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The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


way to mess up my bookmarks folks

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Oct 16, 2003


it is if the layoffs are immediately followed by stock buy backs

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


every large chain does that afaik, and they helpfully print the number on your receipt

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


I used to know all of the location numbers in the state for a cstore chain

that info atrophied out a few years ago though

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


Internet Janitor posted:

library reference desks still exist and they're very good

https://twitter.com/burstofbeaden/status/1083137440120885248?s=46&t=-cv_KJW1O1sZKOJd49k1xQ

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


because they needed an excuse for popping hot

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


smdh if you didnt cancel spotify years ago

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


Truman Peyote posted:

dogbert always struck me as the real self-insert character

the self insert was the pointy haired boss

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


probably facebook

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Oct 16, 2003


Chris Knight posted:

lol I was joking to my boss a couple weeks ago about how we could point ChatGPT at our sites and have it do chatbot answers instead of regular search, and welp

one of the hackathon projects last week was pointing chatgpt at our internal wiki

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


mystes posted:

is that actually possible? Or do you just mean you identify a single article that seems relevant first and then feed it to chatgpt or something?

they used a library to load an index, then used gpt-3 to answer questions on that index

e: https://gpt-index.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


https://twitter.com/thestalwart/status/1634232851099967488?s=46&t=R0J6gZ9IVIuVqJ6bAd5VsQ

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


qirex posted:

god I’m so glad the product I work on has a 55% margin and we’re owned by a boring east coast company who uses normal banks

same but midwest

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


None of the threads I saw talked about "plus half" and $250k won't cover payroll for one senior engineer.

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


yes

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


I'm leaving that post unedited as a reminder of the necessity of caffeine

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


sentiment is still valid for ~12 engineers though

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


man, I didnt even get $60/year value out of strava premium

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


Asymmetric POSTer posted:

isnt that just an app to keep track of your workouts? lol

premium has some route planning stuff, and some additional training metrics but it was never that great

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


Chris Knight posted:

also reveals troop location and movements!

app that tracks movement and shares it tracks movement and shares it, news at 11

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


I feel like even though we are watching bubel pop with baited breath, we should at least show some solidarity with fellow posters affected by bubel pop.

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


trawling sagebrush

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


not with that attitude

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


The_Franz posted:


how does indeed, a job listing website, have 15000 people working for them?

a not small number of that is b2b sales

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


4lokos basilisk posted:

wait its possible to have a day job thats optimizing and getting rid of unnecessary cloud crap **and** it has management buy in?

we have an entire team of people who's only job is this

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


for the most part you're right but I homeschooled for a year (also not recommended) and skipped a grade in order to avoid middle school due to bullies and other social issues, and I can guarantee that my life would have been much worse if I hadn't


of course, the right solution would have been to deal with the bullies directly or to move me to a different school system entirely ( which we eventually did, but it wasn't practical at the time)

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


it was more of "in two years they'll still be in middle school while our son is starting high school"

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


there is a kid in my sons class that has hockey parents and I'm 80% certain he was held back for sports reasons

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


doing a socialism is really easy when it's a small group of "in" people

as soon as you get large enough, or try to start including "others" assholes get in the way

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


Powerful Two-Hander posted:

until I did some vague exercise when I was 18, I fit in the second category of nerd: tall and v. skinny with a BMI of 'uhhhhh you need to eat more'. like virtually zero body fat at all. then I had zero body fat but some actual muscle to go with it.

even now I don't think I float because I have such a low body fat percentage lol

fast metabolism 4 lyfe*


*possibly only until 40s results may vary

hello fellow "single digit body fat in their 20's" I am now 41 and technically obese despite best efforts so good luck

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


Nybble posted:

the jogging stroller

this is the only way I was able to train for a marathon

kiddo took a nap, I got a nice 2 hour run

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


not all joggers have it, but I got my son out all winter in the thule chariot with him bundled in blankets and the cover up

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


no

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


where's elle when you need her

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


kitten emergency posted:


the ability to make the computer do what you want it to has literally never been easier or cheaper than it is today.

yeah this, and kids are taking advantage of it

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


my favorite form of barbecue is when the smoker is a converted 50gal drum

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


Chris Knight posted:

tech bubble v5.3: this just sounds like an inherently terrible idea

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


I live in one red state and work in a different red state and I've managed to find jobs where the people with lovely politics at least keep their mouths shut

so it's definitely possible, don't give up

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Oct 16, 2003


polyester concept posted:

my parents bought us a NES but refused to buy games so we only had mario/duck hunt and just rented games on weekends.

same but also tetris

didnt own another console myself until og giant xbox

and then at some point in the lifespan of the xbone I stopped upgrading my computers for games

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