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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨same as it ever was⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It sounds so classy when a choir sings it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let him go!!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Really some insightful questions from the audience too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is right on the line of creepy surveillance and interesting public art project. I kind of like the idea but not a fan of the fact that it’s recording in stealth. I wish it were more transparent about it. Most people wouldn’t care anyway and it removes some of the discomfort of listening in on a bunch of strangers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨👣👣👣⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It also sucks for the hiring manager who has to interview candidates they know they won’t hire just to stick to the process. It’s a waste of everyone’s time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smart⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  From the wiki article :

  Perelman resigned from his research post in Steklov Institute of Mathematics and in 2006 stated that he had quit professional mathematics, owing to feeling disappointed over the ethical standards in the field. >

  Anybody have any idea what the ethical standards might be that he’s referring to? Not sure if there’s a scandal or something or just an overall sense of displeasure with the field.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mental hell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with other replies here with one addition. People who get into grad school are generally the high achievers from their high school and undergrad programs, so they are used to being the only or one of few star students. In PhD programs everyone is a star student, so it can be a bit jarring to folks used to being head of the class when they suddenly aren’t.

  It can cause a bit of jealousy and competitive thinking but most of the time students get past it and focus simply on enduring the gauntlet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Search To Show If An Image Is AI Generated, Edited Or Taken With Camera.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s of course troubling that AI images will go unidentified through this service (I am also not at all confident that Google can do this well/consistently).

  However I’m also worried about the opposite side of this problem- real images being mislabeled as AI. I can see a lot of bad actors using that to discredit legitimate news sources or stories that don’t fit their narrative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huawei unveils world’s first tri-fold phone, the Mate XT Ultimate Design⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or, perhaps a mashup of both???

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huawei unveils world’s first tri-fold phone, the Mate XT Ultimate Design⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand the folding phone thing. It feels like tech now is all about creating ridiculous features and tech companies trying to convince us that we want them while ignoring things that would actually be worthwhile like repairable phones, headphones jacks and minimal bloatware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#goals⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A professor I was taking a management class with gave me a fun burn on my thesis. I asked for his input on a specific point and he called it “intellectual masterbation” and proceeded to talk for 15 min or so about ideas he thought i should have studied instead (I was already preparing for my thesis defense so couldn’t change topics). Never got an answer on the actual question I’d raised.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta considers mixed reality glasses , code name : puffin, will release by 2027⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do tech companies keep pushing this crap on us when society has clearly communicated that it is dumb?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump promotes family's new crypto platform, 'The Defiant Ones'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He did.

  They’re just as ridiculous and overpriced as you’d think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton is transitioning towards a non-profit structure | Proton⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If I remember right, OpenAi started with this model too, and they do lots of shady stuff. Not that this is the plan for Proton, but I completely agree that simply creating a nonprofit that owns the for profit brand doesn’t guarantee good behavior.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Harris had to pick a VP, all media kinda agreed it should be a white male, to balance the fact that she is black and a woman. So Waltz is the DEI hire.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Would be interesting to see the GOP try to run with this messaging. As much as they hate “dei hires” they would jump all over that part, but seeing that it benefitted a white male would likely make them short circuit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit CEO teases AI search features and paid subreddits⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I still don’t know how that works. Discord seems like the worst possible substitute for reddit. It doesn’t work at all the same way and search sucks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CrowdStrike Isn't the Real Problem⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m currently working for a place that has had recent entanglements with the govt for serious misconduct that hurt consumers. They have multiple policies with language in it to reduce documentation that could get them in trouble again. But minimal attention paid to the actual issues that got them in trouble.

  They are more worried about having documented evidence of bad behavior than they are of it occurring.

  I’m certain this is not unique to this company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any games you're planning to pick up during the Steam and GOG sales?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just got Stardew Valley. I’m a little reluctant to start it though- it seems like one of those games I could sink hundreds of hours into and I have a huge backlog. But I’m excited to try it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I think the masses are going to be a tough sell on Linux until computer manufacturers start offering Linux builds with a pre-installed instance.

  I’m sure there are places that do it but there’s probably money to be made in just setting up Linux on machines for people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phone calls still assume the people on the receiving end are attached to a desk.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think context makes a difference on whether a call is welcome or not, appropriate or not.

  If the email asks me to write out a bunch of info I know off the top of my head, just call me. Don’t make me write out something that I can just tell you much faster.

  If you’re asking something that kicks off a conversation going back and forth like if you need help walking through something, sending emails back and forth is annoying and dumb. Knocking it out in one call is faster and easier than exchanging 15 emails.

  On the other hand, if you don’t need an answer right away, if you need documents or images or if you need to communicate about something that requires a record of the communication, email is better.

  I have been annoyed equally by getting calls and emails when people use them for things when they aren’t ideal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If You're An Adventure Game Fan, Duck Detective is For You!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Got it right after launch. It is fantastic. Puzzles are fun, characters and plot are entertaining, and it’s just frickin adorable. It’s really short- I’m hoping because the dev team is releasing additional cases later, but right now you just solve one case. I finished it in an evening taking it slowly. I don’t regret paying full price, but I definitely want more. Would recommend for sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spicy jokes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Such a great movie. Haven’t watched that in years. Might have to dust that one off this weekend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if Open AI or any of the other firms have thought to put in any kind of stipulations about monitoring and moderating reddit content to reduce ai generated posts and reduce risk of model collapse.

  Anybody who’s looked at reddit in the past 2 years especially has seen the impact of ai pretty clearly. If I was running open ai I wouldn’t want that crap contaminating my models.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla to protect Firefox users from bounce trackers - Stack Diary⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t get why companies pull such shady crap to get behavior data. 99% of it is useless and never even is used to make improvements to products or processes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Boeing in big trouble? World's largest aerospace firm faces 10 more whistleblowers after sudden death of two⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For real. If ever there were a time to hop on an Amtrak, I think this would be a good one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta’s “set it and forget it” AI ad tools are misfiring and blowing through cash⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They cut thousands of jobs in the name of efficiency, then roll out an AI customer service bot to replace people in managing problems with their flashy new AI tool that is glitching out, more expensive and delivering worse results.

  Surely nobody saw this coming right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recognize the mother of Wifi⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a great documentary about her on Netflix. It covers her love of science and her attempts to get her design to the military for the war effort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Power-hungry AI is putting the hurt on global electricity supply⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Preach, friend. I’m so sick of seeing how everything is getting some useless AI service jammed into it for no reason. At best its just a pointless feature that can be ignored. At worst it’s a data and memory vacuum that mines people’s activity in the name of “product improvements”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairbuds are Fairphone’s proof that we really could make better tiny gadgets⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What I don’t get is how no company seems to have worked out a legitimately good service and maintenance model for tech products. Fairphone hasn’t invented the wheel here. They’re going to make money on maintenance, parts and repair.

  I would think there would be lowered costs involved in not having to push out a new product every 6 months and market it to customers who just bought something less than a year ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I still don’t understand why they keep going after piracy when it is a symptom of the bigger problem. Movies today are expensive and often made inaccessible through BS digital services that periodically just make films and TV unavailable to save server space or avoid paying for licensing.

  I would guess that the vast majority of people are not pirating content. I’d also guess that if digital providers and studios would actually try to change the distribution model that allows customers to buy content that is later turned off on a whim, they would see meaningful change in piracy activity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A new bill wants to reveal what’s really inside AI training data⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting that so much of the creative industry is supportive of the bill, but that the MPA isn’t (or at least hasn’t explicitly come out in support). I’m guessing that is reflective of the production companies’ interest in using AI trained on creative content to eliminate the reliance on talent.