BehindBlueEyes

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by BehindBlueEyes 4mo ago
Maybe this is true if you only look at paid labor, but there are other ways in which elders add value to society, as they do a lot of invisiblized unpaid work. Their pensions play a role in supporting the economy, as much as people seem to
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by BehindBlueEyes 5mo ago
I get this feeling sometimes, like it is so unreliable at referring to context and getting details right it feels like deliberate random rewards to create the equivalent to a gambling addiction. About half my tokens feel wasted on trivial e
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by BehindBlueEyes 1y ago
I guess by design since odor can inform health too. Also, a poopshelf may lack odor control, but it offers splash control.
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by BehindBlueEyes 1y ago
There were already too few people for the tasks before this round of layoffs. The working order has been "do more with less, use AI" for over a year. Every MS FTE whom I knew enough to have that kind of conversation with was stret
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by BehindBlueEyes 1y ago
Finally! A friend was an in-house reseacher at some car manufacturer, whose job is to usability tests car prototypes, including in real traffic. She was telling me about one study in particular to try a new touch screen built behind the han
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
anecdata n=1: LLMs lack understanding of context, stakeholder sensitivities and nuance in word usage, to write reports with the required depth and at the quality bar I need. Maybe it is faster at generating BS reports with no substance, but
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
Easier said than done these days. We had a coop managing out drinking water with local government support. Being a coop excluded them from grants and eventually the board burnt out and gave up. Local government now operates the thing - you&
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
> The field of AI research has a reputation for disregarding the value of other fields [...] It’s likely that, being unaware of much of the research in psychology on cognitive biases or how a psychic’s con works Is the reputation warrant
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
curious: why do alarm clocks run on batteries? Seems counter intuitive for a device that is just going to sit in one place to not be plugged in?
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
oh interesting, how do you define older here though? I'm a bit skeptical because i read a similar comment about answering calls immediately vs. letting it go to the answering machine already being such a divide. Makes me feel old for t
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
I don't think I'd handle a wearing a watch anymore, smart or not. For waking up, something not technological but working 99% of the time for me: pets (or kids) though you'd want other reasons as well to have those beyond waki
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
The opposite can also be true, you know it is a bad work situation and you are going to burn out but you can't afford to leave. Not that you want to stay, you don't even want that promotion anymore but that you can't go elsew
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
Academia is where research happens. Employers have no incentive to do research that would force them to spend more on employee wellness. I worked on enough team health surveys to know leadership has no interest in collecting feedback about
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
Yeah, if I had kids I'd go back to france for studying costs: 175 euros per bachelor year; 250 euros per Master year; 618 euros per (public) engineering school year* ; 391 euros per Doctorate year... Cost of life depends on the city b
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
> The article says "everyday life is much harder now, and getting harder". That may be, but there's no proof this is causing more burnout. The definition of burnout is a professional ailment caused by work conditions (inap
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
I couldn't find a reference to the specific case study but there's definitely human factors/ergonomics research about this - one example was about a factory introduced task rotations which should increase meaning of work and
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
I think the difference is that knowledge + actively thinking is more akin to sprinting all day, jogging being more akin to just relying on knowledge.
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
the low thinking work still exists in housekeeping tasks but those are non promotable and seen as wasting time/skill... so people shy away from doing these. Those are also the things managers may tell you to delegate to manage an impos
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
Avoiding overtime helps but if the work conditions are conducive to burnout it can happen even to part time workers. How much work it takes to protect the balance to avoid burnout can itself also contribute to burnout, say if you constantly
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
This aligns with my experience. There's this GDC talk that really resinated with me about how side projects can help avoid burnout in the games industry: https://youtube.com/watch?v=zfJ9LLZQ9jo It is counter intuitive
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
An increasing number of my colleagues are using burnout for entirely inappropriate reason like "I was so burnt out last year from all the travel and vacation planning". It is so disrespectful to those with actual burnout when the
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
distancing oneself from work (not caring) is a symptom of burnout, symptoms are a coping mechanism but that doesn't mean they're a cure... sure a fever helps fight illness but a caugh might just spread it. Personnally, I can'
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
The work was harder but people also didn't wash their shirts after wearing it a single day/time. Machines increased expectations, resulting in workload to remain comparable, since more of it needs doing.
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
I may be cynical but I don't think men flee fields were women manage to enter. I do see this trend though. But I rather see it as men moving to the next cool thing, leaving the leftovers of their no longer prestigious / downward t
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
Same experience. My friends and local community posts a lot, but facebook will only show me 1 connection for for every 7 rando reels / recommended / sponsored channels (aka ads), not counting the blocks suggesting new friends and
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
Maybe the problem is paid dating aps? Also enshitification is real there too, I don't think I'd find anyone now on the same dating app I met my spouse on years ago.
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
> 25 years ago: Women on the internet? This kind of reaction is (partly) why the women on the internet that I knew rarely disclosed their gender 25 years ago
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
I have yet to see an LLM reliably push back against anything firmly, so I don't know how this would work if the first time a user says the LLM is wrong, it apologizes for the confusion and flips its script. Also, LLM aren't unbias
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
Thanks for sharing this. Somehow it evokes images of travel to me. Seeing the wonders of the world used to require skill, (sailing, flying, or) hiking/climbing up mountains to see the view. There were few people at the top and likely l
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by BehindBlueEyes 2y ago
> stream 30 minutes of _____ to a friend and unlock an avatar for your profile! Sounds like enshitifications has begun already

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