to feeling similarly surprised by how many people use Brave. The company seems so sketchy to me, and I wonder why people who presumably care about web standards are so willing to use Chromium-based anything too.

I consider myself upper middle class and I ride the bus. I'd rather ride my bike but sometimes I ride the bus.

sounds like something you'd say if you don't believe in anything

I think you mean heresy. But maybe I don't get the reference you're making when you say hearsay

I'm wondering if there are anti-ai bots trolling the boards. Look at all the usernames of the negative AI posts.

Or maybe the only people left opposing AI are so hardcore against it they form their identity (username) around it

ok bot403

Hearsay is a rumor or something that can't be verified.

I'm aware.

sure, except if you're Canadian like the man in question you can't do that for US law. Easier to use local-first software than influence the laws of every country where a service provider you could potentially one day use be based.

you work there. there is at least one thing you could do about it.

I had a (non-Palantir) job with a description similar to an FDE a decade and a half ago and we were just called "field engineers". It was a job done mostly by people in their early to mid 20s. The business function was there long before AI.

Everything old is new again, basically.

"Professional services" was the other common term. Most big software companies had them and/or subcontracted for them.

Aren't "solutions engineers" the same thing? Typically smart, young people who want to get into core development, doing technical, client-facing work intended to maximize spend and stickiness? That's been a thing since forever.

Yeah. I've also seen Customer Success.

Customer Success is not engineering, or anything close to it. It's not even really technical.

There are Customer Success engineers. Any of the terms in this thread were full service teams comprised of engineers, product managers, business analysts and whatever else was needed (or could be sold).

evergreen post really. Github has done nothing in the last few years but get worse.