Don't regret too much. I wouldn't be surprised if reddit's "delete" function was really just "move to the "suckers-wanted-to-delete-this" file.
elephantium
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Primitive Technology
Low volume (not even 1 video a month), high quality, highly entertaining.
Beware of the copycats, though.
I enjoyed the story arc leading up to Endgame, but since then, they've filmed so much that I just feel like I can't keep up. The last movie I watched was Multiverse of Madness where I spent about half the movie going "Huh, I feel like I'm missing stuff from the Wanda TV show". I had never seen Spider-Man: No Way Home, either. And I guess there was a Loki show and a Marvel "What If" series, too?
Being a Marvel fan shouldn't have to be a job!
What do we want?
For police who commit crimes to have accountability!
What do we get?
We're going to yell at people who use the 'outdated' 'master/slave' terminology!
I'm the opposite: I initially wanted kids, but my spouse was ambivalent. I've come around: We're not going to have kids, and I'm ok with that.
Jury duty stipends indexed to cost of living.
Today, in my county, you get $20 a day. That won't even cover parking near the courthouse.
Serving on a jury shouldn't prevent you from being able to make rent for the month.
Whoosh!
What is a jabroni?
I read the situation as: Expectations are so low that you can work the job for merely 3 hours a day and still get your work done. It's an indictment on the companies: Workers doing this should be making triple their current salaries in one job and doing so much more there -- but that capacity is wasted.
What if I told you both were bad?
Doesn't anyone say 'slashdotted' anymore?
If you do something illegal, you should be arrested.
Copyright infringement lawsuits are a far cry from bomb threats or the like.
Now that is an unpopular opinion!
Some problems lend themselves to "guess-and-check" approaches. This calculator is great at guessing, and it's usually "close enough".
The other calculator can check efficiently, but it can't solve the original problem.
Essentially this is the entire motivation for numerical methods.
And Corsica just vanishes
Fetchez la vache!
Bears don't have spots, you're thinking of leopards.
Do you taste metal?
are you claiming your job makes you happy? Why don’t you do it for free?
No, turn this around. Everyone needs a way to pay the bills. But there are lots of ways to pay them. Lots of different jobs.
Would you rather work at a job where you're happy or where you're miserable?
A lot of people find their jobs easier if they're on friendly terms with their coworkers.
Please note, this is not the same as being close friends with your coworkers.
Depression
A long time ago, in a job not so far away, I worked on a computer project where we were using Apache Jackrabbit.
I quickly learned that I needed to search for Apache Jackrabbit and not just Jackrabbit -- vibrators weren't relevant to the project.
Software engineer, aka glorified code-monkey. Ook!
You might say that my job fits under the umbrella of IT, but no, it's totally a different thing! ;)
I get it. Do all that work, and at the end, it's still not working? Ugh, that's the worst :( I always feel super defeated in that sort of circumstance.
OTOH...I have to echo the others giving you a virtual pat on the back. You were super stretching your DIY skills! Kudos for going for it! That's not an easy thing to do, and it sounds like you got through 99% of the job. That's def something where you can be proud of yourself.
Poor access to iron, too. He's putting in a ton of effort to get like 5 grams of actual metal from the iron bacteria.
There's a local company in my city that offers fiber to the home. I'm so happy not to be stuck with Comcast!
In fact, I do prefer to buy generics. There are dozens of us!
IDK, it's a far cry from "dropping support for stuff 14+ years old" to "we're going to coerce you into buying new hardware every other year".
I bought a laptop at the beginning of 2010 and used it until spring of 2021. It was long overdue for replacement by then, so even that wouldn't have been affected by this.
Hmm. I just went to Target's website and searched "maple syrup" -- even though they have a notoriously bad search, the first row of products were actual maple syrup. The second row had a mix between "pancake syrup" and actual "maple syrup"
OTOH, searching "pancake syrup" was the opposite -- 5 corn syrups before any actual maple syrups.
Image generation requires no fact checking whatsoever
Sure it does. Let's say IKEA wants to use midjourney to generate images for its furniture assembly instructions. The instructions are already written, so the prompt is something like "step 3 of assembling the BorkBork kitchen table".
Would you just auto-insert whatever it generated and send it straight to the printer for 20000 copies?
Or would you look at the image and make sure that it didn't show a couch instead?
If you choose the latter, that's fact checking.
That said, LLMs will always have limitations and true AI is still a ways away.
I can't agree more strongly with this point!
I'm a dev, and I'm the opposite. At my work, we use main over master. I thought it was a little silly when we first switched, but now I'm used to it. It's an arbitrary label anyway -- could easily use trunk/branch from SVN or release/develop or any number of other labels to keep track of code.
Hell, we got a new dev on the team a month or two ago, and he tends to name things 'feat/do-the-thing' instead of 'feature/make-it-go'.
It's not as big a deal as people online make it out to be.
Neither. I never order a tuna sandwich. I sometimes make myself a tuna sandwich. 😂
It's where you find inner peace
Some people called Romans, they go the house?
Bypass the whole debate, adopt SVN's 'trunk/branch' terms.
Well, if anyone knows about rigging elections, Putin certainly qualifies!
I'm a software dev whose first job out of college was at a tiny company, 10-15 people.
Pros: I learned a lot. Each project had different technologies involved. I def didn't get bored! Basically no red tape. I reported to the IT director, and he reported to the owner. Nothing could really get lost in bureaucracy there.
Cons: Payscale was weak, but eh, it was my first job out of college. No room for advancement. What even is a promotion when the whole company is only a dozen people? Limited mentoring. While I had a lot of guidance from my boss there, especially early on, now years later I'm looking back, wishing I'd gotten a more varied perspective. You can only learn so much from one person's perspective.
I've seen people argue stupider things earnestly.
Shittiest comment I've seen all day
Ha, I was tempted to make basically the same comment. I'm super weary of people mixing the two up!