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HenryBemis
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oh damn you're showing your age here!! :)
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I've been in Essex Uni back in the day (visiting friends, drinking, partying, etc.). Very 'beautiful' place brutal architecture. Good days....
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I am thinking that some years ago everyone with a Windows PC had to buy an antivirus SW and then MS added Defender. And then (in reverse) Windows had Solitaire and Pinball and now they don't. Right now ChatGPT does 'ten things
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Someone else above/below commented "Marketing --> Product". I see it that I have a problem, someone solves that problem. I pay $$ per month. Everyone is happy. I'd say "solution" or "product" and n
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> regular users, who pay loss-leader subscriptions who on earth told you about me???? :) I asked ChatGPT something, and it told me it needs 7 days to create that thing. I asked it to make small incremental dumps every 6 hours, just so I
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1y ago
It began its first steps down that slippery slope (imho) 10-12 years ago. I only log in when I want to find 'the next job' . You can safely ignore anything that says "add your CV". I usually target mega-big corps, and in
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1y ago
Sidenote: when I look for a solution to a problem I don't care whether ones uses AI, or a hammer, or a screwdriver. I just want the bloody job done. (Additionally) Depending where you are in the world, and where your customer is, AI ca
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Yes! I was "stuck" (someone dropped me off and someone else was supposed to pick me up, but they were late so..) on a highway/motorway in <country> (edit: I wrote it and then deleted it for privacy) some weeks back. The
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It is similar to "we got all these super useful and productive methods to workout (weight lifting, cardio, yoga, gymnastics, martial arts, etc.) yet people drink, smoke, consume sugar, sit all day, etc. We cannot blame X or Y. "It
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The issue with democracy (which imho is by far the best political system) is that the parties can collect "donations" which (again just imho) is legalized bribing and ultimately ends up creating servants of the sponsors and not th
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How not to pay your taxes: 1) be rich (or even better filthy rich) 2) go to PWC/EY/etc, pay them handsomely, let them work their magic 3) they got offices all over the planet and are updated on every single legislation
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Every social media company/app wants us know to live by their notifications. This is why you shouldn't have any such app installed. I stopped using CNN and BBC apps almost immediately after I installed them on my 'then'
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1y ago
I fear that when the CFO and CEO will walk in holding a hammer and a saw, the CTO will start blaming the Directors for not "maximizing value" by "misusing" AI.. because why blame the tech when you can fire 20 more devs&#
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What is the(ir) reputation? Do they delay payments? Do they try to find reasons not to pay? I will oversimplify this (and I work like this when I have to pick a service (anything from SaaS to hiring one of them Big4+2 for a project): I want
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Second post, more relevant: unless you will want to monetize your photos, 99.999% will never be seen/noticed unless you make a strong push (bots boosting views, etc) If you don't care for the HQ/megapixels, you can always joi
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After a photowalk I make a "selection" subfolder where I pick the best photos (sometimes with a minimal crop/rotate) like one other commenter commented. (Back in the day... when I went through my weekly/monthly-photowalk
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You get trashed and I don't understand why. Many of us "here" that are pushing at the range 45-85 grew up 0-10) without smartphones, 'interweb', computers, etc. My first 'machine" was an Atari (cartridge&#
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You can root a Fire, change its launcher, disable the bloatware, install the PDF/epub/etc. reader of your choice, and you end up with cool tablet-readee that has battery for days!!! I kept mine offline and copied the files I wante
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Please... It was about a tortoise. What kind of test is this? My pupils dilated by anger!! You call this a decent Voight-Kampff test?? Now you made me want to throw a table and shoot at you!!!! (no irl ofc)(oh sorry you have to ask me about
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The whole intro is so BS that I won't spend a minute to read and destroy it (GDPR FTW). I will let them burn themselves. And if they ever start becoming big/dangerous they will feel the wrath of 1) a "GDPR nightmare letter&qu
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I have "programmed" Copilot to do some Q&A work. For my org the team should scale to 50 to make it effective. My idea and implementation will keep us to ~20 with the capability of dropping it to 5 (organically). I don't t
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And or if you got any dependencies (even to "open" 'stuff') when vulnerabilities and bugs arise that will break the backwards compatibility to your codebase you will definitely be tempted/lured/asked to spend &
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There is the (helpful to distinguish) 'gap' here. The media org that will report on a politician (for good or bad), will use the politician's 'news-PR-approved-actual-photo-provided-by-the-politician's-PR-team'
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I use Fatsecret, so I can calculate my protein and calories. I tend to travel, so there are barcodes from many countries. And irrespective of the country, the app fails 20% of the barcodes which is the only annoyance on the app (I workaroun
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If there is any 'decision' being made with that screening, you can't run this with GDPR. You can't have the 'machine' make a life-impacting decision such as employing someone, there is no 'explainability&#
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Sorry, couldn't resist: https://youtu.be/JYqfVE-fykk?t=205 - Spell that for me - Impossible
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30 Celsius, but as others write it's the humidity that does the trick. I can do 40 C and super-dry, or 22 and super-humid (and everything below the line that connects these two points).
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Who doesn't use Telnet??? I still got my WinTin together with all the aliases from when I was MUD-ing!! What? It's insecure? Everything is sent in cleat-text? North Korean hackers can steal my coins and my Longsword?
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do try (so you get the joy of 'small' wins), also do know that it's untouchable (so you don't despair when you don't master quantum mechanics in one lifetime) :)
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It's not "the third party auditors", it is the scope of the audits that I don't trust. They pick the control "how long do you bake the chicken in the oven", and the report title cab be "enforcing harse con
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