Bob_Robertson_IX
@Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on I’ve Worked at Google for Decades. I’m Sickened by What It’s Doing. 6 days ago:
Animated GIF from Pink Floyd’s The Wall showing people walking into a meat grinder
I don’t think providing more meat for the grinder will suddenly make anyone change their minds on the subject.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 2 weeks ago:
Try being more direct, you can still write out your whole email with the full description, but put in a section somewhere that’s easy to see that’s labeled as “QUESTIONS” and then enumerate the questions you want answered. I often will have the whole section bold and further highlight important words in red. This makes it easier for people to answer inline on the reply and helps ensure questions weren’t missed.
The truth is, most people don’t like the ‘email’ part of the job and may only check it once or twice a day and I’d most likely just skimming through several messages and not fully devoting much time to each message. By making it easier for them to reply you end up with a better result.
You can also use this when you expect someone to take action from your email. Let them know precisely what you want them to do, and make it very easy to find ‘The Ask’.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 2 weeks ago:
who the fuck just stands there like an idiot after a gunman supposedly tried to kill you
The idiot who looked into an eclipse?
- Comment on What open-world games on Steam have satisfying movement, like Arkham Knight or Spider-Man? 2 weeks ago:
Steep (snowboarding, skiing, paragliding, wingsuiting) and Red Dead Redemption 2 (fast travel is an option, but come on, enjoy that ride!) are the two that I really enjoy.
- Comment on Teachers warn AI is impacting students' critical thinking 3 weeks ago:
I never said that it was a new thing, what I’m saying is that the introduction of AI in the classroom is the perfect way to bring critical thinking back to the classroom. That’s one thing that AI is good at… getting people to realize that something they’ve just been told might not be 100% true.
- Comment on Google To Allow Double Serving Ads. 3 weeks ago:
Wasn’t that with the old administration?
- Comment on Automatically Crack Safes With This Autodialer 3 weeks ago:
We have a safe at work where we keep backups and ‘legal hold’ stuff. We hardly ever need to get into it. The first audit we had after I started and the guy who had been running things walks up to the safe and just opens it… without entering the code. The auditor looks at me, and I look at my employee and ask him if the safe is broken, and he said “No, I put the code in earlier so it would be easier to open for the audit.”
Needless to say, we got dinged on that part of the audit.
- Comment on Teachers warn AI is impacting students' critical thinking 3 weeks ago:
It is impacting their critical thinking because the teachers aren’t teaching the kids how to use AI!
My kids came home talking about an interview she did with one of her heroes. She knew all kinds of facts, including what type of dogs her hero has. I had to explain to my 8 year old that an AI doesn’t know very much, but it will never tell you that it doesn’t know something.
I don’t mind that my kid’s school uses AI for learning, but I am pissed at how they are using it the exact wrong way. It should go side by side with learning critical thinking.
- Comment on FOREX is not for the faint hearted 4 weeks ago:
I’ve found that going into a casino is a great way to exchange money when going to Canada.
- Comment on Well damn, we got nomad clans. Is that cyberpunk enough? 4 weeks ago:
The issue I have with your reason against it being cyberpunk is that there’s nothing in cyberpunk to say that the fictional roaming nomads aren’t just mobile homeless, able to move to where the work is but never able to find enough work to settle someplace.
Cyberpunk is great for a fictional setting because it looks cool, has some slick character types, fun villains, and relatable heros… but cyberpunk is dirty, and a lot of society in these worlds have been left behind, exploited, and forgotten. I fear that some people view cyberpunk as a society to strive towards, rather than a thought experiment on what could go wrong as we shape our future.
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- Comment on Tesla's market cap sinks below $1 trillion as stock slumps more than 8% 1 month ago:
It’s almost as if the point isn’t to produce anything useful, but to move money from the tax payers to the ruling class.
- Comment on In January, billionaires amassed more wealth than the poorest third of humanity owns. 1 month ago:
It truly is a brilliant way to make bribes and under-the-table payments… just pump up a guy’s stock. You make him richer, and you could potentially get richer as well. And it’s legal.
- Comment on Amazon is changing what is written in books 1 month ago:
Increasingly more often Amazon is the publisher.
- Comment on Mouse brain slices brought back to life after being frozen for a week 1 month ago:
Everyone is all impressed with the cryo part, and I’m more shocked that a sliced up brain can still function.
- Comment on Google Calendar removes Pride Month and Black History Month 2 months ago:
Next thing you know Facebook is going to get rid of Daughter’s Day!
- Comment on Leeds student jailed in Saudi Arabia for 34 years over tweets is released 2 months ago:
The headline makes it sound like she was sending tweets over 34 years ago.
- Comment on AI Will Save Dating Apps. Or Maybe Finally Kill Them 2 months ago:
Actually, this is something that should be an open source non-profit.
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 2 months ago:
He’s just a toxic troll, check his comment history there’s nothing of value there. It’s real easy to block users on Lemmy, your online experience will be better off without him.
- Comment on ‘Forbidden Words’: Github Reveals How Software Engineers Are Purging Federal Databases 2 months ago:
No, I’m curious to know which words or phrases the last administration wasn’t allowing. My guess is that there isn’t such a list.
- Comment on ‘Forbidden Words’: Github Reveals How Software Engineers Are Purging Federal Databases 2 months ago:
Does anyone have a list of words that the new administration is now allowing that the previous administration had blocked?
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 2 months ago:
- Comment on ‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off 4 months ago:
At first I was wondering why only short Germans were putting solar panels on their balconies.
- Comment on 1 in 6 Congresswomen Targeted by AI-Generated Sexually Explicit Deepfakes 4 months ago:
1 in 6… that seems very close to the number of women in congress under the age of 45.
- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 5 months ago:
The whole study is trash. A chimpanzee is not a monkey.
- Comment on Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 5 months ago:
To everyone saying “this isn’t possible for Google to pay” really need to take a step back and realize that there’s always a way.
Given the amount of money we’re talking, it would only take a tiny fraction of that money for Google to deliver a series of small asteroids directly to Russia. Depending on the asteroid, and the conversion rates, Russia might consider the debt paid after a single delivery.
- Comment on Patient gamer philosophy 6 months ago:
I agree, this is why I consider myself a ‘patient gamer’… I don’t want to reward releasing half-done games, or trickling out DLC that should have been included in the original release.
I had to re-evaluate my stance on this when Baldur’s Gate 3 was released because I really wanted to play it, but was going to wait until it went on sale. Then the reviews starting coming in saying that it was a full game, no major issues, and no planned DLC. I immediately purchased it because **THAT **is the behavior I want to reward, and I’m very glad that I did.
- Comment on All Of Apple’s Foldable iPhone Prototypes Have Visible Creases, Which May Explain The Company’s Apprehension Towards A Launch 6 months ago:
I’m shocked that Apple didn’t just make the crease more obvious and consider it a design element and advertise it as something the consumer wants.
