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jtrek

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  • Former Microsoft AI Leaders Are Spending $1M To Replace CEOs With AI

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  • Market the company and, for smaller companies that want funding, beg and network.

    Leadership is often removed from how work actually gets done. This is part of why they often make bonkers decisions.

    They don't understand that most of the time isn't going into typing code into the computer. It's figuring out what the product guy and CEO actually want. It's pulling answers out of them (eg: what do you want to do if the user's name is null?) or dealing with it when they don't like your decision (eg: you didn't say what to do when I don't have their name, so the email just says "hey". I really don't think this is a crisis)

  • Don't worry guys, it's just cosmetic

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  • I sometimes think about how things are so bad in part because there are so many people making unnecessary bad decisions. Like, just don't buy the horse armor. Do something else.

    But there are so many idiots that bad things remain profitable

  • Lesbians like me joined forces with conservatives. Now they're turning on us.

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  • When the “woke” mania swept the country in 2020,

    Eyeroll. Can already tell this person is an idiot.

  • Trump’s funding cuts created ‘the perfect storm’ that slowed the government’s cyclosporiasis response

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  • Unfortunately, stupid people will not be able to connect these dots. They live in an emotion driven fantasy land, and no amount of external evidence showing their in-group hurting them will change their mind.

    The only things that change minds are in-group pressure, and trauma. So it's possible that some trumper will have seven hours of screaming diarrhea and while curled up at death's door realize the error of their ways, it seems a lot of people would rather die than be momentarily embarrassed.

  • Microsoft Chief Sustainability Officer Melanie Nakagawa declines to directly reaffirm whether the company remains on track to meet its goal of becoming carbon negative by 2030

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  • I'm doing my part by avoiding microsoft products as much as possible. I don't care if they make an amazing new Fallout game (they won't). Fuck them.

  • How many people do you know from your neighborhood

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  • I've met two of my neighbors, but don't know them well. One might even have moved away- haven't seen her in months.

    I have two friends that live nearby. Three if you stretch what's considered the neighborhood. All walking distance.

  • Gavin Newsom’s return-to-office rules are stricter than many states, including Texas

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  • Mandating in-office without a concrete, unavoidable, reason (eg: you're physically assembling stuff) is a climate crime and wage theft.

  • Accurate

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  • Conservative groundlings often identify a problem (I don't have enough money to live a comfortable dignified life, I can't find meaningful labor) and then settle on a really stupid source and solution. It's not the capitalists fault for squeezing labor, it's the brown guy trying to survive.

  • upgrades people upgrades

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  • I don't think the graphics are a big part of the problem. It's more the math.

    Pillars of Eternity, for example, has it so every point of Might above 10 is 3% more damage. This is a little hard to reason about - my sword says it does 17-24 damage. So if I have 15 might, that's 15% more damage , so the sword is now... 19-27? I had to use a calculator because I'm kind of bad at math. If I take one more point of might, my max damage becomes...28? Does it round?

    This is not very quick and easy.

    Now imagine instead of every point of might was just +2 damage. Or +5 damage. Much easier to reason about. If you want might to matter more for some weapons, slap a double might bonus on them. You might (pun intended) just need to scale the rest of the system around this new range of values.

    I accidentally swerved a little from "impactful stats only" to "easily understood stats", but they're kind of related.

  • The Republican Party used to be very big on smaller government. What caused them to turn into the party of big government over reach? When did it happen?

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  • It's the usual "there must be in groups for the law to protect but not bind, and out groups for the law to bind but not protect" thing as always.

    They wanted small government when it suited their desires. Their desires, as conservatives, are usually bad. Pollution, exploration, segregation, etc.

  • Transitliberationism: A Bicycle Anarchist Manifesto [OC]

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  • This article was good.

    Americans are shocked and terrified by the idea, I'm sure. “But they could be kidnaped.” That's kind of a car thing. When cars dominate the world, there are fewer people walking and cycling. Streets are empty except for drivers. There are fewer eyes on the street. With fewer eyes, fewer people together, it becomes more dangerous for vulnerable people.

    Jane Jacobs wrote about that in like the 1960s. It's really infuriating how unsafe car-centered spaces is, and how people erroneously think it makes them safer.

    You're much safer on a street busy with a mixed crowd of pedestrians.

    But, again, racism can't have that.

  • this absolute bullshit from reddit

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  • "request desktop site" usually gets rid of the app nag.

    I never post there anymore but there's a lot of useful stuff from the old days.

  • Bane Mask

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  • Some people are phenomenally bad typists. Even some people who use a computer all day

  • upgrades people upgrades

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  • I think if I was making a game I would really strive to make it so every upgrade is meaningful and easily noticed.

    I liked pillars of eternity, but I didn't like trying to think about if 3% more damage was even going to survive rounding.

  • Hard agree

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  • Can't tell if this is a pro-trumper speaking or anti-trump

  • Terrified Tech Execs Are Traveling With Armed Bodyguards as AI Backlash Grows

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  • Many executives are also board members.

  • 9 people shot and injured in downtown Tucson early Sunday

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  • This doesn't even seem to be front page news. The us is desensitized to mass murder.

  • Why all the landlord hate?

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  • I think there's a difference between like a landlord and a property management company.

    Property management that fixes stuff, cleans up common areas, and such adds value. They do labor that's useful.

    A landlord that just gets money because they legally own the place is not adding value. That's what most people hate.

    You can, of course, have horrible people assigned to manage the property.

  • So much for the lawsuit

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  • Right? Emulators are pretty popular. Piracy is a service problem.