renrenPDX
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- Comment on Should you copy a person's accent when pronouncing their name? 4 weeks ago:
I’m guessing it’s probably something along the lines of Aimee/Amy.
- Comment on Do all American stores have greeters? 4 weeks ago:
There are two types.
Greeters are typically someone staged at the door. They typically tend to be elderly, and often during Christmas season and sometimes longer. It serves two functions, being welcoming to customers and being a presence to thwart petty shoplifting. It obviously doesn’t stop someone committed but enough to make some think twice or choose a different exit.
The second type is just your average floor employee. This has become less common over the years with modern systems cutting back hours and shifts during the day. Back in the 90’s in my previous experience, we were expected to great EVERY CUSTOMER with a smile and a few words. Even offer to guide them to what they’re looking for. There were secret shoppers testing or observing and you’re get reprimanded for not doing it. Most customers appreciated the gesture but every once in a while you would experience a power tripping Karen/Ken being awful.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Now we need a device that detects Meta Glasses and makes us invisible to them. I know this is a losing battle and it’s just inevitable over time but I don’t like having information provided to someone about me without my consent. With enough adoption, at some point we would all just need to have our own glasses to even the field.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I was watching a random short with a guy what I’m assuming is one of these. I didn’t hear much of what he said, because I was distracted by the lenses the whole time. It was impossible to ignore as the light catches the lenses as he moves his head around.
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 1 month ago:
It’s not just code, but day to day shit too. Lately corporate communications and even training modules feel heavily AI generated. Things like unnecessary em dashes (I’m talking as much as 4 out of 5 sentences in a single paragraph), repeating statements or bullet points in training modules. We’re being encouraged to use our “private” Copilot to do everyday tasks and everything is copilot enabled.
I don’t mind if people use it, but it’s dangerous and stupid to think that it produces near perfect results every time. It’s been good enough to work as an early rough draft or something similar, but it REQUIRES scrutiny and refinement by hand. It’s like it can get you from nothing to 60-80% there, but never higher. The quality of output can vary significantly from prompt to prompt in my limited experience.
- Comment on In shower today: "I bet my YouTube account is older than most of the people on YouTube." ...Yes, yes it is. 1 month ago:
July 28, 2006 here.
Brothers!
- Comment on Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0 2 months ago:
I only found out about this today from someone whose computer got bricked from trying to enable secure boot.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 2 months ago:
It’s about control. They can grant you access or revoke it based on your id.
The powers at be hate that they can’t control the narrative as well as they used to so this is their solution.
- Comment on What is the magic diet for no-wipe poops? 2 months ago:
Fiber and good gut biome. It can take a while to correct if out of wack.
Eat less frequently. OMAD or skip one meal. Also if you’re drinking a lot of water, supplement with electrolyte capsules (no Gatorade) to maintain optimal function. Reduce or eliminate snacking between meals.
the large intestines absorbs water, electrolytes, and vitamins. It won’t function as well if your shits out of whack.
- Comment on cookie combs 3 months ago:
What part would you share? The crispy outer edge, or soft chewy center?
- Comment on YouTube's Latest Update Shows That Online Monoculture Is Dead 3 months ago:
Any iOS alternatives? The ad experience is not great.
- Comment on Day 360 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 months ago:
I loved using Forge to do stupid shit 🤣
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 3 months ago:
He was against it, which resulted in a lot of negative opinions about the bill and netting less votes because of it. It’s gone full Streisand effect.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Same. Except I kept getting email notifications from my stolen laptop that was asking for password reset for weeks. I had security software installed and it gave gps coordinates each time. Cops didn’t care. Don’t think they caught anybody but most likely had ties to sub contractors working on the property.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months' 5 months ago:
Have to disagree. The war bonds have been some of the easiest to pay with in game currency compared to games like cod where their cod points feel next to worthless.
If you are netting very few credits per hell dive, you may be playing with those that don’t need them or playing bots, or a newly released content. Farming on level 1 will often get you with like minded folk, especially before a war bonds release. Farming is quick when you realize you don’t have to extract, just abort to ship.
- Comment on YSK if you have a library card or are a student, there's a free streaming service called Kanopy 5 months ago:
LinkedIn Learning formerly Lynda is free with library card.
- Comment on What was your favorite shareware game? 7 months ago:
We had to be memory experts back then. QEMM FTW!
- Comment on What was your favorite shareware game? 7 months ago:
The .mtm master himself.
- Comment on What was your favorite shareware game? 7 months ago:
Or we are old enough to remember them the first time around vs reruns.
- Comment on Feedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing 11 months ago:
Maybe a Lemmy specific url shortener that only works for lemmy posts.
- Comment on Feedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing 11 months ago:
Would a URL shortener work better for sharing Lemmy links/instances?
- Comment on What does this emoji mean? Is this a British thumbs up? 11 months ago:
Known it as hang loose since the 80’s from Hawaii
- Comment on Why isn't apple a popular ice cream flavor? 1 year ago:
Applesauce ice cream sounds foul.