throwaway914

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by throwaway914 3y ago
At my org - I've been using it to counter disappointing performance reviews in a professional way that aligns with policy to "further develop the employee". I've use it to create first drafts of proposals for changing bu
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by throwaway914 3y ago
Hmm. I will say from past experiences I've only found the 'valley girl' accent to be in certain parts of California, and not representative of Californians. Growing up I remember when my sister and her friends adopted this st
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by throwaway914 3y ago
I work in a very large organization with 50,000 people. It's painful and discouraging listening to the person at the top, or their close deputies, because the documents they publish for mission goals are so abstract and boundless. Noth
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by throwaway914 3y ago
If you sound disinterested and don't articulate your speech for the technical audience you have -> you deserve the perception you get. Biases exist for a reason. If I'm not hearing the detail I'm looking for or the sincer
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by throwaway914 3y ago
Why would I blame a bank when it's easy to impersonate me? There are root-cause issues here when identifying a US citizen, and US law enforcement.
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by throwaway914 3y ago
I watched this, and the commentary from the 2nd tour guide seems non-serious. I did think the "valley girl" accent is what threw me off, but I stopped watching at "super cool sled". I just don't understand who the
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by throwaway914 3y ago
Why are we blaming the companies because the police are easy to impersonate?
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by throwaway914 3y ago
This is very cool. I remember I got sucked into things like Ramda going down this functional programming rabbit hole :-) https://ramdajs.com/
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by throwaway914 3y ago
I think I'm misunderstanding what this can be used for, but something I'd love to see become "perfect" is preserving a GUI application state across reboots/logins/etc. Especially with flatpak GUI apps.
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by throwaway914 3y ago
I'm equating this to condition-less coding, where you're trying to eliminate branching logic with bitwise operators or other math.
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by throwaway914 3y ago
I appreciate you making this distinction; it's one I haven't understood clearly. My outside impression is that right-to-work is a campaign to smear unions, though I understand in some areas/professions they can only hire uni
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by throwaway914 3y ago
I'm not saying it's practical for everyone, but while the default is LinkedIn I have found great opportunities without it.
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by throwaway914 3y ago
Trading 1 trash platform for another. LinkedIn could be such a great place if it didn't abuse your information and subscribe to such dark patterns. I still remember having my entire address book harvested and spammed (way back when). I
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by throwaway914 3y ago
I maintain a daily email to myself in a shared mailbox. I have 3 sections: SIGNIFICANT \* topic1 \* this happened \* topic2 DONE \* This project \* Made this change \* Made another change \* Some training
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by throwaway914 3y ago
Neat date format :) I use these for work within SharePoint lists: "2023 Q3 August" "2023 Q3 08/02" "2023 Q3 Monthly" "2023 Q2" "2023" "Weekly" "Monthly" "Annual
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by throwaway914 3y ago
That is a good story :) It makes me wonder what future Wayland protocol may enable clients/apps to advertise themselves as screen-reader capable.
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by throwaway914 3y ago
Not to draw seriously messed up parallels: I frequently get in arguments with my extended family because I believe pedophiles and criminals have rights. I talk about the documented history of innocent people being convicted of a crimes, bu
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by throwaway914 3y ago
Something I would love to find is a practical/succinct guide on Linux kernel performance tuning. I'd love it to give examples of sysctl's you'd adjust for specific use cases like: - a real-time kernel - a single user mo
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by throwaway914 3y ago
I often feel this is what's happening: Portland and a few other cities around the nation prioritize helping folks in a big way, and we wind up serving a national need not a city need.
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by throwaway914 3y ago
My counterpoint to this is there have always been a ton of bad drivers. The most important skill to have is to be a predictable driver. Bad drivers will always exist. You cannot change them, and the great number of them is not likely to
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Ask HN: Who sells a decent HDMI quad-viewer?
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by throwaway914 3y ago
My understanding is currently they do not vet user age. How could they? There are a few billion users. Even among different ethnicities people look younger or older depending on the society they group in. However, I was looking at this
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by throwaway914 3y ago
Most of the advertisers and influencers I know personally are children.
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by throwaway914 3y ago
Social media was ruined a long time ago. Even here it's a disparate, incomplete conversation. I commented knowing the response I'd get from HN about false positives with AI determining user age. Time to sue Facebook for the mark
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by throwaway914 3y ago
Yes. True. I think if you use someone's photo for Facebook, they're likely to already be on the site. You could also have the AI look at the photos that are uploaded over time and if they look very different from the person who su
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by throwaway914 3y ago
Presently they don't have the staff or the willingness to vet that all users are above the age of 13.
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by throwaway914 3y ago
Nope. That's why I'm not on Facebook, which presently asks for ID when it deems necessary.
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by throwaway914 3y ago
See the problem here is I don't view social media as a loss, at least on the level of Facebook.
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by throwaway914 3y ago
So I'm wondering why we don't use AI to determine the likely age of a user from the photos they upload. Obviously there will be false-positives but then you can just ask them to upload a picture of their state ID/drivers lic
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by throwaway914 3y ago
This makes me very happy :)

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