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vrek

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  • Is there any polite way to tell your manager one of the reasons you don’t see yourself working with her is how she reacts each time I tell her about an issue?

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  • Years ago I was working second shift, 4pm - 1230am. My manager had a 2 hour commute and had to wake up at 7am to get his kid to school. He had to be last out by policy and did not want to stay late.

    His policy was all your work was to be done by midnight. 12 to 1215 was to clean and organize your station. 1215-1230 was to degown(esd safe/clean room assembly space), get your stuff(lunch boxes, coats etc), use the bathroom, warm up your car and wait for 1230. He was out the door with the alarm set by 1235. If you were still in the building have fun talking to the police.

    He would check and if you were still working at 1205 would come by and ask why you're not done yet. It worked out extremely well.

  • Letting users fill out a form before notifying them that they need to sign in to submit it is scummy and needs to end.

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  • Company computers are different, I definitely don't trust them. That said managers like that are not good managers. Measure outcomes, not time. When a problem occurs and I can't figure a solution I go for a walk. 5 maybe 10 minutes. You would be amazed how often I think of the solution on said walk. Yeah it might look like a waste of time but clearing my head is a huge value to the company.

  • Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes

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  • Ouch! Tell her I'm sorry, and I'm sorry for you too. All the accountants I worked with did alot more than just reports. Not to mention that sounds great until the Ai says 2+4 =2*4 and now the company owes 20 billion on taxes...

    Plus in a lot of cases people don't submit records in identical format, the number of excel workbooks I've seen where the data was on "sheet 2" for some unknown reason....

    Maybe its just me, I always provided raw data on sheet 1, analyzed data on sheet 2, and if needed complicated formulas on sheet 3. I would be willing to bet their Ai would break on that format.

  • Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes

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  • I don't know but implication the other poster is making is "a human can write 2 articles, a Ai can write 5, I'm being asked for 5 which is impossible. I can use Ai and risk trusting it or not meet my required outputs and also get fired."

    I made up those numbers but that's the accusation. You are damned if you use the Ai to meet your goals. You are damned if you don't meet your goals.

  • Letting users fill out a form before notifying them that they need to sign in to submit it is scummy and needs to end.

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  • You do. When you press submit it sends a http post message with your information. They are not reading your keyboard input on a website. You can verify this with wireshark and any website with a form.

    Yeah some places with apps MAY do as you say like Facebook such with full permissions to your phone. That said its still sent as a http post request, just recorded locally and then sent as a giant packet.

    That's why they have the submit button. Otherwise they would have way too many transactions. "a" then "d" then "a" and then "m" and have to concatinate them on the server plus initial packet saying they are getting a first name. Then another that you stopped focusing on first name.

    Now how do you handle if I typed adan and go back to correct it? Some apps might do this but general web development(99.999%) doesn't.

  • How bad would something have to be if 99% of the outcomes are good and 1% of the outcomes were disastrous before society banned that thing?

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  • Possible but back when smoking was much more common (not like 2010s, I mean like 1930s when a pack was included in mre kits given to soldiers in ww2 and the Flintstones cartoon had sponsored segments where Fred and barney had "smoke breaks" and talked about the "smooth and delicious taste" of I think it was camel cigarettes ) There were many more companies making cigarettes. It was only really consolidated in I think the 80s due to lawsuits for causing cancer, false advertising, lying to congress etc. Most of the companies couldn't afford all the fines and were bought out.

  • How bad would something have to be if 99% of the outcomes are good and 1% of the outcomes were disastrous before society banned that thing?

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  • Really? If 1% of customers of a restaurant got food poisoning... Well that's exactly why we have a health department and food inspectors

    Now if by slop you just mean "not delicious" people would probably stop going and stop recommending. Some places may be able eat that loss(pun intended) but many would go out of business. Related, sorta, there have studies that one aspect of McDonald's that added to its huge success is consistently being same basically everywhere. Yeah there's some regional differences but you can eat a big Mac basically everywhere. And they are basically the same.

  • The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model -- "An alien race called Falshi uses the creation of civilizations and the Fermi Paradox as a means of accumulating and collecting valuable resources."

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  • I totally read that as a statement from Wikipedia and was incredibly confused.

  • How bad would something have to be if 99% of the outcomes are good and 1% of the outcomes were disastrous before society banned that thing?

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  • No, I don't think it was an opinion. My point is in a lot of cases something really bad would never hit 1%. Like commercial airlines, most do several hundreds of flights a day(just a guess but for the large ones seems reasonable across all airports). If one airline had say 3 crashes in a year I can't imagine them still being active.

    Population of us in 2024 was 340,000,000. If it effected 1% that would be 3.4 million people. That's like 1/2 of the holocaust victims.

    I believe most companies would be done at 0.01% if that. Only company I can think of with that body count is nestle... I don't even think Raytheon has killed that many.

  • How bad would something have to be if 99% of the outcomes are good and 1% of the outcomes were disastrous before society banned that thing?

