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Comment on Godzilla Minus Zero confirmed for North American theatrical release on November 6 in ~movies
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Comment on Godzilla Minus Zero confirmed for North American theatrical release on November 6 in ~movies
snake_case Link ParentI’m not really a Dune person but everyone around me is so I’ll prob end up seeing it hahaI’m not really a Dune person but everyone around me is so I’ll prob end up seeing it haha
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Comment on Godzilla Minus Zero confirmed for North American theatrical release on November 6 in ~movies
snake_case LinkMan this year actually has movies I’m looking forward to. Project Hail Mary, The Odyssey, this.Man this year actually has movies I’m looking forward to. Project Hail Mary, The Odyssey, this.
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Comment on US withdraws from sixty-six international organisations in ~society
snake_case Link ParentIsnt it though? He did basically overthrow a dictator in another country via military action all by himself like last week.Isnt it though? He did basically overthrow a dictator in another country via military action all by himself like last week.
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Comment on US withdraws from sixty-six international organisations in ~society
snake_case Link ParentThey don’t need soft power they’re trying to re-colonize south America, they’ll have hard power. They just don’t care that long term hard power burns out.They don’t need soft power they’re trying to re-colonize south America, they’ll have hard power.
They just don’t care that long term hard power burns out.
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Comment on US withdraws from sixty-six international organisations in ~society
snake_case Link ParentI’d settle for congress doing literally anything at all with the power they still have. No constitution is going to account for an entire congress willingly giving up its power to a dictator. Even...I’d settle for congress doing literally anything at all with the power they still have.
No constitution is going to account for an entire congress willingly giving up its power to a dictator. Even killing the dictator after the fact doesn’t work, tried that with Caesar.
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Comment on Feeling weird about my career with respect to AI in ~life
snake_case LinkI feel the same way. It used to be you could pick a niche that you’re good at and enjoy and make that your career, like I was really good at making micro services that actually made sense. But now...I feel the same way.
It used to be you could pick a niche that you’re good at and enjoy and make that your career, like I was really good at making micro services that actually made sense.
But now everything is just AI. From top to bottom all engineering is about knowing your models and AI tech and working with that. Everything Ive made in the past 3 years is proprietary to AI. Used to be I could build from the bottom up, no third parties, but now I’m just an AI engineer. The latest API architecting standards are old news, now I have to know the latest AI standards. I was going to build a whole career off my knowledge before and now I’m basically a mid level SWE again with 3 years experience in “AI” which would be fine if I went to school for something like machine learning but I didn’t, I wanted to design data pipelines. I was a data architect.
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Comment on Advice needed: Getting an elderly parent set up with a home health aide in ~life
snake_case Link ParentThis is how it happens in the states too, for my grandma there was a point of intervention when she had a fall and ended up in the hospital. At that point her primary care set us up with a social...This is how it happens in the states too, for my grandma there was a point of intervention when she had a fall and ended up in the hospital.
At that point her primary care set us up with a social worker and they helped us set up hospice services, which included a home care aid.
They told us there was three levels of services that are covered under Medicare, one for rehab, two for maintain, and then hospice. I’m guessing OP would need the ‘maintain’ services, we never had those though so I’m not sure what it includes. Hospice includes a home care aid 3x a week.
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Comment on What was it like for you and your partner when one of you was losing a parent "slowly"? in ~life
snake_case LinkCheck in often. The one thing I really needed from my partner was really just that they acknowledge today, and every day, was hard for me, and that they’re still interested in how I feel. It...Check in often.
The one thing I really needed from my partner was really just that they acknowledge today, and every day, was hard for me, and that they’re still interested in how I feel. It doesn’t have to be like a whole vent session but a “how was your day/ how are you” in whatever words feel comfortable for yall goes such a long way.
Its so easy to lose each other and become distant and stop talking cause the one feels like they don’t wanna bring up bad stuff and the other feels bad bringing up their baggage so by attempting to protect the other you actually end up in the worst situation with both of you alienated and out of touch with each other.
That was my experience, and it took a few months of therapy after everything was over in order to fix us. Don’t do what we did. Talk about it even if you’re a downer.
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Comment on What are some stories of progressivism gone wrong in implementation? in ~society
snake_case Link ParentI do that autistic thing where I say exactly what I mean in plain words all the time and its a dead giveaway to anyone that knows even slightly what autism looks like. So I just assume everyone...I do that autistic thing where I say exactly what I mean in plain words all the time and its a dead giveaway to anyone that knows even slightly what autism looks like. So I just assume everyone around me knows. Its not a protected disability, so I don’t disclose it.
To clarify, not all people with austism do this, but its common enough that its become an austism stereotype.
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Comment on What are some stories of progressivism gone wrong in implementation? in ~society
snake_case Link ParentThis explanation was actually really helpful for me, thank you. I’m autistic and sometimes struggle to understand how I’m being misunderstood because when people get offended they shut down and...This explanation was actually really helpful for me, thank you.
