mancerayder

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by mancerayder 2mo ago
I'm four days a week in the office and almost all my meetings are on Zoom. It's noisy, lunch is rarely below 20 dollars (no, I don't have time nor will I cook a big pot of 4 meals Sunday night), the lights are too bright, the
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by mancerayder 2mo ago
Is there any value in really learning gimp? As in, more than just rudimentary tasks you must do. Photoshop has the artistic aspect of doing interesting things in photography editing. I am wondering if gimp is "equally fun" here
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by mancerayder 2mo ago
Americans and especially corporate culture America likes to do this all the time: The ask instead of request is an example. I just politely use the words I prefer when that happens. Our new promotes for this year. etc. I read from a lingui
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by mancerayder 2mo ago
Dufus is how it automatically maps when I say it out loud.
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by mancerayder 2mo ago
Can't I get the same thing with Brave though? I'm getting what feels like built in ad blocking.
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by mancerayder 2mo ago
What sorts of questions can we and can't we ask?
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by mancerayder 2mo ago
I've uncovered some -2x engineers recently - who cause long-term problems with their changes that more than one person has to unravel. It's usually comes as a surprise, some going back to look at who approved MRs, and loud ranting
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by mancerayder 2mo ago
I'm simultaneously frustrated and I see a business opportunity - I now know that we senior folks are very far from replaceable - and soon there might be consulting to fix big problems. No one will say it's AI's fault necessa
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by mancerayder 2mo ago
There are people in the replies below going back and forth about whether the US or the UK started the surveillance state first. I think as undemocratic as the US can behave in practice, it's hard not to argue that the UK won the CCTV s
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by mancerayder 2mo ago
But then they do maintenance on weekends. No one works or uses the trains on the weekends, right? It's at 3 am weekdays that it should be running. Nevermind at that those hours it's infrequent and essentially a homeless shelter
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by mancerayder 2mo ago
Where's Google's hotline?
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by mancerayder 2mo ago
which you get on mobile browsers by just highlighting and long pressing the word.
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by mancerayder 2mo ago
You have to tell it to not use LLMisms and stupid metaphors. The serious-but-empathetic-sounding fluffy metaphors get on my nerves, and sometimes can overlap with something technical you are learning such that you can't tell if it&#x2
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by mancerayder 2mo ago
I'm coming to the conclusion that the right way to use LLMs for code generation is asking it to solve specific problems, giving it existing code and asking it how it would propose changing something or other, or if it has an alternativ
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by mancerayder 2mo ago
I use it by telling it my background, giving it a rough timeline and asking it to create a learning timeline, save progress along the way, and git push / pull periodically so I can use the same thing on both Linux and Mac. I tell it f
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by mancerayder 2mo ago
I really like this comment. Yes, it's the worst of both worlds: the right says that government is inefficient, I told you so; the left says it's the only solution to solve many social issues. Unfortunately they're both rig
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by mancerayder 2mo ago
If you pay for YouTube, there are no ads. [edit] except for those ones that podcasters add in the middle. "[15 minutes in] Alright, now is a great time to tell you about my sponsor tell you about my sponsor!", and you skip ahead
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by mancerayder 2mo ago
>I don’t use adblockers. If a site has too many ads to be usable, I don’t visit it. Excuse me. I take it you don't read any mainstream news (NYT, Bloomberg, WSJ, WSP, etc etc).
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by mancerayder 2mo ago
Sent to MS is one thing - OneDrive/sync/etc. Used by MS and processed for nefarious purposes is another. Does it say that it 'may' be used for telemetry purposes?
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by mancerayder 2mo ago
Please don't bite me -- question for this group, where "Firefox" is going back and forth as a topic. Isn't Brave okay? There's something toxic about Brave I'm not getting; I can tell you it's incredibly e
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by mancerayder 2mo ago
Hold on a second. You can get up between meetings, go for a jog, use a home gym, lay down and read, sit in your yard in the sun with your eyes closed, pet your dog, call your significant other or sit with them, shop for new shoes, study fo
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by mancerayder 2mo ago
Any finance tech workers? I spoke to someone from a Mag 7 recently, and he said, isn't it true that you guys are treated like second class citizens? Yes, it's true. It's been true for a long time. It's a bifurcated worl
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by mancerayder 2mo ago
I and my cohorts are forced back in the office four days a week. It's a miserable grind. Routine includes alarm, after a poor night of sleep, getting ready, commuting in, loud, bright offices where while you enjoy the convivial nature
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by mancerayder 2mo ago
I always get the highest end components I can find, and I try to stick with Asus and not the cheapest PSU. I've never had anything fail, and I do this every 5 years or so. I hate having to put the fan on the CPU after sticking that i
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by mancerayder 2mo ago
That isn't true. States levy taxes and buyers brokers are a thing in some states, and in some cases they're less fully paid by seller (less than the customary 2.5-3, leaving buyer to provide 1 or 1.5). Closing costs include mortg
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by mancerayder 2mo ago
The part of compensation includes healthcare, because we have no choice, it's a lock in - there's no marketplace to choose your healthcare, unless you go ACA which is a bad idea in many states - and as a lock-in the out of pocket
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Tokenmaxxing Is Dead. Now Comes the Belt Tightening(bloomberg.com)
3 points by mancerayder 2mo ago|0 comments
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by mancerayder 2mo ago
Wait, he was heavy in AI while shorting software? What happened to the word hedge in hedge fund?
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LinkedIn Is Cracking Down on 'AI Slop' with New Reporting Tool(bloomberg.com)
3 points by mancerayder 2mo ago|1 comments
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by mancerayder 2mo ago
Do you recommend an application in particular to make it easy to do something like that (record a video walk through that you turn into a rendering on a PC in VR)? I happen to have a Valve Index with dust on it. And I mean for someone with

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