birdsongs

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by birdsongs 2mo ago
Yeah, exactly.
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by birdsongs 2mo ago
That's fair. My internet bubble is intentionally very small.
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by birdsongs 2mo ago
> My company has excellent culture. > Zero tolerance > We’re a business not a daycare Okay man, I'm sure it's great.
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by birdsongs 2mo ago
You misunderstood my reply. I'm talking about culture, not engineering or coding. I'm just grateful I don't work with people that say "good riddance" to blanket foreign talent bans, and "catch up or get left be
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by birdsongs 2mo ago
> Good riddance. > Coding is solved. Engineering is not. Catch up or be left behind. I'm really grateful for my company's culture. Reading replies like this, I remember how easy it is to forget how atrocious that can be else
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by birdsongs 2mo ago
This was a really great listen, thank you!
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by birdsongs 2mo ago
I really don't need you to tell me the reality of my past, like I don't already understand these things. It's also not the topic we're here to discuss. Go be mad elsewhere, please.
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by birdsongs 2mo ago
Yeah. To be clear I don't think anything mystical happened, it was just my brain doing very odd thing outside of its default state.
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by birdsongs 2mo ago
This is obviously just anecdotal, but when I was 6 I got very ill with the flu and was in bed for days. Super high fever and was quite out of it. I had a, idk, spell one afternoon where I saw this quilt we had on the wall open up at all the
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by birdsongs 2mo ago
I started noticing this with smartwatches in 2019-2020, with my coworkers. They would just stop mid convo, check watch, and resume talking. It's only about 5 seconds but it feels so weird on the other side. Like, sure, I'll wait f
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by birdsongs 2mo ago
> Apart from that, republicans are ridiculously inept. They're not. They're really not. They're incredibly capable and are currently executing long term plans successfully, one after another. This goes all the way back to
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by birdsongs 3mo ago
Agree. I've just decided that I'm limiting my reading to pre-2021 books. There's still many lifetimes of a backlog there, even at my relatively high rate.
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by birdsongs 3mo ago
> The US is already under an authoritarian regime Yeah, I know. That was my point, the irony in that statement.
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by birdsongs 3mo ago
"My primary concern is the risk that authoritarian governments—not solely the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), although the CCP is clearly the most capable threat—build AI models that are more powerful than those built by the US, and use
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by birdsongs 3mo ago
I mean, we are as much a part of the universe as everything else. We're just dead star matter arranged in specific ways. A part of the universe is objectively conscious.
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by birdsongs 3mo ago
Do you have any proof of this? The moderators are very transparent here. I'd be absolutely shocked if that's true.
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by birdsongs 3mo ago
Eh, me and most people I know are burning out fast. There's a split between the people that love to program, for the sake of it, and those that just want a well paying job. Seems like the former group is hit the hardest re: morale. The
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by birdsongs 3mo ago
I appreciate the info. Re: the banks I'm with, I have no choice. I'm an immigrant and most banks refused to give me an account when I moved here. Or ghosted me during the months long process. These are the banks that let me live h
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by birdsongs 3mo ago
Is it that dire? I'm in with DNB and Nordea and they both have functioning netbanks. But I don't know how the rest are. I've been getting by with a bankid codebrick and web browser access (although Nordea and DNB apps work fi
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by birdsongs 3mo ago
I get the analogy but it's a false one. Google covers about 90% of Mozilla's funding. Firefox only survives because of Google, and that's so they don't hit antitrust problems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by birdsongs 3mo ago
I think you're possibly generalising your own experience to the masses. That's absolutely not the case for me. I love learning to learn. I learned programming because I found a quick basic compiler / IDE on my dad's comp
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by birdsongs 3mo ago
Absolutely. I used to read constantly, from my teenage years through my early 30's, but stopped about 5 years ago? I guess life stress and short form social media taking my free time. But I managed to get free of all the apps, and I ju
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by birdsongs 3mo ago
My fav job was an internship with a EW company that made these massive rackmount radar systems. My boss, the lead engineer, loved blue LED status lights. So the massive boards we made had hundreds on them. There were thousands total in the
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by birdsongs 3mo ago
> Crazy how you guys blindly trust proprietary apps where you can’t even read the code Wow okay, I'm a huge open source advocate, I run hardly anything closed source. No one here was talking about that, this is your own weird segue.
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by birdsongs 3mo ago
> Don’t take my word for it then, ask any terminal agent to dig in and get an idea of how good these apps are. Okay but, you know this isn't a quality metric right? These models are incredibly biased towards positive confirmation of
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by birdsongs 3mo ago
Not sure where in the Nordics you are, but just want to plug ut.no and norgeskart.no for really fantastic Norway navigation. Both have free apps (norgeskart has a 50kr / year subscription to support and add more features), and both are
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by birdsongs 3mo ago
> People who have experience with embedded programming knows that reading out a button usually means denouncing I know you mean "debouncing" but I love the autocorrect. Like the button is some almighty authority that Denounces
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by birdsongs 4mo ago
It really depends on the state of the screen. It's easier with reading PDFs, for instance, when you can get away with a full refresh on page turns. Versus someone drawing on the screen with a lot of zooming and panning. People with the
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by birdsongs 4mo ago
That's exactly it. I was a firmware engineer at reMarkable making the latest tablets. We had some secret eink sauce (propriety waveforms) to get the high refresh rates and colour contrast without a full flashing screen reset, but even
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by birdsongs 4mo ago
You're heavily downvoted, and while this admin is absolutely autocratic far beyond anything we've ever seen, and democracy is eroding rapidly: privacy has backslid under every administration. Obama had nearly a decade to revert th

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