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by burningChrome 2mo ago
THIS. I've seen visually impaired and wheelchair users have more issues with elevators than I have with not having proper ramps. Although I have seen several wheelchair bound accessibility experts invited to give talks and there's
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by burningChrome 2mo ago
The interesting thing for me is that I have a very easy time of identifying AIslop. Have I been conditioned to simply ignore or accept humanslop? Is that the direction this is all going? That at some point we will simply accept both as a pr
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by burningChrome 2mo ago
>> Do you, as a human, feel the urgency in that text? How it sounds like people's jobs, as well as the agent's job, are on the line? Sounds like all of the outside sales jobs I had. While I did not last very long in sales, o
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by burningChrome 2mo ago
I don't even know what to say to this because they never decided to replant the tress or create some other kind of buffer in its place. Just yanked the trees out and moved on. I'm not even an environmentalist, but this sort of non
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by burningChrome 3mo ago
The lack of details to me means this was an intentional marketing ploy to try and demonstrate the power of their models to show their technology can compete with the likes of Anthropic and DeepMind. They created an experiment they knew woul
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by burningChrome 3mo ago
Unless they too were somehow tied into Nvidia. This is what caused the 08' crash. Everything was all tied together so as one massive bank failed it sent a cascading ripple effect through the entire industry which became a sort of black
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by burningChrome 3mo ago
Myself and my friends have for years created fake profiles to catfish recruiters and companies to find out what job reqs they have open and what they're looking for in a candidate. When JS frameworks got huge, it was really helpful to
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by burningChrome 3mo ago
>> I used to enjoy reddit back in 2011-2013 when it was all about silly memes and jokes. This was totally me. Advice Animals was my go to when I needed to decompress from being overworked as a developer. Just funny, silly memes, and c
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by burningChrome 3mo ago
>> Here's the trick that makes it work... I give them strict instructions not to pick something they think I'LL like. I just want some tracks or albums that THEY are passionate about. This is exactly how I used to find music
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by burningChrome 3mo ago
>> Still being on your parent's family phone plan doesnt mean youd be destitute if they werent helping you out. I think there's some important things like this that should be considered. In the late 90's early aughts, I
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by burningChrome 3mo ago
Marques Brownlee called this six months ago when he released his video titled " The Downfall of OnePlus will be Studied ": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZdbbN3FCzE
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by burningChrome 3mo ago
Its been strange for a while. This was from Wired last year in June: https://www.wired.com/story/couples-retreat-with-3-ai-chatbo... From the article: Damien’s voice turned soft and weepy. “I’ve met the perfect person
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by burningChrome 3mo ago
My buddy was a huge VW fan and loved taking a stock Jetta or Passat and modding the engine and transmission while making it look completely stock. He was one of the few people I knew who loved the idea of the "wolf in sheeps clothing&q
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by burningChrome 3mo ago
>> By nearly any sane metric the world is wealthier. I would also point out people living in "poverty" in the US would be considered quite wealthy in other countries like Cuba or Haiti. Everything is relative to how you defi
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by burningChrome 3mo ago
>> if a school district wants to restrict the use of smartphones during the school day for all students Both of my kids went to public school. My sisters kids both went to a private school. The policy was the same at both places. Kid
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by burningChrome 3mo ago
Its also horrendous for accessibility and screen reader users.
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by burningChrome 3mo ago
The other issue is Gen Z and Gen A are now very much opposed to AI. I'm wondering with those two sets of generations who already have a very negative view of AI, how AI can survive that coming tsunami of change. According to WRITER’s
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by burningChrome 3mo ago
Interesting thing was our company paid millions to covert our office into an open office concept - just about a year before COVID hit. People were not fans and some of the horror stories were hard to imagine were real - like the guy who&#x2
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by burningChrome 3mo ago
Came here to say the same thing which I was pretty shocked at. Engaging in flame wars on a site that's supposed to be for professionals was really eye opening. I barely go on there any more its gotten so bad.
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by burningChrome 3mo ago
Was also on Harvest when news broke they had bought them here on HN. A lot of the same comments. I thought, "Well, maybe this is hyperbole, let's wait it out." About a month after they were acquired, same thing. Price of my p
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by burningChrome 3mo ago
This is one of those things I barely noticed because I tend to read fast and skim. Someone pointed the over use of these terms and now its like hitting a set of spike strips every time I'm reading the output from any given model. Its l
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by burningChrome 3mo ago
>> 74% of installs are unofficial builds, not ones released by LineageOS. One of the first versions of LineageOS I used was Evolution X on my Moms old OnePlus phone since it wasn't supported by the "official" Lineage ve
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by burningChrome 3mo ago
>> The tar pit of being able to use my brain to make money instead of navigating politics inside academia... happened for most of us a long time before AI. Anecdotal evidence to support your point. Have a degree in Anthropology. Took
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by burningChrome 3mo ago
Years ago when I was thinking of moving, I started looking at houses with my real estate agent. I started asking about foreclosure sales and he said the same thing. Seller and seller's agent will try and obfuscate the numbers to make i
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by burningChrome 3mo ago
This is the same thing that happened back in the day. I remember seeing ads to buy castles in Europe for under $10,000. I made a quip about it to my boss and he said he was seriously looking into it as he was really big into real estate at
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by burningChrome 3mo ago
Still have my 2014 Corolla which was the last year they included a CD player. My son is begging me to have it instead of trading it in when we get a new car this Fall. He's super into physical media which is crazy to see since he'
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by burningChrome 4mo ago
AFAIK nobody was collecting analytics. The one team I was working on had put out a goal of "30% more efficient" using AI tools. Its about as subject as you can get. We never got around to what exactly that meant before everything
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by burningChrome 4mo ago
I can give you some additional anecdotal evidence to support your comment. I work at a Fortune 200 company. At first, it was the Wild West. Need an LLM? You got it. Need to or want to build an army of agents? Done and done. We literally had
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by burningChrome 4mo ago
Do people not read the article, or do they just read the clickbait title and comment? Apparently they missed Ron Wyden (co-sponsor) of the bill is a Democrat and the bill is a bi-partisan effort? Or the fact the EFF is actually in support o
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by burningChrome 4mo ago
My next door neighbor was a few years older than me and was constantly showing me all kinds of nefarious stuff. One thing he showed me was if you tape over the tab on cassettes, you can erase and re-record what you want on them. One time my

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