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by walkabout 1y ago
Can it turn simple yes-or-no questions, or "hey who's the person I need to ask about X?" into scheduled phone calls that inexplicably invite two or three other people as an excuse to fill up its calendar so it looks very busy
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by walkabout 1y ago
This kind of "data driven" corporate stuff is, IME, so bullshitty and hand-wavy that I'd assume if only 30% are able to claim to have found quantifiable ROI (most of them with laughably bad methodology a slightly-clever 10th
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by walkabout 1y ago
They're probably salty that the only jobs of theirs they can figure out how to automate away with AI are the too-cheap-to-bother-automating Indian workers who author their PowerPoint decks.
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by walkabout 1y ago
Our ability to measure management productivity in general is basically nonexistent. It's an area of academic study and AFAIK the state-of-the-art remains not much better than [shrug emoji]. Remember that when they're wrecking your
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by walkabout 1y ago
Approximately 95% of my experience using "AI" so far is as something I accidentally activate then waste a few seconds figuring out how to make it stop. What little I've seen of other people's experiences with it on e.g.
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by walkabout 1y ago
> In the same way that American Airlines is a credit card company. I thought the "they're not what you think" deal with airlines is that they're actually futures trading companies that happen to own and operate some a
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by walkabout 1y ago
They also punish you by charging wildly higher prices without the app. You have to use the app just to get prices around what they "should" be, compared with the pre-app era and adjusting for the broader inflation rate. Like cle
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by walkabout 1y ago
No, I mean inherently so. It's basically a whole stack of caching problems.
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by walkabout 1y ago
Careful about reading too much into "employee ownership". It can be and at least sometimes (I suspect usually, at least in the US) is structured such that it doesn't really work the way you might think. 1) The shares can be
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by walkabout 1y ago
The infrastructure behind serving git repos the way they do is pretty fiddly—I'd not be a bit surprised if this move reduces stability and/or performance.
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by walkabout 1y ago
The fix is to get people reading fiction again. The market’s tiny because very little time is spent reading fiction now. There used to be a market for writing that could supply some kind of a decent-ish living to quite a few authors, not ju
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by walkabout 1y ago
> The constitution doesn't prohibit the deportation of illegal immigrants. Who are you responding to? I don't see that anywhere in this thread.
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by walkabout 1y ago
The entire northeast has very little federal land. You’re looking at state parks and forests if you search up hiking destinations there, mostly. (Acadia’s the major exception) CT’s absolutely covered in hiking trails, it’s crazy, you see pu