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by redserk 1y ago
Incorrect. The FTC is not simply under the executive branch, it’s defined to be an independent agency. The handling of the Federal Reserve and the FTC cases are creating a very interesting situation for how agencies can be defined by Congre
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by redserk 1y ago
After graduating college I joined a company that paid generally below-market for everyone and had a significant number of H-1B employees and contractors. The benefits were legendary but the pay was 20-30% lower than what was around. I don’t
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by redserk 1y ago
Fortunately laws aren’t limited to be exclusive to large business interests and, at least occasionally, can be drafted with intent to benefit consumers in a market.
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by redserk 1y ago
How is being subject to a double-digit tariff on devices sold to American consumers — one of Apple’s most critical markets — in the best interest of shareholders? And actually, I’m now forgetting if those tariffs are in play on phones again
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by redserk 1y ago
The old “book smart vs street smart” rings loudly. I completely disagree with much of what the Trump Administration is pushing, but they seemed to execute on the “street smarts” while policy wonks and others who want to analyze are preoccup
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by redserk 1y ago
I don’t think I’ve had a counterfeit good come in, but the number of times I’ve heard about it led me to start going to other retailers for things I wanted guarantees on: cleaning products, personal hygiene items, and expensive electronics&
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by redserk 1y ago
If you’re going to spend the effort to rewrite your chat conversations back into email, you might as well throw those summaries into a wiki or other documentation system..
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by redserk 1y ago
I think you could probably whip something very basic and crude up with fzf and the “—-preview” flag
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by redserk 1y ago
Sentry mode doesn’t record audio.
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by redserk 1y ago
I’d be willing to bet they would take privacy protections a bit more seriously.
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by redserk 1y ago
At this point I wouldn’t rely on PiHole DNS logs alone. You’d need to check network traffic from the device in general, it could use DoT/DoH. And I suppose there’s the even-creeper Amazon Sidewalk: https://www.amazon.com&#x2
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by redserk 1y ago
How is this practical advice in a thread where someone mentions that the clampdown happened without notice? The "shoulda done..." advice isn't useful in the slightest, and I'd argue is malicious with how often it's
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by redserk 1y ago
You can save a lot of money on random stuff from Temu/Aliexpress compared to Amazon. In my experience, often times going to be the same exact item. Bags, odds and ends around the house, component assortments, screw assortments, and som
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by redserk 1y ago
There is no evidence anecdotal or otherwise to back this assertion. Many stores near me appeared to cut cashiers before they added self-checkouts. If anything, adding self-checkouts increased the number of available options to get out of th
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by redserk 1y ago
“Europe” isn’t some homogenous system.
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by redserk 1y ago
What?
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by redserk 1y ago
Neither will the majority of hobbies for self-enrichment. It isn’t unreasonable to want some alone time.
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by redserk 1y ago
In a completely isolated bubble I’d be inclined to agree that scientific research might not do so badly, but the current set of politics completely rejects generally-accepted scientific norms. After all, why bother doing research when the g
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by redserk 1y ago
Subtle Elixir/Erlang advocacy here.
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by redserk 1y ago
I don't think our system of separation of powers was designed with the modern political party system we currently have in mind.
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by redserk 1y ago
I’m satisfied with the very subtle AI implementations in their products. Take the Photos app. I can type any object like “car” and it generally locates photos containing a car. This is far more useful to me than a LLM to generate paragraphs
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by redserk 1y ago
Big tech has been ignored for quite some time compared to other industries.
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by redserk 1y ago
I’d own a lot less stuff if there were more opportunities to rent infrequently used items. As it stands, I have a workshop and electronics bench with many tools that will go unused for years but are critical when I need them and too expensi
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by redserk 1y ago
I love that Hurricane Electric provides this service but I found a few video streaming sites ended up blocking it last I tried a couple years ago. That said, if it isn’t blocked for the services you use, I found it pretty straightforward to
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by redserk 1y ago
I think it is worth calling out how expensive it can be to go out and do things now though. $10-12 beers and $15 cocktails gets expensive over a few weekends.
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by redserk 1y ago
Also the lack of factoring in the current cultural backlash. Lots of free data was available because nobody cared or knew it was being used as training data a few years ago. But now? Why publish a side project on GitHub if the current marke
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by redserk 1y ago
Intelligence also shouldn't be assumed to cross between disciplines either. Being able to code isn't the end-all-be-all skillset the industry likes to pretend it is.
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by redserk 1y ago
I think this would rely on an assumption that there is always supply available to draw on. At some point there is no supply to alleviate the problem. Some effects may be dampened by new ride share drivers signing up, but even then, not ever
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by redserk 1y ago
At some point the question is: "Do we trust the employee we've had on the books for the last few years". Fortunately, the mid-sized places I've been at generally trust the employee's story when it comes to expenses
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by redserk 1y ago
It appears there's an expectation many non-tech people have that humans can be incorrect but refuse to hold LLMs to the same standard, despite warnings.

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