logicalmonster

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by logicalmonster 2y ago
If the person is able to complete the job, it's not necessarily fraud.
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by logicalmonster 2y ago
The cold emails that are effective in getting the attention of my small business promise me some $25-100 gift card to Starbucks/Amazon in exchange for going through their sales demo. Now that's pricey for them, but I'd bet th
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by logicalmonster 2y ago
> Every single one of them were fully vaccinated. You don't say?!?
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by logicalmonster 2y ago
What ScientificAmerican labels as "denial" might better be referred to as a "normal risk-management assessment". They're still hyping up the threat of Covid in the article for God's sake.
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by logicalmonster 2y ago
> I can agree with you on all points above, but why is it more important to keep freedom from tyranny instead of keeping our environment healthy? Value is subjective, and anybody is entitled to prioritize the environment over any other v
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by logicalmonster 2y ago
Are you counting jobs posted or total comments? The total number of comments should rise in a few days or so after as people comment on their experiences applying to a company.
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by logicalmonster 2y ago
1) The real answer might depend on the time-frame you're considering. In the short run, crypto does use up a good amount of electricity, which nobody disputes. But in the long-run, crypto fortunes being dependent on electricity prices
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by logicalmonster 2y ago
> I don't think the algorithmic nature is necessarily the problem. The monetization is. IMO, monetization was never the real problem. Everybody online was interested in making money even back in the early 2000s: there were ads, spam
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by logicalmonster 3y ago
Are there actually any good metrics that can be used to evaluate software engineers? If you rank them based on # of tickets dealt with, they're just going to take the easier tasks. If you rank them based on # of commits, they'll m
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by logicalmonster 3y ago
It would be helpful if you can post such a citation. I did a quick search and I'm not seeing "less suited" in his memo.
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by logicalmonster 3y ago
> how a particular group of employees are less likely to be as proficient at their work as I am due to some immutable biological trait(s) they possess Is that what Damore actually said? That's not my recollection. I think his main p
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by logicalmonster 3y ago
Anything is possible, but I'd say it's a safe bet that their bad choices will inevitably infect everything they do.
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by logicalmonster 3y ago
Personally speaking, this is a blaring neon warning sign of institutional rot within Google where shrieking concerns about DEI have surpassed a focus on quality results. Investors in Google (of which I am NOT one) should consider if this is
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by logicalmonster 3y ago
Would a company be liable to uphold its promises if a rogue human customer service agent promised something ridiculous such as 1 million dollars worth of free flights?
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by logicalmonster 3y ago
I don't know exactly, but this article may serve as a prime example. https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/chatgpt-goes-viral-fo...
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by logicalmonster 3y ago
The Turing test of the future is going to be start a politically incorrect discussion with a suspected bot and see if it treats different groups differently.
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by logicalmonster 3y ago
1) You should consider yourself lucky that you (hopefully) learned the lesson that there's no such thing as a "safe career" before you got too old and were put in a shitty position where you were laid off in maybe your 50s-60
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by logicalmonster 3y ago
If the problem you're trying to solve is literally generating randomness, you might look into custom hardware. I think some companies have devices to measure subtle variations in the output of tiny laser beams, as one example of how pu
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by logicalmonster 3y ago
Just a small bit of advice. A lot of companies use recent employment as a filtering mechanism: if you have a big gap in technology employment, you might have trouble getting interviews. I'd say to create an LLC on your own that serves
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by logicalmonster 3y ago
We're in a new trend cycle. Whenever some tech becomes trendy and people think they can make money off of it, it becomes a stupid buzzword that gets used just about everywhere unnecessarily. Think back to the "cloud". When &q
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by logicalmonster 3y ago
Assuming there are any, have you tried to address your concerns internally with any of the decent folks in management?
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by logicalmonster 3y ago
> If viewing a gay marriage doesn't make you gay, neither does seeing someone complain about other races or LGBT people. This is a great line that probably pisses off almost everybody. Love it.
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by logicalmonster 3y ago
Brave has done some very minor experiments with user control of the algorithm that yielded pretty interesting results. One strength of OpenAI might be allowing users to approach search from a lot of different directions. Very interesting.
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by logicalmonster 3y ago
If your concern is quasi-anonymity, get a burner phone to create your social media accounts.
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by logicalmonster 3y ago
There's some interesting developments in rotary engines and other approaches to redesigning internal combustion engines to make them much smaller, more powerful, and even more efficient. I can't tell the future obviously, but I th
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by logicalmonster 3y ago
You're in healthcare, and I'm not, so odds are that you're closer to correct than me. But what are the historical roots of these long doctor shifts? The same healthcare economics weren't in place when this practice was i
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by logicalmonster 3y ago
I'm not in the healthcare industry, so this is just a guess, but I think the biggest issue that causes some medical experts to want to retain long shifts is that the patient handoff between doctors for different shifts is handled so ba
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by logicalmonster 3y ago
> Which roles in your org could you lay off to increase productivity? Human Resources > I wouldn't matter which 50% because the other 50% would learn and adapt. This might work in some professions, but seems pretty silly in tech
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by logicalmonster 3y ago
How about using the GPU to render something? Blender lets you render stuff with the GPU right?
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by logicalmonster 3y ago
As a basis of comparison, Steamcharts says that Fallout 76 (widely reported to be a massive flop) currently has about 7,500 users playing right this minute, over 5 years after release.

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