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Sagebrush posted:also i know it's rude to comment on a lady's looks but both of these people are comically bad examples of supposedly superior genetics. and those glasses are ugly as poo poo I think it’s fine to make fun of these people honestly on any axis you choose. The tests they performed also provided a risk score for autism, a diagnosis Simone herself has received, which they decided not to take into account. Simone compared her autism to a "fine-tuned race car right The Collinses worry that the overlap between the types of people deciding not to have children with the part of the population that values things like gay rights, education for women, and climate activism — traits they believe are genetically coded — is so great that these values could ultimately disappear. ie they saw idiocracy The Collinses said that some potential investors backed out of their search fund when they learned about their plans to have children. Determined to prove them wrong, she said, she even took sales calls during labor. "She hates when people say you can't have it all," Malcolm told me. healthy The logic behind the Collins Institute reflects their thinking at large: "If you want to make the future better for everyone and you could choose to dramatically increase the educational outcomes of the bottom 10% of people or the top 0.1% of people," the Collinses say to choose the 0.1%. we aren’t eugenicists though.
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Achmed Jones posted:i know yall hate everybody that works at google, but ngl it feels pretty bad to read that people i like and who ostensibly like me think it'd be funny if we lost our house yeah yospos has always simultaneously held the idea that 'tech bubble is bad and should fail' and 'choosing to work for tech bubble is okay because it pays like 6x anything else and taking care of you and yours is good'. it's much harder now that tech bubble is actually failing to not come across as a shithead when it's good people losing their jobs instead of the tech bubble leaders. (I posted that twitter had too many employees when they got bought and that hasn't aged well).
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there was someone in GBS using chatgpt to answer their estranged mother’s unwelcome long rambling emails which seemed like the most wholesome use of the tech.
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I know we are all reading the Matt Levine article but this is great:quote:
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Mar 10, 2023 23:46
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the best part of this is all the VC people who still seem shocked to discover that people don’t like them
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also having a company called SBF and one called SVB collapse in the same year is too confusing, do better next year.
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4lokos basilisk posted:ok i stand corrected i guess. also you have to factor in that everyone says they will be the guy who doesn’t succumb to lifestyle inflation and live like they did when they made 35k, but then they buy a decent table saw or a nice bottle of wine or do that first overseas holiday where they stay in a hotel instead of backpacking then all of a sudden they ‘can’t live’ on less than 250k. most people spend their money.
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sat on my keys! posted:you could always try getting into hard drugs or gambling don’t forget sex work!
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well yeah I was talking about AUD to be fair which is about $12.40 in euro I believe.
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:our pay for offshore permanent staff is apparently so low that the majority of contract providers can't actually compete which is why we get the absolute dregs so in India the notice period seemed to be 90 or 180 days, so you’d make an offer, the candidate would accept, then spend the last 30 days of their notice period marketing themselves as ‘available at short notice’ to other employers to try to get a better offer. once you understood this as an employer it was fine because you’d just budget for a pay adjustment before they started but it’s a surprise the first time. we were hiring for competitive roles so it was fine. good hustle, gotta respect it. being a low paying employer in that market would not be fun.
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the management consulting firms have been dumping people quietly for a while. on the other hand they and the big4 consultancies are building cyber and cloud managed services practices because everyone wants annuity revenue. everyone wants to buy their SOC from EY I guess?
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:EY were chasing me on LinkedIn about one of their spinoff specialist consultancy practices, they're getting super into that poo poo. yep it was EY building an ‘outsource your security ops’ business too. gently caress those guys but they can smell where the money is. Powerful Two-Hander posted:"we may use regex as one of several tools like machine learning” just too long for a thread title
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Mar 23, 2023 22:56
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my parents have told me they would have homeschooled me if they could have afforded and all I can say is thanks gently caress for 18% interest rates in the late eighties
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miatas are fine it’s not like he bought an Alfa or something
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Apr 9, 2023 03:37
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I’ve discovered the best use for GPT - getting it to write episodes of TV shows. I’ve got a Gundam/Sabrina the Teenage Witch crossover script coming together.
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yeah it’s like telling people about your dreams or something, loses something in the translation.
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FMguru posted:zucko sent a mealy-mouthed letter out to metas few remaining employees and it included this meta slowing becoming the HP or AT&T of the 2020s.
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Apr 21, 2023 01:59
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they used to let us drink company supplied booze from 3pm on Friday in the ISP call centre I worked for and it was a complete poo poo show which somehow went on for years. then I went to work for a resourced company that had a total booze ban because the mines were dry sites so the office was too in solidarity. neither was ideal but I'd much prefer the dry office.
