DharmaPolice

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by DharmaPolice 1y ago
If a junior developer lies about something important, they can be fired and you can try to find someone else who wouldn't do the same thing. At the very least you could warn the person not to lie again or they're gone. It's n
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by DharmaPolice 2y ago
There are quite a lot of people who write/talk about video games or movies who are openly negative about much of what is produced. Although I agree there is probably a heavier slant towards negativity when discussing tech. I share some
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by DharmaPolice 2y ago
As someone who works for a local government bureaucracy - not caring is a coping mechanism because if you let every sub-optimal thing bother you then you'd just burn out. Very few jobs are structured in a way that those directly involv
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by DharmaPolice 2y ago
Even if it was only 30% of people had a problem that's still millions of unhappy users. Not great for a time sensitive event. Also, from lurking in various threads on the topic Netflix's in app messages added to people's irri
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by DharmaPolice 2y ago
Have you tried mouth tape?
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by DharmaPolice 2y ago
As ridiculous as it sounds, this does work on a subset of the machines affected based on my experience of the last few hours. With other machines you can seemingly reboot endlessly with no effect.
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by DharmaPolice 2y ago
I think the optics of this aren't great. You ask someone to copy their voice, they say no and then (maybe coincidentally) you release a voice designed to sound very similar. Legally this may well be fine but come on, didn't anyone
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by DharmaPolice 2y ago
If I lived in a town run by the mafia and had a problem I'd probably go talk to the local Godfather and ask for his help. I'd do this despite not being in favour of organised crime in principle. I'm not sure this is hypocrisy
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by DharmaPolice 2y ago
Not really the same thing but I worked for an organisation which had as a policy that every single team meeting had to have diversity & equality as a recurring item for discussion. 95% of the time this just meant the meeting lead saying
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
You're right of course but the thing is - it's not "Hello, how would you like to make millions" - It's "Hello, how are you?" followed by a period of building the person's trust. And then it's an
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
Installing an app for every courier firm you might receive a parcel from seems a bit much.
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
First generation immigrants (in Europe) have higher birth rates than second generation immigrants despite being poorer. It's not just about costs - it's about cultural expectations.
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
I think if a handful of people had been prosecuted then it would still be an outrage but understandable. But this was hundreds of cases. I think the legal system has some responsibility for not maybe thinking "Huh, what are the chanc
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
Looking at things in terms of ratios seems like an odd way of judging whether misinformation is a problem. If 0.5% of the sentences I say in a day are violent threats towards children that'd be a problem, right?
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
I wouldn't necessarily assume they do have backups. At least, not recent backups of 100% of their content/systems.
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
Yes you should, but you need to keep in mind that's something you need to update every time you change something in your interface. It is incredibly frustrating when screenshots don't match what you see on screen, especially if yo
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
"Unlimited" anything needs to be retired as an offering since we know genuinely unlimited storage would be impossible to deliver. I assume it's easier to legally weasel out of a service offering if you say "Unlimited&quo
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
On your second point, I've seen this in the UK public sector. Because of a commitment to advertise every job that comes up when someone went from temp to permtheir job was re-advertised and they would have to reapply. Imagine competing
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
It's not clear Wikipedia need your help at this point. Support the Internet Archive.
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
I think it's much more likely to be accidental but its easy to imagine that if someone had a beef with this particular organisation they could easily falsely report many of their mails as spam/malware. After a certain number of un
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
I don't disagree, but something like Shakespeare's plays or the Odyssey/Iliad probably were refined/changed based on audience responses before they became the fixed works we have now. Dickens (after publication) softened
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
Surely a manual modification of the image would be a fairly easy way around this? Anyway, that may not matter - I think what people are looking for here is the absence of being sued by someone else, not the ability to sue someone else. If I
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
>IT people complain about people cobbling things together in Excel but in the short and medium term thats usually the only way for people to get shit done This is true, and why I think it's a shame we never got a real replacement fo
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
Having worked with "spreadsheet stacks" for the last two decades I'd argue that although they can be effective in most cases they are error prone which is the point being made in your quote. And they become more error prone t
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
Discussions about correlation vs causation aside I would say that I would not find such a relationship to be surprising. Having grown up in socially rented housing (i.e. "council housing") and then lived in private rents as an adu
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
>We could bring crime to near-zero if we give the government full, unlimited access to all of our communications, devices, and our homes. No, we really couldn't. That's an authoritarian fantasy. I don't think people really
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
Well the question about business value is a good one, no? After all, the question is not "Would improving this thing be a good thing?" it's "Would improving this thing be better than every single other thing we could be
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
Faking a famous person would seem to me to be easier (for various reasons) than faking my colleague. It's not enough to fake the sound of their voice, it's also the manner in which they speak - word choice, attitude, responses, kn
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
I must admit I found that element of the story...surprising. Has realtime faking gotten that good yet? Presumably there was back and forth in this call so this person was either disguising their voice or typing responses to be generated on
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
Chocolate eggs sure can.

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