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Lovable Sidekick

@ LovableSidekick @lemmy.world

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  • Once I said to my therapist "I'm sure you hear this kind of thing all the time", and she said "No, this is like top 5".

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  • When I was in therapy my therapist said she could write a paper on me. This was flattering but also hmmm.

  • White House unveils sweeping plan to “win” global AI race through deregulation

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  • Trump invents AI Superhighway, Greatness ensues.

  • People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like?

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  • Never worked in banking or finance. That job was at a company that made ultrasound machines.

    Funny story I like to tell: one April Fools day I started a rumor that the company was getting bought by Toshiba. I created a fake Wall St. Journal article written in their bland style and left a couple printed copies on random manager's desks with illegible initials scrawled on them. Within 2 hours our dept (IT) had an emergency meeting to reassure us that it wasn't true. They said upper management was VERY upset and wanted the perp to come forward (no recriminations - yeah right!) and explain the reason for it. I'll never forget my manager, who was British and generally looked like actor Bob Hoskins, dressed as a pirate because it was April Fools Day. The jam-packed conference room was utter chaos and he was standing on a chair in his pirate costume waving his arms trying to get everybody to shut up.

    I kept my mouth shut. A friend of mine who worked around a lot of managers said the tone of their conversation that week was like... why now? why Toshiba? As if there might be a grain of truth to it. Months later it turned out our company had a very secret project going with Hitachi to develop a miniaturized combat ultrasound machine for the army, because they were encountering landmines etc that threw out plastic shrapnel, which was really hard to see with x-rays. So apparently the big shots thought somebody might be teasing them about the Hitachi deal, and they were worried about the army getting wind of it and doubting their ability to keep the whole thing secret. Bonus: the device was codenamed the Tricorder, and physically modeled after the shoulder-strap tricorder on Star Trek TOS.

  • ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing

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  • To me it's weird that people have issues with this. My wife and I, married 35 years, share each other's locations because if something bad happened we would want to be able to find each other. I don't even give a second thought to, "...and I can make sure she isn't cheating on me."

  • ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing

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  • ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing

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  • Found Hank Hill's neighbor, Dale.

  • Back in my day selfies

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  • Nice! I don't know where I first saw it, maybe on a New Yorker cover, but the image came to me so I googled Norman Rockwell self portrait and found it.

  • They've got a point!

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  • Yes thanks, my bad. Moved the comment to the right thread.

  • Resources

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  • I know the world has more than enough resources and productivity for everyone on it to live comfortably without overworking, but 30% is the lowest figure I’ve ever seen. Would like to know where that came from. I’ve seen so many widely varying estimates of everything.

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  • I just used a free online thing called PDF2Go to split a giant PDF into 4 smaller files. It let me directly download the resulting 4 files without signing up for anything, and they work perfectly on my box (linux mint). Tbh I don't think the UI is super intuitive but I just googled "How to split a file on pdf2go" and found clear instructions. It has a lot of other tools I have not explored.

    Not affiliated with the site in any way, sharing because Adobe is so freaking expensive. https://www.pdf2go.com/

  • Beach Access [OC]

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  • Yes, yes I'm on third, what color is your house?

  • The Duddo Five Stones [OC]

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  • Wow these things are really weathered. I told them to use Varathane.

  • What a shame..

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  • Been there

  • People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like?

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  • And the Strategic Office Presence Task Force passed into legend lol.

  • People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like?

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  • Suggestion: schedule regular informal zoom calls to trade news, rumors, ask impromptu questions, whatever. Wouldn't even matter if nobody talked sometimes - people could just have it open and lurk.

  • People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like?

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  • Mine consisted of me countering every single one of my manager's lame objections to remote work, including pointing out that we used contractors in fucking India and offering to change my name to Rajesh, and him simply ending the discussion with, "I can see we're poles apart on this."

  • Does the ping between your eyes and brain increase when you're tired?

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  • No but the CPU load slows down processing.

  • Back in my day selfies

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  • Get off my god damn lawn!

  • They've got a point!

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  • The point isn't to take sides with the sheep, it's about self-awareness. Recognizing that hating ignorant people is just a different form of ignorance. We're all burdened by or own ignorance even if we don't know it.