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CompactFlax

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  • Is my supervisor an AI bot?

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  • Sounds like he’s heavily using AI, but also a good manager.

    I wouldn’t be complaining, too much. As long as the manager is accepting of your downtime.

  • Is my supervisor an AI bot?

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  • I ran into my manager at a social event work put on. He’s been my manager for a year at this point. I met him in person once.

    “Hey that guy looks familiar” running through my head as he shakes my hand and says “hello, compactflax”

    20 min later it clicks. We never use video, but his PFP was where I’d seen him.

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  • Rampant racism, sexism, mental health (PTSD from war) issues. Haze of smoke inside from tobacco smokers and a haze of smoke outside from cars with terrible fuel management and no emissions controls - to say nothing of the lead.

    1970s was the end of the postwar economic boom, with several recessions during the period described. It was the time of privatization and government cutbacks.

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    ‘Shark Tank’ star Kevin O’Leary defends Utah data center project amid backlash

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  • I’d say i hope that he loses everything in the bubble, but I’ve no doubt that it’s all structured so that he maxes out the potential upside and is immune to the downside risk.

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    Big Tech cut 80,000 jobs and blamed AI — Experts say a real problem is that companies are 25% to 75% overstaffed

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  • The inefficiencies come from the top.

    Management comes up with unrealistic ideas, people run in circles trying to keep up, and then management decides the reason that their revenue goals or whatever aren’t being met is because of over staffing, not their harebrained ideas.

    It’s not like 25-75% of employees are just playing video games all day (though there’s people who do that). They’re dealing with the corporate machine - the real “culture”, not the one that’s so carefully “cultivated” by management dictating office hours. Getting in meetings that should be emails, answering “just a quick question” that destroys their thought process, and dealing with AI being crammed down their throat.

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    Big Tech cut 80,000 jobs and blamed AI — Experts say a real problem is that companies are 25% to 75% overstaffed

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  • I think most of those people are gone. The pandemic was 6 years ago. We’ve had significant layoffs in tech 2022-2026.

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    The Audio Industry Is Grappling with the Rise of ‘Podslop’ | Over the past nine days, 39% of new podcasts were likely AI-generated, according to the Podcast Index

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  • It seems that there’s a few popular podcasts that are really just regurgitated Wikipedia articles with additional context from the sources. I don’t listen to those, but I can see why someone might think it’s a good idea to make an AI podcast if that podcast gets views.

  • I need a new computer - which would you recommend?

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  • In this market $150 barely gets you an external drive. But that’s what you need. Be ruthless moving stuff over.

    There’s nothing in $150 range that touches an m2.

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    Why does Lemmy.ML admire authoritarian regimes ?

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  • The iron curtain was not a literal wall. The Berlin Wall was brick and whatever came to hand mostly.

    They’re entitled to their opinion. It is wrong, but they are entitled to it. I’ve blocked that instance.

  • How can I sabotage a lawnmower?

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  • riding mower

    That’s your problem, they’re designed for people who want to waste time on their lawn and drink a beer. People who want to get it done with have zero turn mowers.

    Sodium silicate in the oil. Bleach in the gas. An iron spike driven into the ground just below the height of the grass.

    But really the best way to deal with it is to get over it. I know sometimes it’s hard to get over an irritating sound, but it helps your mental health if you don’t get angry about something minor and entirely outside your control

  • How well can Electric vehicles(EVs) handle the heat — and the cold? AAA put them to the test

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  • The model 3 is approximately 50kWH standard range. Roughly 221,000btu, which is roughly 7L of gasoline for about 300mi range estimated. Even cutting that range in half, it’s a lot of distance compared to a ICE.

    Calculator

    The relative drop in range for an EV vs ICE is significantly dampened by the efficiency of each. The ICE is just so wasteful that it’s much more noticeable when the weather hit happens. It’s why drag coefficient and tyre friction matter much more in EVs.

  • An update on GitHub availability

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  • “Copilot, throw together a response to the big name guy calling us out”

  • TIL there was such a thing as lumberjack sandals.

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  • Has anyone ever been happy with the work a contractor did for them?

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  • That’s not uncommon. Especially large companies. They might have a plant nerd who started the company or who does designs but for the rest of it, it’s just checkboxes.

  • Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge

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  • It’s a pet. It’s no more newsworthy than finding a goldfish that someone “released into the wild”.

    Also, don’t do that; it’s how species become invasive.

  • What are you doing with your spare solar power?

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  • What about THC as a byproduct ? ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)

  • Energy efficiency of various transport modes

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  • I’ve always thought that a 60 passenger bus with 2 people on it is never going to be as efficient as a car with 2 people. Probably closer to 2 cars with 1 each. And that’s a strikingly common situation in North America because they won’t buy a smaller bus and electric busses are still a dangerous concept for so many transit managers.

  • Anthropic nuked a company's access to Claude, stopping 60 employees dead in their tracks — support via Google Form is the only recourse for vague usage policy violation

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  • If the Internet is down for a period of time at the office, I would expect that my dev team is able to continue working (assuming they’re not exclusively hitting a third party API). At least for a few hours, if not days. It might not be the same cadence, but I’m not about to send them home.

    Computers are a tool; AI is an outsourcing. It’s the difference between a carpentry team not having saws, hammers, etc. and having the carpentry team unable to do work if Jose (the outsourced carpenter) doesn’t come in.

  • How far would you swallow your morals for money?

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  • I have a pretty strong adherence to my personal moral compass. So - a lot more than some. There are politicians who get caught taking 4 and 5 figure bribes or job offers with mid 6 figures (USD). I wouldn’t sell out my people - and risk being caught - for less than 7 figures. Money that makes me comfortable to disappear and not work.

    For a job, it needs to be fuck you money (buy a Japanese shit box and midsize home with enough left to live the rest of my life) within a tolerable period and that depends on the job, but I suspect seldom would it exceed 3 years.