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| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1040888/">The FSF considers large language models</a></h5> | Oct 28 15:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | Oct 28 15:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>Mark Wielaard said that developers are normally able to cite any inspirations for the code they write; an LLM is clearly inspired by other code, but is unable to make any such citations. So there is no way to really know where LLM-generated code came from. A developer would have to publish their entire session with the LLM to even begin to fill that in. </p> | Oct 28 15:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </blockquote> | Oct 28 15:38 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k8kzxz6m | Oct 28 20:37 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Oct 28 20:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @d1 IBM executives starting with the je-ks at the top, Comrade Alvind and Krabanaugh are notorious for making up fake numbers to feed to the press and the government about layoffs and PIPs. Cut all those US employees and guess what ?? You then have a true blue "Indian Bizness Machines" company - made for Indians by Indians. Does anyone know where the fat tub of lard, Miz. Wright would be in such a reorg ? Or even the maverick wanna | Oct 28 20:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | be teenage Ninja in the hoodie ? | Oct 28 20:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 2 hours ago by Anonymous | Oct 28 20:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 2 reactions (+1/-1) | Reply | Oct 28 20:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @dk+1k8kzxz6m | Oct 28 20:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +2 | Oct 28 20:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | IBM can’t layoff 100k USA employees, because there are only 50k left. Yes that includes everyone and everything (eg corporate, sales, services including TSS, consulting, redhat, etc etc) With that said could they cut 10k per year for the next 3 years. The magic 8 ball says “likely” | Oct 28 20:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 5 hours ago by Anonymous | Oct 28 20:37 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @d1+1k8kzxz6m | Oct 28 20:37 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | CNBC says 14K so not the blood bath we were expecting. | Oct 28 20:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 5 hours ago by Anonymous | Oct 28 20:37 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @d0+1k8kzxz6m | Oct 28 20:37 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | That's nuthin. The G Man Gerstner did this damage with not a care in the world; I was there. First time I saw entire IBM sales branch offices off 100+ people cry openly: | Oct 28 20:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Under CEO Louis Gerstner, IBM laid off approximately 100,000 to 150,000 employees between 1993 and 2000. A single large layoff of 60,000 jobs occurred in July 1993, with additional large cuts continuing in the following years as the company underwent a massive restructuring. | Oct 28 20:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 8 hours ago by Anonymous | Oct 28 20:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 5 reactions (+4/-1) | Reply | Oct 28 20:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @cd+1k8kzxz6m | Oct 28 20:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +6 | Oct 28 20:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Only 30K jobs to be lost at Amazon ? IBM Management under Comrade Alvind can easily beat that number by firing at least another 100K US employees, starting from the bottom of course. Then 100K jobs will magically appear in India in different job families, with different job titles and modified job descriptions. It's divide and hide, of course. | Oct 28 20:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 12 hours ago by Anonymous | Oct 28 20:37 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @bk+1k8kzxz6m | Oct 28 20:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +7 | Oct 28 20:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Well it’s not as bad as they were leading the media to believe. A few hours ago we thought it would be about 75k. | Oct 28 20:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I guess they learned the art of perception management. | Oct 28 20:37 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k8grcjx6 | Oct 28 20:38 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Oct 28 20:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I remember buying into the Cash Plan BS back in the early 2000s. I was one of the younger employees who had already realized a decade earlier that if I didn't plan and save for my own retirement, no one else would. IBM threw an extra 2%/year into my retirement plan and set me up with that $25K Future Health Account(FHA). I was so stupid and happy to get it with my retirement still 30+ years away. I realize now that the FHA grew at | Oct 28 20:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | the new and not improved pension growth rates based on the T-Bill rate ( 1.5% for most years until 2020). So today, 9 to 19 years after they put the money in ($2.5k/yr for 10yrs), it's only worth $36k - what a horrible return! But that $36k will still cover 3 years of medical premiums (at current rates) when I retire early @ 60. And that pathetic 80k lump sum pension that's in my acct will cover the rest of the way. It's not nothin | Oct 28 20:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | g, but it ain't what it could/should have been. | Oct 28 20:38 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I can see now - 30 years later - how I was taken advantage of compared to what I was offered when I started at IBM. | Oct 28 20:38 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Oct 28 20:39 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Absolutely fascinating history lesson of IBM's pension heist | Oct 28 20:39 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I was there starting in the early 80s. I always said if we had gone out on strike for a week or month etc IBM and Gerstner would not have done this pension heist. But they did again and again and as the writer states "...not a peep from IBM employees at the time...". I recall people were confused and disappointed more than outrageously angry as we should have been. I think it was "fog of war confusion" by IBM employees who thought | Oct 28 20:39 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | it was not happening or IBM would change it's mind since the bond between employees and IBM had always been so string and trustful. For many of us our promised pensions done during recruitment and hiring/onboarding were cut by 50% or more. Enjoy this read and thanks to the author who likely reads these posts. It is too long to paste in here inline. Well worth the time to read it as it will better show you IBM's evilness that came i | Oct 28 20:39 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | n under Gerstner and infects IBM to this day. | Oct 28 20:39 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml | Oct 28 20:39 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | #Pension #Ethics #History | Oct 28 20:39 |
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| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-web.archive.org | IBM Employee Highlights | Retirement Heist | Oct 28 20:39 | |
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