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by sharkweek 8d ago
My mom texted me the following when Windows did some big update integrating AI and probably had one of those menu bar popups announce it: “Sharkweek, my computer says it has AI on it now!?? Yikes! What does that mean?”
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by sharkweek 4mo ago
Father in law was a real estate agent from the 80s until maybe 5 years ago. The day he retired was the day he absolutely positively suddenly wanted nothing to do with real estate anymore. He loved the career but it was interesting watching
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by sharkweek 4mo ago
Oh wow I can’t wait for the “one off” ways people find to abuse how Google presents this creative for products. “Yes! You can use an ACME shovel to bury a dead body!” I’m sure brands will love the screenshots this will produce.
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by sharkweek 4mo ago
My wife is in grad school at a major university and is dealing with this right now the week of midterms for spring quarter. I totally understand why a university wouldn’t want to bake their own learning portals but just feels like such a si
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by sharkweek 5mo ago
I honestly know I could “optimize” my phone replacement schedule based on resale values of phones etc, but for the last ~15ish years I just replace my iPhone when the battery starts shitting itself (3-5 years each in my experience)
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by sharkweek 5mo ago
Relevant Mitch Hedberg (rest in peace) joke: “ I love my fed-ex guy cause he's a drug dealer and he doesn't even know it”
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Baseball ushers in high-tech replay review system for calling balls and strikes(nbcnews.com)
3 points by sharkweek 6mo ago|0 comments
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The Rise of the Ray-Ban Meta Creep(wired.com)
5 points by sharkweek 6mo ago|0 comments
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by sharkweek 6mo ago
We got one of these for our elementary-aged kids because it took off in our network of families at their school. It’s so fun watching them talk to their buddies from school, planning play dates, just chitchatting etc. My favorite thing is w
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by sharkweek 6mo ago
Just put them in row 24 on a Boeing 737 max and let the problem take care of itself.
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by sharkweek 6mo ago
There’s no doubt this is true in my mind. I honestly bet 75% of the time I hear “We are currently experiencing high call volumes” someone answered within a minute or two. In some sense that has the befit of a “surprise and delight” moment t
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The Odds of Me Being Mauled by a Bear This Weekend Keep Going Up on Kalshi(mcsweeneys.net)
14 points by sharkweek 6mo ago|1 comments
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by sharkweek 6mo ago
So... did the avatars ever get real legs, or no? I am so glad this product is failing/failed, and I find myself truly and existentially rooting for the glasses with the cameras to die a similar fate. I have so many questions about the
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A New Generation of Mall Rats Had Arrived(wsj.com)
1 points by sharkweek 6mo ago|0 comments
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by sharkweek 7mo ago
I really want to make a fake PSA that suggests anyone wearing the Meta glasses is probably a pervert and should be proactively avoided/shunned. This product cannot be allowed to exist in the type of world I want to live in. The power s
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by sharkweek 7mo ago
I had a CT scan last year for some stomach issues they wanted to look at. Doctor warned me up front that the odds the images find something that looks weird is high but not to panic because of how many false positives there are when looki
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by sharkweek 9mo ago
I should give Malick another shot. I love film, but only first tried him when I was much younger (Thin Red Line) and don’t think I really got it. Never tried Tree of Life or any of his more recent stuff. Got any recommendations in the fir
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by sharkweek 9mo ago
Amazon drone delivery comes to mind…
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by sharkweek 9mo ago
Best VP I’ve ever had would stop meetings with regular frequency and say, “maybe I’m the dumbest person here, but I don’t understand [insert something being discussed], can you help me get a better understanding?” It was anybody’s guess if
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by sharkweek 9mo ago
Full disclosure: after leaving tech, I’m back in grad school to get my LMHC so I’m obviously biased. First, I just don’t see a world where therapy can be replaced by LLMs, at least in the realistic future. I think humans have been social cr
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by sharkweek 10mo ago
Yes, this should be required viewing in high school imo. As someone who used to think I was generally “immune” to advertising, I have come to realize the influence goes so much deeper than “see ad on TV, go buy product” and is instead a muc
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by sharkweek 10mo ago
My friend and I have started tinkering on our cars together. He’s got an early 90s 525i BMW and I’ve got a 2000 SR5 Toyota 4Runner. The engineering of my Toyota is so much simpler and easier to work on than his BMW. But his BMW has given us
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The Lengths Americans Are Willing to Go to Make Every Penny Count(wsj.com)
2 points by sharkweek 11mo ago|0 comments
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Putting ChatGPT on the Couch(newyorker.com)
1 points by sharkweek 11mo ago|1 comments
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by sharkweek 11mo ago
That Tin Can device has infiltrated (in a good way, what a fun idea!) my oldest kids’ social circle at elementary school. Most of his friends are requesting one for Christmas and we’re planning on getting our kid one as well. Really hoping
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by sharkweek 11mo ago
I just visited NYC for the first time a few months ago, and had the most amazing time, one hell of a city and I can’t wait to get back. I could ramble for hours about all the things I loved about the trip, but one of the things that stuck o
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by sharkweek 1y ago
I’ve got “normie” friends who I’d bet don’t even know that what Google has at the top of their search results is “AI” results and instead assume it’s just some extension of the normal search results we’ve all gotten used to (knowledge graph
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by sharkweek 1y ago
100% His worldview seemed to be that humans as a species are extremely violent and capable of the most inhumane acts and we’re hanging on by a thread. Some of his writing often covered what just a slight altering of our societal moral compa
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by sharkweek 1y ago
It’s been what… 15-20 years since the ads ran but… “I HAVE A STRUCTURED SETTLEMENT BUT I NEED CASH NOW!! CALL JG WENTWORTH, 877-CASH-NOW!!” It pops into my head at least once a month, and it sits for 1-3 days on repeat in my brain. I swear
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by sharkweek 1y ago
I’m fascinated. What makes a great radiologist so much better than the average?

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