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Bee Flight Movements Hold Key to Smarter AI Systems(scienceblog.com)
2 points by gregd 1y ago|1 comments
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by gregd 1y ago
Bees use flight movements and body wiggles to help their brains learn and recognize visual patterns with remarkable accuracy, according to University of Sheffield research that could reshape how next-generation artificial intelligence is de
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by gregd 1y ago
I only use Rider because it's cross-platform. It's not inherently better (or worse) than Visual Studio with Resharper installed.
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by gregd 2y ago
I really don't understand why it was necessary to publically mention why these folks were being laid off. Being laid off is humiliating enough as it is, without the added cruelty from ones former employer. I was laid off from Intel in
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by gregd 2y ago
What really sucks is the label "low performer" that will get attached to the reason you got laid off at Facebook. That was an intentionally cruel thing to do to people who lost their livelihoods.
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by gregd 2y ago
These are actually amazing. I'm such a visual learner and these would have helped my high school years so much!
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by gregd 2y ago
I don't think this is so much about this ONE ad but rather, it contributes to the overall feeling that real connections, like art, music, and architecture, are being lost daily. Music programs are constantly being cut. Architects can&#
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by gregd 2y ago
This! Music programs throughout the US, are getting cut. AI has fundamentally (and not in a good way) changed the artistic landscape in ways that we cannot recover from. My soon to be high school graduate daughter, was so looking forward to
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by gregd 2y ago
One more opinion in the mix. I grew up in extreme poverty as a child who also happened to have a keen interest in music. I could never develop this keen interest because of course, the cost of instruments was too much for my mom to handle.
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by gregd 3y ago
The only reason I'm using JetBrains at all right now is because Rider is cross platform. With Microsoft announcing the discontinuation of Visual Studio on Mac, I get really tired of the context shifting between Visual Studio at work a
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by gregd 3y ago
Boggles my mind that they lacked the foresight to seriously consider whether this was a good move or not. I always considered them extremely developer friendly, but with this latest move, I'm not so sure.
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by gregd 3y ago
Did I love Windows XP? Yes. But to me, it always looked like it was designed by Fisher Price.
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by gregd 3y ago
Having worked in PowerApps the last year and integrating a rest API in Azure that then updates Dataverse, low code is just short for abstraction layers. As a developer, this irritates the hell out of me. Sure, you can view your Dataverse d
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by gregd 3y ago
Have you tried the new pipelines built into PowerApps?
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by gregd 3y ago
As someone who is of East Asian descent, and with a mid -8 diopter, I fall into this category. I am extremely grateful that I can still get 20/20 vision with corrective lenses, but I assume that at some point, that will no longer be t
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by gregd 3y ago
I'm on old curmudgeon and just want to go back to saying, "C#...It's fast enough!"
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The Five-Day Office Week Is Dead(nytimes.com)
24 points by gregd 3y ago|16 comments
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by gregd 3y ago
Having to tell your employer what your sickness is in order to get sick leave approved (or not) is ridiculous at the outset. This is the exact kind of thing people are lobbying against. My employer should not have that much reach into my
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by gregd 3y ago
No. What's currently popular is normalizing talking about mental health and wellbeing. Not everyone has the privilege to get a diagnosis, much less, get proper care or treatment. Talking about these issues on social media is an outl
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by gregd 3y ago
What does 'abusing' sick leave mean though? You mention going to the ballpark using a sick day. Going to the ballpark with your son, looks a lot like taking care of your mental well-being if you ask me.
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by gregd 3y ago
And if you never take sick leave, like I did during my almost 30 year career, the toll it takes on your health is tremendous. My employers have never cared about my high blood pressure or that I'm pre-diabetic.
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by gregd 3y ago
What Covid showed my household, despite me working from home, was that ALL of us being isolated at home, meant no more sickness. No longer were my kids bringing home crud from school and making me sick for weeks at a time while we all pass
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by gregd 3y ago
@danseop08 Stuck? What a weird and interesting thing to say since I deliberately chose and applied for jobs I was not only good at, but had the most experience in. And to then add in that I haven't seen anything other than Microsoft t
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by gregd 3y ago
Oh for crying out loud, I’m so over this holier than thou attitude. Every company and every vendor has strengths and weaknesses. Laughing in someone’s face for choosing to use one platform is ridiculous at best. My entire almost 30 year ca
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Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React(joshcollinsworth.com)
5 points by gregd 3y ago|2 comments
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by gregd 3y ago
I have conversations all the time over Teams with any peers that I'm interested in having relationships with outside of work. This gives me the opportunity to be selective in doing that because I'm not interested in being friends&
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by gregd 3y ago
Remote workers falling through the cracks is wholly on the company and not on the remote worker. It takes a very concerted effort on the companies part, to ensure that everything is remote first. None of the other things you mention (bondin
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by gregd 3y ago
WFH for the past couple of decades, gives me the choice to live where I want to live (internet dependent and time zone dependent of course). I can make a West Coast salary and live in the midwest if I so choose. Having lived in PDX and comm
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by gregd 3y ago
I have been fortunate enough to work from home since early 2000s. For many reasons I don't want to use my own hardware for doing that though. The main one being e-discovery. If your company is forced to go through a discovery process
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by gregd 3y ago
There is a component in contentment that I think is lacking in complacency...that of general happiness. So to me, they are not the same. As someone who has a growth mindset I can assure you that in corporations like Microsoft or Intel (I w

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