abustamam

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by abustamam 4d ago
> But I wonder if he's becoming a bit of a meat proxy. A joke I recently encountered: --- A CEO proudly announced he'd bought an AI system designed to identify the company's most replaceable employee. It spent the night a
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by abustamam 4d ago
I'm building an app to help me manage my Toastmasters clubs. I'm using AI to do it because I honestly dont care how it's made, I'm the only user right now. I just want it to work. Thus far AI has allowed me to generate p
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by abustamam 4d ago
> stop trying to replace all human labor A lot of companies trying to replace human labor with AI are either lying (theyre laying off because they over hired and need to correct) or will regret it. That being said, what's the differ
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by abustamam 4d ago
Thats an interesting poster. Is it real? Im just trying to understand what an MTA employee would do with that information. This seems very portal-y. On the jamais-vu front, I once had to write "school" a few hundred times in deten
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by abustamam 4d ago
My wife swears that I have prosopognosia because whenever she shows me a celebrity face I'm like who's that? And shes like "Brad Pitt!" I dont think I actually have it, because there's enough times where I'm at
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by abustamam 4d ago
So you can move the entire ear rather than just wiggle the tip? I can wiggle one ear, very slightly, and it looks like im having an aneurysm when I do it.
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by abustamam 5d ago
Great story! I remember sharing my screen at work recently and the URL bar suggested https://thisisnotporn.com/ because I had been playing it a bit on my phone and my browser history synced to my work. I dont know if anyone
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by abustamam 5d ago
> People can suck when they are allowed or expected to suck. This is not a unique concept to software or any company type though. You don't have to look far on the antiwork subreddit to find people who work in all types of different
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by abustamam 5d ago
> Yoti is an independently audited age verification provider for SOC2 compliance. I worked for a consulting firm and I needed a client to get SOC2 compliant. The way we did it was scarily easy. It was like a self questionnaire that was l
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by abustamam 5d ago
Kinda orthogonal to this, but the other day I was looking for a friend's cheer routine on Instagram so I put her school name and cheerleader routine and I got a lot of images and videos of very young girls (like aged 6-16) in very reve
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by abustamam 5d ago
When I did some consulting for an e-commerce company that used Shopify, I had a Colombian coworker who kept confusing Shopify and Spotify which was contagious across our company but we always knew what we were referencing because we dont us
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by abustamam 5d ago
Is Facebook, a company that build software to sell ads, a software company or an ad company? I think its a bit bikesheddy, if not pointless, to try to confine companies to labels like this.
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by abustamam 5d ago
I dont see the correlation between company type (tech/software/X company) and sucking at your job though. Ive never worked for a, as you define it, "software" company because the software ive built has always been in ser
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by abustamam 5d ago
Well yeah, that's the name of the game of most software companies. Anthropic has been fairly good up until the last week or so when it started needing more hand holding to not do things it didn't normally do.
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by abustamam 5d ago
Or I just made a typo. I dont think anyone actually has the understanding that Shopify is a music streaming service and Spotify is a shopping plug-in. I was addressing the latter half of gp's comment which was saying that Spotify has h
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by abustamam 6d ago
Just the other day I burned through my 5h quota twice in a row because I had opus spawn a review session on a medium sized PR and I don't know what happened but I told it to summarize to me and it said it spent 100M tokens throughout 5
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by abustamam 6d ago
What's an "actual software product" and why don't you think web products count as them? I'm a full stack web developer. I've worked for startups and F500 companies. There is always a push for release targets. T
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by abustamam 6d ago
Shopify works well for me but it used to push nonsense like podcasts or audio books that I had no interest in, with no way for me to hide them. I just want to listen to music. Upon looking just now, seems like they have been relegated to th
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by abustamam 7d ago
I have a Samsung Z Fold 7. The stock keyboard is split so it's a bit more comfortable to type on with my thumbs. Granted, this phone is the square form factor and not the wide version but I think the concept stays. My iPad from 2018 st
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by abustamam 7d ago
Z Folds come with a factory applied screen protector too, which i assume i was gp was talking about.
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Clues by Sam: Daily Logic Puzzles(cluesbysam.com)
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by abustamam 9d ago
That sounds nifty, I'll check it out!
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by abustamam 10d ago
Yeah pretty much this. I tend to use Astro but I think your point still stands. I wanted to make a basic online agenda in a few different formats for a Toastmasters club and though I could have used raw html and css to build it, but each a
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by abustamam 10d ago
I think the "intent" ( pun not intended) for "intent" to be a moral stance was to not discourage people from trying to do good things for fear they may do something bad and get in trouble or whatever. In an ideal world t
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by abustamam 12d ago
This is what happens when capitalists are charged with designing the future. As long as its more profitable / valuable to shareholders for a company to be negligent then it will continue to do so. IMO technology this powerful should ei
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by abustamam 13d ago
Yeah same, I drew a girl from the Nile Valley in 1100, and I redrew her life a few times and got my daughter's name and my nieces name. "Daughter" died at child birth and "Niece" died of dysentery at age 4... real n
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by abustamam 13d ago
Yeah I think this is it. I played a few times and at one point I was a woman and the average number of children women had was 6 or 7 primarily because most children died pretty early at that time. Was the story or stats true? I dunno. But i
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by abustamam 15d ago
I played with OpenShot and it seemed neat but a bit complicated to use. I found KDenLive more intuitive for my (simplistic) use cases. Maybe I'll give OS4 a... shot 8D
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by abustamam 16d ago
I am working on a hobby project to help me manage my Toastmasters clubs and Id love to get it into more hands because its genuinely helpful but more hands means more maintenance and opération costs. I asked Claude if I could charge for it a
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by abustamam 19d ago
Ublock origin on Firefox has an option to disable this which is nice.

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