skisnow

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

As far as I can tell the US has only slightly less than an average number of public holidays, but the amount of PTO is close to zero for a lot of people.

EU working time directive requires 28 paid days off per year (including public holidays) as a minimum.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

There's a weirder variant where they always cover meat with a draining rack while it's marinating. After N years the grandparent visits for dinner and explains "yes but you see we had a cat..."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

If your dinner scrapings are too soupy or wet to go in the bin, you can tip the whole thing in the toilet so you don't have to fanny about trying to sieve the noodles and vegetables while decanting it into the kitchen sink.

30 years old when I had dinner at a friend's house and they did it casually like it was obvious.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

The article says, "This is basically a human supervising driver whose entire job is to watch the car and make sure it does not drive itself into a ditch."

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago

That is such a weird fucking thing to say on every level.

These people really do just assume that everyone is as awful a human being as they themselves are.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

The Top Gear Reliant Robin launch reached 3000ft / 900m, although they were unable to stick the landing.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

I do so hope that Stephen Schwarzman, Blackstone’s CEO and cofounder, fucks right off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

most devs… Kinda suck at their job

Also they like to make memes about how it's the rest of the world that's doing best practices, software testing, teaching, and interviewing all wrong

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

yeah, I can see not having a social media profile at all being treated as tantamount to sedition before too long

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

laced with irony

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (3 children)

The protests were baked into the Project 2025 plan from its inception. They've changed nothing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

I'm increasingly convinced that while AI in general had a big leap forward a few years ago, since then there's some mass hysteria type effect where everyone seems convinced that it's been getting steadily better at the same rate - when I've not been able to see any of that.

I keep reading all these benchmarks that are supposedly destroyed every three months, but they never seem to turn into any noticeable improvements when I use the damn things. It's now at the stage where if someone tries to tell me otherwise I just assume they're either a bot themselves, or falling for some kind of hysteria/confirmation bias type effect.

So, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if autopilot literally was getting worse as they try forcing more data into it and getting nothing but overfit. It was already as good as it was going to be based on its fundamentals, which is to say, not good enough.

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