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  • I think you drastically overestimating 99% vs 1% at scale. For example look at the Chicago Tylenol case. Atleast 7 people died. 31 million packages of Tylenol were recalled, the entire line of powder filled capsules was eliminated, nationwide redesign of medication packages was done. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tylenol_murders

  • OP figures out love languages

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  • Nope, just a funny wholesome story from my past.

  • Fountains Of Wayne - Stacy's Mom

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  • Regardless of sexual tones, the first scene is non-sense. Mom picks up girl from school, she parks and turns off the car. She then gets out and opens the trunk. Daughter doesn't have a backpack as she doesn't have textbooks or homework. Mother closes the trunk which was opened pointessly and drives off.

    Wtf? Why did you try to open the trunk? It's a convertible, she can put it in the back seat with no effort. If anyone has been in the pick up their kids words would be have at a minimum. Ok, fine you want it in the trunk for some reason, why did you turn off the car?

    Yeah, it's overly sexual and the song doesn't really make sense(you are calling a girl and asking her to come over so you can stare at her mom and hope her mom is like ok? Let's go?) but that first scene. I grew up with the song and it's catchy but topic is/was so rediculous and wrong.

    The first scene makes even less sense.

  • OP figures out love languages

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  • Years ago I was a young white guy with long hair and a short ish beard. Someone at my job decided I looked like shaggy from scooby doo. The name kinda stuck and became my nickname.

    Few months later, I was at work and one of the guys came over and asked for some favor. I forget what it was but it wasn't like a 30 second thing, it was like a multi hour task. I denied the request and made some excuse. He then reached behind his back and pulled out a box of scooby snacks. They were like small graham crackers in the shape of a dog head like scooby. "Would you do it for a scooby snack?" Everyone around started laughing, even I started laughing.

    I didn't end up doing it and the task was just made up for the joke. It was pretty funny though. He said he saw them over the weekend when grocery shopping for his family and thought the joke was too good.

    Side note, they still make scooby snacks and the kid I'm basically raising actually really likes them.

  • Burgers and chips again but better

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  • These look good, but what's heme with fat?

  • Don't grow older than 255 or else it will overflow

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  • Just curious since you seem knowledgeable, is there a connection between those societies? Or is it just chance they both choose 8?

  • he forgor

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  • In the US, I'm my experience, you typically have 10 to 15 minute conversation with hr(or separate agency) first. Basically this is for ensuring you will have a chance of fitting in. It's not to test technical skills or abilities. For example and I had one recently where after basic greetings the rep said the job was local for 3 months and then expected about 95% of the time was international travel, was I ok with traveling that much? Long story short basically no. Meeting ended in about 5 minutes, never even met the hiring manager. I'm another case I met with a rep from an agency for a job, after the conversation he told me I would not be a good fit (basically it was a manual labor job and almost everyone spoke Spanish which I don't). That said, he then said but I have another position you would fit and I ended up at that company for many years.

    They shouldn't (and don't in my experience) ask specific details. It's not like "what is the timing offset on a Ford 438 engine?" or "how do you transform a spreadsheet of financial data to a presentation for management?" those are for the hirering manager. They ask questions like are you legally allowed to work here? Are you ok with travel requirements? Will you be able to communicate with coworkers? It's short, basic and basically a screen to verify you are worth the manager time for the real interview.

  • he forgor

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  • If people were obviously lying about their knowledge and abilities, I'd see how far they are willing to push it. "So how much experience do you have with python 4?"or" please write on this board how to do the well known programming problem fizz buzz, in sql"

    Depending on your office building, "please demonstrate how you would handle the sliding window problem?" let them write for a few minutes. When they are done tell them "incorrect" and then walk over and open the window in your office.

    Don't actually do any of these. They would make you a huge asshole but it would be funny.

  • Wouldn't you like to know

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  • Quinos in 2005-2010 was awesome. Their management fell off with handling their franchise owners though to my knowledge.

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  • An ide is obviously an "intentional dog emoji". You see someone showing their cat pictures and you tell them this is a dog environment.

    BTW yes I know it's an integrated development environment which means basically a text editor, compiler, linker, debugger and in many cases linter. I'm also unemployed and looking for a job so...

  • Linux @programming.dev
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    Is there a Chromecast equivalent?

  • Linux @programming.dev
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    Is an old raspberry pi useful for anything based on Linux?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Is a old raspberry pi viable for anything with Linux?

  • Games @sh.itjust.works
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    Agdq 2026 has started

  • Games @lemmy.world
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    Agdq 2026 has started

  • Programming @programming.dev
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    What's the weirdest bug in a program you found in a project you didn't write?

  • Privacy @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Question on your feelings about accounts

  • Programming @programming.dev
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    What is your development environment?

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
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    What are some of the worst code you have seen in a production environment?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    How can I host a small api/database accessable from a phone app as cheap/easily as possible?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    People complain that it's poor design that humans eat and breath through the same pipe(throat). Are there any animals which don't though?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Is there a programming specific distro?

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Technically a fishing license is a license to kill.. Only to a small percentage of the earth's population