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by phatskat 3y ago
Yep, I’ve got a few speakers and it feels like a crapshoot. I pretty much only say “lights on/off”, “play rain sounds”, and “stop”. But the goog hears _something_ that translates to “playing lights53 on Spotify”, or “here’s what’s play
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by phatskat 3y ago
I can definitely understand this argument - imagining my dad setting up even SMS-based 2FA makes me shudder. However, for information this sensitive, it would have been smarter (imo) to strongly encourage 2FA, along with tutorials on how to
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by phatskat 3y ago
There’s a lot of other giveaways - the hair on the left and middle doll would just be loose yarn or thread, there’s no stitching, and getting them to that kind of detail and consistency would be a nightmare. The noses all lack any stitch de
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by phatskat 3y ago
We worked on a large overhaul of the customer support system for Big Grocery Store a couple years ago, and the PMs and designers spent a lot of time sitting down with the users and watching them walk through their current flow. They observe
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by phatskat 3y ago
I don’t think “gingering” is a typo given that figging is a few ranks underneath
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by phatskat 3y ago
Shout out to the Behind the Bastards episode - The Ballad of Eel Horse https://open.spotify.com/episode/1LT2cR70h366WwTzVZs2VB
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by phatskat 3y ago
Idk, I always thought it was to the death or (severe) injury
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by phatskat 3y ago
One of my local groups has been flooded with porn spam as of late, moderators have abandoned the group (the group was NOT for anything remotely related). I reported the group for spam and for sexually explicit content (I’m talking links wit
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by phatskat 3y ago
We’re moving to Tailwind in a project rearchitecture initiative next year and I’m _thrilled_. We have SASS files, and a lot of them. They are mostly well-organized (ish) and, at one point, they were well-maintained. But, this component need
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by phatskat 3y ago
Musk has stated that his goals for space colonization are for his children’s children and his friend’s grandchildren to be the ones doing all the colonizing, and that earth is just a resource (people included) to burn up in pursuit of that
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by phatskat 3y ago
I don’t know if there are any minis up on the site, but Apple has a refurb store that is usually pretty solid on price (or was last time I looked). Pawn shops aren’t a bad idea either - typically heavily marked down electronics, and if you
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by phatskat 3y ago
What are “tech-woke” messages?
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by phatskat 3y ago
> better give them what they want or else A tale as old as the first police union: when the city tried to reign them in, the Portland Police politely threatened to walk off the job and the chief (iirc) casually showed up to negotiations
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by phatskat 3y ago
I don’t expect someone in their early 20’s, being paid CVS wages, and dealing with a ton of people all day to necessarily have the best backbone in the face of an armed thug demanding information face to face. Respecting privacy should be a
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by phatskat 3y ago
That weird US thing is a fractured healthcare system. You might have your GP, a specialist, and a psychologist, who all work in different offices that use different records system which may or may not have a working level of interoperabilit
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by phatskat 3y ago
My friend was biking across a parking lot exit and got slammed by a car, t-boning her. She faceplanted into the hood, really really bad. A while later, she saw the same car and they had not fixed the hood, and she could see the crumple of w
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by phatskat 3y ago
And a quote from TFA about the EU and Cybertruck > Tesla has not said whether it will sell Cybertrucks in Europe, but its chief engineer this month told motoring publication TopGear that EU safety rules aimed at protecting pedestrians by
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by phatskat 3y ago
Anecdotal counter-point: my Google home usually understands me (male voice) but either ignores or misinterprets my roommate (female voice). Not sure if it’s the same tech necessarily, nor where the fault lies. But this is across multiple ge
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by phatskat 3y ago
I appreciate the quick and passionate read! Ruby was one of the languages I sought out when I was trying to figure out if I should switch from PHP before getting on a “set” professional path. At that stage, I’d been doing PHP and web progra
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by phatskat 3y ago
Those were their exact words?
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by phatskat 3y ago
Maybe we can just not use a term for one of the most vulgar and violating human acts to talk about something that has a lot less gravity.
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by phatskat 3y ago
Apple in general seems to really embrace accessibility. I remember using the screen reader back in middle school because it was “cool”, and now some 25 years later I can see that it was the tip of the accessibility iceberg. My iPhone has ju
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by phatskat 3y ago
Can second this - Arc is my daily driver now
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by phatskat 3y ago
I too would like to know about the time you were “fired” for taking a vacation that your boss approved
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by phatskat 3y ago
> Million ways to kill oneself that are easily accessible. A key factor to look at when someone is experiencing suicidal ideation is to evaluate whether they have a concrete plan. Someone is much more likely to succeed or even attempt su
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by phatskat 3y ago
> By the way, the largest victim of gun violence in the US is gun owners due to suicide. It’s unclear what mitigations one could put in place to prevent that. The mitigations probably are: free and accessible mental health counseling, sh
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by phatskat 3y ago
> statutory damages for data breaches, and even steeper ones for failure to report breaches If say an engineer becomes aware of a breech, would going public if their company didn’t do so within the legal timeframes to report be covered b
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by phatskat 3y ago
It shouldn’t be about limiting access in the first place. The truth is that parents need to have those uncomfortable and direct conversations with their children and help guide them to make healthy decisions.
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by phatskat 3y ago
Do you have sources on those predictions moving up “significantly” because of ChatGPT? Predicting words that sound good together, as a result of a prompt, based on a pre trained set of data is vastly different from AGI.
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by phatskat 3y ago
Of course wealth affects one’s mental state, this is pretty well studied. Also “earned” is a bit generous, he’s had a lot of “right people, right time, right place” in his life (not to mention a great start from the emerald mines). Also why

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