Sure, and maybe he does. I think there's a difference between Epic doing it as a company, for which they would likely expect to extract some value from the contribution, and Sweeney doing it as an individual.
I think that's just a poor UI choice. That seems to be its default position until you vote. Once you've voted for how biased you think the article is, it shows you the "Most Popular Rating" which is currently "Center/Fair".
This was a really great article. This part stood out to me in particular:
> But what these tales are absolutely forbidden from representing is any agent or action that falls into the social class or milieu of the people who chiefly collected and read them. So the Grimms’ own world of government employees, highly literate women, libraries and universities is perhaps the most profoundly forbidden space of the folk tale. Indeed you might even say that not including that world is what makes a tale seem folkish, rather than, say, novelish. Part of the fiction of the Volk is that there is an absolute social void between the princes, the kings, the princesses on the one hand, and the tailors, discharged soldiers, huntsmen, kitchen maids and impoverished forest dwellers on the other.
I wonder why we don't see this perspective more often in modern popular fantasy. It seems that for the most part, they stick close to Tolkien or Arthurian models, primarily following the exploits of kings and knights. Even the popular fantasy authors who actively seek to subvert the genre's tropes tend to stick close to that perspective. And when we are treated to the perspective of a "common" person, they often turn out to have been born special for some reason, soon finding out they're some powerful person's lost heir or the subject of some prophecy, with the character being swept off into the world of the ruling class. Obviously, a lot of folk tales end with the commoner running off with a prince or princess, which isn't terribly dissimilar, but I don't remember Cinderella or Snow White being special beyond being pretty and charming.
It may be a blind spot of my own, but I can't think of many examples of fantasy with truly common folk as the primary perspective.
The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart is definitely one, as well as a bunch of the "big epics" like the Malazan empire / The annals of the Black Company?
It may be less common than "high castles", but that is either because of opportunity cost (non-special characters do not survive well this kind of world, so their stories are either short or picaresque) or feature creep if they start from the bottom: if you want an uplifting tale, upwards mobility is needed and at some point only the king is up...
>It may be a blind spot of my own, but I can't think of many examples of fantasy with truly common folk as the primary perspective.
How common and how fantastic?
Conan is a hillman. He just becomes more accomplished over time.
Fafyrd is from a frozen waste, trained as a skald. Notable only because he left his tribe interested in civilization.
Vaatzes from KJ Parkers Engineer Trilogy is foreman. A really good engineer, but replaced instantly when he is banished.
Sort of inverted with Saevus Corax, where the main guy is trying really hard not to be royalty, and so he scavenges dead people on battlefields for a living hoping no one will find him.
> I don't remember Cinderella or Snow White being special beyond being pretty and charming.
Snow White was, at least in the canonical Disney 1937 version, "the fairest of them all": the most attractive person known to the magic mirror.
Cinderella was the chosen one, high femme edition: rather than being handed a magic ring or sword she got a pair of shoes and a carriage. Both of these are folk tales that fit the fantasy trope mould.
Really I think this is a slightly circular problem of genre, because if you try to write this sort of story without centering on The Chosen One you end up just doing literary realism.
(possibly urban fantasy gets into this more, by explicitly starting from the modern post-feudal world. Anyway, I agree with you that it's a great article!)
There are a lot of similar anecdotes in this thread, but I'm still skeptical. I've had similar issues with my Brother printer randomly not accepting a new toner cartridge and telling me that it's empty. It happened twice. In one case, I had to use some obscure button combination to force it to reset and then everything was fine. In another case, I needed to remove and reseat the cart a dozen times before it suddenly worked.
Anyway, it's definitely possible that these newer issues are Brother doing something nefarious, but I could also see a lot of these issues being with finicky sensors.
>Joanne Jang, who works in products at OpenAI, tweeted that no influence had been at play. “The google doc broke so people texted each other at 2-2:30 am begging people with write access to type their name.”
Also, this line seems self-contradictory. There was no influence, but people were "begging" others to sign?
I think person A was calling person B (who had write access) to write person's A name, since person A was unable to do so because the google doc "broke?"
Oh, of course. That's rather obvious on rereading. With my 5pm Friday brain, I somehow interpreted "broke" to mean that the doc had become available. Like a news story breaking, I guess?
Always great to see more start ups being built on Clojure! For folks interested, this is a great talk on the same subject: https://youtu.be/L9KcoRZcdbc
Full disclojure: I work for the company in the talk, though I'm not one of the presenters.
Is it known whether this sort of hiring freeze affects all levels? I have a friend who's in-progress for a staff role at Meta and I had heard in the past that staff was often "immune to hiring freezes."
Imagine being of IC7+ caliber and voluntarily deciding to jump on this sinking ship. I doubt such a person exists. Might be an opportunity to upsell yourself into an IC7[+] offer, though.
But meta is very stock compensation heavy so you are betting on the company stock at least not dropping considerably like the people that joined in august of last year at a $350 per a share price.
Agreed. All this post did for me is make me think even less of Brave. It hasn't really changed my opinion of DDG. For the majority of DDG users (like me) who only use it for search, this changes nothing. All it does is make the Brave folks look like mudslingers.
I was promised tracking-free web searches, which has not been violated, though the Brave employee who tweeted this clearly meant to imply that it was. I don't use their web browser and I don't care to. But the original tweet is out of context and deliberately misleading and was posted by a competitor to DDG and so was clearly done in bad faith.
I don't think it's great that Microsoft is exempt from some restrictions in the DDG browser, but this tweet is also referencing a post by a DDG employee freely disclosing the issue and stating that they're working to improve it. In my opinion, this sort of mudslinging makes the folks at Brave look petty while not really changing my opinion of DDG very much. I also think this is a case of letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Feel free to continue to tell me how I feel about things, though, internet stranger. You're clearly much more in tune with my opinions than I am.
