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[–] [email protected] 6 points 19 hours ago

There are now studies (I/you need to look up the references since I'm now in a hurry) which posit that, especially in bigger organisations, 80% of the work gets done by 20% of non-managing individuals - because of exactly this phenomenon.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago

The scam isn't 'hard work'

The scam is the 'a job gives you(r life) purpose' narrative.

Nope, times a thousand. Meaningful relationships, having realistic (but still challenging) goals, self-expression, responsibility for the well-being of others and engaging in meaningful initiatives, among many others, do.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I actually did, but people don't normally have conversations about why NATO is a good/bad idea on first encounter 😆

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

What the... is this a real photo? Does she actually look like that??

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thanks !

Regarding that very last part of your comment (about R2D2), his and C-3PO's memory is erased at the end of EPIII by orders of Sen. Organa, so I think that'd explain it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Would you mind shortly elaborating on the plot holes ?

[–] [email protected] 141 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (6 children)

I had an interesting conversation today with an acquaintance. He has sent his resumé to dozens of companies now. Most of them, but not all, corporate blobs.

He wondered for a while just why the hell no one is even reaching out (he's definitely qualified for most of the positions). He then came to the idea to ask a particular commercial Artificial Stupidity software to parse it. Most of those companies use that software, or at least that's what the vendor says on its website. Turns out, that PoS software gets it all wrong. As in: everything. Positions and companies get mixed up, dates aren't correctly registered, the job descriptions it claims to have understood only remotely match what he wrote. Read: things even the most junior programmer with two weeks of experience would get right.

And it is getting used pretty much by every big firm out there.

Oh and BTW: There is ONE correct answer to the phrase 'using AI is no longer optional' : Fuck you.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 4 days ago (16 children)

Er. 'I am done with Google'. Watch the video on YouTube...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

May I suggest Michael Lucas' 'Cashflow for Creators'. While not exactly a must-read, personally it helped me a lot to actually map, plan and ultimately take the decision to tell the corporate world to get stuffed.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Well, given that the world is pretty much on fire right now, it does feel a bit out of place to start rambling about Christian hypocrisy. So, like, yea, I get your point and I do believe most religious people are hypocrites (nor is that a phenomenon that only affects Christians), but...how about, if we want to follow that line of thinking, pointing the finger at the ''''''''''Jewish'''''''''' state and its genocidal '''leader''', that rabid dog no politician anywhere is willing to put a leash on? We would be talking about hypocrisy at a much, much higher level and it would be, at the veeeery least, as relevant...

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

...and you are figuring that out in 2025?

 

The prequel to the 'A Quiet Place' saga got me thinking.

spoiler alert!

There is a scene in which many humans march towards a safety point. Each individual human would have been relatively quiet, but because there are a lot of them (potentially hundreds), they end up being, as a whole, loud enough to alert the monsters so they get all killed.

This would suggest that many sources of noise which are near to each other and generate more or less the same amount of noise end up adding up so that the end result in dB is more or less the sum of the individual dB levels.

But then again, it's fiction.

Back to reality, I work in a room full of different servers which have also very different levels of noise. I have noticed that from my standpoint, the noise of the quietest server seems to disappear whenever the loudest is running, so it kind of does blow my mind how our perception of noise works...

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