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jtrek

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  • Any advice y’all got for someone like me going to college?

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  • Without jeopardizing your academics, prioritize rare things.

    TV and video games will always be there. Your friend asking you to come play tennis won't. Go play tennis even if you don't think you'll love it.

  • What are code reviews even for?

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  • A large part of code review has been preventing people from doing stupid shit. AI is making stupid shit worse. It's not defects, it's "adding a whole micro service to get the user name from the ID, when the name is already in the metadata" or whatever that recent meme was.

    Or that time a guy wrote a whole DSL instead of using the existing framework. Technically impressive, but adds a huge burden.

  • Welcome To The Resistance: Meet The Workers Dodging (And Sabotaging) Their Employer's AI Mandates

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  • Many people simply do not seek a faster way of doing things.

    Right. But if you're a soulless manager, and you set faster timelines, you PIP and fire the people who don't make it. They'll use the tools or be replaced.

    It's the same as an AI mandate, except less stupid. (It can still be stupid if you set the timelines impossibly fast, but management is not known for being smart or informed)

    I wouldn't do this as me because I'm not a soulless manager.

  • Welcome To The Resistance: Meet The Workers Dodging (And Sabotaging) Their Employer's AI Mandates

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  • If AI actually made people faster and more productive, they could simply set faster timelines and people would use the tools.

    There are AI mandates because the people in leadership are stupid and dishonest. "Return to office" has the same shape. For many people working from home is healthier and more productive, and it's better for the environment not to commute as much, but the emotional needs of leadership are primary.

  • The Evolution of Streaming

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  • This is as much a movement as it's going to get. Peer to peer.

  • The Evolution of Streaming

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  • I know. People are an endless source of disappointment.

  • The Evolution of Streaming

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  • Refuse to pay. If we all just refused to pay, they would have to change.

    But too many people don't care, so I guess we'll all just suffer.

  • GOP South Carolina voters blame Biden for grocery prices, Emerson poll finds

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  • Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images

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  • Google is run my by assholes and idiots. Break it apart.

    Edit: fixed silly typo

  • Scammers Are Cloning OnlyFans Creators With AI Telling Fans a Kid Is Sick in the Hospital Then Vanishing With the Cashapp Money

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  • I feel like we should run honeypots like this, and anyone who falls for it goes right to, like, therapy and "how not to be scammed" training.

  • Student Teacher Sent a Private Snapchat Complaining About Her Workday. An Hour Later, Police Pulled Up to Her School.

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  • WhatsApp, sms, and Google chat (hangouts? Meet? The thing built into Gmail)

    None of them are great.

  • Student Teacher Sent a Private Snapchat Complaining About Her Workday. An Hour Later, Police Pulled Up to Her School.

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  • One of my friends is some sort of neurodivergent and just... won't install signal. It's "too much". I don't understand this. It's 30 seconds of "click this link I sent you, then click install".

  • Student Teacher Sent a Private Snapchat Complaining About Her Workday. An Hour Later, Police Pulled Up to Her School.

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  • The "american dream" has always had a problematic contradiction. You should work hard. Working hard is good. You should work hard so you don't have to work anymore. Working sucks and you don't want to do it. You want to be the guy on a golf course getting money while those hard working people assemble widgets for you.

    Well, which is it then?

  • Student Teacher Sent a Private Snapchat Complaining About Her Workday. An Hour Later, Police Pulled Up to Her School.

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  • The freedom was always kind of dicey. Sedition act of 1798, for example.

    Women also historically had a bad time of it. And the native peoples. Queer folks, too. Religious freedom is hit or miss.

    It's been pretty good for wealthy people, historically. They've been pretty free.

  • Boomers on Facebook Are Leaving Comments That Make It Clear That They Have No Idea That AI-Generated Thirst Traps Aren't Real

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  • I've seen some funny comments, but the ones that are like "ur so hot" are baffling.

  • Use your big girl words

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  • Is the joke that you're not communicating and expect us to read your mind, as referenced in the original post?

  • Mapped: How 6 Billionaire Family Fortunes Fund Project 2025

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  • Mapped: How 6 Billionaire Family Fortunes Fund Project 2025

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  • You can't just kill them. You need to deal with the forces that enabled them. But getting rid of them would be a good start.

  • How do you get better at communicating your thoughts in discussions?

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  • I don't know how to grade myself on clarity of communication, but I'll share some things I think have helped.

    Avoid long sentences. Many people don't read well, and even those that do will get lost in a long block of text.

    Read back what you wrote out loud.

    Do not neglect the emotional front. Conversations and convincing are about emotions more than facts. Acknowledge their position. Make them feel heard.

    Read more. Read a variety of things. Op-eds in newspapers. Books of various genres. Old stuff. New stuff. Feed your brain more than word junk food.

    Ask questions. Sincere questions. Don't try to trick them. People are usually happy to talk about themselves and their beliefs. Use this to find common ground and shared experience.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    jtrek @startrek.website

    How often do you admit you were wrong?