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by qurren 4mo ago
I just wish they would put better processors in their stuff. Is this yet another NAS powered by an ARM Cortex?
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by qurren 4mo ago
I think in the US a home office and a guest room is also usually needed, so 4-5 bedrooms makes total sense. In fact 4-5 bedroom single family houses in the US are extremely common. What I don't understand is why apartments always see
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by qurren 4mo ago
I wonder why 4b apartments are so rarely seen in the US. In Asia they are quite common.
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by qurren 4mo ago
> MDM managed work profiles Do you mean actual employer-spyware MDM work profiles? I suppose I never expected those to work. Or do you mean things like Shelter, which uses work profiles and which I use to quarantine certain less-trusted
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by qurren 4mo ago
> In that case, OS access becomes moot. Not really. 1. A non-Google OS can shut off background running access to Google apps, as well as supply Google apps with mock location data and other data 2. Google does other things to the OS that
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by qurren 4mo ago
Is it possible to install basic Google apps like Gmail, Calendar, Maps, Drive without googlifying the whole phone? I'm not looking to fully de-Google but I want Google as apps and not my OS.
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by qurren 4mo ago
What horror stories have you heard? Just hot temperatures or smoke and fire?
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by qurren 4mo ago
I'm also using the WAS groupon stick with a huge fan on it. I really wish they would build a proper fan and cooling duct into the stick and power it with the stick itself. It very much seems like a half-assed solution.
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by qurren 4mo ago
It's not always a choice when the system increases costs of living to a point where you need to enter a toxic company in order to literally exist, and interview acceptance rates are abysmally low. If I had enough money that employment
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by qurren 4mo ago
Switzerland is not unique in that aspect. Pick any mountainous, desert, or coastal part of the world and you are guaranteed scenery for ~95% of the drive. Pick any historic part of the world and you are guaranteed nice-looking buildings any
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by qurren 4mo ago
> I'm not sure the author of this thread works in such a place I worked at Amazon, previously. > Management needs visibility. I know this very well, and this is a problem. The nature of jobs in any industry is that not all of the
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by qurren 4mo ago
> I’ll go stock shelves at Walmart Yeah, but then I wouldn't have been able to pay for my healthcare. A certain toxic company's health insurance paid for my care, though. Prior to joining said toxic company I'd be racking
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by qurren 4mo ago
I haven't yet had an agent rm -rf files. I've had one f up an account by placing 2000 limit orders at the wrong price, but that's another story.
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by qurren 4mo ago
> start is tracking all the proactive things being done and reporting them Speaking from experience, this does nothing. If you're at a company that is okay with average performers, then absolutely, 100%, fix all the bugs in advance,
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by qurren 4mo ago
> I'm continually bemused and astonished I'm not. Everyone is told to get 10X the amount of shit per day done these days. Safety checks are out the window at that point.
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by qurren 4mo ago
I've also more or less stopped posting my photography on Instagram because (1) my Instagram feed is now full of AI images getting 10000 likes while I get 100; if nobody sees what I post it's not worth posting (2) people instead ac
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by qurren 4mo ago
On the other hand, maybe it makes people just get off the internet and value in-person interactions more. I've stopped scrolling social media and tired of seeing fake landscapes, fake foods, and fake cities that don't exist.
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by qurren 5mo ago
Why? Just build mountains out of it and maybe even open a salt-ski park in the tropics for people who don't have snow.
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by qurren 5mo ago
0.00006 times the speed of light. Damn.
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by qurren 5mo ago
If you're an engineer in the trenches of the company, good luck convincing the people above to sign that contract. You'll waste thousands of hours just trying .
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by qurren 5mo ago
They probably added something to the prompt after that viralness and then it was a cat and mouse game to jailbreak it
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by qurren 5mo ago
> It is almost guaranteed that a 60-90B model can outperform current SOTA in coding tasks The benchmarks need to change. The current coding benchmarks don't capture the realities of software engineering. I had a bunch of images that
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by qurren 5mo ago
I don't get it. Is this for your family to message you in emergency (e.g. they lose their phones) without needing credentials to their 2FA-infested apps of sorts that they're locked out of? Are you not getting a ton of spam from t
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by qurren 5mo ago
> manipulate the real world in horribly destructive ways to win a bet This happens on the stock market on a scale 100x larger than Polymarket. c.f. manipulated earnings reports, taco trades, strait of hummus nonsense
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by qurren 5mo ago
> By the time you start collecting pension, you have effectively ousted yourself I disagree. The vast majority of jobs are difficult to work at old age and with medical conditions that typically come with old age. As long as we value kee
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by qurren 5mo ago
> I have 4 kids and can say that they absolutely do not have to cost that much. Look, my electricity bill doubled. Will the landlord pay for efficiency upgrades? Nope. Will the landlord still increase rent? Hell yes. My water bill double
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by qurren 5mo ago
I really don't fucking know. That's not my problem. Either increase my salary by $500K for a couple years, or stop taxing me to death (state taxes, federal taxes, sales taxes, indirectly paying property taxes via rent, taxes disgu
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by qurren 5mo ago
If you want to incentivize people to have kids, hand out $500K-1M to anyone who wants to have kids. Don't penalize those who don't. And yes, kids cost that much. I'm a senior level software engineer in the bay area. I don&#x2
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by qurren 5mo ago
> and it is quite literally completely foreign I'm quite fine with that. I drove through an Armenian neighborhood of LA and stopped for a meal at a restaurant whose name I could not comprehend and it was really, fucking tasty. Zheng
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by qurren 5mo ago
"Rights" is not the point. You're correct that a country doesn't have to welcome you. However, the US has been a prosperous country because it welcomes ambitious, hard-working, and skilled people from around the worl

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