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I dunno, no surveillance, military and police institutes had ever used astrology, numerology or horoscopes to define or track their targets but AI is constantly added to these things. General people using AI to do things can range from mino
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Here is an example(ragebait) rule from where I am in EU. Regulation dictates that, as an employee(FT contract), if I make something on my free time even, my employer can legally claim it as their IP/property. While there are not many e
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Off-topic: Eagerly waiting for the potty bowl to start playing ads depending on the chemical composition of the particular waste… it would go: “Your zinc ratio is low, have you tried blah blah? After my doctor prescribed blah blah I can foc
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Management Mindset: As long as the employee is not complaining, why throw more money? Besides, they can't be "that valuable and hard to replace". I have even seen management who don't even bat an eye or goes extra mile t
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I am immensely curious to know about the finances & accounting of these businesses. None of the examples made sense to me about how they have enough to keep the lights on. Please someone eli5 me. May be American things are too different
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I am absolutely glad that, I disable Siri immediately on all of my devices and grateful for the ominous mic-in-use indicator on all apple devices. Android also has a mic in use indicator too, but own only a Pixel to comment on Android in ge
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I see a lot of cynicism about “code monkey” and privilege. For physical labor, 8h with mandatory breaks is possible. For the “code monkey”, it is scientifically known that brain can’t focus and perform well for more than 4h. In addition the
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It is more of, management decided that they want to feel involved, so they added more meetings on top of unrealistic deadlines to fillup all hours, so it appears that we actually need more time or employees are working less, because now dea
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On the contrary, I believe they are intentionally laggy to rate-limit the orders, so that people in line can get pissed at the person in front of them rather than the waiter/server taking time to prepare and package the order. Also avo
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This might go into hands of insurance companies who will decide to not insure areas where Earth Quake is likely to hit and could also do some more forecasting to avoid further regions.
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It takes time to shape and convince people and form frameworks to move forward.
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Spotify, ASML, Hubspot, Dashlane, Ericsson, Siemens, Airbus etc. I can get behind with pride. But SAP is a plague upon Earth and I often pretend that it is imaginary myth.
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Call me cynic, but with every improvement the adtech and survillance gets stronger, so 4k video ads everywhere, more analytics to analyse your environment(somehow with lots of AI on everything), your door lock might need internet, metaverse
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> I wonder how flows like that happen. These flows are intended to dissuade problem reports, because the business is too big to care. I once reported a ui bug to Discord(the game chat). This is how it went. - me wrote an elaborate email
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Good news must come from overlords, bad news from the foot soldiers and messengers. Rite of the MBA era.
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Just because some successful companies use some approach doesn't make it the best practice. I have seen firsthand nuisance of monorepo, which took almost 15minutes to correctly switch branches on intel machines(and decently spiked the
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Here in Germany, most stores have effective zero cell reception immediately once you enter in the store and everything is normal once you are near the exit. In stores where people can order online, they offer free wifi(sometimes). I can see
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> solving people's problems. This sales > I came up with really amazing ideas and built products with neat UI, scalable backend and beautiful database structure. Something I'd feel proud to show to my engineer friends. This
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For wiw, everything I used before on my Android now has an AI in it’s name(or screenshot) on PlayStore. So: * The AI Browser * AI note taking app * AI photo gallery * AI habit tracker * AI budget planner * AI music player * AI bank * AI hik
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Why are these spam accounts not perma banned and removed? For example, this[1] account mentioned in the article has 1781 packages of gibberish. Also, the whole reporting process is onerous, there is a large form. Of course, gatekeeping on r
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Your ideal suburb describes most of the Europe(excluding few cities).
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Are you saying their moat must not have been built?
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Why? K8s so far had been very well designed piece of mature and battle tested infra software and documentation is awesome. It also removed a lot of headaches over other proprietary junk I had to deal with. While many hopes and dreams are th
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Which part of Germany and which companies are these? I have never heard of such arrangements. Even if there were, these payments will get eaten up by taxes and will leave peanuts. Hell, instead of such, I heard more stories of claw-backs(as
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Offtopic questions: > Intel will broadly offer applications for a “voluntary departure” program next week to employees at the company, according to the memo. The company is also announcing a companywide enhanced retirement offering for e
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For me personally, when I see "AI" suddenly popping up on something I am subscribed to, 8/10 times, there is some sort of chatbot suddenly added there; nothing ground breaking, nothing cool(that didn't exist before), jus
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How about NFS underground 1 & 2? Neither will start anymore because neither can reach the server(defunk) to check for multiplayer magics.
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> what can the FBI do if other countries I don't think, it is only the "other countries". There must be adequate people and a solid base in US to supply a lot of intricate details(which needs some legwork and is not plainl
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My condolences for Mr. Heitin. But the story feels a bit off, I mean investigator named "Charles Hunt" and then "Hayden Smith" immediately feels like made up names. If I called my bank and they told me about investigatio
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> My understanding is Europe caps the interchange / card fees that credit card companies can charge merchants. Not sure, how strongly this applies. I frequently get denied(verbal denial that Amex doesn't work, use something els
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