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by com2kid 10mo ago
If done properly you shouldn't be able to tell. A really good voice AI assistant is indistinguishable from front line support reading through a script, and potentially a few steps better.
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by com2kid 10mo ago
Doing this stuff is literally my job. Large banks have tens of thousands of call center employees and a large % of calls they handle are perfectly solvable with a good AI bot. They are working very hard to cut call center staff as quickly a
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by com2kid 10mo ago
I'm telling you of what I've either worked on or seen myself. Just a couple days ago a scheduled a furnace repair through an AI receptionist on the phone. Layoffs in tech support and customer service already happened last year. En
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by com2kid 10mo ago
Yes. Dentists offices that only need 1 receptionist instead of 2. A dramatic reduction in front line tier 1 customer support reps. Translation teams laid off. Documentation teams dramatically reduced. Data entry teams replaced by vision mod
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by com2kid 10mo ago
The mentality around lifetimes is different in Zig if you are using it for the correct types of problems. For example, a command line utility. In a CLI tool you typically don't free memory . You just allocate and exit and let the OS c
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by com2kid 10mo ago
Before software paid as well as it does now, the percent on the spectrum was definitely a high double digit %. Normies have since invaded and finding someone to geek out with has become hard. (No one wants to discuss the finer points of CPU
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by com2kid 11mo ago
Counter point - my kid hates ads. I've worked to keep them away from him and whenever they do sneak through he gets irritated at them.
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by com2kid 11mo ago
Shorts are up to 3 minutes long now. At this point they are just vertical videos. I fully expect the supported length to keep increasing!
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by com2kid 11mo ago
When I first bought my pixel watch 2 I was able to optimize the settings to get almost 3 days of battery life. A year of firmware updates later, I am back down to less than 2 days using the same settings. I don't think the big manufact
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by com2kid 11mo ago
I used to daily drive this, most of the effects were minimized but I found that a little bit of white noise really helped make my terminal a lot easier on the eyes to read. I wonder if it is related to how some people find that film grain
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by com2kid 11mo ago
Custom OS, cross compiling from Windows, using Arm's old C compiler so tools like valgrid weren't available to us. Since it was embedded, no malloc. Everything being static allocations made the search possible in the first place.
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by com2kid 11mo ago
Have you ever fixed random memory corruption in an OS without memory protection? Best case you trap on memory access to an address if your debugger supports it (ours didn't). Worst case you go through every pointer that is known to acc
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by com2kid 11mo ago
My team once encountered a bug that was due to a supplier misstating the delay timing needed for a memory chip. The timings we had in place worked, for most chips, but they failed for a small % of chips in the field. The failure was always
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by com2kid 11mo ago
> Short term this might be a far slower and worse approach. We are way past the short term with Wayland! Wayland is 17 year old.
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by com2kid 11mo ago
Aside, The Sorcery! series is massively underappreciated. It is an incredible trilogy and a loving recreation of the height of 1980s game books. Highly recommended. I am sad the developers didn't make the fortune they deserved off of t
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by com2kid 11mo ago
> Just pick one of the many medical conditions associated with advancing age, like osteoporosis or male pattern baldness, A drug that maintained telomere length doesn't treat anything directly. A drug that slows down metabolism and
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by com2kid 11mo ago
No, it is a common trope in futurism circles. Because death is not technically a disease, right now if a company came up with a literal immortality pill they wouldn't be able to get it patented or get FDA approval for it.
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by com2kid 11mo ago
The FDA needs to declare death a disease that patentable drugs can be developed against. All of a sudden the flood gates get opened to encouraging drug research on anything that keeps people alive longer.
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by com2kid 11mo ago
I generally agree but look at the qualifications for weight loss drugs in the US vs the UK. Getting approved for weight loss drugs is possible in the US without a ton of work. BMI of 24 and you snore a lot? Possibly covered. High cholestero
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by com2kid 11mo ago
They are trained on public information from the Internet! Nothing they know is dangerous! It is all public info. Freely auditing an intro chemistry course at any university will teach far more "dangerous" knowledge than anything
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by com2kid 11mo ago
I remember working at MS a decade ago and how good out translation pipeline was. Tons of attention paid to cultural nuances even between different English dialects. We'd have separate translations for UK, US, AUS, and international Eng
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by com2kid 11mo ago
I actually really like my current customized KDE desktop. I have it all setup with transparency everywhere and a fully animated shader desktop wallpaper. Basically the opposite of everything Gnome stands for. :D
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by com2kid 11mo ago
Half the time updates require me to restart X (or Wayland, whichever I am using at the moment). Coming out of sleep is hit or miss. It works more often than I expected but sure as heck isn't 100%. Graphical corruption slowly sets in wi
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by com2kid 11mo ago
The pop shop app being single threaded is just embarrassing. Do a search, the entire UI freezes up until the search is complete. Also updates regularly break my KDE session and I have to restart my display server. Sometimes I have to switch
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by com2kid 11mo ago
I've been using Pop_OS, buggy as hell but steam games work great! Everything is kinda a dumpster fire, but they nailed steam games.
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by com2kid 11mo ago
> An Engineer might get the jollies designing a bridge, but the workers who work on it dont. My father was a laborer and he was incredibly proud of every project he worked on to build the city he loved. He was exceptionally proud the day
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by com2kid 11mo ago
Eventually consumers will use the technology to replace studios. Any studios that isn't playing ostrich has realized this (so possibly none of them) and should be just trying to extract as much value as possible as quickly as possible
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by com2kid 11mo ago
It has been that way for decades, but prior the parkour stuff was exploiting bugs in game engines and only the top 1% or less of players could even pull off the complex inputs needed. Personally, I was in the top 10% of HL2DM players but be
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by com2kid 11mo ago
Surprising! Whenever recruiters have gotten confused and sent me non-costal job listings the salaries have always been very low (e.g. 140k for a principal level).
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by com2kid 11mo ago
Any company not selling software for $$$ is hopefully not paying bay area salaries for their engineering team. Mid west engineering teams are low six figure or even less. The cost savings from outsourcing a team of people earning 90k is meh

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