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Vanth

@ Vanth @reddthat.com

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  • Do you know anyone who actively uses Facebook anymore? Not Instagram.

    I'm in the US, East Coast, and know no one here who does. I believe I still have one aunt, ages 55+, living in the Midwest, who still uses it. She's very much the stereotype, she's been sucked into believing COVID is a conspiracy, all immigrants are dog-eating rapists, and trans people are going to break in to watch her pee in her home bathroom. She represents the average US Facebook user in my mind.

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  • A male colleague was upset he saw a new, wrapped tampon inside another colleagues purse the other day. Like, stopped in his day to complain out loud levels of upset. When he could have just ... moved along or even not peeked inside her purse sitting on her desk.

    Of course women are and still will face our very existence being censored. Men are the default, women are "other", and always at the whim of men for just how much they will be allowed to exist in public.

  • It Might Be Time to Admit the Great VR Experiment Has Failed

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  • Ok, now do AI. I feel like normal people knew VR was dead again 3+ years ago.

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  • As my mom was becoming an adult, women in my country still couldn't have their own bank accounts nor could they vote. So how much choice did she have? She could stay under her abusive father's control, or roll the dice on marrying a guy who had minimal red flags. They're fine, they had kids and are still married decades later. But I can't really say she was able to freely choose.

    I am mixed on how they did as parents. I have no doubt they mostly did what they thought was the right thing. I just strongly disagree with them on some things they believed to be right. Like I wasn't given certain vaccines as a kid, not because my parents thought they would cause autism, but because my parents thought Hep C would only be caught by drug users and sexually promiscuous people. And their kids would never.

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  • Young Bobby was so eager for his beard to grow in, but this is not what he had in mind. being 15 is rough.

  • What are your thoughts on paternity leave?

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  • What you're missing is full brainwashing from the patriarchy, from the bootlicking capitalists.

    Any partner who can but doesn't support their partner and newborn is an ass.

    Any partner who can but doesn't take advantage of the leave benefit they earned is giving free money to their employer overlords like an absolute cuck.

    Be revolutionary, put your family over your employer.

  • Weird Keyboard Layouts: A Showcase

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  • I've wanted to learn Dvorak for years but the article hit on it: I'm not and never will be native to it since I already know QWERTY, so won't ever net the sweetest efficiency gains.

  • What's the closest you ever got to hosting refugees?

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  • Top bunk. My folks invited someone to stay with us when I was in high school and they slept four feet above me.

    Can't say I'd be so generous as to invite a stranger into my house like that as an adult. Maybe. I would certainly help with other sorts of disaster relief but it's tough for me to envision a situation in which I would open my home.

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  • Not needed for a company to update rules agnostic of any alleged bad actor. Honey coul end up completely innocent and it would still be a positive update by Google.

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  • What did it take them, 5 months from when the general public knew and who knows how long since insiders were aware? What a laughably long response time.

  • Developer convicted for “kill switch” code activated upon his termination

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  • Lol, you don't know how middle management works, do you. I have been "empowered to find ways to be more efficient" so unfortunately that means no budget for extra resources, use the AI tools that some Jr c-suite asshole pushed to justify his latest promotion.

    I did choose to set filters on resumes loosely at the expense of having a larger pool for the video portion. I could have tightened the resume filters, but for this particular job, I decided verbal communication explaining how they used x tool mattered more than how well one copy/pasted keywords from the job posting into the resume. I would probably set filters differently for a different type of job.

    I also don't think it's "cool" to have a down selected pool of 70. I think it's a sign the job market is fucked up and getting worse. The job itself is fine; it has one good benefit of paying for just about any advanced degree that can be stretched to sound "job relevant", but other than that it's mid.

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  • no re takes

    That's garbage. That's def an option someone selected, to not allow re-takes. Hopefully they just didn't understand the impact and course-correct if they use it again.

    Knowing the workflow for mine was unlimited retakes made me feel a bit better, though I still didn't like the tool. So the person who chose to record from the phone with their camera shooting up their nose had every opportunity to rethink that choice. The person who opened and closed with a string of expletives chose to hit "submit'.

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  • My company sometimes uses that too. It has your general keyword filtering on resumes, with sensitivity adjustments.

    It also has a tool to ask questions, then candidates video record themselves responding (as many retakes as they want) and the hiring manager can review their video so they aren't bound by a mutual schedule. No AI element to that (yet) that I'm aware of, but could see the potential to screen the videos through an AI filter.

    I don't like the video screening, personally. Neither as an applicant nor as a hiring manager. I've only had to use it once as hiring manager where the narrowed down by resume pool of candidates was still 70 people for only one position. I used the damn tool because I didn't see any other way to filter it down to a number I could conceivably interview live on zoom.

    If one is down to 3-5 candidates, AI tools of any sort are inappropriate. As with all things AI, it's a tool and not an excuse to not do the job.

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  • Very directly. My company just had layoffs as a direct result of Trump. The company has contracts with the government and Trump cancelled many of them. The Legal team is also trying to figure out if the company will be paid for some work that was already completed.

    The tarrifs and threat of tariffs and general chaotic instability Trump is driving around tarrifs is already affecting our supply chain and pricing. We try to make long-term agreements with suppliers instead of doing spot buys, and they are working assumptions of even more tarrifs into their pricing as a buffer.

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  • And how would one know with 100% certainly a person killed in self-defense despite being labeled a murderer by the applicable legal system?

    It assumes an impossible perfect knowledge. Or if not perfect knowledge, some percentage of error, making the murderer of murderers guilty of occasionally murdering an innocent self-defense killer.

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  • Murdering all murderers can't conceivably be "self-defense", making it unlawful.

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  • Murdering murderers makes one a murderer. If one is going to ignore any context and mitigating factors, no, murdering murderers does not result in net good.

    E.g., people who have killed in self defense have been tagged as murderers. Murdering them is not at all a good thing (in my moral framework, at least).

    E.g. #2, murdering one person for Reasons does not necessarily mean a murderer is going to murder again. So murdering them adds to the overall murder tally without necessarily preventing any additional murders.

    There has to be some element of preventing future murders, not just retribution of past murders, for this to even be a debate, IMO. And then there's the bar of simply locking them up being insufficient to prevent them murdering in the future.

  • Lenovo joins growing China exodus as manufacturers flee US tariffs — OEM moving production lines to India

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  • Lenovo joins growing China exodus as manufacturers flee US tariffs — OEM moving production lines to India

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  • Yep. Remind him that Kamala Harris has half Indian ancestry and he'll be ready to colonize it right after Panama, Greenland, and Canada.