Bendy

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by Bendy 21d ago
It’s called the Gemba walk but it does more than just to look important. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemba
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by Bendy 1mo ago
Addiction is really boring and makes you really boring. That’s part of why it’s so terrible. When William Burroughs was on heroin he would spend 6 hours or so a day just staring at his shoe.
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by Bendy 1mo ago
There is a scene in a French documentary in which a former Dassault boss displays his vintage wine collection as one of his many tools to ease arms supply deals with various nations. When the journalist asked him if it really works like thi
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by Bendy 1mo ago
Reminded me of a bit from the GOAT political comedy Yes, Prime Minister: "But he's the Prime Minister!" "Indeed he is Bernard. He has his own car, a nice house in London, a place in the country, endless publicity and a p
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by Bendy 2mo ago
Only if the resistive heater in question is DC or AC with reactive power compensation
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by Bendy 4mo ago
It is greed; LLMs are progress but their cost, and the lies told about them wildly exceed their utility for most of the tasks that they’re otherwise expected to perform. The claims are fraudulent, fraud is a crime, and crime does not benefi
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by Bendy 8mo ago
I read the title as “The largest zip file…”
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by Bendy 8mo ago
Should’ve called it OuiChat
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by Bendy 8mo ago
Love it, all that’s missing is n-gate style summaries of the articles and comments.
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by Bendy 8mo ago
We don’t just use these people we create them. Since ancient Egypt the priest class of every society is employed to apply ritual trauma to psychologically prepare princes for their vocation of restless leadership.
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by Bendy 9mo ago
Invited me to his house to cut and shorten some shelves for me, after the hardware store refused because I hadn’t bought them there.
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by Bendy 1y ago
Microsoft and its peers have become like a surface nuclear waste storage facility. The remains of something once useful now become dangerous, radioactive, an ever-growing parasitic burden on society, and yet must be continually supported le
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by Bendy 1y ago
I’m fed up of hearing that nonsense, no it won’t. Efficiency is a human-defined measure of observed outcomes versus desired outcomes. This is subject to change as much as we are. If we do optimize ourselves to death, it’ll be because it’s
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by Bendy 1y ago
He’s not fooling anyone. In the words of Spiderman, “Look at him! Look at him and laugh!”
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by Bendy 1y ago
That didn’t work out for God, we still killed him.
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by Bendy 1y ago
And I would never work for someone with such a paranoid suspicion of the motives of their employees, who doesn’t want to take any responsibility in their employees’ professional growth, and who doesn’t want to pay them what they’re worth.
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by Bendy 1y ago
So it’s another inhumane interview process from a company led by an apparent psychopath. The author certainly dodged a bullet and graciously wrote this warning. Don’t work for them, they are vampires. Go elsewhere, your life is worth more a
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by Bendy 1y ago
LLMs certainly think, they’re not conscious however because they don’t enjoy.
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by Bendy 2y ago
Thanks for sharing that. Einstein and Minkowski knew perfectly well that space and time are inseparable over 100 years ago. >Not sure what religion has to do with it. >absolute time is not falsifiable…you have to believe in it. Either
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by Bendy 2y ago
Yeah, but so what? Time still has meaning, and is important to us, if only because we know we’re going to die. Some theologians believe time exists also in Heaven. If that’s so it can’t be like any time we know about.
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by Bendy 2y ago
The author’s Australian so I couldn’t help but read it in the voice of Robert Hughes, to narrate this new shock of the new. “‘This is the real thing, this deserves respect!’. It isn’t and it doesn’t, and no one cares.”
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by Bendy 2y ago
“The future is going to be boring.” - J. G. Ballard
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by Bendy 2y ago
The just swear jar’s overflowing for this article. It sounds like an API and it looks like an API, but don’t let that fool you…
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by Bendy 3y ago
Same, and with my toddler we’re back to good old fashioned DVDs. They may be slower, fragile and have a few unskippable parts but at least the ads are predictable, they don’t involve endless scrolling, and they belong to you.
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by Bendy 3y ago
That’s precisely the idea, and they don’t even need to be cheaper. You can’t put a price on controlling other people’s lives, and even if the ship sinks what matters is that the ones in charge did it all their way (or the highway).
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by Bendy 3y ago
> I do think democracy, the way it currently works, has a problem. It doesn't seem to be able to actually solve problems anymore. I agree with you and this is because democracy is terminally on the defensive. Which is alas, a losing
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by Bendy 3y ago
Performative work is still very important work. It’s that which keeps those who actually matter happy, entertained, and feeling safe, secure, and comfortable. Dance monkey dance.
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by Bendy 3y ago
I couldn’t care a row of buttons if my PM hates me.
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by Bendy 3y ago
Question fabulously answered by rob whose Stack Exchange avatar is also a banger.
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by Bendy 3y ago
Apple doesn’t know what you want and neither do you. Apple makes you want. Nobody, least of all oneself, knows what one wants (except in the moment; I want some peanuts) so we have to be told. And you certainly do have a choice, so long as

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