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by ThalesX 4y ago
I've recently been talking to a friend working at a large multinational for the last 10 years. They called him into office and presented him with a wooden plank with the number 10 inscribed on it. It almost pushed him to the edge to qu
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Yes; there can't be any other possible explanation than a bait and switch from Elon to collapse field communication for the Ukrainian people. Damn you Elon Musk!
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I worked for a company heavily into government contracts and got into a tight squeeze. They had two rounds of layoffs in two years. Both on a Friday. The first one was crazy, no one knew anything, and suddenly you saw people crying in the h
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It seems to me that religion, or spirituality if I may call it that, predates emperors. If you are truly talking about organized religion, then perhaps I might be more generous in agreeing with you. But when I think religion I think of smal
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I've worked in teams where 'seniors' were given to us by this kind of managers that were more like juniors so my personal experience has not been as good as yours.
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> I do not understand why some people gets so happy when management gets the axe. Do you think that good managers that cared for the team instead of their own career are the ones that stay? I am not happy for any axing. In case this ques
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I'm glad you had this experience! :) Do you think it's a local vs. global maxima situation? I've had a moment in my life where I had to work 16 hours / day for two months, but in the end it was worth it for me. Time out
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Career-related. Most of it is low-level stuff, like what I'd be expected to do for my yearly reviews vs. what I wanted to do. I'll mention two stories that just sprang to mind, though there are more. 1 - I was working in a rich .N
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Potentially inflammatory story, but I think about it occasionally, and this is a good context. I was out having a meal with old college buddies; most of us are developers, but some have become team leaders and managers. I will call it a sta
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I argue for the future so much. I hope to be able to at one point get rid of my anxiety about it. But: > Also when you say yes to people, a lot of time the other person never actually follows through the thing you didn't want. Otoh
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I’m sorry but when visiting Japan and landing in Tokyo sort of late in the evening I was shocked that people actually fall asleep on the subway and fall down, and this is from overworking. I wouldn’t have believed it had I not seen it with
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Can you give me some examples of where we already have this?
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Probably create a culture that promotes family values, makes housing, food and healtcare affordable, and denounces individualism and consumerism. Something that won't be very popular with modern audiences.
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Lesson: if the gov is after you, and you want to flee, buy a two-way ticket just for the reasonable doubt.
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I was just talking to a friend about the WEF so I have these links at hand, gonna drop them here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsEGfhaX4PQ (37 second clip of John Kerry almost calling the rich extraterrestrial) https:&#
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Sort of; if I'm understanding correctly, it also has a separate data store with context that gets used to build a prompt for GPT thus making the answer perhaps more precise based on already existing data on the internet that gets scrap
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Is this just a wrapper around the OpenAI GPT API?
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I get my task outline in Notion, the details in Teams calls, I request clarifications in GitHub, I get answers in Slack, I get the additional context in a 'quick call', and when all is said and done, I get reviewed based on the se
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> act as a dungeon master I've been trying to get it to act as a dungeon master unsuccesfully. Do you have any other leads apart from GPT (ChatGPT or AIDungeon)?
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> Money sucks but it is an effective way to trick our self-interested brains into creating value for society. The only reason why I'm not creating more value for society (I have some social side-projects that never get my entire att
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> I would imagine a more realistic conversation might go: Thanks for the answer. There’s two points this realistic conversation make me think of: one would be that this would put a little crosshair on me (or larger depending on the socio
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> "Hey I noticed that in our Zoom meetings you've had your camera off recently - we have a team working agreement that we try to keep cameras on in meetings to make remote work more tolerable. It makes me worried that you'
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I've used to help me come up with some reasonable points for my business website and then expand those. I verify it with my own thinking.
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Are we comparing the now or arbitrary periods in the past?
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Running a startup in Europe, we needed to find some hospitals as customers. We went to Berlin, the capital of EU startups and it was a PITA to get to talk to decision makers in large hospitals. The arrogance, disinterest for tech and speed
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Working full time. I haven't been able in a decade to get anywhere near close to living wage with my 'side gigs'.
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I love talking to GPT, but I've tried using it for some serious stuff (research, biz-dev) and less than serious stuff (Dungeons & Dragons) and the magic is still there but it has obvious blind spots which might be solved in the fut
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The place I currently work at and feel almost at the edge with regards to burnout has been automating everything for a year without any business value being delivered, because we don't have a product but we're building the "b
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I don't know the answer but I'd expect the company needs to value it sufficiently to make it more valuable for them to spend the time doing proper technical writing than not. Usually this is not the case. It's also an easy co
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Funny, I always thought hackers were supposed to work smart and belittle those that "work hard, always", especially those doing it for a "corpo". I don't consider myself an old-time hacker, but this comment makes me

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