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by wharvle 3y ago
My wife’s an editor and writer and uses voice to text all the time when messaging on her phone. I think OP means sending actual voice memos. Yeah, I’d just never listen to most of those. I’m not the sort who has AirPods in my ears all day,
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by wharvle 3y ago
I sometimes start audibly breathing with headphones on. Something I never do without them. So I won’t wear them around others when I can avoid it. That’s aside from tapping I might not realize is making noise with headphones on, or a part
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by wharvle 3y ago
I thought the phone thing was dumb until I realized that everyone (who’s not made of money or trying to pretend they are) puts them in a case anyway, so designing it to fit in a case makes sense. Probably keeps the camera from being as sh
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by wharvle 3y ago
That is what timeon meant, yes. It’s not what the bit timeon quoted meant.
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by wharvle 3y ago
modern adjective 1. Of or relating to recent times or the present. "modern history." 2. Characteristic or expressive of recent times or the present; contemporary or up-to-date. "a modern lifestyle; a modern way of thinking.&q
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by wharvle 3y ago
There's something wackadoo going on in software where in one environment it'll take 200 workers six years to have something that's still not good, and in another it'll take 1-5 workers a couple years to do at least as we
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by wharvle 3y ago
Scale of ad slots sold, not scale of audience. Google’s elected to do this the way that makes it impossible for them to scrutinize what they’re broadcasting to the world, because it makes line go up-and-right slightly better than doing it t
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by wharvle 3y ago
And 100% of my YouTube ads are scams the last few weeks, many with deepfake fuckery going on. This whole side of the Web needs to be put down. The algo-feed ad-clearinghouse side. It’s a cesspit.
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by wharvle 3y ago
Owner/exec/whatever: reads some bullshit about AI “OMG you guys, we can save so much money! I can’t wait to fire a bunch of people! Quick, drop everything and (run an expensive experiment with this | retool our entire data org f
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by wharvle 3y ago
Oh wow, different kind of rural than I’m used to and that post went the opposites direction from what I was expecting. I’m used to rural folks who scoff at conservation and dump entire trash bags by the side of the road, among other things.
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by wharvle 3y ago
If they’re sometimes getting those things, maybe they should expect them. I think, to some extent, there’s been a broadening of the set of people clued in that the connection between hard work and money isn’t just weak, but often nonexist
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by wharvle 3y ago
This is a good idea. Rebasing on 10¢. I proposed dropping to a 25¢ smallest-coin standard elsewhere in the thread, but dropping the quarter and going 10¢/50¢/$1 is also a good plan. Pennies and nickels definitely should go. They’r
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by wharvle 3y ago
US should drop nickel and dime, go to 25¢, 50¢, and $1 coins. Nothing smaller than a quarter’s really worth screwing with, when dealing with physical currency. We’ve gone so long without dropping the penny that the dime’s nearly worthless,
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by wharvle 3y ago
LLMs are like a 10% boost (optimistically, for workers who are good at using them) for some legitimate jobs. They’re like a 1,000% boost if your job is spamming, advertising for scams, managing astroturf campaigns, or spreading misinforma
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by wharvle 3y ago
People who can write and maintain those scripts and macros, and keep them useful and correct as part of a larger system, and who can keep all that running smoothly even through employee turnover, are relatively rare and mostly busy doing
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by wharvle 3y ago
Versus Palantir, I think was the intent of the question. IDK, from what I've seen they can't really do much more out-of-the-box than lots of other less-bullshitty data platforms, they're just far more aggressive about selling
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by wharvle 3y ago
I get by with what's probably about a mid-tier-power-user level of keyboard shortcut knowledge. 50ish? Counting some Mac special-character chord (like em-dash)? I can't really think faster than I can mouse, anyway. I forget any sh
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by wharvle 3y ago
Yeah, you're probably right. Feedback received.
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by wharvle 3y ago
Same. At this point I've resolved I'm never again writing in a language without static typing, unless someone's paying me to. Too much of a headache.
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by wharvle 3y ago
It lets me run up-to-date daemons on my home server, with excellent uptime, on some old-ass version of Debian I never bother to update (don't worry, it's not routable from the public Internet) and without having to touch systemd (
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by wharvle 3y ago
> It can also be cheaper in headcount since you need fewer operators and less expertise in datacenter operations. I've not really seen this work out well. I think it might be true for simple set-ups, letting a tiny developer team
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by wharvle 3y ago
Those don't have a combo of typography and word choice that looks like a children's birthday party supply store's name was merged with the results of a cat walking on the keyboard.
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by wharvle 3y ago
"The gimp" is infamous for sometimes getting it excluded from consideration. I once had a new manager after an acquisition do a (pathetic) security audit of our servers and get vey upset at finding a binary called "finger&quo
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by wharvle 3y ago
Top-level management doesn't even have to be "the enemy" for a union to be very nice to have—companies of more than like 30 people are gonna have a shitty, abusive middle-manager somewhere and a union gives employees cover
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by wharvle 3y ago
> People might not want to contradict an assertion because of language like "The term’s in wide use, talk to anyone involved with cloud-anything and they’ll be familiar with it. [...] I’m not sure what else needs to be translated? N
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by wharvle 3y ago
Despite all the buzz around it, the name's truly kept me away. It's hard to believe people who named something so comically-terribly didn't also make a bunch of other so-bad-they-wouldn't-seem-like-plausible-parody decis
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by wharvle 3y ago
Live replicas (perhaps initialized with a cold backup, initially, if the dataset's really huge), carving off parts of it for separate migration if that's at all feasible, and some expensive folks doing a lot of butt-clenching-wo
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by wharvle 3y ago
I'm not sure it's so much criticism as observing that they've gone from being the Ford of computers to being... IDK, some parts manufacturer for cars that nobody's aware of unless they're in the industry.
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by wharvle 3y ago
You point out Oracle as akin (but less entirely awful). I'd throw Palantir on the pile. Sell management on bullshit, then, once they've got their hooks in, it turns out they'll need to be way up your ass (and billing the
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by wharvle 3y ago
“Lift and shift” is a term for when you move to “the cloud” but really just replace your physical servers with clones in cloud VMs. It’s a relatively cheap (in terms of effort) way to get on “the cloud” but gains you basically zero of the b

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