I’m autistic and sometimes struggle to understand how I’m being misunderstood because when people get offended they shut down and stop talking.
I understand what DEI is and how it works in the hiring process as you described, what I never understood is this apparently common misconception.
I accidentally offended my black friend one time because we were in the middle of a layoff/reorg and they took her away from my team as I was training her even though we desperately needed the help and I was upset about that, and the topic somehow came up in conversation with a new hire that I now had to train up all over again because they took my friend from my team and moved her to another team, and she was suggesting the move was entirely her decision and I was like no, they moved you to keep you from being laid off because they like you. Which is facts, because I liked her, she was really great. How she took it, now that I understand the common misconception, is that I was suggesting she was a DEI hire.
That happened like ten years ago and I only just now understood. Thank you
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Comment on I no longer trust the stats that companies publish on the gender equality in their tech roles in ~tech
snake_case LinkI think those stats were always virtue signaling. If I see no diversity during my interview process with a company I assume they’re not diverse.I think those stats were always virtue signaling. If I see no diversity during my interview process with a company I assume they’re not diverse.
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Comment on Luxury apartments reduced rent in some big US cities in ~finance
snake_case Link ParentYeah the whole thing where cities were competing for Amazon warehouses like ten years ago was wild.Yeah the whole thing where cities were competing for Amazon warehouses like ten years ago was wild.
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Comment on AI friends too cheap to meter in ~tech
snake_case Link ParentYeah I'm not suggesting I'd ever actually want to do this, it's just an idea. Like I could give it this whole years of chat history, tell it to be this person, but with knowledge of all current...Yeah I'm not suggesting I'd ever actually want to do this, it's just an idea. Like I could give it this whole years of chat history, tell it to be this person, but with knowledge of all current events. Ask them like what would this person think of blah blah that happened last week, etc etc. But it wouldn't be my friend. It would still be just a machine that's telling me what I want to hear in the way I want to hear it.
That's exactly what I really do not understand about the person who wrote this article, the people who have this problem, they're all talking to themselves. They've become addicted to talking to themselves. I can't see how that's even entertaining, much less addictive.
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Comment on You are a better writer than AI (yes, YOU!) in ~creative
snake_case LinkHis final point is exactly what I really don't get about people who become addicted to befriending their chosen language model as if it's a person, it's not a person and they know that its not a...His final point is exactly what I really don't get about people who become addicted to befriending their chosen language model as if it's a person, it's not a person and they know that its not a person. They're essentially talking to themselves because all the model ever does it tell you what you want to hear. So they're becoming addicted to talking to themselves? Isn't that basically what psychosis is?
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Comment on US strikes Venezuela and says its leader, Nicolas Maduro, has been captured and flown out of the country in ~society
snake_case Link ParentYeah that was my first thought lol like theres no way we’re not going to somehow use them to extract profit, we do that with everything.Yeah that was my first thought lol like theres no way we’re not going to somehow use them to extract profit, we do that with everything.
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Comment on How I rebooted my social life in ~life
snake_case Link ParentMeetup.com for the monthly and for the other two those days just worked best for me so I started showing upMeetup.com for the monthly and for the other two those days just worked best for me so I started showing up
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Comment on AI friends too cheap to meter in ~tech
snake_case Link ParentYeah, I've seen those, I don't have a whole lot of photos, videos, or voice of them though. The bulk of our interactions was through text chats. I suppose the text chats would be way easier to...Yeah, I've seen those, I don't have a whole lot of photos, videos, or voice of them though. The bulk of our interactions was through text chats. I suppose the text chats would be way easier to replicate
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Comment on US strikes Venezuela and says its leader, Nicolas Maduro, has been captured and flown out of the country in ~society
snake_case Link ParentYeah, like they were hard working able bodied immigrants, but now they're refugees with no community, no support, and no resources. They probably won't make it far. A lot of them will probably die.Yeah, like they were hard working able bodied immigrants, but now they're refugees with no community, no support, and no resources. They probably won't make it far. A lot of them will probably die.
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Comment on AI friends too cheap to meter in ~tech
snake_case LinkThis would be 100% unhealthy but I had this online friend growing up who died years ago and I have the entire history of our friendship saved on my pc because back then the instant messaging...This would be 100% unhealthy but I had this online friend growing up who died years ago and I have the entire history of our friendship saved on my pc because back then the instant messaging program we used would save the chat logs to your local drive. I’m talking like, 5 years of chat logs of us two talking nearly all day every day.
I could probably feed those logs into some anthropic model and re create my friend.
I’d never do that, but surely I’m not the only one who’s thought of it.
Yeah I think its just not my thing. I found it to be boring. Theres plenty of things that other people find boring that I enjoy, so its not like I’m easily bored, I just felt like Id seen it a million times already and I was only 30 mins into the movie.