Lovable Sidekick
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Too late. Social media was already the end of truth.
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linuxmemes@lemmy.world•How it feels to use DebianEnglish
11·4 months agoWith unstable all bets are off.
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You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that in 2024, Kristi Noem publically bragged about shooting a puppy English
17·4 months agoSame Kristi Noem who as governor spent $5 million of S. Dakota’s COVID money on a tourism campaign, saying her state was coping with the pandemic using “personal responsibility and freedom”.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*English
2·4 months agoA friend of mine did it in college, and that was decades ago. Instead of snipping him they put in some kind of little valves that could be turned back on. Later in life he married, had the valves turned back on and had kids, so apparently the system works.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamberEnglish
8·4 months agoDefinitely very echoey in here.
Hello?
Hello?
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*English
4·4 months agoSeems more like an “Ask a copyright lawyer” question.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How do you reconcile staying sane while keeping yourself up-to-date with the news?English
1·4 months agoI mostly don’t do either.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•The Future is NOT Self-HostedEnglish
1·4 months agosnot?
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like?English
3·4 months agoNever 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.
Yes, yes I’m on third, what color is your house?
Wow these things are really weathered. I told them to use Varathane.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like?English
2·4 months agoAnd the Strategic Office Presence Task Force passed into legend lol.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like?English
2·4 months agoSuggestion: 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.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like?English
2·4 months agoMine 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.”
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Does the ping between your eyes and brain increase when you're tired?English
4·4 months agoNo but the CPU load slows down processing.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•We wouldn’t need the Epstein files to prove DJT’s guilt if society just trusted women in the first place.English
17·4 months agoTechnically 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.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Vibe coding takes the "science" out of computer scienceEnglish
2·4 months agoTaking the black hat off the AI and putting it where it belongs? That’s crazy talk!
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•When will we have reached enough productivity?English
14·4 months agoI think we’re already productive enough, just not distributive enough.



I don’t, I just play the thousands of mp3s I’ve collected over the years.