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bob dobbs is dead posted:thats, uh, thats personalized results nah I remember the MLK front page thing too from 2001ish era google. there was a front page search result for the Vietnam war that explained that the US definitely won and soldiers loved it over there. the algo was easy to bait back in the day, then it good better, now it’s bad again.
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May 27, 2023 23:33
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so the new internet is going to be 50% closed off unindexed discords, 25% wikipedia, 20% racist facebook boomers and 0.05% yospos
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Expo70 posted:the dark patterns part of my brain is wondering if someone could socially engineer them into thinking that the act of voting is anti-christian or something because democracy undermines the rule of god or whatever and that whatever people choose means they open themselves up for gods punishments if they decide to have premarital homo sex or whatever -- and that intervening will mean they'll be punished by god for trying to steer its plan or something my parents were part of a group called the brethren in Australia who believed exactly that, which is also why I didn't have television growing up until I was 11.
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nauru is going to be made pretty much uninhabitable in the next century by sea level rises.
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Improbable Lobster posted:i haven't really seen a path for chapgpt/llm ai to be both profitable and effective at whatever it's doing 'compute will get cheaper over time' is not the worst risk you can take historically speaking but we are still at the point where compute power gains are getting taken up in pursuit of effectiveness.
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Jul 24, 2023 07:04
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Shaggar posted:one of the biggest problems with EHRs is that they're designed to be customized for every provider that uses them which will always create bad outcomes, not just in terms of software quality but also in the poor medical processes they promote. last page but I just saw this. there was a huge privacy kerfuffle when australia implemented an opt out federally managed EHR system that all the care providers were supposed to input into so that health records would follow you etc. I think people were imagining a big sophisticated cross referenceable database but in reality it was a psuedo drop box wth 10dpi scans of your doctors illegible notes from 1994 with a bit of metadata. so of course no one uses it and they are going to relaunch the whole thing and try again.
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yeah exactly that was my point with my example, doctor culture is more powerful than capitalism or nationalism and leads to lovely record keeping no matter what.
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EricBauman posted:every growth hacker i ever talked to has been a guy (always a guy) that just scraped contact info from linkedin, did the flimsiest of sentiment analysis on some public posts and then sent out one of six badly written intro emails based on their expert analysis of the personality type of their target if you don't get product market fit then surely the market is wrong and needs to be educated.
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Beeftweeter posted:some russians grew watermelons in antarctica last month Producers are doing pilot sites for growing wine grapes in Norway too: https://www.wineenthusiast.com/culture/travel/japan-norway-wine-regions-guide/
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and other western governments are basically parking planes in the UK and flying them home full of drs and nurses who will make triple the money in the US/Aus/NZ etc
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the corporate printing sales people were always the highest paid reps at hp and dell, it’s still wildly profitable and generates more earnings that the computer business.
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fart simpson posted:we spend way too much money on little design details lol. one of my first products as a product manager, we were basically asked to copy this thing in terms of features, size, and general design. but make it look "more premium" i love this kind of thing, 'designed to be cheap' not 'cheaply designed' for the xiaomi product.
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fart simpson posted:yeah its the difference between designing something to be manufactured, vs designing something to look nice (we'll figure out how to make it later) yeah i just looked at my xiaomi air purifier and it's just a big tube they could make in various lengths like a 737.
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cooking is how I clear my mind of the stupid computer bullshit I have to do to pay the bills, I love it. cooking for one is misery though
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:the only "viable" interplanetary mode of travel is the one from Altered Carbon imo: slow ships that dump a load of infrastructure and cloned bodies on a planet then you beam your brain over there (handwaving the speed of light in the process obviously) in the Alastair Reynolds universe they tried sending zygotes in starwisps at near light speed to be born raised by robots and they all went crazy
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:which book was that I don't remember it? or was it one of his shorts? it’s background material in the prefect and some of the earlier books, not a story in itself. called the ‘amerikano’ era
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PIZZA.BAT posted:maybe if they weren’t colossal abusive dicks for the past year we would have ONLY hit them with the kind of considerable ‘market adjustment’ that we’re dropping on everyone’s laps. nope. sorry assholes. literally everyone in this company loathes you guys. no mercy at all. we’re going larry ellison on your asses b2b procurement people constantly misunderstand that the pricing you receive can are +/- 25% by whether or not you are a massive awful prick to your suppliers or not. people are still people and they will bite back even if we all pretend this is some objective cost driven process.
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well-read undead posted:what is it about being some random nerd that happened to work on some important internet poo poo in the 90s that turned people into these sweat, bloated, egomaniacal cringelords that think they have the answer to literally every human problem? it's all very disturbing to me they caught the 90s share price wave and others didn’t, therefore they are clearly geniuses and not just lucky.
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