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Re: STFU

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Post by tyleo »

logicx24 wrote: post #144
dekhn wrote: post #88

Here's one I don't know how to solve: at work some folks take meetings in the bathroom. They're on their phone, they walk to a stall, do their... business while doing their business, all the while talking and listening, while toilets flush in the background. I understand cultural differences but taking business meetings in the bathroom seems inappropriate under effectively all circumstances.

Robert Caro, in the LBJ series, wrote about how LBJ would use the discomfort of being the bathroom as a negotiating technique and a show of dominance. He would drag senators into the bathroom and force them to listen to him talk as he used the urinal, or force his staffers to take dictation as he took a shit.

Crazily enough, I’ve also heard he pulled his Johnson out in meetings.

Re: STFU

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Post by BeetleB »

gensym wrote: post #117
BeetleB wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wearing headphones while hiking is uncomfortable, and wearing earbuds for any length of time is always uncomfortable - hiking or not. They also fall out. As others have said - not really a big deal. Either get ahead of them and maintain a significant distance, or stay behind and do so.

It is a big deal. It means for a lot of people there's nowhere they can go to actually enjoy the sound of nature. The strategy of getting ahead or staying behind doesn't work when there are switchbacks or crowded trails. The strategy that does work is to get fit enough to go deep into the backcountry because the troglodytes that bring speakers to hikes lack the discipline to ever get that far.

> The strategy of getting ahead or staying behind doesn't work when there are switchbacks or crowded trails.

If a trail is crowded, you won't hear much of the sound of nature, whether someone is playing music or now.

It all depends on where you live, and what access you have. Nature is not far from me, so I have several options within an hour's drive.

Re: STFU

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Post by anigbrowl »

krick wrote: post #172
abalashov wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I understand the overwhelming opposition to this, and I wouldn't do it myself. However, I lead a life of very few meetings (I'd actually appreciate more--this stance puts me in a very small company, to be sure), so it's easy for me to say that one should be more judicious with one's timing. I can emphathise with someone stuck in meetings all day in a predominantly listening role, that they consider perfunctory or mos…

As a matter of fact, I do NOT understand the overwhelming opposition to this. What's your deal if a guy is good at multitasking and people on the other end of the wire don't mind it? It isn't like he is desecrating a temple, or intruding into your home and using your toilet, or jerking off in the public... Wait, actually I'd say even the latter shouldn't be your business, unless he stains something. Why cannot people…

I have no wish to listen to other people's bodily functions when I'm working, or conversely to listen to them working while I'm answering a call of nature. The correct response to these behavior is to either hang up on them or tell them to shut the fuck up, respectively. It's not OK to impose yourself on others like this.

Re: STFU

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Post by Henchman21 »

keeganpoppen wrote: post #106
dekhn wrote: post #88

Here's one I don't know how to solve: at work some folks take meetings in the bathroom. They're on their phone, they walk to a stall, do their... business while doing their business, all the while talking and listening, while toilets flush in the background. I understand cultural differences but taking business meetings in the bathroom seems inappropriate under effectively all circumstances.

this is, and forgive me the lowering of quality discourse here, what ripping one’s loudest farts and triple flushing is for. if they are so important that they can live through the embarrassment that i would assume 99.9% of people would feel in that situation, then good on ‘em.

Being unable to feel embarrassment is not a "good on 'em" situation. The inability to feel shame is a serious impairment of one's faculties. It is literal brain damage.

Re: STFU

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Post by m463 »

tra3 wrote: post #28

In the style of cheap tiktoks: "There are two types of people...". My wife loves listening to her phone on max volume, but it sounds so bad compared to half decent speakers. Also what's up with the people hiking (by themselves) with a bluetooth speaker. You're by yourself, in nature. If you want to listen to music wear headphones!! Also why are people using speaker phones in public places at max volume. The speaker i…

I was in downtown seattle recently and these homeless people play music on giant bluetooth speakers.

It was kind of surreal - sketchy looking person playing high-pitched voice female vocals (imagine k-pop).

Re: STFU

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Post by omgJustTest »

``` README.md

straight up honest - originally called this "make-it-stop" but then saw @TimDarcet also built similar and named it STFU. wayyyyy better name. so stole it. sorry not sorry.

```

Probably the reason that the code "worked" from a single prompt. Could potentially have downloaded the github repo first...

Re: STFU

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Post by sodafountan »

pixl97 wrote: post #101
sodafountan wrote: post #85

I wonder if the future of AI is that we all just create our own programs out of thin air like this. Like if I need something, I just describe it to AI, and within seconds, it's generated and ready to use. Operating systems become redundant; you open any digital device, and it's just a portal into the most advanced LLM on the planet. Obviously just spitballing here. I wonder how far AI will advance.

Operating systems, no. You still have to access what is going to be standardized hardware and make the analog bits behave digitally at low power. Applications, yea, 100%.

I found it interesting that the OP defaulted to using an AI agent for his voice recording software rather than doing a Google search. Perhaps a sign of things to come? I would've chosen Google, but maybe I'll be falling behind in the future.

Aside from getting an LLM up and running on a device, what's stopping AI from creating an operating system? I admittedly don't know much about operating system development, but aren't most operating systems written primarily in C?

I guess what I meant by that is it would be interesting if the AI prompt itself were the OS, and all software would be generated via prompting the agent. No downloads, just a "What do you need?" prompt with the AI generating everything on the fly.

Perhaps becoming so fast that you wouldn't even notice it thinking. Just: "I need to edit a document that was sent to my email" The AI would then retrieve the email, download the document and generate its own text editor to display the document in. All within a few milliseconds.

Call it AIOS

Re: STFU

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Post by hamdingers »

lacoolj wrote: post #128
dylan604 wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've heard many people say the cannot stand they way earbuds feel. Just like many people said they could not breath wearing a mask.

Why would earbuds be the defacto standard here? Get headphones. They're great, I promise. I'll even send a link https://www.bestbuy.com/product/sennheiser-momemtum-4-wirele...

Even fewer people want to wear earmuffs while hiking.

Re: STFU

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Post by compiler-guy »

kittikitti wrote: post #14

I think it's worse that you have to behave maliciously. They have a right to make sound in public places. I'm not one of those people who plays stuff on full volume in public places but sometimes I am a bit noisy. I think back to when I'm having fun and it often involves a bunch of noise. Society is becoming way too intolerant and conformist.

https://xkcd.com/1499/

Re: STFU

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Post by BeetleB »

dpark wrote: post #127
BeetleB wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of the three you mention, only one is the law in every public land place I've hiked.[1] Staying on the trail is mostly a suggestion for your safety (and to preserve the area) - definitely not a law. Ditto for loudspeakers. People often go into nature and throw concerts. [1] OK - trails in state parks and perhaps some national parks likely have more rules. But trails in general public lands (BLM, forest, etc)? Not man…

This is willful misreading. They specifically also said “social norms”. This “it’s not technically illegal so it’s not a problem” sentiment is unhealthy for civil societies. I for one would like basic social norms to be respected without law-enforcement being involved.

I was pointing out the pointlessness of invoking "laws" in this scenario. I'm not the one that brought it into the conversation.

As for social norms, one only has to read the comments to understand that there clearly isn't consensus on this point. People go to nature for many reasons - not all related to enjoying the sounds of nature. What dylan604 is pointing out is to be mindful of that.

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