lamasery

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by lamasery 6mo ago
This was an actual thing (complaining about this) when super-markets started to take over from general stores and butcher shops et c. Having to go get your bag of sugar off the warehouse shelf yourself rather than a clerk fetching it for yo
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by lamasery 6mo ago
Please explain to me which part they are automating. A person scans the goods. A person handles keying in codes when necessary. A person tells the system the scanning is done and to accept payment. A person bags the groceries. I guess if yo
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by lamasery 6mo ago
Self-checkouts aren’t automation. They just change who does the work (to someone not being paid for it).
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by lamasery 6mo ago
Not just that, getting unpaid labor. Self-checkouts aren’t automating anything, they’re just making the shopper do work for the store. I hope they’re losing money over it.
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by lamasery 6mo ago
The impression I've gotten from ex-military folks is that regarding "military grade" as a marker of quality is a habit they find particularly funny.
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by lamasery 6mo ago
Trawling Reddit with great care and a critical eye, plus obscurer topic-specific forums, is the best solution I've come up with. Though even those are full lies-for-pay (advertising) especially on Reddit.
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by lamasery 6mo ago
Brooks has their "factory outlet" crap that is also what you're likely to see at "overstock" stores like Nordstrom Rack (or TJ Max, though I'm not sure they get Brooks-branded stuff; NR does). That entire marke
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by lamasery 6mo ago
I've been seeing fabric from their US mill, but manufacturing elsewhere (like the DR) for years. So far I've done OK assuming anything they make that's not 100% wool is cheap trash they're using to cash in on the name
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by lamasery 6mo ago
Extracting any useful signal from brands requires keeping up with news about the businesses, and keeping track of various sub-labels and the hieroglyphic knowledge to distinguish them, which is so fucking tedious but is still easier than ev
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by lamasery 6mo ago
I think there's a lot of hidden inflation in this. Or, if not outright inflation, something similar to it. Look at what it costs to get a work shirt (I mean, for physical labor, "blue collar", heavy chambray or something al
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by lamasery 6mo ago
Plenty of businesses or products within businesses stagnate and fail because their software got too expensive to maintain and extend. Not infrequently, this happens before it even sees a public release. Any business that can't draw sta
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by lamasery 6mo ago
That’s why they want parental controls that actually work and don’t require the skills of a sysadmin to get right.
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by lamasery 6mo ago
What people mean when they cry to be freed from their labor, is the requirement to labor. They want to be liberated from bills. If the angle were "AI is going to make your bills go away" everyone would be ecstatic about it. Inst
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by lamasery 6mo ago
I expect we'll see a spike in cell phone battery fires starting about a year after this goes into effect. Same deal as cheap external battery-powered travel power banks, which are already a problem.
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by lamasery 6mo ago
Situation: you are a poor draftee being led by some other kid who happens to have a college degree (an officer). There are several of you, and one of him. Your living conditions are terrible and you're often asked to do things that mig
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by lamasery 6mo ago
I would assume the manager's a terrible reader and writer. Most people are. Most managers are. It's one of those upsetting things I've learned about the world as an adult, that's sharply contrary to what I believed as a
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by lamasery 6mo ago
> The number of times I see my words interpreted as though my choice in words had been imprecise is a near constant source of pain, particularly in the workspace. I might be on the spectrum, I am undiagnosed. Could be some of this, but a
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by lamasery 6mo ago
I'm also not quite sure how you get a passport without a bank account. Can you pay in cash? Even if you can, I'm guessing that's only at certain offices, which adds to the hassle and cost.
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by lamasery 6mo ago
You're gonna want to look into the context and framing. Elements connected to what you claimed are "fact". The framing is very much not.
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by lamasery 6mo ago
I looked into some of this stuff when we were moving across the country and temporarily had no actual permanent address (living out of AirBnBs) including no home under contract, and it would have been very nice to set up a PO Box and local
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by lamasery 6mo ago
We don't really have a standard way to definitively say "I am a citizen" in the US. It's all kinda ad-hoc, like most of the rest of our ID system. Closest thing's a birth certificate[EDIT: or naturalization papers,
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by lamasery 6mo ago
1) Where's that in the linked piece? 2) I don't understand how you do what you claim with those. Like I have zero idea how one achieves "economic freedom for my family and community" with LLCs.
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by lamasery 6mo ago
It's not just "AI", people hate big tech in general. The overwhelming reaction I saw to the news that an Amazon datacenter got droned was "why is Iran helping us, and do they need coordinates for some other ones?" a
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by lamasery 6mo ago
It's not that kind of "AI" though. On a long line between SQL and Cylons, we're sitting way closer to the SQL end of that line. Like close enough that from across the room you can't tell the two dots of "SQL&
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by lamasery 6mo ago
WhatsApp put a (weirdly tame and unremarkable?) image a friend of mine tried to post into review and ended up never letting it show up in a thread, the other day. He was able to post a screenshot of it sitting in his view of the thread, a
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by lamasery 6mo ago
Punch-out and High Speed are my two test-games. If I can’t land the multiball shot in high speed at the first opportunity, and I can’t at least get past the teleporting tiger dude in Punch Out, it needs more work. I’ve had initial attempts
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by lamasery 6mo ago
The main problem with playing older games in a modern media-hardware environment is the screen. You've got the problem that lots of them look worse, or even outright wrong (see: transparency-layering effects on things like Sonic the He
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by lamasery 6mo ago
They do. One series often used is "No Fear Shakespeare". Facing-page "translation", relatively cheap. It's much better to watch it performed, though. The context the actors provide gets one past much of the difficul
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by lamasery 6mo ago
I wonder if there were street vendors selling little replicas of the wooden horse.
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by lamasery 6mo ago
Put simply: The existence of motor vehicles is good, from most perspectives. It's fairly hard to argue they're not. The development of cities caused by unrestricted, broad private car ownership without lots of careful coordination

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