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>> "OpenFatigue being a real concern here." OpenConcern. But at least it's better than Concern.net or iConcern, or even eConcern. Let's not forget Digital Concern, ConcernCloud. An…

Oh man, I hate my area has switched to Facebook marketplace over Kijiji or even craigslist. Even when an ad exists with EXACT obscure model I'm looking for... It spits out pages of…

Thinkpads are saying hello :) Not to turn this into a Web fight or anything, but come on... Even my t420S from 2011 could be upgraded with ssd and more ram and is still used :). My…

Too late to edit, but - all of that was before I read the openai / hugging face kerfuffle. If openai cannot contain it's own agentic ai, it's pure hubris to think I can give it acc…

Good morning! It is possible you replied before my edit to clarify - it's not necessarily a "never" thing, I rarely do universal / categorical negatives, but it's a strong "not rig…

As I said, my knowledge is very superficial - my background is relational databases and old school system administration, without much mathematical background since 3rd year linear…

The cyberpunk dystopian agentic future we live in is fascinating to me. I use LLM daily, did since gpt 3.5, but still in a very conservative, controlled mode. I may rapidly be beco…

Isn't tanning basically body's reaction to cellular damage? It reduces further damage but that's due to damage done? (It's largely irrelevant to myself, I pretty much burn immediat…

I gave up half way through. There was a lack of direction (for me) and too many permutations of clicks, characters, items and locations. The humour was ok, the story I was willing …

I enjoy Vitalic, not sure if he's newer but has decent body of work :)

I think a mixture of BBC, cnn, al jazeera, economist, will get a casual reader to a decent spot, and they're all mainstream media. Possibly guardian but emlarhically not their opin…

The two statements are not inherently contradictory. Removing / reducing / "doing something about guns" may well be hard, and it is beyond fascinating to many of us that majority o…

I imagine even in such a job, your shift lead, team boss, or warehouse manager or whatever, would be able to confirm "yes, Bob worked here in truck driving capacity from 2022 to 20…

Can you elaborate? Many companies don't allow details, but are allowed to confirm a person was employed in a specific role. That's in many cases a sufficient to serve as a referenc…

It's a data point, not a final or primary determinant. Vast majority of corporate team members or leads are not allowed to say anything bad or much other than whether that person w…

Fair warning; any links to specific cases (not the law itself)?

It is my limited understanding that as much as many of us groan at the notion of Spacex becoming "an AI-first company", markets in general, and Musk investors in particular, are sl…

There's the internal reality and external perception. As an outsider, it feels all levels of USA government are constantly fighting and going back and forth and back and forth over…

I feel "about a 8 floor building" would be a good ROM :)

I think parallel comment has a much better answer than I could provide - EU is a set of heterogeneous political units which each have multiple nested political units within. Given …

Hi! Thx for sharing :). I've read the "how revival works" section, but still have no idea "how the revival works". ("We've used ai" is all I got from both this intro on HN and the …

That's implementation details though; one can absolutely think that "EU is a good idea" and "specific EU systems need improving" simultaneously, without contradiction. It's like th…

What is "normies" in this context? I'm neurodivergent, and on various nerdom bell curve tails, including know more than averga bear about technology societal implications and misus…

It is my limited understanding this is other way around - you plan your vacation, you get it approved, then on your vacation an emergency vote to reduce your salary is called and y…

When I go into listening node, I listen . Actively and intensely. Apparently it unnerves people. My wife coaches me to give occasional Yes,Go On, or UhHuh. But it's a conscious, le…