MDGeist

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by MDGeist 6mo ago
A former colleague of mine recently took a role that has largely turned out to be "greybeard that reviews the AI slop of the junior engineers". In theory it sounds workable, but the volume of slop makes thoughtful review impossibl
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by MDGeist 7mo ago
I think it depends on the part of the US. In my experience, being from the south, I am used to people engaging in small talk with strangers. However, working in the northeast I find people to be very transactional until you wear them down o
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by MDGeist 10mo ago
IBM was ahead of the boat! They had Watson on Jeopardy years ago! /s I think you make a fair point about the potential disruption for their consulting business but didn't they try to de-risk a bit with the Kyndryl spinout?
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by MDGeist 10mo ago
I used to add stickers obtained from visiting my company's clients/partners to my laptop. After 5 years the laptop was basically advertising a bunch of dead brands (either through acquisition or lack of VC funding).
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by MDGeist 1y ago
I always assumed the really slow tiers were tape.
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by MDGeist 1y ago
Kinda feels like a lot of companies think they can be option 1 because someone else will be option 2, and then they'll hire the young people away after they become experienced.
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by MDGeist 1y ago
Awesome thanks for the heads up! I wasn't using anamorphic lenses back when I tried ML so I'll have to give it another try now.
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by MDGeist 1y ago
It has been many moons since I used Magic Lantern. Has anamorphic desqueeze ever been a feature or could it be in the future? That's one missing feature that bums me out about shooting videos on Canon.
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by MDGeist 1y ago
Every time there is a thread on big O notation I'm hoping someone is going to explain something that will make it clear how it relates to the anime The Big O. I'm still trying to understand what happened in that show.
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by MDGeist 1y ago
This is the reason I also go to Microcenter for components. It's too bad there are so few of them and Fry's is defunct. Not many brick and mortar options left.
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by MDGeist 1y ago
I had an aunt who was a hold out until this past year. She was in a rather wooded and sparsely populated area and although faster internet became available awhile ago it was much more expensive and she was already used to the limitations of
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by MDGeist 1y ago
Kind of wondered if that was part of the rationale for making it news. Maybe another company will say "that's all!? we can do better" and help out.
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by MDGeist 1y ago
I did not entirely hate the sequels, but I feel like the Animatrix was better and kind of flies under the radar.
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by MDGeist 1y ago
I've also seen the top down version where senior leadership like a CIO/CTO wants to put a huge "modernization" project on their resume and they don't care if it is impossible to maintain or falls over after they mov
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by MDGeist 1y ago
There was a recentish David Cronenberg movie about humans evolving to eat plastic so we'll be fine. Can't wait to chow down on plastic.
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by MDGeist 1y ago
I was at a company that let people keep laptops (after they were wiped) largely because the severance was so meager it seemed they expected people to sell the laptops for some extra cash. :p
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by MDGeist 2y ago
They weren't dead to me immediately just because there are still third party RF lenses that rock, but when Sirui did the AF anamorphic lenses and I couldn't get one for my Canon then it really bummed me out. :/
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by MDGeist 2y ago
I think you make an interesting point about the implications of the no-VST constraint. In the earlier days of Reason (before they had VST support or even Rack Extensions) it was great because I could work on a song on any system that had ju
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by MDGeist 2y ago
Totally agree, but how often is the young coworker using the hip new language in their position because they were told learning it was the key to getting a job in a competitive market and it is what they have to fall back on? Somewhat simil
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by MDGeist 2y ago
I think mileage may have also varied based on industry and location. I eventually found my way into tech as a writer anyways, but most of the people I met via the STC were not working at tech companies. Granted it was DC so lots of defense
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by MDGeist 2y ago
I was a member of an STC chapter in grad school and I went to a bunch of meetings and networking events hoping to get some practical career advice from more experienced technical writers. At no point did it feel like anyone in the org could
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by MDGeist 3y ago
I have many tattoos (but none on hands/neck) and pretty long hair. I did have facial piercings which I removed during grad school because people really did not care for the piercings. I've never had the tattoos be an issue in the
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by MDGeist 3y ago
I think your last bullet point is the one that sticks for me the most. If I only listen to independent death metal then why is my money going to Taylor Swift or Joe Rogan or whoever.
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by MDGeist 3y ago
Yesterday an expensive desk toy, today a reasonably priced sampler. Not sure if TE is YOLOing or it is all part of a genius marketing plan.
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by MDGeist 3y ago
Damn I've been watching zero punctuation since my college days. I suppose it is remarkable that it went on unchanged as long as it did.
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by MDGeist 3y ago
At my previous company they created a policy where if it was more than a week or two you had to get permission from the CEO (company was a few hundred people in size). This was after one month where like 5 people all took 3 week vacations a
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by MDGeist 3y ago
As an outsider myself this was my assumption for why the demoscene is not the same as it once was, the hardware constraints are no the same as in the 90s. That being said I kind of look at the demo reels for new versions of Unreal Engine as
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by MDGeist 3y ago
I bet they will just try to upsell all the AppD customers with Splunk ES/SIEM. If the Thousand Eyes and AppD integration is any indicator they will add a button in AppD that opens up Splunk...
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by MDGeist 3y ago
A fair amount (maybe 15-20% of messages) since I'm on the east coast and my company is on the west coast. I don't feel obligated to reply if its outside of working hours though.
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by MDGeist 3y ago
If anyone seems excited about Atmos its a handful of audio engineers. Most people aren't set up for Atmos mixing and so some see it as a way to differentiate their studios, but the reality is its very scammy and an Atmos set up is expe

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