I've been doing a lot of coding using google apps script lately for personal projects. ChatGPT still runs circles around Bard when it comes to providing workable code suggestions and fixes when something doesn't work. I test against Bard regularly and never fail to be surprised how bad Google's own "AI" is at even helping develop on its own platform.

I use chatall (find it on github) which searches all the freely available AIs and delivers answers from all of them. That's been a great way to check the pulse on accuracy

Try being a highly skilled tech worker who happens to be female and getting a tech job when the screeners are all H1B guys.

Jassy's running the show now though.

Amazon doesn't want to lose those millions in tax incentives

Right now this just looks like a low effort email address farming troll.

"My friend" pays for a couple of debrid services and an internet connection. She uses Kodi/Stremio/iptv players to watch anything she wants. Currently these run on an old ubuntu laptop with an hdmi cable hooked up to the tv because Nvidia shields are too $$$ and firesticks SUCK. Not fancy but it does the job.

Not a single day passes without a MAJOR outage in a Microsoft owned service.

I don't think Canada replacing its native workforce with H1Bs who got purged from jobs in the US will do much, if anything, to change the problems in the US. H1B staff are so entrenched now in companies like Mastercard, Chase, Citi, BofA, etc that they are the ones that do the technical screening and interviews. As long as those companies can easily get fresh approvals for H1bs (and they give lots of money to elected officials to retain that privilege), the only "qualified" people these H1B screeners will pass are other H1bs.

Another article about forced RTO that fails to mention that executives are afraid of losing their tax incentives / welfare payments by not delivering x number of bodies to the location that gave them incentives to be there

I read the book long before I went to work in tech. In my mind, it really helps with troubleshooting software issues as I feel better qualified to "fix the thing that's wrong" if I have a complete understanding of all the moving parts. So many people i work with freeze if a restart doesn't work. They don't consider at all the overall design of "the thing"