laranis

@laranis@lemmy.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you apologize, even if it's not your fault just to make the other person feel validated?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I will fake apologize if it helps get me what I want. Maybe that makes me a narcissist or disingenuous but so fucking what. It’s manipulation all the way down. Always has been. My “pride” is a small price to pay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bet you can think of more⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  9. Talk more with your neighbors

  Unless your neighbors are part of the problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And their parents allow them to blast the sound in public with no headphones. I can’t fathom the lack of give-a-fucks for their fellow humans (to include their own children).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taco Bell Says 'No Más' to AI Drive-Thru Experiment⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This. I’m watching it in real time. I want to grab these fuckers by the shirt and shake them until they get it.

  Instead, they’ll get promoted and leave the mess to be cleaned up by someone else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe to help the OP I’ll add a bit to your answer. The entire face of an analog clock is divided into fractional sections. Sounds like you’re really good at parsing those fractions, likely due to lots of practice.

  So, big hand after the nine and before the ten? Between :45 and :50. First half of that? Between :46 and :47. More toward the beginning of the split? :46

  Maybe OP hasn’t had as much practice so has to think about what 9 is in minutes? Nothing but practice would help get over that, I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New memory unlocked! Chips Challenge⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Loved this! This was the same era as a game called “Castle of the Winds” that was a top-down RPG with a similar tile based layout with a distinct Win 3.1 feel. I remember getting it as a part of one of those shareware compilation disks and ending up actually buying the extended version because it was so much fun.

  Link for those craving a bit of nostalgia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  text within an image should not be able to initiate sensitive tool calls

  What level of bullshit lax security are these folks using that makes this statement is necessary?!

  Incentives are aligned to go fast and break stuff, and what gets broken is your privacy and security.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Creating dogs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll admit to survivor bias in this case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Creating dogs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never met a dog who wouldn’t willingly make this trade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Incident⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s not put the blame only on the parents. Anyone who has spent more than 30 seconds working for a corp would understand that taking credit for work does not mean the work got done.

  Assuming the diapers aren’t tracked by barcode and there isn’t an independent inspector validating each operation, I would be MORE wary about my kid being well taken care of at a place that measures and tracks work this way. Especially since the types of management that would think this was a good idea are also the type to not understand how work actually gets done and drives to making the metrics look good at the expense of actually caring for human children.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Incident⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hadn’t noticed. I think you’d have to try to get translucent boxes versus a simple solid box. Seems intentional?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've often thought about this⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They had bratwurst for a brief period in select locations. Don’t think they were called McBrats, but damn they were yummy. If I suddenly found myself transported to 1996 I’d seek out McBrats and the bacon cheese burger burrito from Taco Bell.

  Then my geriatric heart would explode and I would miss out on buying BitCoin, but it would be worth it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I determine what a mystery dongle does?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this is a solved question based on other comments, but can we take a moment to admire that OP has the self control to ask BEFORE removing the device?

  I am much more of a push-the-big-red-button-to-see-what-happens kinda person. That dongle wouldn’t have lasted a second on my bench.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saw this on r*ddit, had to share with my people⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bond. James Bo- hack cough wheeze rasp gasp… cough hack wheeze stumbling fatly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everything is a problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  First world PTSD intensifies

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everything is a problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Every time I have to wait for a 10 year old game to “update” I want to murder whoever is responsible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bad board games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I suck at Scrabble. Not because I’m bad at words but because I’m always looking for the plays that will collectively give everyone at the table the best chance to make interesting plays.

  Catan, though? I’m gonna block a sucker’s road and steal that grain, no hesitation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*Record scratch* freeze frame⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We’ve had nothing but problems with our K2. We spent $1500 for a unit that works half the time, and their support is hit or miss. Right now it is throwing seemingly random error codes and their support is stumped and not offering help.

  We should have gone with the Bambu.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Be careful… If you get in an accident I guaran-god-damn-tee you they will use it as an excuse not to pay out. Maybe after a lawsuit you’d see some money but at that point half of it goes to the lawyer and you’re still screwed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Days⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My Pre and Kyocera 6035. Never forget.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People not getting things that seem obvious is an ongoing theme, it seems. We sat through a presentation at work by some guy who enthusiastically pitched AI to the masses. I don’t mean that’s what he did, I mean “enthusiasm” seemed to be his ONLY qualification. Aside from telling folks what buttons to press on the company’s AI app, he didn’t know SHIT. And the VP got on before and after and it was apparent that he didn’t know shit, either. Someone is whispering in these people’s ears and they’re writing fat checks, no doubt, and they haven’t a clue what an LLM is, what it is good at, nor what to be wary of. Absolutely ridiculous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Factually correct number tier list. I will not be taking questions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a bad list, but 6/9 being there and not pi or 11/32 is just criminal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are most people who avoid turn signals do it to feel more normal? (Imitating their parents, avoiding perceived stupidity of using turn signals when it seems useless, etc)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The idea that moving your finger slightly to support the smoothe functioning of traffic and the welfare of other humans is not “masculine” enough makes me want to castrate some fuckers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel attacked⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s awesome! Well done, and keep up the hard work. Don’t forget to stretch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Running monkey⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was thinking, “Glad these are all of the monkey running away. Seeing that running at you would be terrifying.”

  Moments later, “Yup, I would shit myself seeing that little guy barrelling at me like that.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former Meta exec says asking for artist permission will kill AI industry⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bet you’re not worth $100+ million. Then you’d get it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BlackRock is Suing UnitedHealth for Giving “Too Much Care” to Patients After the CEO was Murdered⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s an entire field of organizational psychology that studies this phenomenon. I have a colleague who has her doctorate in it, super smart person. She gets so frustrated when she gets a call to help solve some org issue and nobody understands pretty much what you just described.

  Changing reporting structures and titles only goes so far. At some point you are inside the system and have to observe its rules. Without changing some fundamental piece or pieces you’re going to come to a limit of what you can do. Ever suggest changing incentive structures to match desired outcomes? She has, and won’t be doing it again after being laughed off the job.

  If you’re a publicly traded company in a capitalist country I would guess 65% of your culture and behaviors are immovable. And, as of late, I also believe that those 65% are the worst behaviors for humanity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'd choose 4 tbh⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  #4 three times. The rest seem fleeting (money) or attainable through hard work (strength). Unlike others in these comments, I think being happy constantly would be its own type of hell.

  But being tall is like being attractive. It is life on easy mode. As a slightly-less-than-average-height person an extra 6 inches would probably be the most permanent, positive impact any of these would have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Love this⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are definitely patty cake cool bumps when you become a parent of a toddler and a grandparent of a toddler. In those moments your coolness is off the chart.