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Lovable Sidekick

@ LovableSidekick @lemmy.world

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  • Me: I mean it's freacking python. How bad can it get? Python: Hold my beer, mf

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  • Yeah it's still broken, but at least it's back to old broken not new broken.

  • People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like?

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  • Never worked in banking or finance. That job was at a company that made ultrasound machines.

    Funny story I like to tell: one April Fools day I started a rumor that the company was getting bought by Toshiba. I created a fake Wall St. Journal article written in their bland style and left a couple printed copies on random manager's desks with illegible initials scrawled on them. Within 2 hours our dept (IT) had an emergency meeting to reassure us that it wasn't true. They said upper management was VERY upset and wanted the perp to come forward (no recriminations - yeah right!) and explain the reason for it. I'll never forget my manager, who was British and generally looked like actor Bob Hoskins, dressed as a pirate because it was April Fools Day. The jam-packed conference room was utter chaos and he was standing on a chair in his pirate costume waving his arms trying to get everybody to shut up.

    I kept my mouth shut. A friend of mine who worked around a lot of managers said the tone of their conversation that week was like... why now? why Toshiba? As if there might be a grain of truth to it. Months later it turned out our company had a very secret project going with Hitachi to develop a miniaturized combat ultrasound machine for the army, because they were encountering landmines etc that threw out plastic shrapnel, which was really hard to see with x-rays. So apparently the big shots thought somebody might be teasing them about the Hitachi deal, and they were worried about the army getting wind of it and doubting their ability to keep the whole thing secret. Bonus: the device was codenamed the Tricorder, and physically modeled after the shoulder-strap tricorder on Star Trek TOS.

  • People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like?

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  • And the Strategic Office Presence Task Force passed into legend lol.

  • People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like?

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  • Suggestion: schedule regular informal zoom calls to trade news, rumors, ask impromptu questions, whatever. Wouldn't even matter if nobody talked sometimes - people could just have it open and lurk.

  • People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like?

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  • Mine consisted of me countering every single one of my manager's lame objections to remote work, including pointing out that we used contractors in fucking India and offering to change my name to Rajesh, and him simply ending the discussion with, "I can see we're poles apart on this."

  • Does the ping between your eyes and brain increase when you're tired?

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  • No but the CPU load slows down processing.

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    We wouldn’t need the Epstein files to prove DJT’s guilt if society just trusted women in the first place.

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  • Technically true and I get the point of the statement, but unquestioningly trusting a whole category of people is no smarter than mistrusting a whole category of people. We're all individuals with our own levels of honesty, spite, conscience, etc. No matter how much we decide to trust each other, in each case we still need to examine evidence and evaluate accusations objectively - a process Trump has avoided all his life.

  • Vibe coding takes the "science" out of computer science

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  • Taking the black hat off the AI and putting it where it belongs? That's crazy talk!

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  • I ignore boycotts because they tend to affect the common employees of the targeted company more than the CEOs they're aimed at. Congrats, you clicked on Brand X instead of Brand Y. Your uncle got laid off when the quarterly numbers went down, but a billionaire has $3 less now, and more importantly you feel like a hero. Way to go, Joan of Arc!

  • What are the low-rated movies you enjoyed the most or think should be rated much higher?

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  • The Dark Backward (1991) - Judd Nelson and Bill Paxton play garbage men buddies in a trash-infested, dystopian city where everything pretty much sucks.

  • When will we have reached enough productivity?

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  • I think we're already productive enough, just not distributive enough.

  • Sounds like the most sensible option

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  • He's not wrong.

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  • I remember when you could do anything at Zombo.com. Good news, everyone - you still can!

  • Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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  • If in-person tabletop gaming is okay here, my group is about to start one called Don't Tell Mom & Dad, an RPG in the vein of Stranger Things. You play a bunch of kids having supernatural adventures around their town.

  • how do i stop being so obsessed with a fictional character?

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  • As an internet rando with no credentials, I would say embrace it. Apparently this is something you need right now. Try your hand at publishing fan fiction.

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  • You're saying a therapist would give better advice than social media randos? What kind of crazy talk is that?

  • like 80% of internet slang

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  • Hey don't try your backyarding and barneyrubbling on me!

  • The various species before the first couple extinction events must have been fascinating

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  • The ones after the next extinction event will be even better!

  • What's your favorite snack to take on road trips?

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  • My favorite snack is also Value Size!