tdeck

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   by tdeck 7mo ago

   You've chosen to miss the power relationship completely.
2. 332.▲
   by tdeck 7mo ago

   > Applicants are using AI too. I've heard from people who hire/post jobs that they gets hundreds to low thousands of applications, and maybe 5% of them have any relevant experience. This happened before "AI" too. When
3. 333.▲
   by tdeck 7mo ago

   Wars open a lot of opportunities, especially for the worst people.
4. 334.▲
   by tdeck 7mo ago

   The administration didn't even bother manufacturing consent this time and yet the media is acting like they did during the Iraq war. Democratic leaders are weakly pretending like they opposed the war but they really stalled the war pow
5. 335.▲
   by tdeck 7mo ago

   You don't need to actually open the menu either. Just hit enter, tilde, ., enter.
6. 336.▲
   by tdeck 7mo ago

   "You committed it, you own it" can't even be enforced effectively at large companies, given employee turnover and changes in team priorities and recorgs. It's hard to see how this could be done effectively in open source
7. 337.▲
   by tdeck 7mo ago

   I'm guessing you avoided the CoffeeScript era of Rails, which is a good thing.
8. 338.▲
   by tdeck 7mo ago

   If you haven't reviewed the code yet, how can you say it did 4 weeks of work in 2 days? You haven't verified the correctness, and besides reviewing the code is part of the work.
9. 339.▲
   by tdeck 7mo ago

   > who wouldn't answer yes to the question "would you like to finish your task faster?" People who enjoy the process of completing the task?
10. 340.▲
    by tdeck 7mo ago

    > A few weeks ago I realized I had no reliable way to know if any of it was correct: whether it actually does what I said it should do. I can't understand the mindset that would lead someone not to have realized this from the beginn
11. 341.▲
    by tdeck 7mo ago

    I think what the parent means is things like iPad ordering and self-service registers, which seem to be much more common in Japan than they even are in the US.
12. 342.▲
    by tdeck 7mo ago

    We can pay one another to look after each other's parents. Watch GDP, taxable income, and payment processor fee revenue rise!
13. 343.▲
    by tdeck 7mo ago

    For folks who don't know, Duginism is just Russian-supremacist fascism.
14. 344.▲
    by tdeck 7mo ago

    Do you feel the same way about people joining ICE? They probably need the money a lot more than those at OpenAI.
15. 345.▲
    by tdeck 7mo ago

    Bullshit. What people have are excuses they make for themselves, and they don't need our help.
16. 346.▲
    by tdeck 7mo ago

    I'm sorry but with this justification anything that makes you money can be justified. You can pay the mortgage by robbing a bank too, and that's likely to get fewer people killed.
17. 347.▲
    by tdeck 7mo ago

    As a 90s kid, reading this caused me to wonder "How many kids actually walk to school anymore? I've almost never seen it in the US." Seems like it might be around 10%: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science&#x2
18. 348.▲
    by tdeck 7mo ago

    > In most cultures, it's the speaker, who is supposed to communicate clearly, and concisely. In western culture, it's the listener, who is expected to decipher whatever the speaker is talking about. If you said this in Japanes
19. 349.▲
    by tdeck 7mo ago

    When you choose to serve the American military, knowing both its history and the fact that it's been facilitating at least one genocide over the past few years, you can't just claim "we didn't want anything bad to happen
20. 350.▲
    by tdeck 7mo ago

    I don't disagree with you, but I also wonder what exactly the Biden justice department was doing with these files for four years. It seems to me like they were covering for the same people. Being "in the club" is more importa
21. 351.▲
    by tdeck 7mo ago

    Is it just me or is this an AI comment?
22. 352.▲
    by tdeck 7mo ago

    I always used MTPaint https://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/ I guess it's a bit old but it works reasonably well, and supports a lot of different file formats which is occasionally useful.
23. 353.▲
    by tdeck 7mo ago

    If you enjoyed this, you'd probably enjoy thedailywtf.com, which is full of stories like that.
24. 354.▲
    by tdeck 7mo ago

    Is there a way to disable Ctrl+Shift+C yet? That's my only longstanding complaint in Firefox.
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    by tdeck 7mo ago

    Wiktionary says > From Middle English festival (adjective), from Old French festival (“festive”), from Late Latin fēstīvālis, from Latin fēstīvus (“festive”). By surface analysis, festive +‎ -al. Displaced native Old English frēols. The
26. 356.▲
    by tdeck 7mo ago

    > It's easy to frame this purely as an ethical battle, but there's a massive financial reality here. As opposed to all those famous ethical battles where there's nothing in it for you to do the wrong thing?
27. 357.▲
    by tdeck 7mo ago

    IIUC bright IR LEDs can harm your eyes if you stare at them too long.
28. 358.▲
    by tdeck 7mo ago

    I don't have much of an objection to Blind people wearing these, but there are all kinds of things that are OK to do with a disability that aren't OK to do if you don't need special accomodation.
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    by tdeck 7mo ago

    Exactly, people are distracted by nothing being done about the Epstein files, a genocide being committed out in the open for 2+ years, fascist private army running around abducting DoorDash drivers and shooting people in the head. It's
30. 360.▲
    by tdeck 7mo ago

    It's harder to tape it when it's now a small island in the screen.